![]() To be fair, the soft feel of it could be more to do with how thin the skids are than the quality of the plastic - it's the same stuff used for his rotor blades - but, whatever the cause, they don't tend to stay in place very well and, straight out of the box, I had to cut off some mold flashing from one of them as it prevented one side folding into place at all. Whereas a lot of TransFormers choppers over the last decade or so have used landing wheels - occasionally folding away, size and parts count allowing - Drift has landing skids, styled to match his futuristic design, yet molded in a fairly soft, grey plastic. The odd silver and gold details evident in screenshots of the CGI would, I think, have detracted from the simple elegance of his sculpt. ![]() It's not the most extensively decorated mold out there, but Studio Series does seem to skimp on the paintwork when it wants to, and this one doesn't really need any more than it has. The overall effect is of a far more streamlined Blue Thunder-type steath/attack chopper. It's mostly black plastic, with a translucent blue making up three sections of the cockpit/nose, and glossy black paint to cover the necessary parts, with dark grey plastic rotor blades, frontmost guns, and landing skids. Given that the only clear images of Drift's helicopter mode have come from screenshots of the movie on DVD/Blu Ray, it's interesting to see that Hasbro actually seem to have gone to some effort to make the toy look like the CGI, even placing visible bit's of his blue-highlighted robot mode armour in more-or-less the right places. I don't think anyone actually expected to see a Triple-Changer movie Drift toy, but none of the available options really looked a great deal like what was ( briefly glimpsed) on screen.Ĭue Studio Series, with a new take on helicopter Drift, derived from the ( not especially well-received) helicopter Dropkick mold. ![]() Hasbro's response was to release a separate One Step Changer for each vehicle mode, and repaint Dark of the Moon Skyhammer as a Voyager class companion to their Deluxe class Veyron Drift. It wasn't mentioned, let alone referenced as being unusual in any way, it was just another throwaway bit of CGI trickery in a movie series that had already stopped giving a damn about consistency. The big surprise was that, during a couple of sequences of the movie, he transformed not into his much-publicised Bugatti Veyron vehicle mode, but a sci-fi ( possibly even Cybertronian) helicopter. He ended up with little to do, as the scripts still gave the majority of the dialogue to the human characters - pretty much all he did was spout some haiku, argue with Crosshairs and Hound, and fawn over Optimus Prime. Drift's sudden and unexpected appearance in Age of Extinction had at least a modicum of fanfare because Paramount had somehow convinced Ken Watanabe to lend his voice to the character.
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