Wings Of Uranos

         Hello and good day to you all. Today I'll be doing a review on Uranos's upgrade kit- Wings Of Uranos! Very happy that I'm able to grab this upgrade kit, but it is a bit pricey. Cost around RM120-150 (36-45 USD) depending where you got it. Got mine at the higher end :(  but its ok..... Crazy things Transformers fans do..... lol. Anyway, move onto the review.

The upgrade kit comes in a box with a very cool drawing of Uranos with upgrade kit.

At the back of the box you will find the actual upgrade kit and the figure.

Comes with line drawing like the other members of the Uranos Project.

Also comes with a collector's card.

Included in the upgrade kit is a big poster similiar to the front of the box

These are the upgrade kits. Basically we can divide them into 2 main groups. The set for the Uranos combiner mode and for individual robots.

It has 4 piece to form his canon.

1 face plate

2 neck support

1 chest piece

1 crotch piece

The other group consists of 4 guns and 4 sets of missiles for Air Raid, Fireflight, skydive and slingshot. The big issue with this Uranos upgrade kit is that there is no instruction manual, so you basically have to try to figure out how to fit in the pieces. The upgrade for combiner mode is not that difficult, but when it comes to the missiles and guns, you basically can mix and match depending however you want it to be.

This is the original Uranos combiner head looks like. He does not have a face plate like G1 Superion and his neck area looks a bit weird and hollow.

This is how he looks like when you put on the face plate and neck support. 

I must admit that he looks much much better with the upgrade for his face and neck.

The only drawback is that with the neck support, his head cannot rotate up or down. Now he only rotates side to side.

Once you've added the chest piece he really looks more and more like G1 superion, although not 100%, we are getting there :)

As you can see, I've added the Autobot logo at his chest piece. Very cool indeed, and fits nicely too

Next we put on his crotch piece.......

And there you have it! Superion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a whole, the upgrade kit does make it look more G1-ish, the upgrade for the combiner mode works for me. I'm satisfied with the end result.

His canon is made of the 4 pieces of parts shown in the picture above.

Eat this Decepticon scum!!!

Looks very cool with his canon, and much more G1 then the original Uranos.

He does looks cool with 2 canons instead of 1 :)

The other members with their new weapons. I'm not sure which belongs to who, so I just gave it to whomever I want.

Slingshot looks happy :)

The missiles for the jet mode does make the jet cooler. I don't think anyone will complain with the added firepower. Nice upgrade. But to insert the missiles, you will have to take off his landing gears at the side of his wings.

This is how it looks like from below.

Fireflight looks good with this gun. Gave this one to him as it has a red stripe on the gun itself. I guess it is meant to be his?

Again nice upgrade with the extra missiles. No complains here.

Choose this gun for Skydive as it has the black and grey that matches him.

Skydive has the heaviest arsenal among the arielbots I suppose :)

Armed and dangerous.....

Air Raid has the oval barrel shape gun as he is my favorite :)

You will have some trouble attaching his fuel pod as the missiles will get in the way. I try to attach it to the side of Air Raid.

Pros: Upgrade does make him more G1. Canon looks cool.

Cons: A bit expensive for the upgrade, the missiles does not make much changes, just a cool add on, not a must. The guns for the Arielbots too, not a must. No instruction manual

Verdict: Well I won't say it is a mush have upgrade kit for Uranos as it is a bit expensive from my point of view. If you have the extra cash, you can go for it. If you really wanted a more G1 accurate Superion, go ahead and grab it. But I think that if they just include the upgrade kit for the combiner mode and throw away the missiles and the guns, the price would be much more cheaper and affordable for all ( maybe around RM40-60) . Just my thought.

Anyways, thank you again for reading. Do drop me a comment for any questions and anyway I can make my blog better. Cheers!!!

Unique toys: Mania King.

