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You can check your balance anytime in your cart. Toyhacks is a company run by collectors for collectors. So check out toyhacks.com and make your collection stand out from the rest. And tell them Patriot Prime sent you. Now, on to the review. The featured box for this video is Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Commander Class Skylinks. Now Skylinks here was a figure I really didn't have any interest in picking up. I am not the biggest Skylinks fan. Don't throw anything at your screen. I've just never seen the appeal of Skylinks, so I was going to pass this guy up. Then, as luck would have it, I scored a Generation 1 Skylinks for a really decent price. And this renewed my interest in the Earthrise version. Then on my birthday, or no, it wasn't my birthday. It was when Bert the Stormtrooper, Engineer Hoist, and Ghost Prime and I all got together to discuss the Netflix series. These guys were just raving and raving about their Earthrise Skylinks. So after they shared pictures with me and showed me all the gimmicks and features he had, I had to get one. And getting him was a challenge. I bought one from Amazon Prime. It showed up in a perfect box. The box was immaculate. But when I opened the box up, the figure inside one half of the box was crushed. So I'm like, okay, little concerned here. Open the figure up, and there was damage to the toy itself. So I immediately put it back in the box, sealed it back up, complained to Amazon. They sent me one, or were sending me a replacement. They told me I wouldn't get it until the 16th. But then I got an email that one was being shipped on the way. So it was replaced with a brand new one in a perfect box, as you can see. But still, whoever packed that took a crushed figure, a crushed box, put it in Amazon box and shipped it to me. So that sucked. That's one of the worst experiences I've had with Amazon for quite some time. But enough of me complaining about them. Let's take a look at the box. I love the artwork here on the front. You got Skylinks' bird mode, Skylinks' lynx mode. They're attacking the seekers. You got Durge here, Ramjet here, and flying in, sneaking in from the side is thrust. Man, I can't wait till we get thrust. On the back of the box, we have Skylinks in shuttle mode, bird mode, beast mode, lynx mode, base mode, all the different modes, and there's a lot of them. On the side here, you've got Earthrise artwork. So now without further ado, let's get this long-awaited figure out of the packaging and see if he's as cool as my fellow YouTubers say he is. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now, once you get Skylinks all open and out of the packaging, you'll find he does come with a sheet of instructions. And just like all the other Earthrise instructions, these are very well illustrated and very easy to follow. But Skylinks is actually fairly easy to transform. Chances are you won't even use these. He also comes with these two tower slash cannon pieces that look really good. I like the details on this. These are pretty unique. I've never seen anything like these before. They also have a little five millimeter hole right here. So if you had a battle master, you can attach that in and actually up the weaponry for Skylinks. And I'll go over that a little bit more later on. He also comes with seven blast effects. You get three blast effects that look just like this. And then the other four are just blast effects of different sizes. And you can actually combine them all together like so. Of course, here you can only use one of these three pieces to create a mega blast. So that that is pretty cool. That's some impressive firepower right there. And of course, you also get the two Skylinks components. You get the ground component here and the shuttle component. So let's go over the ground component of Skylinks first. Skylinks is ground component or crawler, if you will, isn't really that impressive in vehicle mode. The vehicle mode is just a big red, white, blue and gray rectangle. And that is about it. Though it does have lots of nice molded details and great paint applications throughout. Got the tank treads right here on the bottom along with the wheels on the inside, which look really, really good. You've got many treads up here on top. That'll come into play later on. I mean, great molded details. This thing looks great. It's much more impressive than his generation one counterpart from back in the 80s, which once again was just a red, white and blue rectangle. Of course, the main function of this crawler is to transport Skylinks. And to attach the Skylinks shuttle, it's a little tricky. You've got this section right here. You see the little gap, the little slot there that matches up to a slot right here on Skylinks. So we'll go ahead and fold the landing gear down. And this, as I said, is tricky. You've got to get it lined up just right. You've got the tab right there that matches up with the slot. Get that in and then you'll connect it here at the front. And if it snaps in place, it is on there good. It is not going anywhere. So that is really cool. That is how the transport, the crawler, interacts with Skylinks himself. So we'll go ahead and take off the shuttle. And