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Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure

I have received yet another wave of movie figures. This one was a goof, I just happened to be at Amazon.com at the right time. I noticed shortly after securing the purchase, the link was pulled. I am referring to Ironhide, the guns of the group and the oldest of the Autobot group.

Alt Mode

Ironhide's alt for is that of a GMC Topkick pickup. The Topkick is normally a heavy-duty truck, but it's not too uncommon to see one with a pickup bed on the back. However, you don't usually find them in black like Ironhide. You also normally don't find a pair of cannons stowed away as the running boards. The details are real good here. Road Armor is represented on the front bumper winch assembly, you can see 4x4 scripting on the bed and the tailgate even has an Autobot insignia on it (the tailgate is molded in).

A few things of interest with this mode. The clearance lights on the roof are blue. He has semi-like exhaust stacks directly behind the cockpit. Would have been a nice extra touch to make them silver versus just black. The pickup bed itself is also bland. I guess you could call it a tonneau. Otherwise, a spot on representation.

Transformation

Be prepared for a ride, as this is not only a complex transform, but perhaps (so far) the best transform. It's definitely a fun one. The automorph feature is in the legs. Lifting down the tailgate to form his feet not only swings the rear tires back, but also peels back the bed tonneau to expose his shins.

Robot Mode

His robot mode might almost make you think he was Decepticon. More blue shows up here, along with some gold on the legs and waist. The face is almost too dark to show the features well, but there is blue piping under the right light. Each arm also holds a 4 barrel laser cannon. At first look, the left arm looks like it has 4 launchable missiles. It does, but more on that later.

Points of articulation are as follows. Feet: stationary (due to automorphing). Knees: screw hinge w/peg, 90 degree vertical and unlimited horizontal rotation. Hips: Ball joints with pseudo ratcheting, 90 degree free vertical rotation and 180 degree horizontal 8pt ratcheting rotation. Shoulders: Screw hinge with ratcheting, 90 degree free vertical and 180 degree horizontal 6pt ratcheting rotation. Elbows: Screw hinge with peg, 90 degree vertical and unlimited horizontal rotation. Head: Ball joint, unlimited rotation. The feet being stationary are really the only thing keeping you from getting some awesome poses out of this guy, but it can still be done.

Now for Ironhide's other gimmick. By taking off his left arm cannon (both are actually removeable) and combining it in front of the right arm cannon, you now have a super cannon. This super cannon can now launch those 4 missiles! My hats off to Hasbro on this one. This is how ALL the movie figures should have been done.



ReviewerBlitzwing  
DateMay 23rd 2007  
Score (10 out of 10)  
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Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by lifebook0506 on 2007-08-25 15:57:25
My Score:
ironhide his soooooo badass. im not so eager about the truck form but the bot form is phenomenal. the head is a bit to big but that is a small gripe. his detailing is perfect for repainting. the automorph is also really cool overall, he is an awsome fig.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by kezza1986 on 2007-07-11 09:58:08
My Score:
When transformed, my shoulder armour flies all over the place. I''ve found how to fix it though:

take a look at the rear of the cab. This is the section with the rear window and smoke stacks. At the OPPOSITE end to the stacks, look at the bottom of those two long prongs with the connection holes in. At the bottom you''ll see two small grooves. If you fold this section up correctly, the folded up doors actually sit in this groove, locking the armour pieces horizontal. Only problem is, the roof sticks out a little, screwing the balance up

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by BumbleScream on 2007-07-10 01:38:48
My Score:
He rulez!

Quote from his first line: "You felling lucky, punk?"

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Crazy4414 on 2007-07-09 21:11:47
My Score:
very good design but confusing getting the robot mode into truck mode and my friggin hands kept falling off!

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by volcomstone on 2007-07-07 11:24:35
My Score:
Something I find wrong is if you look on the boxart his
smokestacks are longer and they''re silver and he has
a silver Autobot symbol on his chest. Love this guy
and he''s awesome though.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Hotwheelz on 2007-06-22 21:20:39
My Score:
I love this guy.. if it wasn''t for his big guns in ALT mode he would be perfect! One of the best so far!

