Evac
(Movie)
(NOTE: Because this is a repaint, this is not a full-blown review. This mainly covers any changes made to the mold and the color scheme, and merely compares it to the Movie Voyager Blackout toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the Movie Voyager Blackout toy here.)
Evac's colors are appropriate
for a Coast Guard rescue helicopter, with orange, white, and black being
the main colors visible together. All three colors contast quite well together
and catch the eye (as a rescue vehicle's colors should, obviously). The
gray is a pretty dull shade, but an appropriately realistic one. One thing
that's pretty cool about Evac's "number" markings on his sides-- "EV1015-07"--
is that if you take away the "EV", the numbers correspond to the date that
the Transformers Movie DVD was released in the U.S.-- October 15th, 2007.
The electric "Allspark Blue" color is revealed in robot mode, and there's
quite a bit of it in proportion to most other Allspark Power toys, to the
point where it's a main color in Evac's robot mode. It goes quite well
against all of Evac's colors, though, so for such a light color it fits
in very well (except blue paint on his gray waist, I don't think that looks
too great-- at least it doesn't outright clash, though).
Evac is a somewhat extensive
remold of Blackout, as well. His robot head has been remolded completely,
with a more Autobot-ish, less evil-looking facade. His head design actually
sort of looks like a piece of diving suit headgear, which certainly fits
his Coast Guard vehicle mode. In place of Blackout's tiny partner Scorponok,
Evac has a lifeboat that flops out of the rear end of his helicopter mode
instead, and which turns, ironically, into a handheld gun in robot mode.
Quite an ingenious use of a lifeboat, I have to say. Evac's robot hands
have also been remolded so that he can hold the lifeboat-gun in them, though
other than the new "clenched" position of the hand it looks exactly like
Blackout's three-fingered hand. Making it a five-fingered hand or something
of the sort would have helped Evac look a bit more different from Blackout
in that respect, I think. Other than these changes, no remolds have been
made to Evac-- sadly, he still has the same misaligning gears and non-working
"Automorph" feature that Blackout has.
Evac is a nice repaint
if you want something a bit more colorful than Blackout, or if you like
rescue vehicles more than military-colored vehicles, but I'm not either
of those. As such, I'd recommend Blackout over this toy, though there's
nothing wrong with its colors and remolds perse, I just like Blackout's
look and colors a little better.
Review by Beastbot