Review: #908
Name: Blue Booster
Brand: Transformers
Allegiance: Autobot
Line: Sonic the Hedgehog x Transformers Collaborative
Year of Release: 2025
Size Class: N/A
Mold Status: new
VEHICLE MODE:
Blue Booster's vehicle mode is based upon the blue race car that Sonic drives in the Sonic racing series.
It's a good vehicle mode, and he looks good from all angles. There's a decent amount of paint applications, including the rear taillights, and the red rims.
The canopy can open up, although you can't really sit anyone inside, not that the sets comes with a Sonic mini-figure or whatnot (which now seems like a missed opportunity).
He is comically short, so he feels stunted and deformed.
It does look slick from the front though, the curves look really good on this figure from certain angles.
He comes with two accessories, but they can't both be stored in vehicle mode, so the shield is designed to peg onto the item capsule and be set aside.
The item capsule itself has two sides that you can rotate between, one side is an Autobot insignia, while the other is the invincibility power-up icon.
The wheels roll and that's the extent of the play value.
Blue Booster comes with Wingtail, which is based upon the vehicle that Tails drives, and yes, they do look good as a set.
A good vehicle mode, the only negative is the short length, which is semi-accurate to the games, but just looks really deformed in physical form.
TRANSFORMATION:
The figure kind of starts to fall apart from the transformation, in terms of that it is not designed very well. The front extends to form the legs. The back splits into two along with the arms. Then you stand him up. It's a simple transformation, the problem is that the way the pieces are jointed together seem to be awkwardly placed and doesn't move quite the way you would expect them to.
ROBOT MODE:
Blue Booster's robot mode is nowhere near as good as vehicle mode.
He has blocky limbs, which isn't necessary a bad thing, but they are too big and so will get in the way of each other, especially his bigger shoulder pads.
The head sculpt (and the robot design as a whole) is based upon Sonic the Hedgehog. The head sculpt manages to straddle the line between robotic without being too organic and still look familiar to its inspiration.
Again, he's roughly Deluxe size in robot mode, although he feels lighter and more fragile, given that he has a lot of hollow parts (which is surprising given that this is a Collaborative figure, and they usually don't skimp out with overly hollow parts).
Next to Wingtail, they look fine, Wingtail is a bit more cartoony than Blue Booster.
Articulation is theoretically good, he has joints for his head, shoulders, elbows, waist, hips, knees and ankles.
He comes with two accessories, a shield, and the item capsule which has a fold out handle.
The shield attaches to his forearm, while he can hold the item capsule, so it's kind of like a handle weapon.
The articulation is theoretically good because in practice, for one reason or another, such as the tighter joints and awkward placement of said joints, Blue Booster is not fun to pose.
Blue Booster can at times even feel like a floppy mess, even though it's not actually flopping. The legs in particular are not great, and his arms feel like solid blocks.
The design is also overly simplistic, so it's lacking some sculpted details that can elevate the sophistication of the design. Instead, it's too cartoony and looks off.
It's not the worse robot mode in the world, but it's not great either, and it's a slight disappointment given the usual higher quality of Collaborative figures.
OVERALL:
Blue Booster is one to get if you can either find the pack cheap, or you are a big fan of Sonic the Hedgehog. The figure has flaws, in terms of that it feels like that there was a lazy designer, or that the budget was too tight so they had to cut some corners. It's fine if you just leave him for display but if you wanted to pose and play around with the robot, it can be disappointing.
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