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by volcomstone on 2007-06-21 09:39:34
My Score:
My personal favorite of the voyager class.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by slavidzee on 2007-06-19 10:17:47
My Score:
This figure continues to impress me. As you transform him into robot mode, you discover more and more intricate sculpting and attractive metalic blue/ metalic copper paint applications. It''s styling fairly hard at this point. The thought that runs through my head when I look at his robot mode is "I never would have imagined that they''d pull of a transformers figure that looks like it does in the airbrush rendering on the box, but this one does!"
A few things you should realize about some of the other entries:
the camera work on these photos is a little dark, so you really are missing a lot of the very very stylish looking details.
The eyes are not that dark, they are blue, and light piped.
The shoulders do not flop around, when you properly transform it, his wheels/shoulders peg into the sides of his neck.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by BumbleDupree on 2007-06-16 00:57:51
My Score:
I just got this guy tonight after coming home from vaca and I have to say he is definately one of my favorites of the entire movie line. I did have alot of trouble though transforming him back to alt mode, but I figured out how to so it''s all good. My only gripe about him is that his shoulders are like loose and can flop a bit, but overall he looks so awesome that I can totally forget about that little flaw.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Deadwolf on 2007-06-11 13:28:48
My Score:
Thought Brawl was going to be the best.... Not bad, but not the best. Head is to far back, and the auto morph on the feet are annoying when you are posing. Shoulders are loose on my figure, and any arm movement dislodges the wheel connect to the head.
Overall, looks good in both forms. Excellent purchase for the price

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by OptimalOptimus on 2007-06-06 14:39:49
My Score:
Despite my problems with his waist, (which I don''t understand why they just didn''t make it flush), Ironhide is a pretty kick ass figure. Great look and I love the shoulders as do a lot of people I am seeing. Although, I will say the transformation is a little meticulous and they always paint more detail on the box art. I hate that. All in all, great figure in the line-up. His feet are the automorph feature right?

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by jdogg360 on 2007-06-06 14:22:08
My Score:
I also wish there was more color than black. It makes the pics hard to see. Painting the eyes blue would help, a little. Him and Prime, in my opinion are the best Autobot robot modes. Simply for the fact that you can''t tell right away what they turn into. Bonecrusher and Brawl have that distinction for the Decepticons.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by real_Angel on 2007-06-06 13:03:44
My Score:
I can''t get it done...
I just put the doors in front of the windshield and it won''t swing up as much as they did...
Still not the look I wanted though because poor old Ironhide can only see what is happening in front him... Not a good way the become the oldest Autobot...

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by bob on 2007-06-06 02:31:34
My Score:
Real Angel,

The waist doesn''t seem to sit completely flush. (it should not flop around however) His upper bidy leans forward slightly (level this out w/ a bit of bend in the knees). Just make sure it''s attached to both top and bottom.

Shoulders- personally I like them swung up. I think it looks great! But if you want the truck front to sit flat-

there are two joints where the hood attaches to the body. The upper joint pretty much doesn''t bend unless you stick your finger in there and press against it, then pull the hood down level. If you do this, it will lock in this position. This is the way he''s photographed on the back of the box.

Hope this helps.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by real_Angel on 2007-06-05 15:35:59
My Score:
Okay, I got myself Ironhide today...
You have got to help me because the instructions are not helping me at all...
By the way, I do not think this is the best figure in the Movie line... not by a long shot!
Firs: Somehow the torso and his hips do not connect. The blue piece connects nicely into the hips but to his torso it is a no win situation. It only goes in about half way. What am I doing wrong?
Second: His shoulders... I hate it why they jump all over the figure. It should be some kind of shoulder armour but instead just flips all the way up. Not good! I have now put the folded doors behind the windscreen on his back. This way the shoulders remain in place a bit but I don''t think it was meant to be like this. What am I doing wrong here...
Please advise people...

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by bob on 2007-06-05 11:36:37
My Score:
Great, great toy! Definetly one of the very best of the line. I love the shoulders.

My only issue with it is the head sculpt. It''s very flat and boxy (something the photos I''ve seen don''t indicate). Compared to the images of the movie character we''ve seen the proportions are slightly off (face to small, forehead too big). Light piping is fine, except the eyes are way to dark, so unless you shine a flashlight on his head he has no eyes- if you do- the piping is much bigger than his actual eyes.

Movie Ironhide''s head is ok- this is ugly. Looks fine if you look directly at it from a level frontal angle, otherwise it has problems.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by takaratron on 2007-06-04 19:59:51
My Score:
This is probably as close to an alternators Nemesis Prime as I am going to get :p Good toy, my only complaint is the neck isn''t ball jointed, and if it was he couldn''t see over his shoulders anyway :p

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by darthchaos2006 on 2007-06-04 10:27:07
My Score:
This is one of the few transformers movie toys I will purchase.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by madprime on 2007-06-03 20:24:23
My Score:
Ive done a few good poses with the feet on my ironhide, however the swivel joints on his legs are VERY loose and can''t do most poses because of that. also the springs onn the fron of the truck (becomes shoulders) don''t allow manual placment. Love the transformation though. the "automorph" on this one is awsome. very nice figure. still.... would make a great Trailbreaker....

