>>11499018Both characters in a more neutral pose - now that I finally have a version of VP that uses his original mold, I can do a proper comparison between the two. Glaring shrinkage aside, the newer VP is very clearly missing a bunch of details due to being a Jhiaxus retool - he's missing the skirt armor, his wing-cape's armature has far less articulation, his shoulder pads are tiny and don't angle up all the way, and he's completely missing the wrist guards; he also doesn't have Safeguard, though that was to be expected due to Hasbro's apparent modern allergy to minicons. On the other side of things, the old VP isn't exactly flawless, but he's certainly better off - while he lacks the modern advances in articulation (namely the rotating wrists, a waist, and ankle rockers that I've become so accustomed to these days), he can actually rotate his calves and his forearms; the latter being important because it gives him the articulation to cheat some cool slashing poses with his sword that would have normally required those previously mentioned rotating wrists. His sword, while looking pretty cool, is made of a soft plastic, and it sadly doesn't seem to want to fit in his hand all that well; his wing-cape parts are made of the same soft stuff, and the right one on mine came slightly warped right out of the box due to the way he was packaged.
Safeguard is neat, and turns into a little spaceship that doubles as a gun that can mount to VP's wrist gauntlets, and the Cyber Key, while now pretty much just decorative now that he has no electronics, still looks cool and has a backing piece not present on other Keys that features the symbols of all the other planets from the show, painted in shiny chromed silver and outlined by the bubbles on the front part of the Key itself.
