>>9087438I've owned a few of those. It always bugged me that just as they were starting to get the hang of it they ended the line.
Figures I owned:
Wolverine - Pretty decent. Very basic transformation and articulation, it's one of those ones with a bit of frustration depending on what order you do things in but once you get it right, it sings. Plus, he's made of a really sturdy plastic, makes him feel invincible. Maybe because he's an off-road vehicle? They made him in three colors, I got the black and silver because I wanted a Decepticon car to threaten my autobots and he looked damn good doing it. The yellow and blue one has a nice bright quality but I don't trust that yellow paint.
Captain America - Really quite good. He turns into a humvee which is kinda genius and he's got a spare tire that turns into his shield when you press the star button and that's really fun. The transformation really indicates that this is Hasbro guys who've *handled* transformers and know how they're supposed to work but they just don't have the history and the talent pool that Takara does. They were gonna do Captain America as the Punisher and replace the spare tire with a machine gun and fuck, what a missed opportunity. There also used to be a pretty common custom where people would make him into Swindle, and it fit really well. That's the sort of build he has.
Ghost Rider - Tragic, absolutely tragic. They straight up copied the Animated Oil Slick toy, which is a great idea and they should have continued developing on it, but instead they hampered his leg articulation and made him just a wreck. Plus, the gummy plastic on the skull was really awkward. Ended up trading him on the BST.
Always wanted to get the bike spiderman, the muscle venom, and the Hulk but all three got really hard to find right around the same time. And it absolutely bewilders me that as the MCU became not just a thing but The Thing Hasbro never got Takara to go in on starting over properly.
