Title:
Wreck Gar Wreck-Gar Robot Mode
Description:
Wreck-Gar (Deluxe Class, 2011)
Accessories: 4-bladed battle axe/tailpipe
Known designers: Bill Rawley and Andrew Franks (Hasbro), more»
Part of the sixth wave of the 2010 Transformers toyline, Wreck-Gar transforms into a Road Warrior-esque junker off-road motorcycle. His exhaust pipe and rear hubcap detach (via a clip joint) and unfold to become his axe weapon. As part of the Reveal the Shield subline, Wreck-Gar features a rubsign on his windscreen/right leg. The front tire is mounted on a ball joint, allowing it to pivot downward and serve as a shield in robot mode. It can kinda-sorta peg onto his elbow in this position, but doing so limits articulation. The wheel can also be popped out of the ball-joint socket, and held in Wreck-Gar’s hand as a shield/axe/melee thingy.
One Wreck-Gar can totally ride another (or another toy based on the same sculpt) in the style seen in the movie! Double pegs under his pelvis correspond to sockets in his vehicle mode seat. Furthermore, the figure has tabs and sockets on his robot mode ankles that are supposed to connect to corresponding sockets and tabs of his bike mode to secure his feet, but this is done with very limited success as a result of some part interference. Additionally, the left side of his chest/shoulder assembly refuses to peg in properly in robot mode, a very common problem across all later versions of this mold.
Wreck-Gar suffers from a very intricate transformation that often requires just the right amount of force being applied for it to work; however, applying too much force, or not paying attention to certain parts, can result in outright breakage. His translucent helmet-horns are very fragile and might even break simply from accidentally turning the head while in vehicle mode, and his sculpted-open hands are prone to stress marks from simply holding the axe. Don’t even think about turning the axe inside his hand! The worst offender, though, are the hinges that connect the rubber handles to the gas tank: those can break after just a few transformations, regardless of whether one uses the automorph by pulling up on the gas tank and thereby dislodging the handles and moving them to the side as intended, or tries to unhinge the handlebars manually beforehand. Sadly, cutting the nubs off has been the only consistent fix to prevent breakage. Hasbro addressed this problem by cutting the nubs off at the factory level for subsequent redecos and retools of the sculpt, starting with Generations Junkheap.
This mold was redecoed into Shattered Glass Wreck-Gar. It was also retooled into United Scrapheap (later also released under the Generations branding) and Generations Junkheap, each sporting a different head sculpt. Those two were redecoed into Shattered Glass Scrap Iron and Shattered Glass Junkheap, respectively. This mold also served as the basis of the non-toy Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Crazybolt.
Wreck-Gar’s instructions depict Junkheap’s head sculpt, thus hinting at the retool before it was announced as a separate release.
Accessories: 4-bladed battle axe/tailpipe
Known designers: Bill Rawley and Andrew Franks (Hasbro), more»
Part of the sixth wave of the 2010 Transformers toyline, Wreck-Gar transforms into a Road Warrior-esque junker off-road motorcycle. His exhaust pipe and rear hubcap detach (via a clip joint) and unfold to become his axe weapon. As part of the Reveal the Shield subline, Wreck-Gar features a rubsign on his windscreen/right leg. The front tire is mounted on a ball joint, allowing it to pivot downward and serve as a shield in robot mode. It can kinda-sorta peg onto his elbow in this position, but doing so limits articulation. The wheel can also be popped out of the ball-joint socket, and held in Wreck-Gar’s hand as a shield/axe/melee thingy.
One Wreck-Gar can totally ride another (or another toy based on the same sculpt) in the style seen in the movie! Double pegs under his pelvis correspond to sockets in his vehicle mode seat. Furthermore, the figure has tabs and sockets on his robot mode ankles that are supposed to connect to corresponding sockets and tabs of his bike mode to secure his feet, but this is done with very limited success as a result of some part interference. Additionally, the left side of his chest/shoulder assembly refuses to peg in properly in robot mode, a very common problem across all later versions of this mold.
Wreck-Gar suffers from a very intricate transformation that often requires just the right amount of force being applied for it to work; however, applying too much force, or not paying attention to certain parts, can result in outright breakage. His translucent helmet-horns are very fragile and might even break simply from accidentally turning the head while in vehicle mode, and his sculpted-open hands are prone to stress marks from simply holding the axe. Don’t even think about turning the axe inside his hand! The worst offender, though, are the hinges that connect the rubber handles to the gas tank: those can break after just a few transformations, regardless of whether one uses the automorph by pulling up on the gas tank and thereby dislodging the handles and moving them to the side as intended, or tries to unhinge the handlebars manually beforehand. Sadly, cutting the nubs off has been the only consistent fix to prevent breakage. Hasbro addressed this problem by cutting the nubs off at the factory level for subsequent redecos and retools of the sculpt, starting with Generations Junkheap.
This mold was redecoed into Shattered Glass Wreck-Gar. It was also retooled into United Scrapheap (later also released under the Generations branding) and Generations Junkheap, each sporting a different head sculpt. Those two were redecoed into Shattered Glass Scrap Iron and Shattered Glass Junkheap, respectively. This mold also served as the basis of the non-toy Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Crazybolt.
Wreck-Gar’s instructions depict Junkheap’s head sculpt, thus hinting at the retool before it was announced as a separate release.
Theme:
Reveal The Shield
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2010
Date Added:
2023-05-07 16:51:53
Date Added:
2023-05-07 16:51:53
