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(More customer reviews)With the original Transformers The Movie being released again in a few weeks and with another brand new movie to follow, new and old fans alike are delighting at seeing some cool new Transformers action figures on store shelves just in time for Christmas.
Hasbro is wrapping up the Cybertron toy line and needed some new figures to release until next July when the new movie premieres. Their answer was to create a line called "Transformers Classics" which features exciting new molds of many classic Transformers characters that first appeared in the 1980's. I know a lot of us who grew up with and collected the toys of those characters are pretty excited to see them reappear on store shelves. It's a great chance for us to relive our memories and to also share them with the children that are now in our lives.
Having said that, meet RODIMUS. He has gone by many names over the years, including Hot Rod, Rodimus Prime and Rodimus Major, and even had a similar character loosely based on him in the Energon toy line, but whatever you want to call him, he's one of the more well known figures of Transformers lore. An old school Transformers fan like myself can quickly tell this figure was based off of the original 1986 toy which was known as "Hot Rod". Of course, Hasbro no longer has the name "Hot Rod" copyrighted so Rodimus is the next best thing.
I always like the Hot Rod/Rodimus character because I saw a lot of myself in him. He was young and bold and a bit reckless at times, but deep down all he wanted was a chance to prove himself. I think a lot of us can indentify with that.
As for this toy, it obviously takes a lot of its design from the original, especially the futuristic car form. There are a few differences but not a lot. The robot form is also somewhat similar to the original, but a little more streamlined. One cool addition to this toy is a missile launcher which will actually fire a missile in both car and robot mode. In car mode, the launcher doubles as a tailpipe, giving new meaning to the term "backfiring".
As far as difficulty of transformation, it's actually rather easy compared to many Transformers. The instructions they give you aren't the best, but once you change him back and forth once or twice, you'll see that he is actually much easier to transform than the majority of Cybertron figures and also classic Transformers.
I would definitely vouch for this toy on a few levels. $9.99 isn't a bad price at all, especially when you consider that to find the original in any kimd of decent shape would cost you at least 3 times as much. There has been a re-issued version of the original but it too has become rare and again, is near impossible to find under $30. This toy is also quite fun. I mean, who wouldn't want to drive a futuristic red race car with orange flames on the hood? Of course, for us "old timers", there's massive sentimental value as well.
My advice is to pick this up while you can as I fully expect them to fly off the shelves.
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