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It has only 40% similarity with the figure in the cartoon. I still remember 15 years ago, the Astrotrain toy is better made than this.
I was expecting something more. The robot is alright. The train mode is hideous and looks like it wasn't very well thought out. The legs are kinda of wobbly. This toy has three modes. The best I think is the space shuttle mode. In the robot mode the forearms have to stay bent of the two shuttle halves easily cover them back up.
I got my little brother the Classic Starscream and we had no complaints, he LOVED the toy (since he's watched the original transformers animated movie 100 times). I haven't gotten the chance to open the toy yet since I bought it for my little brother, but if it's anything like the original from the 80s, I probably will be quite pleased. The transformer toys nowdays are so complicated and retarded they defeat the purpose of "playing." It ends up being more of a puzzle for kids to transform, not simple and fun like the toys we grew up with in the 80s.
This is a great toy though, and my son (and my husband) enjoys playing with and transforming it. He has some trouble getting the configurations just right, but he's memorizing it. My 6 year old son got this Transformer with his birthday money. It does just what it is supposed to (including popping apart if moved the wrong way). Also, he can't reattach the pieces when they pop off.
The robot also has a sizable footprint, which allows it to stand on almost any level surface, including carpet.Overall, I'd say Astrotrain is well worth the price. Durability-wise, the tail fin seems flimsy, and the arms tend to pop out of their sockets, though they're easy to pop back in.The good: you get not just a Transformer, but a triple changer for 10 bucks. Shuttle mode has two halves of a locomotive on either side of it and a robot waist near the engine, robot mode has those locomotive halves mostly blocking its hands, and train mode barely resembles as a train--half of it is very obviously the shuttle, upside-down. Robot mode is fully articulate, and Astrotrain, as a whole, is large and quite complex, considering what you pay for it. First of all, I'll start by saying my favorite Transformer of all time from the series (I grew up with the G2 incarnation) was Astrotrain. Not only was he a triple changer, meaning there were three times the way he could transform, but both of his alternate modes were cool and fairly unique.The bad: there are copious amounts of kibble (extant parts of other modes) in each of its modes. I wish Chinese labor was this cheap when I was a kid.
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