and the battle between the autobots and
decepticons rages on
Megatron creates Triple Changers. Well the time
has finally come and now hitting Walmart
stores exclusively both in store and
online is their latest reissued release
from their pairing with Hasbro this is
the Transformers g1 reissue of the
triple changer Astro train now Astro
train was the winner of a Hasbro fan
poll in which they reached out to fans
and asked them to select and vote for
what figured they wanted to see in 2020
for the next g1 reissue partnership
release with Walmart and this is what
came out on top narrowly defeating
blaster in the finals so without further
ado let's go ahead and unbox this and
see how they did on this latest g1
reissue release
so let's go ahead and examine the
packaging first you can tell that yeah
there is no styrofoam in there that's
just kind of standard with all these g1
reissues styrofoam is bad Planet is good
so we've got plastic inside which not
necessarily any better than styrofoam
but overall they did a great job with
the recreation of the g1 packaging as
you can tell it is still just as
deceptive as ever and know that it's not
a Decepticon pun that is just really
talking about the color scheme so on the
top here we've got pictures of astro
train and it's a little hard to tell
with the shadows but he is in his g1
color scheme of white and purple but
inside the package you'll notice that
he's actually a gray in purple similar
to his cartoon color scheme and in the
front of the box he's almost a black and
purple charcoal color here so lots of
different color schemes going on but
what you're actually getting is more of
a gray / khaki colored purple
combination on the side there again
we've got the white and purple scheme
and then on the back we've got our power
and statistical ratings and rankings for
astro training again excellent looking
packaged artwork everything very
reminiscent of the g1 down to a tee this
is really what is going to draw most
people in to try to collect this series
like myself I've purchased and reviewed
every single one of these g1 reissues if
you're interesting a look and some older
ones
I'll put a public there for that
playlist but let's go ahead and get him
out of this cardboard prison and see
just how well this mould holds up over
the years alright so here we have in
train mode go to all the stickers on
there and just a pro tip something I've
learned along the way it definitely make
sure you use some tweezers to try to
apply these stickers even using tweezers
with adult hands it's rather difficult
and you'll still probably get some a
little out of alignment more so than you
would like but overall tweezers will
definitely help get the job done
much easier these stickers are very thin
they're nice and reflective but they're
very thin so you don't get a lot of
opportunities to pick them back up and
try to reapply them so definitely try
out the tweezers inside the box you get
your transformation instructions as well
as instructions on where to put these
stickers accordion style instruction
booklet nothing really fancy and then
you of course get his gun accessory
which is a very cool rifle but let's go
ahead and look at it diecast parts we've
got a nice metal here metal wheels
actually excuse me plastic wheels but
metal pins holding them on but yeah he
rolls rolls and train mode rolls and
space shuttle mode very happy with the
build quality of this joints or not too
tight not too loose so that was good and
let's go ahead and get him out of train
mode and let's put him into space
shuttle mode
and there we have him in his space
shuttle moved again
rolls around nice and freely over
although looks great got stickers got
the shiny Decepticon logos on the wing
as well as the back of the rocket got
some stickers there on I guess what
you'd call the fuselage area and then
we've got his robe sticker right here
again nice diecast parts as far as the
core the wing not terribly stiff you can
slide it up and down to kind of move it
forward you got to really get behind it
this is probably the stiffest joint of
it all but overall easy to move over and
slide around and that is his shuttle
mode so let's go ahead and check out
robot mode
I'm not right and there we have it pros
and cons obviously the chest plate and
the back wing kind of limits some of his
arm movement so you can't really pose
him with his arms straight out with the
rifle because it gets in the way of this
chest plate here so you can like move
this up and down but either way no
matter it really how you how you cut it
it's still kind of in the way but
overall great looking figure nice
stickers nice detail robot mode train
mode space shuttle mode how are we
however you see fit he looks great
either way I really enjoyed that this is
a very versatile figure you get three
different modes and robot forms so I
think you definitely get more bang for
your buck so that $39 MSRP is really a
okay in my book because of the
versatility of this triple change figure
but again face looks great rifle is
massive it is you know roughly that
almost as big as he is but great looking
figure over all
overall gotta say I'm quite happy with
the Astro train figure retail price was
$39 much better than the $49 price tag
that we had with the Optimus Prime
release considering the Optimus Prime
release didn't even come with a trailer
that $49 price tag was a hard pill to
swallow $39 for this guy much better I
would still like to see it at the $30
price point but still for such a great
figure and the retro packaging I'm
willing to shell out that extra little
bit of cash to have this great figure
and if you want to find this figure
yourself I highly recommend you check
out your local Walmart says this is now
just starting to hit the Walmart stores
in the United States and if you don't
want to go to your local Walmart store
I'll put a product link down the video
description box below so you can
purchase this online granted keep in
mind that this is notorious for going in
and out of stock online as is with all
the other g1 releases from Walmart com
they just go in and out of stock on a
day to day basis it seems so check back
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