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Tech Specs: Rank: 6 Courage: 7 Firepower: 6 Skill: 7
Packaging: When the Transformers movie toy line was announced, some feared (justifiably) that we would only see the same movie characters retread over and over again at different scales and size points. While there is validity to that concern, Hasbro made sure to use different venues to introduce characters who will not appear in the movie, but are in fact part of the movie universe. Wreckage is one these characters who is rumored to be a character you can select in the upcoming Transformers Movie video game.
Vehicle Mode: The front of the vehicle has a small turret mounted in the center. On either side are tube-like details representing headlights. Moving up there is a raised section where there is a five sided viewport. What I like about the front section is that not all of the details are symmetrical, indicating complexity to the machinery on this Decepticon. The middle has a cannon mounted on the top with circles sculpted into the barrel and a flat, rectangular piece at the back that could be an artillery chamber. The back section has a lot of line detail including panels that look like they could lift open for personnel inside to view their surroundings or defend the vehicle. There are also vent lines as well. All the way at the back are even more details indicating Wreckage could take on passengers including a door in the center and two fuel containers on either side. I'm very pleased with the amount of detail put into this sculpt considering the designers did not have to emulate a vehicle appearing in the movie. In this form Wreckage is mostly white plastic with some translucent red and grey parts. A bulk of the vehicle is cast in white. Towards the center and on the ports built into the back section you'll find translucent red parts more relevant to the robot mode than this one. The cannon in the center is flat grey while the wheels are a darker, metallic grey. Grey paint applications are found all over the white parts in a camo pattern, giving Wreckage the appearance of a vehicle intended to fight in snowy conditions. The wheels are painted metallic silver on the side. I do wish there had been some more detail to accentuate the great sculpted parts on this figure, but in retrospect combined with the camo pattern he would have looked too busy. Transformation to Robot Mode:
Robot Mode: Where this figure borrows from the movie aesthetic are some of the choices in how parts are sculpted. The head is an example of taking the basic shape of a tradtional Transformer (in this case very similar to G1 and Beast Wars Megatron) but his face still has a slightly insectoid look to it with a mouth that looks more like mandibles than a regular lipped mouth. While his legs are curved in overall shape, a lot of sections have very angled designs on them such as the knees and lower legs, giving more of an impression of a "plated" look with armor sections being clearly defined. He also has a panel on each upper arm pointing up that gives the movie's "paneled" appearance. Finally his feet have toes on each side and an extended heel piece in back which looks more like the "clawed feet" design seen on many of the movie designs such as Optimus Prime and Starscream. Like the vehicle mode, the robot mode is not lacking for small details. His chest has a row of tubes leading to the front end of the vehicle. On his shoudlers are triangular sections with vent lines. Each of his arms have tubes running along the forearms and his fingers are designed in a curved pattern, not a fist but not quite an open palm. This gives them the look of him bracing for something, but they are still designed to be able to hold his weapons. Sticking out from his abdominal area is a cannon that looks a bit more 'scifi' than the one in his vehicle mode. The legs have a bit less detail, but what they lack in minute detail they make up for in an interesting overall shape/design. Wreckage reveals a lot of flat grey plastic and metallic red parts in this form. His arms are metallic red while the elbow joints and hands are grey. His upper legs are metallic red while his knee armor and feet are grey. Metallic gold applications are used on his head, waist and feet for detailing. The cannon in his abdomen is made of translucent red plastic. A grey Decepticon symbol graces his chest panel. I personally would have preferred the Decepticon symbol be colored purple, but I think the idea was to have it blend in with his camo so it looks more realistic in vehicle form. Wreckage has fifteen points of articulation. Technically his waist can move a tiny bit, as can the wrists - but their range of motion is limited so I am not counting them. His weapons are blades that swing out of their holsters at the push of a button. Each blade is translucent red plastic and shaped to look like a group of crystals that have been fused together. These weapons can be held in his fists or mounted on the underside of his forearms. You can also mount them on the wheels on his forearms and spin them around as a spinning blade weapon. Overall Wreckage's robot mode is a pleaser. His proportions give him a very dynamic look and he looks like he could belong to either the movie universe or a Transformers universe such as Energon. His only weakness involves the way his upper body transforms. The cannon from the vehicle mode basically locks the upper body in place, but if you move it around at all his head begins collapsing in and his shoulders raise up. This really doesn't happen unless you start tossing him around, but it is something to be aware of.
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