Night slash1/30/2024 Depending on where the arms are and how open his palms are the swords spring right into place with little problem. As gimmicks go it’s actually pretty cool. This version instead has twin swords that spring out of his arms. On the show Cheetor has twin swords but the original figure had one more rapier-like sword formed from his tail. The “Night Slash” part of Night Slash Cheetor comes from the other half of his action gimmick. Works on Vehicons and Thanksgiving turkeys. It’s not a bad looking form but posing is limited. His tail does move up and down, and pressing his head opens his mouth, though it closes again when you let go. Well, that and his legs’ articulation is better equipped for his robot form. That’s why there’s no pose picture for his cheetah form. Cheetor’s arms want to be in one position and only gravity keeps him from falling over, and you have to get the elbows right for that to even work. Otherwise it works pretty well, but it does add some issue to posing his arms since you have to overcorrect to get into the position you want and if you don’t do it enough it won’t work. Apparently the chest, despite also being translucent red, is too thick to see it. The Transformers Wiki, where I got the Beast Machines version pic from says there’s a disk in the chest that spins when he slashes but I can’t see it moving. The gimmick in this mode is a slashing feature which works if he’s on his hind legs since this time both of his arms have the action feature. Again, I wish I could demonstrate transformations in picture form.Ĭheetor has a translucent red head and paws, plus his spark crystal. He’s a little less technorganic and more mechanical-with-organic-elements, although he still retains the transforming engineering that comes with being a Beast Machines Maximal, where it was more like a metamorphosis than a typical Transformers transformation, emulated in the toys as best they could. This is the Universe version of Cheetor, back in yellow and I think it works better for him than a black cheetah. This is the version I own since I already had a Beast Machines Cheetor and even then I was starting to scale back slightly in my collecting. Now that would take up a lot of space.)įor the Universe line Night Slash Cheetor was brought back and given a less nighttime color scheme, something closer to the colors of an actual cheetah. (The original was a “Mega”, with a terrible “Supreme” size made that I never got and I hear I’m better off for it. For this subline Cheetor got his “Night Slash” version, a ground-up redesign in a smaller size class. Still Hasbro decided to try again in the Battle For The Spark subline, where pressing the spark crystal activated certain gimmicks with each figure. Of course the toys are usually designed first (except for maybe the Michael Bay movies and Transformers Animated) so that didn’t bother me and I could work around a lot of the legs issues so I actually like him. His original toy has standing issues but many fans complained that he didn’t quite look like he did on the show. Cheetor didn’t fare too well in the Beast Machines series.
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