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The featured button this video is Transformers Studio Series 86 Slug. Or as I'm going to call him throughout the rest of this video, Slag. Now I picked up Slag here from Entertainment Earth thanks to a pre-order and he just arrived today. And they included free stickers. So they must know I'm a Toyhacks guy. So let's take a quick look at Slag here in the packaging. We've got Slag here in Robot Mode with Daniel right there. Beautiful artwork of Slag in Dinosaur Mode with Daniel writing him. And if you take a look here, Daniel in the artwork has a face where the toy not so much. But we'll get into that more later on. Side of the box we got the same artwork here with 86. Back of the box we got Slag in Robot Mode, Triceratops Mode. And of course there's Daniel once again. And this side of the box more of the same artwork Studio Series 86 in blue. So now without further ado, let's get Slag opened up out of this packaging and check him out. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now once you get Slag all opened up and out of the packaging you'll see he does come with a sheet of instructions that as usual are very well illustrated and very easy to follow. He also comes with his blaster and I really like the looks of this. And this waste of plastic here, Daniel. Now of course Slag being a Studio Series figure he does come with this really cool backdrop that you can use for your display. Just put Slag in here like so. And there you go. I mean that's really cool if you have the space to utilize it. I unfortunately do not. So now let's take a closer look at Slag himself. Now I know Slag is a Dino Bot but my gosh is this figure a beast of a Transformers toy. I mean look at the size of this guy. And I think that's the first time I've ever compared a Mountain Dew bottle with a Transformer. But man this is just so impressive. I don't mind spending 50 bucks on a Transformer when he's this big and beefy. And not to mention he looks exactly like his Generation 1 cartoon animation model. And that just means the world to an old G1 or like me. Now also he has some great sculpted detail all over. I mean check out the detail there on the arms, the chest, down here on the legs, the feet. All that sculpted detail reminds me of the Generation 1 toy. So you've got the best of both worlds. An animation look with G1 sculpting and it just looks amazing. Now taking a closer look at the head sculpt of Slag that is spot on. A lot of people complain why is the thing all red? Man that's how he looked in Generation 1 as far as the cartoon was concerned. I never understood why they went all red for the cartoon because the toy had a black head. Oh well you got a big Autobot logo dead center in the chest. As I said before lots and lots of molded detail. That does kind of get lost in all that red. But it still looks great. Moving on down to the thighs you got some green and blue details there. On down the legs I love the gold feet and those are painted. You can see right here it's gray and you got the gold paint right there and that looks awesome. Just the sculpted detail on this figure. It's just absolutely amazing. They did such a good job with this Studio Series figure. Now as far as articulation is concerned the head is on a ball joint. It can look up and down and do a complete 360 but it is hard to get a hold of because of the hood right here which of course is the Dinobot upper jaw. Now it does pop loose a little so you can get in and move the head but that really doesn't look right. So just kind of snap that back into place and there you go. The arms can do a complete 360 and listen to that. I love ratchet joints. That is great. So the arms complete 360. They can go out. They can go in. There is a bicep bend. Actually a double bicep bend, bicep rotation and there is a wrist rotation. We also have waist rotation and nice and tight. So nice and tight actually pull him apart right there. So yeah that's great especially compared to some of the figures I've been getting lately with really floppy joints. The legs forward and back once again nice ratchets. Now they really don't go back as yes they do. Just got caught on the back section here which I'll go over momentarily. Legs can go out. They can go in. There is a nice deep knee bend. Kind of a double jointed knee bend thanks to transformation once again on ratchets. Love it. And there are ankle tilts. So lots of posibility for slag. Now moving back to the backpack. This thing does not connect the way I wish it would. You got these little pegs right up here behind the crest of the dinosaur mode. These are supposed to tab in right there and hold that chest section in place. But unfortunately it's not a tight fit and it comes loose way too easy. So I may thicken that up with some pledge floor polish to get that in there good. But still not bad for a backpack with the Dinobot which backpacks are par for the course with these characters. The tail I wish the tail could go up a little bit higher on the back but hey as I said no biggie. Now taking a look at his accessories he gets his blaster right here which is a real nice thick weapon. And it looks to be two pieces glued together. It's got a little tiny handle right there but that doesn't matter that's all he needs to hold it in his hand. And it looks really really good and it's also is blast effect compatible. Now it really doesn't have a large port for the blast effect but it will work. So there you go so you have that option right there. So a really really good looking figure. I do wish he came with a sword all the Dinobots came with swords. But just like Studio Series Grimlock they only gave Slag his rifle. So now let's go ahead and get Slag transformed into Dinosaur mode. We'll remove the weapon put that to the side. And what you're going to do first rotate the hands a complete 180 and just press them down into the wrist. These will of course form the Dinobot front feet. And the next thing you're going to do is fold this section here down the chest section and drop down the head. And then you're going to flip this whole section right here that the head is falling into. Bring that up along with the lower jaw of the dinosaur. Now go ahead and flip Slag around unfold the entire backpack and kind of get it out of the way. Now what we're going to do is see if I can get this all on camera is you're going to flip the feet out and take this section right here and fold up. And then flip this section out and around just like so bring that down. Put the foot back in place here on this side you may see a little better. Just flip this out this up and rotate this section out and around and then close everything back