Sunday, October 25, 2009

Takara Tomy - Human Alliance Sideswipe Pt.2 (ROTF)


For HA Sideswipe, it has a pretty good head sculpt with some symbol on the forehead...

HA Sideswipe has spinning arm blades that made of soft rubber.

As there are not much "panel lines" made on the car body, most of the body parts become "bulky backpack" of the figure.

I have to do minor adjustment to the side panels of the HA Sideswipe's legs in order to have him standing steadily. Thanks to Optibotimus for sharing the information to the leg's adjustment in his video here.

We can put "Sergeant Epps" behind the figure shoulder if we want...

The head can be transformed into a new stage by lifting up the center "chin piece" underneath...

Now, HA Sideswipe is ready to fight with his arm blades and firing power system.

Besides the bulky backpack, I don't like the slim body of the figure. But overall, HA Sideswipe is awesome and I have no regret to have it in my collection. You may view HA Sideswipe in Corvette Stingray Concept Mode here.

12 comments:

Asrul "iLham" Sany said...

u sure like u transformer...
The only transformer that I own is Bumblebee cause he's soo cute...
Wish they could produce Optimus Prime like what they did to bumblebee. Will buy for sure.

desmond said...

Asrul, I only like ROTF series as these are figures related to 2nd movie instalment.

LEon said...

it's a shame the movie Sideswipe only appear in less than 10 mins...

desmond said...

Ya Leon, they are still focusing more on the old characters in the movie. On the other hand, even though Sideswipe appeared only a short time, he is still so popular :)

Dash MacBastard said...

Very nice figure, Desmond. I've been debating on whether or not to score these HA Transformers for my own collection.
Did you pick up any others?

saruman said...

yup, have this 1 as well but still in car mode.. not yet transformed!

desmond said...

Yes Dash, they are pretty cool. Hasbro has released HA Bumblebee, Sideswipe and Skids so far. I only able to get these two figures. I am waiting the local toy shops to restock HA Skids. I heard HA Mudflap will be released few months later..

desmond said...

Saruman - Sideswipe still looks "OKAY" in robot mode as well..

Dennis aka Katsuden said...

Sideswipe is so cool! No wonder the demand for this piece is so hot now. I bet the price will soon go up.

desmond said...

Dennis, although it's popular but the price is not rising as there are a lot of stock available in the market now.

Bracken said...

The vehicle mode looks very nice...

I have the Sideswipe robot replica, the robot mode on yours is actually pretty good you think. That corvette is tasty though...

desmond said...

Yes Bracken, I like human alliance figures as we can put human figurines in the car and as usual, they can transform. The body parts are detailed and they look nice in robot mode too..