A military-looking rifle that can slot into the hinged pistol to make a longer rifle.… with the help of his arsenal of 5mm-peg weaponry! Unlike the silly and near-unusable clip-on weapons that came with Whirl, Roadbuster’s many guns are versatile and look pretty cool. With posing so awkward and difficult, all Roadbuster can really do well is just stand still and look imposing… Also, his feet are long and flat, but have very little in the way heel support, leading to a very difficult-to-stand figure (especially if the knees are loose like mine). In addition, the hinges that bring his shoulders up for robot mode are very loose and don’t lock in securely, which makes posing his arms a chore. It will largely depend on the tolerances of each individual toy, but mine has a horribly loose shoulder rotation and extremely tight thigh and bicep swivels. All of his joints are either too loose or too tight, and most of them are the “faux-ratchet” joints that Hasbro seems to favor in modern Voyagers. The only thing that hampers the articulation is the near-terrible joint tolerances on his toy. He boasts an impressive range of articulation: ball-jointed head, universal shoulders and hips ( better if you fix his skirt parts), double-jointed elbows and knees, bicep/thigh/waist swivel, and multiple joints in his ankles. I honestly can’t decide if I really like this look or not, but it certainly doesn’t look bad. Admittedly, this does leave him looking a bit odd, with straight, squared legs, thin, rounded arms (with giant wheels hanging off), and big blocks for shoulders. This toy opts for a middle-ground, taking the form of a very bulky-looking but still average robot. When Roadbuster is portrayed in media, he’s generally presented as either a G1 toy-accurate normal-sized guy with a lot of guns or a hulking monstrosity of armor and guns. I can’t explain why that’s so cool, but it’s so cool! The rest of the conversion is fairly straightforward, though the toy does tend to feel a bit… rickety in its construction. Roadbuster is one of these cases, as his feet come together to form the midpart of the truck’s cab. Roadbuster is rarely much more than the guy with a bunch of guns, after all.Įvery once in a while Hasbro busts out a figure that does something really new and interesting in its conversion that is really simple and a bit insignificant, but the novelty of it makes it memorable. Unlike most cases of weapon storage, this actually totally works.
Even though it looks good enough on its own, you can peg on any of Roadbuster’s crazy amount of guns all over the place. It’s big and beefy, with appropriately huge tires and a compact look. This time around, Roadbuster turns into what is clearly a heavily-armored offroad military vehicle that looks awesome. It was ostensibly supposed to be a jeep, but it really wasn’t. The original Roadbuster toy’s altmode could be effectively described as a flat brick with wheels. His unique look and colors made him memorable and somewhat popular for homaging, but he never got his own official, new-mold toy until the 2014 Generations line with Voyager-class Roadbuster. While Whirl was left mostly forgotten in the franchise until 2012, Roadbuster had a tendency to show up a lot in comics, mostly as a background character. His absence from the cartoon can be explained from his toy’s origins as a licensed-out ‘Mugen Calibur’ from the Takatoku Toys Dorvack toyline (along with his fellow Wrecker Whirl, who was originally ‘Oberon Gazzette’). It’s about time I feature more current retail toys! Roadbuster is one of those odd G1 characters who never appeared in the original cartoon and never had much of a personality, but everyone remembers him because he was one of the Wreckers in the comic books.
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