Revenge of the Fallen The Fallen Review

Packaging: The toy is confined in a rectangular box with a totally different packaging design in comparison to TFTM. The official transformers logo and the picture of the character are found in front. The Fallen in robot mode and Cybertronian Destroyer mode can be viewed with his technical data at the back of the box.



History: Simon Furman wrote on Transformers The Ultimate Guide, Primus had created a crew of 13 Transformers to optimize his defensive and tactical options in planet mode. But one of the 13 had been turned, and had attempted to sabotage Primus’ planet mode. “The Fallen,” as this transformer became known, was thwarted and joined his new master (Unicron)….. only to be sucked along with him into a black hole. And now for millennia, he has waited. Thousands of years have dragged by as he recruited proxies, one by one, to scour the cosmos for the artifact he required. Now he finds he must return to the primitive, flesh infected planet on which his quest began. Nothing will stand in his way this time. If need be, he will scour the surface of this disgusting world clean in the fire of his rage, and search through the blasted rubble for that which he seeks. 

Robot mode


The robot stands 20 cm or 8 inches tall. He got plentiful articulation points in the elbows, arms, hip, and knees which are ideal for different poses. The red transparent plastics are the slide-out energy absorption panels where The Fallen got his infinite strength, endurance, and fireblast. Located in his neck (can be hidden at the back of his head) and upper part of the forelimbs, it can harness tremendous amount of energy from the Sun making him almost impossible to destroy even the join forces of Optimus Prime and Megatron. 

Alternate Mode

The Fallen transforms into what it calls as Cybertronian Destroyer Mode. As a matter of fact, he has resemblance with TFTM Megatron in Cybertronian Jet Mode. The toy measures 25.5 cm or 9.8 inches from the thingypit to rudder (which happens to be his two arms). His legs and feet serving as the wings are approximately 22.5 cm or 8.5 inches in length and the hips are positioned adjacent to the thingypit of the jet. 

The Transformation (from Robot mode to Alt mode)



Color:

ROTF the Fallen comes with a glossy blue-green color with a touched of orange and silver paints. I find his color scheme extremely captivating and it matches perfectly with his character. His robot mode made him appear to look like a hybrid of alien and predator. The red transparent panels around his neck found also the upper part of the forelimb of the toy and knee joints are added attraction to the toy. Though it got a chicken feet which makes a little difficult to stand, it does not affect the overall beauty of the figure.

Pros

Lavish and great robot mode
Badass looks
Concise color schemes
Well articulated
Big for a voyager class figure
Intimidating and black sheep figure among the ROTF toys

Cons

Chicken feet is not stable 
Does not pass the kick test

Recommendation:

ROTF The Fallen figure is indeed one of the hot items sold during the toy launch. A must figure to buy with his impressive robot mode and color applications his really a winner. When I first saw the video review of the toy he already caught my attention. I’d say you would not have second thought spending 1.7k for this toy. 

Rating: 4.5/5