to do that, there's a little button right here. You push this down, pops the shuttle off and away he goes. Little gimmick, a little better look at it right here. Spring-loaded latch, really cool. Now, you can attach the cannons to this mode. They can go right here on either one of these ports. The artwork shows the cannons here on the back where the instructions showed on the front. So it's actually your preference. You just attach these. And now you have the cannon transport, excuse me, the shuttle transport, all armed and ready for battle. Of course, you can flip it around this way to maybe having some jet propulsion, if you will. So, yeah, options are great. Now, let's go ahead and get this guy transformed. Super simple transformation. The first thing you're going to do is take this red section here and separate those from the body. And yes, glorious ratchets. Do it here on the other side. Make sure that doesn't pop off. Separate those away. You're going to bend, rotate the legs down, fold the feet down, same here on the back. Do that on the other side, trying to keep this all in camera for you. And now here on the front where you've got these two thrusters or weapons, simply pull that down. Flip out the beast head. Snap that back into place. On the back, you've got the beast tails that I showed earlier. Flip these out. And now we have sky links in links mode. I've heard many reviewers call this mode links and the shuttle mode sky. So I may do that too just to save on the confusion. Links mode looks amazing. I love the looks of this beast. It is just awesome. The color schemes work fantastic with this figure. And I love the fact just like in generation one, they give him a gold head and the head sculpt is great. You got the blue eyes right here, Autobot logo right there on the forehead. The jaw can move up and down. You've got the molded in teeth. And what I really like, you've got a molded in cannon on the tongue. So that is really cool. And you can add the blast effects to the tongue cannon. So he is opening fire literally out of his mouth. Now, unfortunately, you can't really use the mega blast because it's just too heavy. It looks like he's puking up a hair ball, if you will. But yeah, really, really cool looking figure. Lots of great articulation. We've already seen the jaw. The head can look up and down. There is a little bit of a rotation with it due to transformation. The neck, well, no it can't. I thought the neck could go down, but you actually have to unpeg this for that to work. This whole section here is locked in place, but the head can look up and down, move slightly. It's got that high pitch head turn right there. Really, really cool. The legs, legs are fantastic. Lots of ratchets. They can go in, they can go out, they can spin all the way around. There is knee bends or elbow bends, rotations, ankle tilts, ankle rotation, lots of lots of great posibility. The tails, tails really can't do anything. They can go up and down and that's about it. Now, you can attach the cannons just like on crawler mode. You can attach these to the shoulders. So there's an option right there. And these also can be utilized with the blast effects. They just peg in right there on those tips. So there you go. But this guy looks really good and loads better than his Generation 1 counterpart right here, which was really, really plain. I mean, as far as the links mode went with this, you used your imagination with this figure right here. I just wish this one was electronic. So that is pretty much it for Skylinks' links mode. Now let's check out shuttle mode. Now before I really go into the details on shuttle mode, I want to show you something real quick. When you open Skylinks out of the packaging, his wings are folded up like so. There is a tab right here that connects to this slot right there. But it really doesn't connect if you put it in straight. It's a hard connection. The easiest way to do this is you want to go in at an upward angle and then fold down and it locks in place really good. So just a little pointer for you right there. Now onto the shuttle mode. Shuttle mode looks amazing. This is a fantastic looking shuttle. Astrotrain needs to take notes. I love the fact that Hasbro got NASA to approve using their logo on Skylinks, which really adds to the shuttle in my opinion. And he is called the Magnificence, which is very fitting for Skylinks. Lots of great molded detail all over this shuttle. He looks great. Got Tampa-Graft Autobot logos there on the wings. The gold detailing along the side up here on the tail fin, just like G1. And the gold windows. This thing looks awesome. Now up here on top, he's got this cargo area that can open up. Just grab the tab, flip open, and you've got gold detailing right there. There's really nothing else that does. It just opens up and reveals that. You've got the five millimeter peg right there where you can attach a battle master or something else you so choose. But I think he looks good just like that. I can't get over the molded detailing on this guy. That looks great. Got a little bit of paint smudge or something right there, but that's no biggie. So now let's go ahead and put Skylinks right here and compare him to his Generation 1 counterpart. The G1 