Cheetor (Deluxe Class, 2020)
Hasbro ID number: WFC-K4
TakaraTomy ID number: KD-03
TakaraTomy release date: March 27, 2021

Accessories: Tail whip, Golden Disk card

Known designers: Dennis Chan (sculptor)
Released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Beast Wars, War for Cybertron: Kingdom Cheetor transforms from a robot accurate to his appearance in the first season of the Beast Wars cartoon into a realistic (if extremely bright yellow) cheetah. Unlike the Masterpiece figure, he has molded fur texture rather than full-body printing.

Cheetor’s tail can detach to become a whip, similar to his Transmetal toy. His beast mode legs can unfurl to form longer legs in robot mode, giving him a look reminiscent of his Beast Machines appearance; whether this was intentional or not is unclear. In cheetah mode, his jaw can open and close to adorably change his expression.

A minor design flaw is found within the cheetah’s neck, wherein a small, thin plastic tab meant to secure the head/neck of the cheetah with the back is prone to breakage. However, the joint the head/neck assembly moves on is plenty strong to keep it in place, meaning Cheetor can transform perfectly fine with or without the tab. Nevertheless, Hasbro did issue a running change in which the small thin tab on the cheetah head is smaller, and therefore less prone to breakage.

Cheetor comes with a Golden Disk card that ”reveals a possible destiny of a key character”, with each character having three possible destiny variants.

This figure was retooled into Shadow Panther, and then redecoed into Legacy Nightprowler. The mold’s robot and beast mode legs were also reused on the Hasbro PulseCon-exclusive War for Cybertron Trilogy ”Covert Agent Ravage”.

Transformers Kingdom War For Cybertron

Hasbro

5010993764754

2020

United States

2021-03-27

Kingdom

~£22.69

2024-01-25

2021-03-13 11:37:06