BIRTHDAY BLOG PART FOUR- DARK OF THE MOON HUMAN ALLIANCE ROADBUSTER

The last figure that I received for my Birthday.

This figure if from 20011. He is a wrecker and AUTOBOT.
In the movie Roadbuster along with the two other wreckers Topspin and Leadfoot were the engineers looking after the Autobot ship the Zantium. This ship brought the second wave of Autobots to earth long before the second movie.
In Dark of the Moon novel the wreckers are all really rude and argued amongst themselves . Whenever they got too argumentative the humans put on Nass car racing as this would stop them as they loved this sport.
The wreckers in every series are always the Autobot squat team, the special forces.

The thing I always liked about these is they always turn into modified Nass cars.

BIO; Roadbuster has found that allowing humans to ride with him sharpens his tactical skills and knowledge of Earths road network

Strength 8, Intelligence 5, Speed 8, Endurance 9, Rank 9, Courage 9, Fireblast 6, Skill 5

Robot mode

Without visor

With visor

Sgt Recon on back

Sgt Recon on shoulder

Sgt Recon

 Car mode front

Car mode side

Car mode with Sgt Recon in seat

His car mode has a great amount of detail compared to the Deluxe figures. He is really big,  heavily armed but not as much as the other wreckers in car mode. He has a Gatling gun sticking out of the front grill and some bonnet mounted turrets which have cannons.and on rear of the car he has missile pods for rocket launchers. He can fire sixteen rockets from each launcher. the giant nitrous booster in the rear can also fire a yellow nitrous missile. This feature is more for robot mode seeming his nitrous booster becomes his cannon in robot mode.

His transformation can be a little messy especially the first time but he is not the hardest to transform

You need to fiddle around with him for about half an hour to transform him but overall he is OK to manipulate.

A potential problem that I have noticed is that he has these two clips that attach his torso to his waist. After his first transformation he already had stress marks. Annoying but I don't think it will get any worse. I don't think he is one to play with but to display.

In robot mode he looks far more movie accurate than the Deluxe with his skinny proportions compared to the other which had far more kibble.

His chain saw weapon for robot mode stores on a peg underneath his car mode but the problem with this is that it raised the wheel near to it off the ground so it does not roll properly. I store mine in the passenger seat.

There is an annoying problem in robot mode that pretty much what you do to pose him he will slump[ forward. This problem caused a lot of problems for me to take pictures as his base ball cap kept going over his face.

Just like Human alliance jazz and Human alliance Leadfoot he has a visor gimmick where there is a lever on his head which will flip his visor down. This looks like sunglasses. He also looks like he has dreadlocks.

The human alliance gimmicks where the robot  and human interacts  can be a little silly. Not as silly as Jazz where his human sits on his leg armour. Sgt Recon does not really sit anywhere very securely even in the car.

I like the way his chest in robot mode looks like his engine.

People complained about his waist being skinny but it is not that bad and that he does not have upper thigh swivel but he does rotate above the knee. he had decent articulation.

He is worth getting and make sure you get him at a good price so shop around. If you like the other human alliance figures then you are really going to like Roadbuster.