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30th Generation Nightbeat

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30th Generations - Welcome back! It has been a very busy month and now I am finally back. I have uploaded Nightbeat picture to Flickr but never got the chance to review the figure.

I never knew Nightbeat in the first place as he never did appear in the G1 animation. Instead I only know the headmaster Minerva who has the same mold as him. I have just read the Marvel G1 and I know that he plays an important role in the Autobot rank. He seems to be more of a detective than a crazy son of a gun. Anyway; if you bought this figure and you saw the comic that came with it, you will also wished that he would have the same mold as Jazz. Instead, you got another retool/repaint of Bumblebee. Here is a review of Nightbeat.

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Bio

To Nightbeat, the greatest threat to the universe isn’t the Decepticons, it's secrecy. The Autobot sleuth is relentless when it comes to unearthing the truth. He'll stop at nothing to get to the bottom of things, even if it means confronting bots far more powerful than he is. Sources - TFU.info

Vehicle Mode

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Basically, I will not mentioned the whole mold thing (oh wait); I have not even reviewed 30th Generation Bumblebee. Did I forget about him? Just joking. I did and here is the review of Bumblebee. Anyway, Nightbeat remain faithful to its G1 livery. The blue painted scheme and the flame livery. Unfortunately, he is not something new and sometimes I do wish that he was a retool/repaint of Jazz.

Transformation

I did not mentioned the transformation process in my previous Bumblebee post. Nightbeat/Bumblebee transformation is quite easy. The only thing you need to be aware was the sliding mechanism on the chest area which reveal the head.

Robot Mode

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Although you will get tired of me whining about repaint and retool; I think I like Nightbeat more than Bumblebee itself. This mold is quite good but the head is a bit too small and obvious. But that is just a minor problem. I do love his head sculpt. Really reminds me of the G1 version except for the chest area. G1 Nightbeat had a yellow chest while this guy had he yellow colored ridges. And I really hate how Hasbro is too lazy that they can't even give Nightbeat a proper weapon rather than the same weapon as Bumblebee. And that goes to Goldfire/Goldbug.

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Conclusion

I can't say that if I really love or hate this figure but I do know that I really need him in my collection. He is one of the original G1 characters and there were never an appearance of him whether in the movie or animation except as a Mini-Con. And I do wish that Hasbro was not lazy and create a new mold that has functional headmaster like the new Generation Brainwave. I do hope that would soon be a reality.

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