Title:
Dead End Or Detour
Description:
Dead End or Detour (Scout Class, 2009)
Japanese ID number: RD-07
Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro)
Part of the first wave of Revenge of the Fallen Scout Class toys, Dead End converts from a modified red and black Peugeot 9009 concept car to a robot with a bird-like head vaguely resembling Hawkman’s mask/helmet. Interestingly, while Dead End has no neck articulation, he does have a movable jaw; the entire top of his head hinges backward, revealing a lower jaw and teeth. However, added plastic (most likely for safety reasons) makes his chest-plate unable to fold down all the way. As a result, many owners don’t even see Dead End’s lower jaw, and assume the upper jaw to be the entire head. It is possible to hinge the full head upwards by pulling on the lower jaw’s cheek detailing.
Before solid information regarding the name of the Revenge of the Fallen Scout Class toy became available, sellers of stolen prototypes alternatively referred to him as "Dead End” and "Detour”. Eventually the former name won out... but ultimately it turned out the name "Detour” hadn’t come out of thin air either: Early shipments of the European release of the toy featured the name "Detour” on the cardboard insert on the packaging’s front (the cardback and the instruction sheet still call him "Dead End”, however), as did the official in-packaging stock photo of the European version. Later shipments then featured the correct "Dead End” insert instead. At least one sample has even been found at US retail, with a misapplied European "Detour” insert.
This sculpt was also used to make Nightbeat and Slap Dash.
Japanese ID number: RD-07
Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro)
Part of the first wave of Revenge of the Fallen Scout Class toys, Dead End converts from a modified red and black Peugeot 9009 concept car to a robot with a bird-like head vaguely resembling Hawkman’s mask/helmet. Interestingly, while Dead End has no neck articulation, he does have a movable jaw; the entire top of his head hinges backward, revealing a lower jaw and teeth. However, added plastic (most likely for safety reasons) makes his chest-plate unable to fold down all the way. As a result, many owners don’t even see Dead End’s lower jaw, and assume the upper jaw to be the entire head. It is possible to hinge the full head upwards by pulling on the lower jaw’s cheek detailing.
Before solid information regarding the name of the Revenge of the Fallen Scout Class toy became available, sellers of stolen prototypes alternatively referred to him as "Dead End” and "Detour”. Eventually the former name won out... but ultimately it turned out the name "Detour” hadn’t come out of thin air either: Early shipments of the European release of the toy featured the name "Detour” on the cardboard insert on the packaging’s front (the cardback and the instruction sheet still call him "Dead End”, however), as did the official in-packaging stock photo of the European version. Later shipments then featured the correct "Dead End” insert instead. At least one sample has even been found at US retail, with a misapplied European "Detour” insert.
This sculpt was also used to make Nightbeat and Slap Dash.
Theme:
Revenge Of The Fallen
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2009
Date Added:
2023-05-28 14:38:59
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-28
Date Added:
2023-05-28 14:38:59