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Warrior_From_The_Sky on 2007-05-27 23:27:39
My Score:
i think i like this one the best of all the autobot designs. it reminds me more of a classic transformer than most of the movie stuff has.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by RamFett on 2007-05-27 08:53:43
My Score:
Proportionally, not the best-looking, but he''ll do. At least Ironhide is better than Deluxe Jazz or Bumblebee. I''m pretty pissed about the feet, though. Here is another fine example of what would be perfectly good figure, were it not ruined by some stupid gimmick. I''ll probably still get him, though.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by amethysted on 2007-05-25 18:33:00
My Score:
Wednsday I managed to cut open a misplaced skid of Movie TFs in Walmart and bought one of these figs. I opened him and began to slowly realize what "Morphing" is... Lots of gears and spring loaded parts that when pulled or pushed they open and "morph" the truck into a tough little bot...

Articulation is good. Not perfect but above average.

Paint job is good. Not to many wacked out paint apps like Cybertron. But I would like more paint apps of the same colors... Both Ironhide and Barricade need more color...

Weapons are GRREAT! He comes with two cannons that connect into one long missle battery!

Face is OK. We all have to get used to the "Movie look" with all thier wires and jaged lines...

He fits in rather well with my Alternators... If he had a red visor I would name him Trailbreaker!

And I''m sure a red G1 repaint is in the works, right???

If this fig had more paint, I would give him a 10!

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Transformer1973 on 2007-05-25 14:30:01
My Score:
Pretty nice. I''ll buy two and paint one red so he can really be Ironhide. :-)

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by shockwaverider on 2007-05-25 09:19:04
My Score:
Silverbolt! :P
The lower body does look pretty spindly, but overall he does look good. I''m glad the under-body pontoons are removeable. Glad also to hear the gimmick actually works and does not suck.
The dark color scheme does hide a lot of detail. I bet he would look really cool in a G1-esque red or dark red scheme.
Another good review!

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by TomPrime on 2007-05-25 08:58:49
My Score:
Great innovative design! Very, very cool.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by prowl78 on 2007-05-25 06:45:28
My Score:
this actually looks pretty cool. And thats saying a lot from a guy who detests these new toys.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Style92 on 2007-05-25 00:09:44
My Score:
agreed DrKain. he may not look like Ironhide, but he just exudes ironhide''s mojo and persona. I bought Energon Ironhide because I just really wanted to believe, but that version of the character broke my heart. :(

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by WildRider on 2007-05-25 00:00:19
My Score:
Definitely will be picking him up. I have to set a limit for these figures unfortunately, so he''ll be my Autobot Voyager (Blackout being the Decepticon).

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by TJcybernal on 2007-05-24 21:35:53
My Score:
Well Ironhide looks to be the coolest movie figure yet. I cant wait to get it.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by ciarda on 2007-05-24 18:14:28
My Score:
I gotta wait a while to get mine .but I''m hoping to bet two so I can recolor the second to fit the G1 color just to see what he coulda looked like if they had kept his original colour scheme

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by ciarda on 2007-05-24 18:14:25
My Score:
I gotta wait a while to get mine .but I''m hoping to bet two so I can recolor the second to fit the G1 color just to see what he coulda looked like if they had kept his original colour scheme

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by DrKain on 2007-05-24 17:37:19
My Score:
Say what you want about the movie figures, but this is the first REAL Ironhide figure with have gotten in 23 years.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by blitzwing on 2007-05-24 10:38:09
My Score:
I can clear that up. It came that way out of the box and I was simply too lazy to fix it, from the looks of it.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Quaternion on 2007-05-24 02:49:48
My Score:
Sorry for the double post. @Style92 the GMC symbol is not crooked on mine. There is still a gap in the ''M'' but it''s straight. It must be slightly mistransformed in the pic.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Quaternion on 2007-05-24 02:44:32
My Score:
Heh, I got my Ironhide from Amazon too. I love everything about this figure that you mentioned. The transform is really awesome - complex but neither annoying nor contrived. My only slight problem is that I personally think his head is a bit too big for his body. Nevertheless, he is an excellent figure.

Voyager Ironhide - Movie - Figure
Posted by Style92 on 2007-05-23 23:50:11
My Score:
Looks like a must-buy to me. The only thing really throwing me is the malformed GMC symbol in the first pic. Maybe with a little fiddling the pannels would fit together better?

I wish he was a wave one. I''m probably still getting Ratchet, but Voyager Ironhide looks like the auto bot voyager to beat. Still debating if I''ll get voyager Prime, since I''m going to get his Leader version.

*Crossing my fingers that Ironhide will be up for a G1-ized red redeco by the end of the year.*

  



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