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Recieved the girls last night from amazon.
Kaskade is exactly what i expected, i passed on every previous version of this mold cuz it looked like shit and it really is.
Huge hollow backpack, weird arm kibble, barely 90 on the elbows, nothing on the wrists with silly sculpting on the hands, huge shin kibble that impedes the knee bend and an alt mode thats just a coffin on wheels with some hands hanging out the back. I do like the colour palette and the new head is cool, but thats hardly anything to write home about.
Javelin is the only reason to by the set, she looks great, the sculpting and shapes are cool and dynamic, the colours pop, the new head is really interesting. Her articulation is fine, the tab on the head pops off really easy but its got a good range of tilt and turn, double jointed elbows, sadly nothing on the wrists again. Knees are only 90 unfortunately and the feet are weirdly small which makes the ankles just a bit weird to pose with. Luckily her backpack compresses really nicely. She also turns into kind of nothing on wheels with hands hanging out the back, but at least its a cool scifi nothing.
The guns they come with are both seperated into multiple modular parts. Javeline's looks better as a rifle but its seperate parts dont do anything alone, and it looks a little off in her waify hands.
Kaskade's looks decent in rifle mode, and the base gun looks cool on its own too, not so much for the barrel gun, and she also comes with 3 scopes but the other two dont do shit, thry just peg onto the car, either on the wheels in bot mode or into her neck as boosters in vehicle mode.
The lack of wrists on both of them really impede their ability to look cool posing as snipers.
Id say, if Javeline was sold separately at retail shed be worth it for sure, as a 2 pack, if youre on the fence probably pass, kaskade is just pack filler. Shes the only version of this mold i have so im fine with keeping her as a nice splash of colour in the decepticon ranks