Skylinks was also a really good looking shuttle, but nothing compared to the Earthrise version. And man, my Skylinks really needs some toy hacks help. Now another feature that Skylinks has that I'm very thankful for is the fact he has landing gear. You've got landing gear underneath, folds up into the nose cone, folds up into the belly of the shuttle. So I'm very happy that they've included landing gear. Very disappointed that the Seekers didn't have any, but oh well. Now on the back of the vehicle you've got the thrusters, and these can be utilized with the blast effects. So you can plug those in to the bigger thrusters and make it look like Skylinks is rocketing through space. I couldn't think where he was rocketing to for a second. So yeah, shuttle mode looks amazing. Now let's get this guy transformed into his bird mode. First thing we'll do, let's flip that landing gear back up and separate the wings from the body. Now what you're going to do is take the wings up, rotate on these gray sections here, bring that up, and then fold back. Do that on the other side. Still lots of nice ratchets. So now you've got that going on. Now here on the back you're going to take the thruster section, open this up. It's on a hinge that will swing out. Then you take the tail fin and just unfold Skylinks' tail. Now you're going to take this thruster section and bring it back tab in place. Now for the head, you're just going to grab the nose cone and pull, and the neck pops right out. Then you can open up the mouth for the legs underneath here. Just swing these down. Still great ratchets. Flip the feet around. Unfold the toes or claws. On the wings you're going to bring these blue sections out, which were underneath. Just fold those out like so. If I can get that in camera, this is a big boy. So now we've got one wing and the next. So now let me get the camera adjusted so we can check out Skylinks in all of his glory. And there we have Skylinks in his majestic bird mode. I barely got him to fit in frame. This is a pretty big figure and he looks awesome. I love the molded details there on the wings with the feathers. You got the tail that extends out, the neck, which has a lot of articulation, and it's on ratchets. So check it out. It can go up and down, a bunch of little joints here on all the different segments. The head can rotate, look around. The mouth opens and closes. He's got the teeth. And just like the links mode, there is a laser tongue. And let me see here if Skylinks, if this mode can hold the mega blast. Not really. I'm not sure what the purpose is of the mega blast. Now down here on the legs, articulation, they can go back and forth in and out. There is a knee joint, lots of ratchets. They're on the feet, ankle tilts, and they can go back and forth. Now the biggest problem with Skylinks, he's got those little dinky legs and a big old body. And it's really hard to get him to stand up. How I did it is I've got this background here and I can pretty much prop him up against the back. But he's all jacked up as far as his legs are concerned. And the wings on mine are a little floppy. This right here, it's just attached with a mushroom peg, so there's really not much resistance. I wish the wings were ratcheted just like the legs and the neck is. But I'm thinking maybe a little fore polish will fix that right up. Down here on the tail, lots of articulation. You can see all the little joints here. He can go out, up, down, all around. The tail fin can wag back and forth. This guy, this is something else. I really like Skylinks. Now let me see if we can get our Earthrise Skylinks stood up so I can compare him to his Generation 1 counterpart. And just like Earthrise, those skinny little legs, he's hard to stand up. But yeah, looks really, really good. I do like the fact that the new Skylinks eliminates all the shuttle kibble that the G1 had. Now another cool feature that Skylinks has is the bird and links mode can combine together into one bot. And to do that, all we're going to do here is with the bird mode, we're going to fold the feet back up inside the shuttle. Just get those locked in, flip around, do the other way, or the other side. I like how the toes just go right up in that slot and they lock in place. So that's all you have to do for bird mode. Now we'll bring in links. With links, you're going to unpeg this section here, fold his head down, and that's all you're going to do with him. Now you're going to attach Skylinks or Sky, the bird mode, to the same peg right there, the same notch that we did when we combined him with the in shuttle mode. So get that lined up, locked in place. Like I said, it's very tricky to get it in there just right. But once it's in, he's good to go. And let me see if I can pan out for you a little bit. I hate the fact it looks like that, but there you go. This guy is huge. He retains all the same articulation in bird and links mode, but he's a little bit more stable now because he's on all fours. So that is really cool. Lots of posibility with the guy. I just really need to tighten up some of those loose joints. So now let's check out Skylinks' base mode. To transform Skylinks into his base mode, you're going to have to start with the crawler mode first. Now, there is something