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Patriot Prime here once again with another Transformers review. But before I start talking about the subject of this video I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and have not subscribed to Patriot Prime Reviews please hit that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now on to the bot. Now the bot or bots I'm going to be talking about in this video is 1994's Generation 2 Dreadwing and Smoke Screen. This is an awesome figure set and I picked this up from a friend of mine who runs Mega Prime Collectibles. Sean is an individual I have been buying Transformers off of probably for the last eight years. He used to own Sporting Mortons, Vintage Transformers or Vintage Toys and Collectibles and this guy is a great guy I've wheeled and deal with him like I said for years. I finally got to meet him in person at TFCon and I really enjoyed that. He was one of the main focuses for me going was I really wanted to meet this guy who has taken so much of my money over the years but he's a great guy and he's got tons and tons of vintage figures so if you're looking for something shoot him an email send him a message he's on Facebook and Instagram that's Mega Prime Collectibles. Dreadwing and Smoke Screen being Generation 2 Toys did not appear in the animated television show though they did appear animated in a television commercial which they were 3D animated. This is when 3D animation was really the thing and they were in a very odd commercial with that good 90s rap. So enough with the history of the figures let's go ahead and take a look at the toy and welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now as you can see Dreadwing and Smoke Screen combined to form a stealth bomber of some sort and this thing looks fantastic. I absolutely love the looks of this G1 Jet. The odd Generation 2 collars are really really prominent on the guy. Great stickers these are the original stickers and they look really really good. He's got nice tinted cockpit windows here and right there loads and loads of missiles. This guy is armed to the teeth. He's got a Gatlin gun underneath but unfortunately lots of missiles but they don't lock in. There is a firing mechanism on the Gatlin gun but if you aim down to shoot the missiles fall out. Other missiles underneath the wings they attach via friction but they stay in pretty good and you can actually press these little jewel looking buttons on top and that actually drops the missiles for bombing effects. Now underneath the jet there is landing gear that can fold up and down. You'll need to have that down due to the giant rocket pod that enables it to sit flat on the ground. If you didn't have the landing gear down it would flop over side to side. Now one of the cool features of this toy set is Dreadwing the main jet is a triple changer. Smoke screen attaches in the back and when you remove him the wings pop up and what this does let me move smoke screen out of the way is enables dark wing to turn into a tank. You're going to fold these sections of the wings back underneath is a little tab here you're going to press down. This will flip out this section forming tank treads and you'll lock that into place. On the other side do the same thing there goes a missile. Flip those around snap it in place and then you're going to take the rocket pod fold up and you're going to lose everything here up and over and then let's take those missiles out for now and rotate around. Take the landing gear and fold forward and there you have dark wing in tank mode. Let's reload those missiles. Dreadwing's tank mode is really really cool looking. I love the molded details down there on the treads. I mean this thing just looks bad ass and it is loaded for battle. Of course the highlight of this mode is you can easily access the rocket pod. Now how this works is on the back is a dial and you'll turn that to the right to launch the missiles. I mean that is so cool. Now transforming Dreadwing into robot mode can be quite a challenge because you're doing a bunch of different things at the same time. But to start off the first thing you're going to do is take the tank treads and fold them back just like they were in jet mode clicking them in place. Now underneath you're going to pull these down and there's a little peg right there that slots into that hole. So you're going to do this on both sides. That in turn becomes the robot's legs. You're going to extend those and kind of get those ready for their full transformation. On the back of the jet is these turbines. You're going to flip these up from the back. They actually peg in pretty tight. So pop those loose on both sides. So now that those are up and out of the way you're going to bend the front of the plane forward. Now flip around again and there's a little flap right here. You fold this up. This enables you to take the rocket pod, fold that down, flip the whole mechanism. You kind of have to twist and turn to flip this whole mechanism over to one side. So there you go. That's locked into place. Flip the rocket back around. You're going to take the robot head which is right here. Flip that forward. Now like I said a lot of things at once you're going to flip this around forming the robot chest, bringing the rocket pod up, losing missiles as we do this, straighten out the robot legs, take the robot feet, snap those into place. Try to get those robot legs in the right position. There we go. Now you're going to take these which will be the robot arms, flip those around to the side and rotate down. Now with these