>>11565914Also, I got these guys last week and forgot to show them off - this four pack with 'Covert Clone' Sideswipe, Trenchfoot, Grand Slam and Raindance came out right around the time I came back to Transformers and started collecting, and I missed it entirely because I had no idea exclusives were a thing; I'm glad it was reissued over on Pulse recently.
While I don't really know much about this version of Sideswipe (other than the fact that he's apparently not the original), I really like the colorscheme on him. Trenchfoot is pretty neat, too - while he's similar in color to the "Captive Pinpointer" that came with the Netflix Siege Megatron, he actually has some paint details on him, something I don't remember seeing on any of the other Battlemasters - in his case, he's got some white on his belly and clavicle area, making him match Sideswipe nicely.
Grand Slam and Raindance are...weird, and made weirder when I went and looked up the characters (who I was unfamiliar with but thought looked cool). It seems that the originals were cassette bots, but instead of turning into animals or little robots like the more well-known guys, these two became little 'Cybertronian' vehicles - Grand Slam's the tank, and Raindance is the jet. They were also sort of a mini combiner team, and could merge into a single robot known as 'SlamDance', with Grand Slam making up the upper torso and Raindance becoming the legs.
