BEAST WARS: TOY
REVIEW
Name: DRILL BIT
Allegiance: Predacon
Function: Infantry
Beast Mode: Wasp
Average Price: 5 USD
Note: Known in the Japan as Heroic Insectron Drillnuts.
BEAST MODE
Height: 4cm
Length: 11cm
Width: 3cm not counting legs
Drill Bit is a strange creature. Basically a boll weevil
(same form as G1 Bombshell), Drill Bit is classified as a useless brick.
Aside from the front snout, he has no joints. The body is a transparent
tan with brown painted on most of it, with big green eyes and a purple
snout and legs. It looks a bit like a peanut. The robot pieces are highly
visible from underneath, and he has a large hinge on his butt, but stands
up on his own legs, unlike most insect BW toys.
Gimmick: Fold the drill out from the front. Turn
the wheel on the bottom to turn the drill. Barely a Constructicon drill
unit, though it's fairly obvious this was a base for BW Scavenger's (aka
Transmetal Inferno) drill arms.
TRANSFORMATION TO ROBOT MODE
Fold the drill out, fold the legs and hips back, turn him
over, fold the head up, and fold the robot arm out. Fold the drill to the
other side to form the right arm (a lot like TM Rattrap with the arms).
Fold the leg pairs back, fold the entire bug shell down, making sure to
keep the end of the shell with the hips, and making sure to push the robot
head through, then lock the peg on the hips into the hole on the shell.
This was after the one-step transformation was eliminated from basic sized
toys.
ROBOT MODE
Height: 9.5cm to the head
Width: 5cm
Well, I'll say this- the robot mode more than makes up
for the "Brickmaster" bug form. He has a nice psychotic facial expression.
The head is transparent tan, and the eyes are green, and since all BW toys
have the eyes as a separate piece inside the head, small green spikes can
be seen going back into the head. The silver chest details are also nice,
helping break up the 2-part colour scheme. While a bug leg hangs off each
robot leg, if you took my advice and folded the other pairs back, they
don't catch on each other. The drill forms the right arm, but he does have
a left hand. While the drill is heavy, including the snout hanging off
it, his balance is still good (the prototype on the cards had the snout
and eyes on the drill). The right elbow is weird, cutting down at an angle
where the drill attaches, messing up straight poses, but the arm is too
long to point it straight down. He has 9 main joints, in the neck, shoulders,
elbows, hips, and knees. The snout is also poseable. The only problem is
that the peg to lock the hips in place sometimes pop out of place, but
normal display won't dislodge it.
Gimmicks: The drill still spins when you turn the
wheel.
RUB STICKER LOCATION
Under robot chin.
OVERALL
I can't figure out why so many people knock thos toy down.
There were several other BW toys which rank below this (looking at Claw
Jaw...). I guess no show backing hurt, although the mould did show
up in Beast Wars Second as a new character, Drillnuts, so at least
he got a shot at animated glory on one form.
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