Size: Minicon
MSRP: 0-100$ (depending on how much money you NEED to waste)
OUT NOW
This summer’s third exclusive micron, which came out in Japan some time after our lovely Noise Effect and Torque Gain, was available since the end of July. It was a giveaway for customers who had purchased a TF Movie toy of 3000 JPY or more, exclusively for Bic Camera stores(once again, thanks to TFormers.com).
It’s for Me a great honour to introduce you to one of the best minicons ever created: Fem’Bots and Gentle’Cons, enter… Wedgeshape!
-APPLAUSE-
I was going to review Wedgeshape alone, but then I thought that, being it a repaint of Classic Dreadwing, it would’ve been nicer to review the rest of its team as well.
Among the 9 regular figures of MBv4 we can find the 2 remaining members of the repainted Predacon Team: Gredator and Apexis, Overbite’s and Snarl’s repaints, respectively.
Gold, red and black. Which other TFs have this color scheme? G1 Black Scorponok of course, one of the most sought after TFs. And Cybertron Dark Scorponok, too. They are both cool, and they both use black as the primary color. Classic Dreadwing was already a superb minicon, with a great beast mode, an original transformation and a very nice color scheme.
A picture is worth thousands and thousands and thousands of digits, methinks.
Differently from most microns I recently got, Wedgeshape doesn’t seem to be too fragile. In robot mode there is some good articulation, though I don’t think it matters so much for a minicon. The black details on the head, groin and legs nicely contrast with the orange wings/cape: basically, I like its appearance a lot and I plan on making a sexy calendar out of it. ****preorders are open, get yours before it’s sold out!****
Some words for Apexis and Gredator, too: they seem to complement Wedgeshape very well, and when you have the two teams facing each other you can instantly tell both their origins and the substances Takara designers have been using. While Overbite is a bad mold with an okay color scheme, Gredator enhances this aspect, coming with such a bright yellow color that in comparison Armada Hotshot now looks like Nemesis Hotshot.
I just started finding them more tragic than funny.
Apexis. Yeah.
“Mommy, buy me Apexis!”
“Jimmy, what the heck did you smoke this morning? Winners don’t use drugs. Have a Coke instead”.
I want a Koala minicon. With Eucalyptus!
Considering that 2 members out of 3 come from the same product, maybe it would be better to get a complete MBv4 first, then to find a Wedgeshape somewhere.
On Elohim’s Energon scale, I give Wedgeshape 10 out of 10 cubes.
Take care,
Rikkomba