Toy Review: Scout Class Reverb

Scout Class Reverb

Reverb is another of those lovable re-paints that fills out Hasbro’s summer offerings this year. What’s funny that it’s a repaint of a figure that was released not two months back, Knock Out. Seems Hasbro is stepping up the re-paint roll call with several of them coming up in the Revenge of the Fallen line, including Swerve (Sideswipe), Gears (Stockade), Hoist (Longarm), Thrust (Breakaway), Grindor (Blackout), Scorponok (Scorponok), Mixmaster (Mixmaster), Gathering at The Nemesis boxset (Soundwave, Fallen, and Megatron), and a Target exclusive orange Fallen (Fallen) to name a “few”. This doesn’t even include the Cybertron repaints they’ll be repackaging to fill out the Transformer Universe line while we wait for the Revenge line to wan.

According to his blurb in the back of the card, Reverb’s a fun guy when he’s not shooting holes in Autobots.

Read my [url=http://slangards.i.ph/blogs/slangards/2009/06/02/toy-review-rotf-scout-class-toys/]review of the first Revenge of the Fallen Scout wave[/url] if you’d like to see what the articulation and/or sculpt are like. It’s exactly the same level of articulation, which is superb. Or if you’re too lazy to click the link, you can look at the pretty pictures below. He’s the red one.

Paint wise, I’ve got to say I prefer the color scheme Knock Out. The shade of red plastic they casted Reverb in looks awful cheap. I looks… pink. Or salmon? It doesn’t help that the rest of him is an awful looking grey. He has more applications that Knock Out, but they aren’t really that aesthetically pleasing. I would have preferred a deeper red and an ominous Decepticon faction symbol.

When he transforms, there’s not much of an improvement. The weird red is still prominent and his racing colors don’t really add anything. They look more like an afterthought. For some reason, Hasbro felt it necessary to add some paint to his face, and it wasn’t all that successful. They chose a weird bluish silver that looks like he’s wearing a mask to Mardi Gras.

The only reason I bought this is that I liked how the 1/18 scale figures looked on Knock Out, and having a pair of mini-bikes was better than one. At p650.00, This is one Scout Transformer I would NOT recommend. You’re better off getting the first version of the mold. His color scheme looks far more interesting and he’s easier to find since the Philippines got tons of stocks during the initial launch of the toys. Knock Out and his wavemates are still warming pegs at your nearest Toy Kingdom, while the newer wave 2 toys pop up a set at a time.