Review: #475
Name: Headstrong
Brand: Transformers
Allegiance: Decepticon
Line: Generations - Power of the Primes
Year of Release: 2018
Size Class: Voyager
Mold Status: new but shares the engineering with Torox
BEAST MODE:
Headstrong transforms into a robotic rhino.
This mode is really bulky, especially with the combined mode's thigh piece underneath (but is at least out of the way, unlike in robot mode).
Headstrong is hefty, much more than any other Voyager classed figures.
Predaking's feet can attach to this mode as a double-barreled cannon. This mode is also very static which is disappointing.
Headstrong looks good in this mode, just a bit too much of a brick for a Transformers with an animal mode.
TRANSFORMATION:
Like the rest of the Predacons, Headstrong has a simple transformation. The forelegs become the arms, the back unfolds to form the legs and... that's pretty much it.
ROBOT MODE:
Headstrong is big and bulky in this mode, one of the small annoyances is the fact that the silver stickers on his upper torsos are on angled surfaces, which makes the stickers come unstuck, sigh.
Predaking's thighs form a huge backpack. While a backpack is necessary, what sucks is that this one has it all the way to below the knees, severely hampering his leg articulation and balance.
The face is sculpted underneath the rhino head, and it is decent.
Headstrong is much taller in robot mode than a Voyager now.
Articulation is still decent, you just can have the legs hinge backwards (which isn't too much of a problem for most poses).
Thanks to the large feet, he is fairly stable despite the heavy backpack.
Headstrong's weapon is one foot of Predaking.
This acts as a shoulder mounted cannon and truth be told, it doesn't look half bad.
Paint applications are sparse, most of the colors are provided by the molded plastic.
An okay robot mode hampered by the big and unsightly backpack.
OVERALL:
Considering the engineering that went into making Predaking look awesome, Headstrong isn't too bad. His biggest flaw is the thigh piece that acts as a huge backpack (this isn't a problem in rhino mode, on the contrary, it makes that mode much more solid).
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