Title:
Ironhide Leader
Description:
Ironhide (Mechtech Leader, 2011)
Japanese Name:Ultimate Ironhide
Japanese Release Date: 2011-07-16
Japanese ID Number: DA-16
Accessories: Knife, leg-mounted removable spring-loaded cannon, one projectile
Known designers: Lenny Panzica (voice actor)
Released in the second wave of Dark of the Moon Leaders, This version of Ironhide transforms into a licensed GMC Topkick and is his first Leader Class toy, featuring all sorts of weaponry and other gimmicks.
His main gimmick is his chest-mounted Cybertronian Blitz Cannon, which is activated when either the license plate panel (used as a lever) on his abdomen is flipped and pushed down (similarly to the Revenge of the Fallen Leader Class Optimus Prime toy), or when a tall gray piece on the back-right of his head is pressed down. Two flaps on his abdomen open up, and a back-lit spinning cannon is deployed, lighting up his eyes as well as playing a rapid-fire shooting sound until the button is released, in which the cannon retracts back into his innards and a winding/powering-down sound is played.
Ironhide’s other lights and sounds gimmick is related to his head: when either the button on his chest or the lever on the back of his head are used, his mouthplate moves down, his eyes flash green and says the following the phrases, "Ironhide here” and "Weapons ready.” (He is not voiced by Jess Harnell, but by Lenny Panzica.) He also features cannons mounted on his arms/roof that pop out and deploy when each respective smokestack is pulled, and can be used in either vehicle or robot mode. There is also a small button behind the cabin that emits a (rather vague) sound of the vehicle driving and firing its cannons/ramming through obstacles when it is pressed. If the button is held down further, additional driving and engine revving sounds are emitted.
Lastly, Ironhide has two weapons hidden in each of his legs. Opening the side of his left leg reveals and pops up a removable knife, whereas opening his right leg deploys a detachable spring-loaded cannon, either of which he can wield.
Interestingly, he is more or less at scale with the various Human Alliance toys.
The international version replaces his first saying with a simple "Ironhide”, and the second "Weapons ready” saying is replaced with a robotic stomping sound (which is a modified version of the "ramming through obstacles” vehicle-mode sound.) Some units have the spring pushed and compressed too far back into the launcher, preventing the projectile from even shooting out. This can be fixed, but pulling and stretching the small spring further out while it is in the launcher may be rather difficult. Early versions of this toy also have a glued neck joint which prevents the head from turning. A running change variant later restored the neck articulation and enlarged the "Try me!” hole of the toy’s packaging. Unfortunately, this later version suffered from particularly poor quality control concerning the silver paint operations beside his headlights, as they tended to come scratched off in the box.
The two of his hood halves also frequently detach from the ball joints they are mounted on during transformation, quite possibly for safety reasons.
Despite being advertised as a MechTech figure, Leader class Ironhide’s gimmicks are almost entirely unrelated to the interchangeable, spring-loaded MechTech weapons seen on most of the other Dark of the Moon MechTech toys. Besides his fists, the only two 5mm post/MechTech ports on Ironhide are the ones on the hood halves above his shoulders, which can only be accessed in robot mode. His leg-mounted gun and knife can be removed and shared, however.
His box mentions "Automatic conversion sounds”, yet no such sound plays during transformation. Additionally, he is mis-transformed in his stock photography, as his vehicle front-end chest is not connected to his faux-bumper grille, nor are the wheels angled into his chest.
The Japanese release of the figure comes packed with a character card and an accompanying transparent plastic card of his arm cannons for the MechTech Wars online game, even though his built-in arm cannons aren’t removable, interchangeable 5mm MechTech accessories. However, as noted above, Ironhide’s knife and leg-mounted missile launcher are removable and can be wielded by other figures.
Japanese Name:Ultimate Ironhide
Japanese Release Date: 2011-07-16
Japanese ID Number: DA-16
Accessories: Knife, leg-mounted removable spring-loaded cannon, one projectile
Known designers: Lenny Panzica (voice actor)
Released in the second wave of Dark of the Moon Leaders, This version of Ironhide transforms into a licensed GMC Topkick and is his first Leader Class toy, featuring all sorts of weaponry and other gimmicks.
His main gimmick is his chest-mounted Cybertronian Blitz Cannon, which is activated when either the license plate panel (used as a lever) on his abdomen is flipped and pushed down (similarly to the Revenge of the Fallen Leader Class Optimus Prime toy), or when a tall gray piece on the back-right of his head is pressed down. Two flaps on his abdomen open up, and a back-lit spinning cannon is deployed, lighting up his eyes as well as playing a rapid-fire shooting sound until the button is released, in which the cannon retracts back into his innards and a winding/powering-down sound is played.
Ironhide’s other lights and sounds gimmick is related to his head: when either the button on his chest or the lever on the back of his head are used, his mouthplate moves down, his eyes flash green and says the following the phrases, "Ironhide here” and "Weapons ready.” (He is not voiced by Jess Harnell, but by Lenny Panzica.) He also features cannons mounted on his arms/roof that pop out and deploy when each respective smokestack is pulled, and can be used in either vehicle or robot mode. There is also a small button behind the cabin that emits a (rather vague) sound of the vehicle driving and firing its cannons/ramming through obstacles when it is pressed. If the button is held down further, additional driving and engine revving sounds are emitted.
Lastly, Ironhide has two weapons hidden in each of his legs. Opening the side of his left leg reveals and pops up a removable knife, whereas opening his right leg deploys a detachable spring-loaded cannon, either of which he can wield.
Interestingly, he is more or less at scale with the various Human Alliance toys.
The international version replaces his first saying with a simple "Ironhide”, and the second "Weapons ready” saying is replaced with a robotic stomping sound (which is a modified version of the "ramming through obstacles” vehicle-mode sound.) Some units have the spring pushed and compressed too far back into the launcher, preventing the projectile from even shooting out. This can be fixed, but pulling and stretching the small spring further out while it is in the launcher may be rather difficult. Early versions of this toy also have a glued neck joint which prevents the head from turning. A running change variant later restored the neck articulation and enlarged the "Try me!” hole of the toy’s packaging. Unfortunately, this later version suffered from particularly poor quality control concerning the silver paint operations beside his headlights, as they tended to come scratched off in the box.
The two of his hood halves also frequently detach from the ball joints they are mounted on during transformation, quite possibly for safety reasons.
Despite being advertised as a MechTech figure, Leader class Ironhide’s gimmicks are almost entirely unrelated to the interchangeable, spring-loaded MechTech weapons seen on most of the other Dark of the Moon MechTech toys. Besides his fists, the only two 5mm post/MechTech ports on Ironhide are the ones on the hood halves above his shoulders, which can only be accessed in robot mode. His leg-mounted gun and knife can be removed and shared, however.
His box mentions "Automatic conversion sounds”, yet no such sound plays during transformation. Additionally, he is mis-transformed in his stock photography, as his vehicle front-end chest is not connected to his faux-bumper grille, nor are the wheels angled into his chest.
The Japanese release of the figure comes packed with a character card and an accompanying transparent plastic card of his arm cannons for the MechTech Wars online game, even though his built-in arm cannons aren’t removable, interchangeable 5mm MechTech accessories. However, as noted above, Ironhide’s knife and leg-mounted missile launcher are removable and can be wielded by other figures.
Theme:
Dark Of The Moon
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2011
Date Added:
2023-04-17 09:46:59
