We are kicking off an overdue new update to our galleries, looking at the fan-made Combiner, Victorion! Made up of six female Autobots – Pyra Magna, Dust Up, Jumpstream, Skyburst, Stormclash, and Rust Dust, Victorion sports a unified red and green “rust” inspired colorscheme across all her component figures. The five larger toys also feature new weapons which merge into a huge sword, new heads, new chests, and new hands / arms. With the amount of remolding involved, all the individuals feel like they have their own identity – and we’ll come to them in more detail when we do their individual galleries.
Victorion herself has some great design going on. First and foremost, the combined mode features a new head, and a new chest (though you don’t see much of this with Rust Dust attached). The combiner also has new dedicated hand and foot parts, which again set Victorion apart from those that went before. The new feet have ankle tilts and toe articulation, which makes it much easier for Vicky to strike wide stances. The hands also have some finger articulation, which helps with bringing some poses to life. I also complement the new combined mode head molding, which evokes the Generation 1 style of “helmet fitting over a smaller robot head”.
That said, Victorion is not flawless. A running problem I had with all six toys was that their paint seemed to chip very easily. Rust Dust also has a lot of problems staying attached, if you plug her in so the Autobot symbol is right-side up. The new hands also have the 5mm socket drilled through an odd place in the hands, behind the thumb, which can look like Vicky isn’t holding her weapons in her hands. Your mileage may also vary on the choice of colors, butI will say that in hand they do go well together and look much better than earlier highly-saturated images led on.
Check out our gallery of the combined giant Victorion and see what you think, and check back soon for a look at the rest of the Torchbearers / Rust Renegades:
Combiner Wars Victorion gallery
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