 
Transformers Movie Voyager Blackout with Scorponok
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We are so disappointed with this toy. Our son wrote to Santa and asked for this, after seeing the movie, and it broke on Christmas Day. The plastic is very brittle, with tiny parts that snap off, when the toy is "transformed."
How do you tell an 8 year old that Santa's elves made a cheap toy?
Claudia
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My 7 year old wanted Blackout hands down to Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and even the elusive Megatron! We went to several stores and could not find him ANYWHERE! We found him on amazon and it said there would be a 6-8 week shipping date...however he arrived just 3 and 1/2 weeks later and it has been the hit of the Transformers phase. He is a little delicate for a TOY! But my son loves putting him back together over and over again (his father and I are not as enthusiastic at the 8,349 time)
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I have been a transformers fan since the day I could transform little Beetle Bumblebee and absolutly loved the live action movie. I am very disapointed in the whole line of movie voyager action figures aside from Jazz. The Blackout figure looks great as a chopper but the comes the interesting part of transforming it, half the parts don't bend the right way then when your finished it doesn't represent what you thought you were set out to find. If I had children I wouldn't buy them this toy, it is more for collecting then playing. I would personally go to ebay and spend the time and money to get a real transformer gen 1 or 2 then buy from this set again. Very complex for a 4-5 year old, I would loose interest if I was 10-12 because it takes so long to transform. Not impressed at all.
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I am a Huge fan of all things transformers, not just generation 1, I like all the different takes on it, including the movie. My favorite from the other takes on the story has been starscream, but I'd say Blackout easily topped him in the movie for me, especially in light of starscream's weird almost goofy redesign for the film. Blackout was totally the first I aimed to get although I'd like to eventually have all the decepticons. I was excited last night when I actually went ahead and got him, though I was a little disappointed with what I ended up getting.
I of course have to first pull it out of the impossible twist-ties [with no scissors cause I'm too impatient to wait till I get home]. Then I load in the little scorponok plastic thing which is totally useless and leaves a giant gap in the back when he's not there, plus he's set on a little plastic tray held by a tiny plastic tab that can be released by a button, or by simple touching it since the hold on the tab is pathetic. I put one of the little rubber bands it's packed with back over it, I don't plan to ever take it off, I could have done without that feature.
then I try out the little spinning rotor gimmick, which would be cool if the rotors kept freely moving rather then stopping dead every time you release the lever for a second to let it retract again. then I figure alright lets transform it, that at least should be good. I'll say it definitly looks nice in both robot and helicopter modes, he stands up well with help of the tail on his back, but transformation was not that fun. first of all you might as well just take the top/back chunk off entirely until he's done transforming, to get the rotors out of the way. Then as you transform you'll come across a new "Automorph Tecnology" which is just another stupid gimmick that does'nt even work. when you pull [what will be his back] down the head is on a spring that should automatically pop-up, it kinda does but needs some manual help, be careful though not to displace the plastic gear teeth that control this function or his head will refuse to go back into hiding when you transform back. It took me a half an hour to get his head to quit popping back around >.<
Again he looks great in both modes but not quite like his movie version, then again in the movie several little panels quickly disappear into nowhere, pretty hard to recreate in plastic. Especially a tiny little $20 plastic thing. I'm not about to complain about what they changed in the story since G1, but the quality of the toys is really downhill, perhaps more complex now, but also really flimsy, relying on plastic tabs, I wouldn't mind seeing a "Masterpiece" metal/thick plastic Version of all the movie characters to SCALE, blackout is huge and should NOT be the same size as the deluxe scorponok which is supposed to be about as big as the worthless little one that came with him. If he were to scale they may have been able to add complexity that was a little more sturdy and reliable.
I still say If you Loved Blackout, This is the only version so far so he was worth it to me, I just hope for a more "deluxe" version some time.
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Blackout was the third Transformer I purchased from the new toyline. Transformation is relatively easy, but the toy's construction leaves much to be desired. Compared to the other voyager class figures in the line, I would have to say that Blackout is the most fragile and lightweight.
Blackout has one automorph feature - in his head. As the legs of the figure are extended downward, the head would flip outward and up through the torso. There is one problem with this feature: When reconverting back into helicopter mode, the legs would accidentally trigger the automorph, when trying to snap the legs back into position. In helocoptor more, I had to place a rubber band around the legs, and cockpit, just to prevent the automorph from automatically activating.
Upon careful inspection of the figure, I noticed that one the pegs (left side), located on the side of the helicoptor was shorter than the other (right side). This was obviously THE mechanical defect, which caused the toy's automorph to automatically activate in copter mode.
I understand that my explanation was quite lengthy, and detailed. Hopefully you followed it.
I believe that my toy was simply defective. Blackout is still, one of my favorite figures from the toyline, regardless. I plan on getting another Blackout. Hopefully, I don't meet up with the same problem again.
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