Ha! Working on it. There's more pics to put in and I have a lot of text to write. Was too busy to finish it yesterday but wanted to start getting it into a post to copy/paste over.
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Fighting Insects
Mantis
This one is my favorite of the Fighting Insects for sure, maybe of the whole batch. Love the arm articulation of the Mantis mode, and robot mode has shoulder pivots as well as some "in and out" due to the transformation. Nice and stable in both modes, all around fun to play with.
Butterfly
Insect mode is a bit limited with the wings only able to be in "pre-flap" position instead of being able to spread out horizontally, but the robot mode has the great samurai skirt thing going on for it, which is nice. Robot arm movement is best out of any of these, I think.
Queen Bee
Now THIS one should have been called Hornet, as that's clearly what this bug mode is. This one reverses the usual transformation for the line with the insect head becoming the feet and the abdomen becoming the top of the robot. Another well articulated robot mode.
Dragonfly
This is the only one that I got that was missing parts. He's supposed to have a long, articulated dragonfly tail, but mine is sadly broken off. No moving shoulders, but good elbow movement. Nice bit of asymmetrical sculpting on the hips, which add some visual interest to the robot mode.
Fighting Insects group shot. Dammit, Butterfly! You blinked!
Graduating class of 2025
Mantis
This one is my favorite of the Fighting Insects for sure, maybe of the whole batch. Love the arm articulation of the Mantis mode, and robot mode has shoulder pivots as well as some "in and out" due to the transformation. Nice and stable in both modes, all around fun to play with.
Butterfly
Insect mode is a bit limited with the wings only able to be in "pre-flap" position instead of being able to spread out horizontally, but the robot mode has the great samurai skirt thing going on for it, which is nice. Robot arm movement is best out of any of these, I think.
Queen Bee
Now THIS one should have been called Hornet, as that's clearly what this bug mode is. This one reverses the usual transformation for the line with the insect head becoming the feet and the abdomen becoming the top of the robot. Another well articulated robot mode.
Dragonfly
This is the only one that I got that was missing parts. He's supposed to have a long, articulated dragonfly tail, but mine is sadly broken off. No moving shoulders, but good elbow movement. Nice bit of asymmetrical sculpting on the hips, which add some visual interest to the robot mode.
Fighting Insects group shot. Dammit, Butterfly! You blinked!
Graduating class of 2025
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