Kaiyodo Revoltech Convoy(Optimus Prime)

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First up, the Kaiyodo Revoltech Convoy. One of my favs even though it does not transform. I like it because its poseable. A real fun toy to pose with and looks damn cool.




It looks sort of anime-ish. Great sculpt and paint job although I think the dark greyish part on the hip area, chest window frames and mouth piece could be a little lighter and more shiny like the ones on the legs. The bluish hue is actually more towards the purplish side. Don't get me wrong, I kind of like the purplish blue, very unique. Another thing you will notice is that the shoulders each have its own autobot logo, which I thought was kind of weird. As if the enemy will have difficulty recognizing him as leader of the autobots. The box comes with 3 other inter-changeable hands making it a total of 5. 2 for the left hand and 3 for the right. A blaster that looks just as cool and the matrix of leadership which I thought was only a novelty because the extra hands don't come with the 2 that will hold the leadership matrix properly. But sort of glad that it was included.




A note to readers, the toy does not come with a stand, I just stick it to an autobot symbol which I found and bought. The toy also can't stand like that, I use blu-tack. I really like its simplistic design. It does not have much details but the shape of the toy just has this great anatomy to it.




There is a flaw in the design though. The height of the shoulders do not match up on the horizontal plane, as do the legs. So you will see that when its standing straight the shoulders do not line up and the hip is slightly tilted off to one side. Maybe only my revoltech has the problem or the entire line of revoltech convoy is faulty. I don't know, never bothered to buy another one to check it out and I don't know anyone else who owns one of it. Overall, its not a big problem because the fault disappears once you start posing the figure and it starts looking cool. I recommend it to people who likes figures that can do really expressive poses.

Anybody wants to buy this toy can contact me. I bought mine for SGD$28 which was about a year ago in 2007, but prices have gone up since then. Contact me for availability and latest pricing.