Review of BINGOTOYS BT-02 Windblade: A Stunning and Playable Transformers Toy
Last Updated on July 2, 2024 by xmiaonline.com
Today, we bring you a review of BINGOTOYS’ BT-02 Windblade. Previously, we reviewed BT’s Black Widow, which impressed us with its high aesthetic value and successful dual-mode transformation. This has heightened our expectations for their products. How does this toy perform? Let’s find out in this review.
The Transformers packaging for Windblade follows BT’s consistent style, featuring a comic-style character illustration with electronic glitch effects on a white background. The bottom right corner of the box shows the manufacturer’s logo and the product name.
The back of the box maintains a similar style to the front but swaps the humanoid illustration for the vehicle mode illustration and changes the position of the product name.
The contents of the toy include the main body of Windblade, six swords, three pairs of interchangeable hands, three interchangeable faces, a stand base, and two stand rods. I immediately combined the six swords with Windblade and mounted it on the stand for display.
Windblade’s design continues BT’s tradition of outstanding aesthetics. Compared to most Windblade figures we’ve seen, this one has a stronger mechanical feel and a more proportionate figure resembling a real person.
The head crest of Windblade enhances the ancient style elements, clearly showing a hair crown, gold ornaments, and a hair bun. The default expression is a smiling face, which can be replaced with a grinning, shouting, or angry expression by plugging and unplugging. The face sculpt resembles a mask with mainly white paint, so be careful not to damage the paint when swapping faces.
The chest and abdomen are mainly black, with the upper part having a stronger mechanical feel and the lower part more biomechanical, accented with red paint to depict smooth body lines.
Windblade’s shoulder and forearm armor are relatively heavy, especially the forearms, which have a strong muscular feel. This muscularity is rare for a character like Windblade.
The default hand shape is a fist, but it can be replaced with weapon-holding hands, semi-open hands, heart-shaped hands, a fully open left hand, and a right heart-shaped hand. This hand configuration is quite rare in Transformers toys, especially the right heart-shaped hand.
Windblade retains its iconic large wings and turbines, with the wings almost fully covered in red metallic paint. The wing shape can be adjusted as needed. The back of Windblade stores a complete jet head, which doesn’t seem out of place. If the jet head could be fragmented into skirt armor, it might look better.
In terms of articulation, the head can turn, look up and down, and tilt. The arms can rotate vertically and lift about 90 degrees horizontally. The upper arm can rotate, the elbow can bend 90 degrees, and the hands can rotate and adjust angles. The waist has two joints, allowing a slight forward bend but no backward bend, with a small range of waist rotation.
The legs can kick forward and sideways 90 degrees. The upper thigh can rotate, and there’s an additional inward folding joint seen in BT’s Black Widow and CS Bumblebee. The knees have two joints, bending well beyond 90 degrees. The ankles have two directional joints for stability. Overall, Windblade’s articulation is better than most Transformers toys.
Windblade’s weapon accessories are six swords that can be stored on the wings, creating a light wing effect, or held in hand. The three pairs of dual swords come in large, medium, and small sizes, allowing for free combination.
The transformation design is not difficult and seems to be by the same designer as BT’s Black Widow. The jet mode, though less impressive than the humanoid mode, still shows clear humanoid structures through the outer armor.
The jet features a separate landing gear, with the cockpit made of purple transparent parts. I suspect the cockpit can open, but I couldn’t manage to open it without risking damage, so let’s assume it doesn’t open.
All weapons can be perfectly stored in the vehicle mode, with the larger dual swords stored behind the wings and the other four forming the tail fins, creating a light trail effect seen in sci-fi works.
The wings in vehicle mode can also adjust their shape, as shown in the pictures, to create a forward-firing effect. The dual swords originally on the wings also have corresponding slots to be installed as wing extensions.
In conclusion, this BINGOTOYS Windblade excels in humanoid mode with outstanding aesthetics, exquisite paintwork, excellent articulation, and a comfortable handling experience. The six swords add great playability. Although the vehicle mode is less stunning, it’s acceptable given the excellent humanoid mode. The vehicle mode’s adjustable shape further enhances the toy’s playability. I’m very satisfied with this Windblade.
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