With my interest in Hasbro's output at an all time low, I've been paying closer attention to Third Party output recently. While that means fewer purchases at greater expense (though Hasbro have become increasingly enthusiastic about decreasing the gap), it does mean I can focus on acquiring figures I really want, rather than just obsessively filling shelf space with products I find acceptable, if not entirely exciting.
Thus, when Unique Toys revealed Red Dasher, their take on Dino/Mirage from
Dark of the Moon, that went
straight onto my Want List. Hasbro's
Faux-rrari vehicle mode for the
Studio Series toy just didn't work for me and, while I already have
Alien Attack's Firage -
the mass-produced version of a custom figure based on Battle Blades Bumblebee - and
still think it's a fantastic figure, I'm enough of a fan of Dino/Mirage's
design that I felt a
MPM-ish scale figure with a
simpler transformation had a place in my collection.
And the
bonus is that he came with the Collectors' Card that was omitted from
DX9's La Hire,
five years ago!
I ordered this from
Omegalock, at a point when it was listed as 'Imminent', and only had to wait a couple of weeks for it to be despatched. I was
a little dubious as the delivery options are focussed on DPD as the courier, and they've let me down recently, but this one went OK, arriving yesterday.
Had a quick fiddle with it in the afternoon and, aside from one point of the transformation that I had to look up on a video, he's just as intuitive and straightforward as La Hire and Peru Kill.
