Q-Transformers Decepticon Executive 3-pack Megatron, Soundwave & Shockwave

Shorty review: Q-Transformers Decepticon Executive 3-pack Megatron, Soundwave & Shockwave

Hahaha, “Shorty”.

Oh, I’m hilarious.

AH! Ten-HUT!

Warning: a lot of tiny adorableness.

Let’s start this one off with a convoluted little piece of history, shall we?

Q-Transformers are an amalgamation of Transformers characters and a line of tiny toy cars called Choro-Q which dates back all the way to the 70’s. As a result, Q-Transformers is a line of Transformers figures centering around chibi-fied (read: made unbearably adorable) Transformers characters, made into a show called “Mystery of Convoy”, which *sigh* is in turn based on the game of the same name and it’s mobile sequel “Mystery of Convoy Returns”.

Got all that?

Honestly I have no idea what the show is about exactly, I’ve never played the games and chances are slim I’ll ever check either out.

The figures are a treat in their own right though.

I'd drive these.

Now to be clear: if you’re a serious-business collector only interested in the best of the best of what the brand has to offer these might be a little too niche for you.

The toyline consists of… I dunno,a lot. A few dozen. Suprisingly enough there are just a few body types (cars, trucks and jets) and among themselves they  all transform more or less the same. The jets are simply super-deformed versions of their classic G1 incarnations but the trucks and cars are all fully licensed automobiles. Be it very tiny.

Scared yet?

Well?

Alright, but, everyone, point of today’s meeting is the adorable central command of the D’aawcepticon forces: Megatron, Soundwave and Shockwave.

They transform into a Lamborghini Veneno, Nissan GT-R R35 and Toyota Crown Athlete S21 respectively.

Despite their diminutive size they’re pretty cleverly engineered, with an obligatory but nonetheless solid “less is more” state of mind.

The heads are on swivels,  the shoulders and legs are all balljointed and the elbows are simple swiveljoints too.

Poseability-wise they’re not likely to blow anyone’s mind, but I don’t mind that much. They won’t do dynamic action poses, and I don’t really see how they could have been engineered to do so, so they’ll just stare at you somewhat threateningly.

Like a pudgy puppy with a bad attitude.

Me neither.

The transformation is easy and predictable in a good way.

Start with folding the roof from the back over the head, from there fold the lower arms back into the pauldrons, snap the pauldrons together and tuck the legs knees first into the chest.

 Now, these guys transform pretty much the same, but like stated before: they’re not meant to be perfectly executed, they’re meant to  be what they are.

Which is painfully adorable.

And in that respect I feel they actually are perfect.

I mean, they’re characters who have always been depicted as borderline insane warlords, silent sociopaths and deranged scientists and to see them designed like they’ll appear in an episode of Hello Kitty tickles me in a way I didn’t know was possible.

And that sounded better in my head.

Alright, am I done?

Good.

I’m off to punch a hole in a wall to feel manly again.