While it doesn't impede articulation in any form, I really wish they could have maybe just had them fold down against his arms. The first flaw is that the halves of his windshield just hang off his arms. Much like his vehicle mode, his robot mode looks excellent, with two flaws that I must point out. It's just a neat little touch that I think makes this toy very interesting. You have to rotate the center portion of the hood around, slide up the two sides that were left, rotate them to the sides, rotate his legs forward, and then flip up his feet. One thing I find really neat about Wheeljack is how his legs are formed, while his lower legs are his car hood, it's not simply just "flip the feet down". ![]() He has a head design very reminiscent of the original, "wings" behind the head, lower legs formed from the hood of the car, and his chest is meant to look like his vehicle mode roof. Wheeljack's robot mode is, like his vehicle mode, an homage to the original Wheeljack. Unlike my previous reviews, I'm not going to detail how to transform Wheeljack, just due to being more complex than a G1 figure. ![]() Wheeljack's vehicle mode measures about 4.75 inches long. The attack mode looks very silly and makes me think of a car with tusks, so I tend to not use it.įor show accuracy, it's actually very hard to find screenshots of Wheeljack's vehicle mode in the show (I wasn't able to find any clear screenshots), but even using the blurry screenshot I have, he still looks very show-accurate. His vehicle mode looks excellent, with my only real complaint being that the spoiler seems a little small, but making it bigger would have probably messed up his transformation, so I can see why it's that size.įor accessories, Wheeljack includes two swords which can either peg underneath his vehicle mode (as depicted in the photographs) or underneath his bumper as an attack mode. Said detailing doesn't mirror that on G1 Wheeljack, but it certainly does call back to him. In keeping with being a vehicle mode homage to the original Wheeljack, Prime Wheeljack is predominantly white, with red and green detailing on his hood, roof, and sides. In the end, while it may seem like this new Wheeljack is continuing a trope, it could be a means to reinvent it once again.Wheeljack's vehicle mode is, according to TFWiki, a modified 2011 Lancia New Stratos Concept, a very fitting robot mode, since his Generation 1 progenitor transformed into a Lancia Stratos Turbo. In this case, this new Wheeljack could bring a fresh yet similar personality in which the Autobot could grow from a timid hero into a confident and skilled inventor. While his attitude will be nearly unrecognizable from what came before, a missed opportunity could bring a new one. As of now, this was likely the same Autobot set to appear in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, but his change in design and vehicle has yet to be explained. Sadly, he was executed before his full potential could be shown on screen.īumblebee was the first time the character was shown with screen accuracy and survived the War of Cybertron. While Que was the team's inventor, like Wheeljack, he was much older and resembled Albert Einstein. But in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, he was repurposed into a character named Que. He was murdered in The Transformers: The Movie alongside other beloved Autobots. ![]() In the Transformers movie canon, Wheeljack never got a proper time to shine.
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