Here I was, sitting down at the computer (way too early in the morning), and I saw a folder marked “Rumble”. My poor friend Rumble got lost in the shuffle of new pictures, and he was waiting so patiently to be seen by masses in all of his gold, red, and black glory.
Rumble is a repaint of Rewind, that we saw in wave 1 of the Legends Class of Titans Return. As with the rest of the repaints in Titans Return, we get a new head sculpt to go along with the paint, which goes a long way to sell the illusion that this is a different character.
Since we are giving nearly everyone the triple changer love in Titan’s Return, Rumble gets an alternate mode of a tiny little tank. I am sure that this little guy would not do a whole lot of damage against some larger foes. He is decked out in his famous red/gold color scheme, and looks pretty true to the G1 version, though he does not have his big ground pounders that he loved to use to cause earthquakes, thus the name Rumble. Now it is more for the sounds of his treads moving over the earth.
Rumble becomes a tablet that can be used with Leader Class Soundwave.
He shares a body with Rewind. The stickers give Rewind a look of being an old-school recording device with a tape in the deck ready to record. Rumble on the other hand looks to have a working screen. True to his G1 counterpart, he has seismic readings on his screen. A very nice (tiny) touch.
I do like how much a change of paint apps as well as a new head go to change the look of a figure to make two completely different characters.
We have had some amazing Legends Class figures coming out in the Titans Return line. Hasbro has done a great job of making the figures size accurate with smaller figures like these tablets as well as other small figures like Bumblebee and Wheelie being featured in this great smaller scale. Hasbro still gave these little guys some good articulation as well, not like the fairly poor articulation we have seen in the Legion Class (not Titans Return). There are a few more Legends Class figures coming out in this series, and I am looking forward to them.
I picked up a new Prime figure off of Amazon. Rumble. If it wasn’t from Takara Tomy, I would be totally freaked out about getting a Transformer without being able to see the paint application first. Quality is quality. I only have one other Tomy Transformer that I also got for a good deal online. It was a great addition to my collection, so I figured, this guy was a great deal, I would pull the trigger, even though I already have the Hasbro version of Rumble.
Bare naked. He comes with a set of metallic stickers that really help out with the bare look of the car. Headlights, tail lights, and of course the Decepticon badge.
He comes with a parts tree that makes an “octopus” figure named Dago R. Dago R will become a baster in his alternate mode, as well as being able to connect to other weapons to make some super weapon of some sort. Too bad I don’t read Japanese. I would love to be able to read about the other figures too.
Here is Dago R in all of his “octopus” glory. Rumble is also displayed without any of the stickers attached to his torso and knees. He looks a little on the plain side without the stickers, giving a large black area for the chest.
Stickers for both Rumble and Dago R. It helps a lot. It also helps that the stickers are high quality, and look good.
The stickers help Rumble’s chest the most. The metallic gold looks great, and it takes away from the Gurren Lagann chest-face look that the Hasbro Rumble has.
Don’t mess with him when he is holding a blaster the size of his leg. I do get the irony of Rumble coming without his pile drivers. No rumbling for this version.
The two Rumbles. Hasbro Rumble on the left, and Tomy Rumble, on the right. It is funny that they made the Hasbro Rumble blue. Originally in G1, Rumble was red, so Tomy gets the points there. They also made a Frenzy (blue), but it would be redundant to have two blue cars, even though Frenzy is a darker blue. I am not sure why Frenzy is more expensive online, but I will stick with these two for now… unless the price drops. Even then I will have to be persuaded, since Frenzy also comes with the same Dago R octopus.
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