Legacy United (Beast Machines) Core-class Cheetor in-hand review

In what seemed like a rather calm week where nothing of note was happenning, all of the sudden the wildest of things decided to happen and one of the most unexpected was the shadow drop of Core-class Beast Machines Cheetor a figure that up until pretty much this morning some of us, thought cancelled not only, did it seemingly spawn into existence, release in Colombia of all places and on the city where yours truly just so happens to live to bring us this review/reveal, now for a bit of context Core-class Cheetor originally leaked as part of Wave 2 with the rest of the April assortment, when other leaks where formally revealed or at least dropped, seemingly Core-class Cheetor here along with a Dinobot and a Sureshot we haven’t seen as of the time of writing of this review suddenly were removed from the codes of the case assortment leading many to think they were cancelled and probably replaced, this was the general belief until this morning when suddenly a user on Facebook posted a picture of this find on the Pepe Ganga on C.C. Atlantis on Bogotá D.C. Colombia, it was at this time that I set up to go, pick one up for myself and bring you this review, surprisingly 3 of them remained by the time I got there and even have Energon Megatron who himself had also been hard to find on this side of the puddle, so boot up that Phat Planet - Leftfield because this is Legacy United Core-class Cheetor.









Retailing for $79’900 COP which roughly translates to ~$20 USD give or take whic is the standard pricing for core-classes in Colombia; Interestingly, the figure makes no mention of the "[Blank] Universe" naming convention that has been handling for the last couple of years and just calls him "Cheetor" fair and square, weird, the figure comes in the open box we’ve all come to love or love to hate giving a good insigh—just what are those eyes? Cheetor where have you been? What have you seen? Anyways, the figure stands at roughly 8cm tall or 9.5 if you count the shoulder pads, won’t blame ya and out of the package comes with his swords plugged together it what seems to be a remnant of evo-fusion, just now unnamed, the both plug via a 3mm system both unto themselves and unto the hands.

 

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The articulation is your standard affair, knees, legs, shoulders, elbows, neck, interestingly, the legs have soft ratchets, which gives enough expressiveness for your action poses, besides the standard sword holding with the hands, they can also be stored on the shoulders in what is admittedly a pretty seamless storage tho the figure clearly is missing a lot of paint apps (which I’ll probably do myself and show on our Iacon art institute forum, go check it) the cheetah spots that the figure does have are pretty sick.

 

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But I think what everyone was expecting was how was the transformation, after all, with all the spiritual and soul talk of Beast Machines, the animation didn’t really leave a lot for the simplicity of transformation when it came to toys, transformation is pretty much a simple “put him in all fours” type of deal, as you unfold the claws from behind the wrists, flip the cat head from the back, turn the head around and cover it with the cat head, untab the torso from the lower torso flip out the tail, tab the legs unto the pelvis, interestingly, the shoulders have some ports that tab unto the torso, so if you’ve been following the beast mode doesn’t really have any mobility so surely he’ll do great at escaping from the Vehicon army and plug the swords unto the shoulders again to complete the look.