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Friday, August 16, 2024

Go-Bot Smallfoot [Go-Bot Guardians 3-Pack]

Continuing our look at the Go-Bots Guardians 3-Pack is Small Foot. Like the e-Hobby toy she's based on, Small Foot is made from a Gears toy. This time, however, the most recent Legacy United Gears toy. This is my first experience with the toy mold so it's a fresh look altogether. Small Foot is known for being a red and blue truck in Gobots, but the e-Hobby set was based on un-produced colors from that old Takara catalog. Small Foot was given a new face sculpt to match her onscreen appearance from Gobots further. Her chest compartment can open up as a leftover from the Gears mold. This is to simulate a scene from the episode 'Changing Gears'. Being my first time with the mold, I'm going to be focusing on the toy.

Small Foot is a squat robot and pleasantly blocky. Despite that blockiness, there's a decent amount of articulation. The yellow and red colors look great on this mold that's unmistakably meant to be Gears. Transformation to truck mode is pretty easy, much easier than I was prepared for. Everything just went into place without much fumbling. This is really a pleasant toy, I hopefully can score a Gears later. Small Foot's blaster can be placed on the side of the truck for easy storage. There's irony in using a Gears mold for a Small Foot toy. Gears is a pessimist while Small Foot is an optimist. It's also funny that both characters original colors are pretty much the same, just reversed. These unused colors look great on the Gears mold, but wouldn't fit Gears. As Small Foot, they're a departure from the original, but look great. This is all around a pleasant toy and another wonderful Gobot character representation as a Transformer. 

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