The chest and back panels open, allowing you to rotate the head away and rotate out the robot head.Īgain midnight blue with the transparent orange feet and hands, Cheetor now features a transparent orange chestplate. More precisely, you stand him up, flip out heelspurs, extend the knees, rotate the hands and fold down the thumbs. Pretty simple, and like the two preceding toys, this is pretty much stand him up and straighten the limbs. In the end, I'm not worried because this is one of the few Beast Machines Maximals that looks really good in beast mode. The play value isn't really what you'd expect of a Beast Machines toy, which is really because it's all been saved for the robot mode. Still, the colours work well and the fact that it can stand at all make this cat mode the pick of the Cheetors BM offered - at the cheapest price point, no less. There's a black (not blue) jetpack on his back, on a hinge allowing it to point up, which fits in with his angular look and gives Cheetor a far more robotic looks than his other two BM forms. The lankiness is retained, although this toy is a lot more angular than the last two, which were pretty much devoid of corners. Considering that cheetahs are cats that run down their prey, a hunched, ready to pounce pose isn't really natural for this type of cat. There is a lot you can do with the hindlegs, but in the end the front legs have to be crouching, so Cheetor ends up low to the ground, almost in a crawl. Unfortunately, the restricted wrists at the front really limit what you can do with this toy, since all poses need to accommodate them. The hindlegs are where all the action is, with ball jointed hips and ankles, two hinges per knees and hinges below the ankle joints. The neck is more or less immobile, the tail can lift up and down. The elbows are hinged and the wrists ball jointed, however the ball joints are restricted, only allowing his wrists to rotate or bend inwards. The front shoulders are swivels on springs, which is a robot mode gimmick. Thanks to a combination of rigged shoulders at the front and tight joints at the back, you shouldn't have any trouble finding a way to stand this cat up. On the whole it's a great colour scheme, even if the blue appears black under most lighting conditions.Īs mentioned, this cheetah mode is stable, unlike the Mega or Supreme Cheetors. There is a transparent orange dome on his back with a green spark crystal in it, which looks really nice (and kind of explains the wrists). It's nice that they've finally made a Cheetor that's not just some variation on yellow, and a Beast Machines Cheetor that's finally stable (more on that in a moment). The legs sport splotches of light orange paint, while the face is painted with a tasteful metallic gold paint and the front ankles with equally tasteful (if random) metallic green paint. Height: 10cm Length: 18cm Width: 8cm - exact dimensions depend on poseĪ midnight blue cheetah with transparent orange claws and neck, grey tail, shoulderblades and rear knees. Thanks to Goktimus Prime of Planet Sabretron for the loan of Night Slash Cheetor.
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