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Re: Make Toys Downbeat or Toyworld Coolsville?
Picked up Downbeat. I had my doubts. Honestly, the fanfare pushed me over the edge. My verdict? "Ahh Jazzz"
My biggest pre-purchase qualm with this dude was that the head looked off to me. Kind of "pinheadish" on a long neck. In hand, that concern is put to rest. The head sculpt is about as perfect as I have seen a TF.
Now there are some drawbacks. Tabbing the fairings to the hood in vehicle mode is difficult. Maybe impossible. Mine came with one properly tabbed and the other "sprung". I didn't investigate the cause because I couldn't give a hoot about vehicle mode (although apart from the sprung fairing, it looked pretty much like a 1980 Porsche 935).
Getting Downbeat into bot mode is pretty easy until one gets to the legs. There is no nice way to say, the transformation is ugly. "Tabs" is the word. At one point I began to despair that the bot mode may not come together solidly.
BUT, in the end, everything worked out. There's perhaps too much going on with the lower legs, but the finished product is real nice.
The articulation is par for an MP-style figure. The "ab-crunch" is deep and works better than any I have seen so far.
The white plastic is by no means the eye-sore I had heard and the overall proportions are excellent.
For a G1 MTMTE fan who displays in bot mode, I unreservedly recommend this dude.
MaKe Toys has definitely thrown down the gauntlet. If Takara answers, it would have to be mind blowing. Until then, Downbeat is my MP Jazz
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