Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 24, 2011 16:52:26 GMT
Dark of the Moon Cyberverse Commander Guzzle
If you were looking for Generation 1 Transformers characters to bring back, then a few years Guzzle would have been so far down your list it'd have been untrue. Then came James Roberts and Nick Roche's Transformers comic limited series The Last Stand of the Wreckers. Since the team was formed in issue 1 and that was written by Nick alone I think we can lay the blame for Guzzle's subsequent rise to popularity firmly at his feet. ROCHE: You've made me spend money. There will be retribution!
Like all Cyberverse toys Guzzle comes packaged in robot mode. Remover his gun and fold the panels under the forearms forward to cover the underside of the hands. Fold each arm back at the lower shoulder joint, then fold the side panels on the shoulders down. Fold the feet up. Fold the legs forward 90 degrees at the hip then bend the knees so the top & bottom of the legs come together to form tank tracks. Peg both lower legs together to form the rear of the tank. Turn the gun on his back to face up. Bring the arms up & together with the shoulders locking above his head and the lower arms forming the sides of the turret round the gun. Separate the gun top from the bottom, fold the main gun barrel back and peg both halves into the roof of the tank.
Guzzle's green tank mode looks the part, but it's small and functionally it's the worst Transformers tank I've seen for a good few years: the turret doesn't turn and the gun barrel, despite being hinged at it's base, doesn't raise. The smaller Universe Legends Warpath would, once you'd trimmed an unnecessary piece of plastic, do both. What's worse is that the original Guzzle, released 23 years previously, also had both these features.
Pull the rear of the tank out & back to form the legs, folding the feet down. Split the turret & front to form the arms. Remove the weapons, fold the rear of the turret back under the arms, fold the middle of the treads back onto the shoulders, fold the gun barrel out from one of the weapons and combine them to form Guzzle's hand gun.
Guzzle's robot mode is like the original, just with the limbs pushed out to the sides. where the original was a solid block the new toy has ball jointed elbows, lower shoulders which move forwards & backwards, ball jointed outer shoulders, inner shoulders that shrug up, ball jointed hips and bending knees & ankles. Allegedly the head turns slightly too. The look of the robot isn't bad at recapturing the original with a yellow chest, blue visored face and crested helmet. The problem here is really the gun on it's back, the former tank turret gun. Freed from the turret it now pivots up and turns. Which is a bit useless now. What would be useful at this point is if you could pull it off and discover it was mounted by a 3mm peg that meant Guzzle could hold it in robot mode. No. It's fixed to his back. Designing a weapon that could be removed in robot mode and pivoted up in tank mode isn't beyond what you expect for this size class.
In some ways Guzzle does the job. It's likely to be the only new version of Guzzle we see in the next few years after all. But the gun's inadequacies really annoy me.
Guzzle was sold in the fourth wave of Cyberverse commanders. He was 1 per case with 2 Battle Steel Optimus Primes (carried over from the previous wave), 1 Dark Sentinel Prime, 1 Megatron or Ironhide and 1 Powerglide or Blackout. 1 per case, together with reships and useless repaints. That's really going to work well especially as there's no other Cyberverse Commander eaves currently scheduled. He's been released in both US and the UK where Smythes and ASDA have had him. In Japan he will be released as toy numbered CV-24.
Future Repaints
A repaint as the former Targetmaster Decepticon Quake would seem the most obvious repaint to me.
If you were looking for Generation 1 Transformers characters to bring back, then a few years Guzzle would have been so far down your list it'd have been untrue. Then came James Roberts and Nick Roche's Transformers comic limited series The Last Stand of the Wreckers. Since the team was formed in issue 1 and that was written by Nick alone I think we can lay the blame for Guzzle's subsequent rise to popularity firmly at his feet. ROCHE: You've made me spend money. There will be retribution!
Like all Cyberverse toys Guzzle comes packaged in robot mode. Remover his gun and fold the panels under the forearms forward to cover the underside of the hands. Fold each arm back at the lower shoulder joint, then fold the side panels on the shoulders down. Fold the feet up. Fold the legs forward 90 degrees at the hip then bend the knees so the top & bottom of the legs come together to form tank tracks. Peg both lower legs together to form the rear of the tank. Turn the gun on his back to face up. Bring the arms up & together with the shoulders locking above his head and the lower arms forming the sides of the turret round the gun. Separate the gun top from the bottom, fold the main gun barrel back and peg both halves into the roof of the tank.
Guzzle's green tank mode looks the part, but it's small and functionally it's the worst Transformers tank I've seen for a good few years: the turret doesn't turn and the gun barrel, despite being hinged at it's base, doesn't raise. The smaller Universe Legends Warpath would, once you'd trimmed an unnecessary piece of plastic, do both. What's worse is that the original Guzzle, released 23 years previously, also had both these features.
Pull the rear of the tank out & back to form the legs, folding the feet down. Split the turret & front to form the arms. Remove the weapons, fold the rear of the turret back under the arms, fold the middle of the treads back onto the shoulders, fold the gun barrel out from one of the weapons and combine them to form Guzzle's hand gun.
Guzzle's robot mode is like the original, just with the limbs pushed out to the sides. where the original was a solid block the new toy has ball jointed elbows, lower shoulders which move forwards & backwards, ball jointed outer shoulders, inner shoulders that shrug up, ball jointed hips and bending knees & ankles. Allegedly the head turns slightly too. The look of the robot isn't bad at recapturing the original with a yellow chest, blue visored face and crested helmet. The problem here is really the gun on it's back, the former tank turret gun. Freed from the turret it now pivots up and turns. Which is a bit useless now. What would be useful at this point is if you could pull it off and discover it was mounted by a 3mm peg that meant Guzzle could hold it in robot mode. No. It's fixed to his back. Designing a weapon that could be removed in robot mode and pivoted up in tank mode isn't beyond what you expect for this size class.
In some ways Guzzle does the job. It's likely to be the only new version of Guzzle we see in the next few years after all. But the gun's inadequacies really annoy me.
Guzzle was sold in the fourth wave of Cyberverse commanders. He was 1 per case with 2 Battle Steel Optimus Primes (carried over from the previous wave), 1 Dark Sentinel Prime, 1 Megatron or Ironhide and 1 Powerglide or Blackout. 1 per case, together with reships and useless repaints. That's really going to work well especially as there's no other Cyberverse Commander eaves currently scheduled. He's been released in both US and the UK where Smythes and ASDA have had him. In Japan he will be released as toy numbered CV-24.
Future Repaints
A repaint as the former Targetmaster Decepticon Quake would seem the most obvious repaint to me.