I want to show you guys that I failed to mention when I went over the crawler earlier is on the back of the crawler is a ramp. You open this, and there is a little access area where if you have a micro master, he can drive up in there. He fits really good. And now Skylinks can take that micro master on a mission. So get him out of there and let's begin base mode. What you want to do is flip the crawler over. Remember the treads I talked about earlier? This is where they come into play. So they are now treads for the base mode. Now what you're going to do is grab right here where the tails are and split this in half. Actually got to move the legs out of the way first. Sorry about that. Get the legs out of the way. Now split this section right here so it looks like that. Now you're going to take these legs, bring these down like so. So those are our stabilizers. Now you got this gray section. You're going to bring this up. And the ramp I just showed you guys, this time it's going to unfold from the bottom. And there's a little ramp underneath that extends out. So you've got that going on. Now these sections here, these legs, you're going to bring these up. Bring the feet up and around right here. You turn at the leg. I'm sorry. Up, rotate. And bring the tread foot up. Now you got these little gray sections here. You're going to bring those down. Those are extra ramps. And they've got the little connector ports so you can attach any other Earthrise base or some of those little ramp guys to extend this out. Same as the little section right here. So now we have these all out and ready. I'm going to bring the tail sections down. And there you have base mode almost. I forgot the dual barrel cannons. These will peg in right on top of the feet like so. So you can use those as cannons or you can peg them like that for extra tower pieces. I don't like the looks of that. I like the double barrel cannon. So there we have Skylinks' base mode. Now you're going to bring in the shuttle and the shuttle attaches right here on the back. See these pegs right there? Those line up with the thrusters on the shuttle. Now unfortunately they don't connect very well. I wish there was another peg right here. You've got these three circles that match up to the three main thrusters. But it just does not want to connect. You just got to get it in just right and pray. Then you're going to rotate this around, open the bay doors. You're going to bring the ramp section down and there's a little section here that you're going to extend out. And it just kind of lays against the shuttle like so. Now let me see if I can zoom out for you again. And there we have Skylinks' base mode. And that actually looks really good. A lot better than some of the base modes that come with these Earthrise figures. A lot of interactivity too. You can use the MicroMasters to go up the ramp. Unfortunately they can't ride in the shuttle. But still there is some playability to be had. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Skylinks with Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Earthrise Optimus Prime, and Generation 1 Skylinks. Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Skylinks is an amazing figure, or figures. There is so much playability and fun to be had with this set. All of the modes are great. Granted the crawler mode isn't the best, but his interactivity with the shuttle makes it worthwhile. The beast modes are fantastic. The base mode is fun. Articulation for the guys is out of this world. Though the bird mode does have a few loose joints that need to be fixed. Other than that I really don't have any complaints at all with these figures. So there you go guys Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Skylinks. Now here's something that I wanted to show off in my review, but I just didn't have the space to do it. If you happen to have Skylinks in his combined alt modes with the shuttle attached to the crawler, you can transform him into the dyno bird mode with the bird attached to the links without having to separate the two. And it's really easy. You're just going to simply unpeg the legs from the crawler and get those in position. I love the ratchets on this guy. So we got the legs all down. Take the thrusters and move those out of the way so you can extend the tail. Put the thrusters back. Unpeg the wings. Bring those up and unfold the feather section. There we go. And extend the head. Make sure you get that all the way out. There we go. And there we go. We've got dyno bird mode all transformed without having to separate the two. So I thought that was really cool and something worth showing off. So does an Earthrise Skylinks belong in your collection? Absolutely. This is a fantastic figure. I absolutely love him and I'm shocked that I was going to skip out on this guy. I mean, big thank you to Bertha Stormtrooper, Ghost Prime and Engineer Hoist for talking me into this guy. I love him. Thank you so much. Guys, if you see this guy on the shelf, don't hesitate. Pick him up. You're going to really enjoy it. Granted, he's got these loose wings, but that's nothing a little floor polish won't clear right up. He is going to look great on my shelf back there. 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