up. So there you go. Now let's go ahead and rotate the waist a 180. And now you're just going to simply bring the legs up and in just like so. So you kind of get the feet folded up in under the body and what you want to look for is these little slots right there where the feet are going to peg into. So get those pegged in. There we go. Now this this is a pain in the ass. You've got these little pegs right here that need to slot into these little holes and getting these lined up just right. Like I said is a pain. I mean you can it looks like you can line up so many times and they just don't want to line up and get in there right. Well OK that went in pretty quick. There's one and the other. So yes there we go. We've got that section pegged in right there. So now that you have the legs all formed what you're going to do is flip the head up a little bit and then you're going to take the chest section open this up. And there's a double hinge and you're going to try to let's see take these little sections here. Fold those down first get them out of way of the crest and just kind of double hinge those together. There we go. And then take the chest plate fold that up. Now we've got these little crest pieces you're going to try to tab those together. Go ahead and bring the front legs down. Go ahead and unfold the rear legs and they're going to take this section right here and just bring that down. Fold it in place and tab it right there along the sides. And there we have slag in dinosaur mode. In dinosaur mode slag looks just as awesome as he did in robot mode. Check out all of that molded detailing. That looks awesome. They did such a good job on this figure. Now right here I wish these little crest sections would tab in just a little bit better. See if I can give them a good squeeze but they just they don't want to hook in on that one side. So that's kind of disappointing but nothing I can't live with. Now what I really think sucks is the fact the inside of the horns are so hollow. There's hardly any hollow bits on this toy and it just kind of ruins the look with those big hollow gaps on the upper horns. But what are you going to do? I'm sure some third party individuals are going to fix those up for us and make them look right. Love the paint scheme and colors on this guy. The head sculpt looks amazing. Very G1. I love the eyes. They did a real good paint job with those eyes. I love how they can catch the light. You got the big Autobot logo right there on the forehead. I mean this guy just looks amazing and I forgot something. Right here in the back of the tail you do peg in his weapon for weapon storage. Let me get that in. So there you go. You got a little gun tip tail. Now it looks okay. I mean if the gun was gold it wouldn't look good in robot mode but it doesn't look too bad in dinosaur mode. Now as far as articulation the legs can move back and forth and that's about it for the rear leg. Of course you got a little knee bend right there for the foot. Actually that's an ankle bend and then I don't know thigh bend knee bend up here at the top. Now the front legs those were the robot arms so they can go out and in. And let's see you got a little bit of ankle rock right there. Now I do wish the toes were painted gold like the head and tail but still not too bad. Now let me bring in generation one slag for comparison. So yes he's definitely come a long way. And here we have slag with Studio Series 86 Grimlock. This is actually a really good scale between these two. Now dinosaur mode is where the second accessory comes in. Daniel Whitwicky here in the XO suit. And this this sucks. I mean it's more or less actually I think it's worse than the wheelie that came with Grimlock. At least wheelie had some paint applications. Daniel here he's got some light bluish green there on the front of the legs blue hands headlight nipples. And that's about it. I mean he it sucks he's stuck in this constant squatting pose just like wheelie was. So it looks like he's taking a dump or I guess you can move him around and transform him into some kind of mech crab thing. But yeah and I wish they could have done something with the head there. He just looks like an egghead. But what you're supposed to do you've got these little pegs right there behind the ankles and he's supposed to peg in. If you look right here there's pegs on the back of slag. Get those pegged in like so and he gets to ride slag around which makes no sense and I can't get him tabbed in. Not that it matters I will never ever display him like that there I got one leg tabbed in. So there you go he can ride slag around which like I said makes no sense because there was never a scene in Transformers the movie where Daniel was riding slag like this. I just watched the movie the other day with Dylan and his friends and I didn't see it. I was looking maybe it's in a deleted scene I don't know but I hate that they could have used this plastic right here to give slag a sword. Now a piece of articulation I did miss was slag's mouth right here it can open nice and wide and you have a blast effect port right there. Slag is known as a flamethrower so you can peg in a blast effect and there you go maybe I should have picked a bigger blast effect but you see how that works. So there you go guys there is Transformers Studio Series 86 Slag in dinosaur mode. And now for some quick size comparisons here is Transformers Studio Series 86 Slag with Generation 1 Slag, Power of the Primes Slag, Earthrise Ratchet and Wheeljack and Studio Series 86 Grimlock. And this is actually a pretty good scale with these figures as you can tell from this still from the Generation 1 cartoon. Transformers Studio Series 86 Slag is an amazing Transformers figure. I love this toy. My only real complaints with him is the hollow horns in his dinosaur mode and of course Daniel here which I think is just a waste of plastic we really didn't need him. I wish instead he came with his sword just like the Generation 1 toy. Now granted he didn't have his sword in the 86 movie but hey Scourge didn't have his gun either. So there you go guys Transformers Studio Series 86 Slag. So does a Transformers Studio Series 86 Slag with Daniel Whitwicky belong in your collection? Absolutely. This is a fantastic Transformers figure. He's big. He's beefy. There's no hollow nose to him whatsoever except up there in the dinosaur horns. But other than that this guy is awesome. We got ratchet joints. We got a fun transformation. And I just love this guy. I couldn't be happier. Daniel here on the other hand, well Daniel sucks. So yeah you see this guy on the shelf. Pick him up. You are not going to be disappointed. 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