sections there's these little tabs right here you're going to push those in and out bringing this section up, revealing the fist. You're going to do that on both sides. I'm surprised I haven't knocked up all these missiles. Pulled that right out. That will happen so no worries. Now you're going to take the missile pod, bring all the way up and over his shoulder and now we have Dreadwing in robot mode and this guy is a bruiser of a looking bot. Now I'm probably going to keep a hold of him because he is very, very top heavy and he really doesn't have an ankle spur on the back to support all the weight. See right there. He's got fairly decent articulation. The head can move all the way around for a complete 360. Arms can rotate a 360 as well and he has an elbow bend if you can get it to do so. This piece right here does get in the way. He's got a very unique looking head sculpt. I love the translucent eyes. Nice light piping catches that light just right. All the missiles still maintain on robot mode but you're going to knock them off the more you mess around with the guy. As far as leg articulation he does have a knee bend and the legs can kind of go in and out just a little. In robot mode he does have full use of the rocket pod. Not going to do that right now. I do not feel like picking those up again but yeah he's a really, really neat looking bot. So there you have generation two Dreadwing in robot mode. Now let's take a look at smoke screen and smoke screen transforms into a futuristic looking jet that maintains Dreadwing's collar scheme. You've got the really dark blue and the teal great sticker decals. They're on top of the vehicle and on the inside and outside of the tail fins. He also has that nice translucent red cockpit. Sticker decals along the missile launchers and these missile launchers are awesome. They are spring loaded and there is some force behind those missiles. Underneath the jet you have landing gear that can fold up into the nose cone or along the back of the plane and that's pretty much it for smoke screen in vehicle mode. Transforming smoke screen to robot mode is also pretty unique. First thing you want to do is remove the rocket launchers and place those to the side. Then you're going to take these sections right here that will be the robot legs and unpeg them from the body on both sides and then you're going to swing them all the way around to the front like so. Now you're going to fold the tail fins in and you're going to push them through the body of the plane like so that will form the robot arms. So you're going to swing those down and around. Now you're going to kind of separate the top half of the plane and then rotate this section around revealing the robot head. So you've got this going on. Fold this back along the back and bend just like so. Get the arms out of the way. Push this up. Swing the arms around. Straighten out the legs. The feet you're going to unfold like so. Get the tail fins out of the way. And there you have smoke screen in robot mode and he is not a bad looking robot at all. I love the head sculpt on the guy. It's really cool looking. Kind of looks like Scourge or Nemesis Prime if you will. He's got great light piping there on the back of his head. I love light piping. He's got a big opening back there too to really let that light in. As far as articulation goes he could swing his arms a complete 360. Of course the wings kind in the way there. He also has an elbow bend. A arm rotation. The fists are kind of molded into the forearms. I don't really like that but it is what it is. Legs can go up and down. He's got a slight knee bend. They can go in and out. I mean all in all not bad for a G2 transformer. Now of course you can give him his rocket launchers for handheld weapons. And there you have smoke screen all armed and ready for battle. Now for some quick size comparisons. Here is 1994's Generation 2 Dreadwing and Smoke Screen with Generation 1 Optimus Prime. Generation 1 Dreadwind. And Combiner Wars Smoke Screen. The Decepticon duo of Dreadwing and Smoke Screen is a must have for your Transformers collection. The playability with these two figures is just off the charts. You've got rapid firing Gatlin guns. You've got bombs that can drop. You've got high powered spring loaded rocket launchers. A triple changing gimmick. Plus the figures can interchange the handheld weapons as you can see. There's also two different variations of this set you can look for. A Beast Wars 2 set which includes figures BB and Starscream. And an RID set that includes Dreadwing and Smoke Jumper. But no matter which set you get you're going to be highly impressed with the playability of these two figures. So there you go guys. 1994's Generation 2 Dreadwing and Smoke Screen. So does a Generation 2 Dreadwing and Smoke Screen belong in your collection? Absolutely. This is a fantastic toy set. It's so much fun. So much playability. And the gimmicks are awesome. I wish today's toys had the gimmicks some of these older figures have. So if you see this guy or any of his other variations. I know there's the Beast Wars 2 version and the RID version. Don't hesitate. Pick him up. But be warned. All these blasted missiles. There's 14 in total. So make sure you get them all. And guys I want to thank you for stopping by and checking out my videos. Don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe. Also check out Mega Prime Collectibles. I'm going to make sure and put a link to their Facebook page and their Instagram in the description of this video. Once again guys, this is Patriot Prime signing out. Hula!