Skyhammer

Dark of the Moon - During the Power Core era, Skyhammer was a Decepticon. Now in Dark of the Moon franchise, he turn out to be an Autobot. Much like Mudflap in the 2007 Transformers who turn side. But that turn out to be Hasbro decision to label their product who ever they wish. Anyway, Skyhammer did not appeared in the movie and I am not sure whether he appeared in the comic book prequel itself. But he is rather a very unique Autobot and his voyager sculpt is really nice.

Bio

Back on CYBERTRON, SKYHAMMER was a highly decorated AUTOBOT aerial assault commander. He was tasked with personally advising OPTIMUS PRIME in countless skirmishes with the DECEPTICONS. SKYHAMMER is surprisingly nimble given his size and weapon payload. He is an expert with projectile weapons, but also excels in hand-to-hand combat. He carries an Energon blade bestowed on him by OPTIMUS PRIME as recognition of extraordinary courage and heroism in battle.

Vehicle Mode

Skyhammer vehicle mode looks like a futuristic Hind helicopter. It looks really amazing with a nice yellow glass cockpit and Autobot insignia on both side. Even his rotor blade is working and really functional. He got a lot of MechTech points. There are two points on both wings making it a total of four. One on each side of the engine. One on the bottom of the cockpit and lastly, two on the MechTech weapon itself. A total of a whooping 9 Mechtech weapon (including the MechTech weapon and without the rocket launcher).

Alternate Mode

His transformation skill was a bit hard at first especially when you have a pictorial manual rather than the traditional drawn manual. I was a bit confused especially on the wing and back part. Do be aware that you also need to pull the rotary blade upward before you can rotate the chest parts if you want to change into vehicle mode (or in this case vice versa). Anyway, he looks really cool in robot mode. Unluckily, his paint was a bit of a mess especially the head parts. Hasbro is kind of lazy on the paint department. His articulation is great especially the legs part. His arms has a limited movement. All in all, he is one great voyager to collect. Although he did not appeared in the movie but he is one great addition to the Dark of the Moon franchise.