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an adult will find flaws, but a kid will find fun, Michael
This review is from: Transformers: Robots in Disguise Power Surge Optimus Prime and Aerobolt (Toy)
There's an adult transformer point of view and a kids point of view. I, the adult, thinks they're not even trying anymore. But as my son played with this, I saw that it's easy to transform and fun to play with.
When you see it in the box, you just see the really cool robot. In robot mode, it's pretty impressive. It's about a foot tall, it's got an awesome sword, and the bird shield is even cool. The plastic work isn't great. A lot of the plastic parts for the arms and legs are hollow. The plastic for toys like this has always been hollow, but they used to put two plastic pieces together to hide the hollow where now they use just one piece and it looks cheaper. For a $50 toy, I expect better. And what's up with truck mode? It's like they didn't even try. They put the truck front on it and threw a couple wheels on the back, but what else says truck here? It's a mishmash of weird design.
But I put this in my boy's hands. The truck is obviously a truck to his imagination. He thinks the robot is just as cool as I do. He doesn't notice the cheaper plastic. The fact that some parts come off is good to him because they're easy to fix and it's fun to battle that way. It's also easy to transform. My son is nine and can handle harder than this, but very difficult transformers frustrate him. It's a hard balance for a transformer to be easy but not babied down. And this does find that balance. It's easy to transform, but it feels like you're actually transforming it.
I'd give it three stars. But maybe I'm an adult with no imagination. My boy would give it five stars. I've got what I would call five star transformers and I just don't think it's one of them. So I think four stars is an honest review.
