Toy Review: Transformers Generations Legacy United Doryu (Core)

Review:  #851

Name:  Doryu

Brand:  Transformers

Allegiance:  Decepticon

Line:  Generations - Legacy: United

Year of Release:  2024

Size Class:  Core

Mold Status:  retool of Legacy United Snarl

ALTERNATE MODE:

Transforming into a blue and white robotic Stegosaurus, the color scheme can make him look out of place.

While he is generally okay, from the back, you can tell that the hind legs are the robot arms, given that the fists are painted silver and sticks out.

Doryu, being in the Core class, is a small figure, above is a comparison against a Deluxe.

He has no articulation in this mode, all the limbs are basically fixed, any articulation used for robot mode or transformation that's available here is not meaningful at all.

The tail is also a bit stumpy, and as mentioned the robot fists stick out behind, and they make the rear legs kind of too big.

The robot weapon can attach to the back.

To be fair, at this size, and considering what the mold is achieving (three different modes), this isn't a bad beast mode.

TRANSFORMATION:

As expected, he's not too difficult.  The front splits into two to form the robot legs.  While the tail also splits, stand him up, and straighten the rear legs for the robot arms.

ROBOT MODE:

Doryu is a retool of Snarl, so he has very Dinobot-like features, but on the whole, this isn't a bad robot mode.

He has a backpack but since it's hollow and sits somewhat flush to the torso, it's not bad at all.

He gets a new head at least, and it is a very G1-looking head, and looks good.

Size-wise, again, he is a Core class figure so it stands to reason he is tiny.

Articulation is one of the better ones of the set as he has joints for his head, shoulders, elbows (!), hips and knees.

Doryu has two weapons, a scythe and a sword.

He can hold both in his hands, and the scythe is definitely the cooler looking weapon.

The scythe being bigger but not oversized, helps with its menacing feel too.

A strong robot mode, thanks to the extra articulation and cool weapons.

OVERALL:

Doryu is one of the better molds in the set, as he does not feel as compromised as the others.  The color scheme is kind of weird, and it is still had to shake away the Dinobot-like looking modes but it's a solid figure that can stand on its own.

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