Obi-Wan Transformer

by: DarthMolen 2 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, 23 hours, 28 minutes ago

Price:

14.99

Company:

Hasbro

Series:

Transformers

 

The packaging for the Obi-Wan transformer was exactly like Vader’s. Same size, heft, and colors. Obi-Wan was transformed into vehicle mode and shown off well by the bubbled exterior. As usual, the figure was secured into the packing material with the same annoying plastic bands that all toys have nowadays. It required a knife to extract him. They even wrapped the landing gear with these straps which could have broken them if care wasn’t taken when extracting the vehicle from its prison.

Obi-Wan’s vehicle mode is the ETA-2 Actis Interceptor that we see him driving at the beginning of Episode III. It was exquisitely detailed and the painting was photo perfect on the outside. The inside of the cockpit was not detailed but there was a seat to place the mini-obi. The wing tips expanded and retracted manually by using your fingernails to lift them off the wing. The two lightsabers that came with the transformer acted as missiles and even fired by sliding the switches placed on the front of the wings after you inserted sabers into the wing blade-first. The model starship had front landing gear that went up and down manually so that the vehicle mode could sit straight on its own.

The transformation for this robot was a lot more in-depth and involved than the Vader transformer. There was a considerable amount of sliding, flipping, twisting, and manipulating to get Obi-Wan into his robot mode. The arms had to come out of the side of the chest and rotated. The legs had to be flipped down, twisted, and then rotated. The wings had to be pulled outwards and then folded back and around and then secured onto each other with a built-in peg. The front of the cockpit had to be folded and then placed inside the hatch. the cover for the head had to be slid out of place then the head had to rotate up. I wouldn’t recommend it for anybody younger than seven years old because a couple of the joints felt a little weak and it was pretty confusing even for me. After he was transformed, he did feel surprisingly solid and he even stood on his own.

The robot Obi-Wan was where the surprise for me came into play. I was underwhelmed with the preview pictures but once he was assembled, he looked surprisingly proportional, moreso than even the vader figure did. The paint and sculpting for the robotic beard actually made him look appropriate and they even sculpted a robotic mullet. The look really grew on me. The arms were a little short and thin but they were still decently proportional to the overall figure. I do have two complaints about the Obi-Wan robot. First, the head didn’t really secure or snap into place and was just held there by some mild tension. Second, the hands didn’t grasp the included lightsaber at all except on the base of the saber where the belt clip was sculpted.

I am surprisingly pleased with the overall appearance of Obi-Wan. I wouldn’t recommend this toy for anybody under eight years old but he is a good sidekick to the vader transformer for those collecting the series and even shines on his own. I give this transformer a 4 out of 5.