       Hello and thanks again for reading, today I'll be doing a review on a 3rd party figure from Unique Toys: Kings Mania ( Not Galvatron ). Reason I bought this figure is that when I saw his pictures during PO, he is the best Galvatron figure I've seen so far, none even come close to this Galvatron. There are several figures through the years as I've found out, the G1 version, the re-decoed version for G1, the Universe version, the Alternity series, but again King Mania is the best Galvatron figure so far in my opinion.

       He comes in a very cool box, its very hard and sturdy, even better than masterpiece boxes, which makes it heavier too and could cost more for shipping due to his weight. Comes with an instruction booklet and a collector's card.

Collector's card, love the background! Like in the movie when he was just resurrected by Unicron.

His stats. Wonder how can he has such high speed rating as he transforms into a canon? maybe flaying in robot mode perhaps ;)

Instruction manual

Here is Galvatron after you open the box, well protected by the Styrofoam. 

At first glance, he looks pretty awesome right out of the box. Body ratio, G1 accuracy is very very good. The part I love the most about him is the chest and abdomen part which is G1 accurate, with the indentation to the mid abdominal region which is red in colour.

Here in a nice poster you can observe his chest and abdomen region, very nicely done by Unique Toys.

Head sculpture is there but not quite. His horns/antenna goes all the way and is pointed at the end, unlike the G1 cartoon. His head can turn side to side, look foward but unable to look up, which is kinda sad.

But we can see there is a chest area which is coloured silver and left blank for one and one reason only...... we all know what it is for ;-)  

I see what you did there Unique Toys...

His shoulder is basically on a ratchet joint, probably the designer choose this joint because of the weight of his shoulder canon?

Shoulder goes all the way from 0 degree to about 90 degree 

He has an elbow joint 

Biceps joint for rotation

All his fist is as a whole, no individual finger or thumb articulation. No wrist articulation

Well he does not really need to have it anyway since his primary weapon is his canon

Both forearm has the opening for his canon, and it can be fitted on either hands.

The lower part of his body looks good as well. He does have some ankle joint movements for posing.
Also comes with waist articulation, he can turn his waist a whole 360 degrees.

This is as far as his hip joints go, nealy 90 degrees, and you have to lift his crotch piece to allow this articulation.

Knee joint articulation.

Van Damme articulation :)

Some size comparison for King Mania/ Galvatron with Uranos

Here he is with Sideswipe and Frenzy. Slightly taller than MP-12. 

And..... here he is in canon mode!

Well as a whole his canon mode looks fairly ok, some parts looks a bit bulky and some part is a bit loose and appears hollow, but still it is as close as G1 as you can get.

This guy is the hardest to transform among all my transformers figures!

                 Took me quite a while. But I'm sure those who have MP-Magatron will disagree.                                         ( lucky I don't have him :p )

He is very stable in his alternate mode with 3 stands, 2 at the sides and 1 at the back.

Get em mighty Galvatron!!!

I Galvatron will crush you just as Megatron crush prime!

The canon is not all orange as G1 but I guess as 3rd party, you can't be 100% same as the original, still I'll take the design, looks cool though.

Trying to replicate the pose in the box, but his head just can't look up..... such a pity

Here are some Galvatron toys of old.

I had his alternity series version not because he is Galvatron but because he is a Nissan Fairlady  :)

As a summary:

G1 accuracy: 8.5/10

Articulation and posability: 8/10

Plastic quality: 7/10

Box quality: 9.5/10

Helpful instruction manual: 8/10

Collector's card: 7/10

Paint quality: 9/10

Price:  about RM 250-270 ( 76- 82 USD ) value for money? 7/10 If you got the extra cash, why not. If you are choosing between a car MP or this guy, mayb would advice to go for MP cars such as MP-12,14,17,18,19

Size: about voyager size

Pros: Best Galvatron figure to date, attention to detail for robot mode, good articulation, good paint job, high box quality, fairly stable in robot mode. 

Cons: Limited head articulation, no wrist articulation, alternate mode not really impressive, no light-piping, no die-cast, not leader class ( people will want to pose him beside MP-Rodimus )

Thank you again for reading :)