Title:
Whirl Robot Mode
Description:
Autobot Whirl (Voyager Class, 2014)
Series / Number: 02 / 006
Accessories: Null-Ray Module, Paralyzo box, Shell Cannon, Photon Beam Rifle
Generations: Thrilling 30 Whirl is heavily styled after his Generation 1 toy, but sports a more curved head and reverse knee "chicken legs” which evoke (but do not match) his appearance in IDW Publishing’s More than Meets the Eye. He also has a third, Gerwalk-esque mode known as a "Heloped”. Just as with his original toy, he has a pair of mechanical pincers which a weapon similar to his "Null-Ray Module” cannon can be fitted over. All four of his weapons can attach via c-clips to various sculpted rods.
Unmentioned in the instruction sheet is that his shoulder-struts can collapse into his torso for a more pleasing robot mode. Also, in robot mode, you can rotate the shoulder-struts so that the thin tabs on top face down to allow for greater shoulder poseability. When his antenna is angled 90 degrees, his monocular light piping gimmick is activated. It’s also likely that the knee transformations are swapped between robot and heloped mode in the instructions, so that the robot mode has the digitigrade legs and the heloped mode has the "gerwalk"-style backwards knees, and this hypothesis is supported by the packaging art. A smaller detail of note is that Whirl’s neck is on an extra hinged panel that allows the head to be raised up a few millimeters from where it normally sits.
Some copies have been known to come with bent rotor blades, as well as to suffer from extremely tight upper knee joints, in extreme cases causing the whole knee to snap in half rather than move.
Whirl comes with a sticker sheet, with one sticker referencing CW-4 William S. Hardy.
This mold was redecoed into Cloud Shockwave.
Series / Number: 02 / 006
Accessories: Null-Ray Module, Paralyzo box, Shell Cannon, Photon Beam Rifle
Generations: Thrilling 30 Whirl is heavily styled after his Generation 1 toy, but sports a more curved head and reverse knee "chicken legs” which evoke (but do not match) his appearance in IDW Publishing’s More than Meets the Eye. He also has a third, Gerwalk-esque mode known as a "Heloped”. Just as with his original toy, he has a pair of mechanical pincers which a weapon similar to his "Null-Ray Module” cannon can be fitted over. All four of his weapons can attach via c-clips to various sculpted rods.
Unmentioned in the instruction sheet is that his shoulder-struts can collapse into his torso for a more pleasing robot mode. Also, in robot mode, you can rotate the shoulder-struts so that the thin tabs on top face down to allow for greater shoulder poseability. When his antenna is angled 90 degrees, his monocular light piping gimmick is activated. It’s also likely that the knee transformations are swapped between robot and heloped mode in the instructions, so that the robot mode has the digitigrade legs and the heloped mode has the "gerwalk"-style backwards knees, and this hypothesis is supported by the packaging art. A smaller detail of note is that Whirl’s neck is on an extra hinged panel that allows the head to be raised up a few millimeters from where it normally sits.
Some copies have been known to come with bent rotor blades, as well as to suffer from extremely tight upper knee joints, in extreme cases causing the whole knee to snap in half rather than move.
Whirl comes with a sticker sheet, with one sticker referencing CW-4 William S. Hardy.
This mold was redecoed into Cloud Shockwave.
Theme:
Generations
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2014
Date Added:
2023-06-26 20:18:16
Date Added:
2023-06-26 20:18:16
