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Lockdown transformers license plate8/28/2023 On the upside, the Lamborghini badge shape has been picked out in gold in the car's nose, and the tail lights are painted red, much the same as they were on Lockdown. I think the rear windscreen may be an area of bare plastic, and the only significant difference is the lack of the glossy sheen. Where it gets really weird is that the base plastic is essentially black - actually a brownish colour, far darker than the grey plastic Lockdown was molded in - yet the black in the front bumper area, the scoop sections on the sides, the rear bumper and the indented sections below the rear indicator lights are all glossy black paint. Elsewhere, the paint is thick and blotchy, filling in the sculpted detail as well as exhibiting lumps and bubbles. Honestly, the right side 'door' looks to have been underpainted, the rear windscreen panel doesn't match the roof, both rear wheelwell panels are only painted on the outer surface, emphasising the transformation seams, and the orange paint on the windscreen/window frames appears to be translucent and the central section of the bonnet doesn't match the headlight sections. There are differences in the opacity of the orange paint over the different types of plastic used for the car shell, sometimes to the extent that it looks as though a white undercoat was used on some parts but not others. Worse still, it's not even applied consistently. Admittedly, it wouldn't look out of place in a Fast & Furious sequel, but it's really not a flattering colour. I've seen photos online of a sort of copper-chrome orange, and that looks OK, if exceedingly ostentatious. Well, for starters, I don't know what possessed Lamborgini to choose orange as their Aventador brand colour. Seriously, sometimes I don't understand myself. Neither of these really warranted forking out another £20+ in my opinion.īut, in a fit of caprice, I picked him up anyway. though, sadly, not the massive head-gun that the original AoE toyline figure had. Literally the only draw here (unless you're a big fan of orange) is a new head sculpt and one of Lockdown's missing weapons. Thus, we have this so-called 'Shadow Raider' - a non-character retconned into Age of Extinction as one of Lockdown's crew. The very idea of it struck me as a very cynical cash-grab - not just on Hasbro's part, because orange was the signature colour selected by Lamborghini for the Aventador. And here we have another fine example of a toy I wasn't intended to buy until I bought it, the orange repaint of Lockdown.
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