Blot
(Power of the Primes)
Size: Deluxe
Difficulty of Transformation to Robot: Easy
Difficulty of Transformation to Leg: Easy
Difficulty of Transformation to Arm: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Very dark dull navy blue, moderately light purple, and some silver, red, light blue, and pale yellow
Rating: 7.5
Blot's alternate mode is kept pretty G1-accurate, in that he's a little squat upright monster with a face that looks more like a nose with eyes. They modernized Blot a little bit with having a more obvious jaw molded into the face this time around (though it doesn't open), but this is definitely the most odd (or, you could say, unique) alt mode among the various Terrorcons. Blot has some vents molded into the front of his large nose, and some fairly straightforward robotic details for his beast chest, which is on the sides of his head as opposed to below it. He barely has a waist at all, with his legs right up there around the bottom of his stomach. His three-clawed arms on the side look great, though he's got a BIG backpack in this mode-- as opposed to most deluxe combiner members where the legs compress in the alt mode, for Blot they just swivel around and connect on the back, with the upper robot legs below Blot's main body in this mode. From a frontal view this doesn't look that bad, but once you start to turn him to the side you can see just what a big backpack it is-- and it keeps him a bit back-heavy, as well. It's definitely the worst part about this mode, for sure. There's also a little bit that sticks above Blot's head that has two ports in it-- one for a rather long-barreled blaster, and the other for... *sigh*... his Prime Armor piece, if you want, but it REALLY sticks out there. I prefer to just plug it in the hole in between his feet and have it hang off the back end that way, so it's not quite as obnoxious. As for the color scheme, Blot's main body is mostly a very dark, flat navy blue, while his appendages are a fairly light purple. Both main colors contrast and complement each other quite well, and it's a pretty good basic color scheme, although perhaps adding in another main color would've helped a bit more. The main paint apps in this mode are the large silver panels on his chest, with some pale yellow and red details on them. There's a Decepticon emblem sticker on the top of the head, and although it looks like his toes are painted dark blue, in actuality the rest of his feet are painted light purple-- that seems like an odd use of paint, there. Anyways, I would've appreciated some silver claws or something, but otherwise his colors are broken up pretty well in this mode. The mold detailing isn't bad, but is largely fairly generic, with some basic angular details on his claws and feet, some basic shapes on his chest, and some armor-like details on his legs. Again, it's not bad, but it's not amazing, either. For articulation in this mode, Blot can move at the shoulders, elbows, inwards a bit at the thumb-claw on each hand (though doing so reveals his robot fist a bit), movement at the hips (at two points), and slightly forward-and-back movement at the ankles. So it's pretty decent, but a bit more movement in the legs would've been appreciated. One last note here-- on the top of each side of his chest, Blot has a little peg for a Titan/Prime Master to stand on, as well as an additional one on the top of his turret piece.
Blot's transformation is quite easy-- flip in the thumb on each claw-hand to make them full-fledged robot fists with Wolverine-like claws on the back of each hand; unfold the robot legs from behind the beast mode and rotate them down, pegging in the beast legs onto the side of the lower legs while you do so; and then just rotate the turret and beast head & chest behind the back, and you're done. The end result is a pretty decently-proportioned robot mode, though there's some obvious pieces of kibble. As with most of the Terrorcons, the beast legs just hang off the side of the lower robot legs unceremoniously, not even trying to be hidden. (It's here you can see some minor part-sharing with his fellow Terrorcon Rippersnapper, with the same parts used for the upper legs and waist.) The beast head and chest stick up and out a bit from behind Blot's upper back, though at they don't get in the way of articulation all that much, and certainly could be worse, I guess. The turret-piece is not solidly behind Blot's middle back, which makes storage of his Prime Armor a better option in this mode (though like all PotP deluxes, you can fit the Prime armor onto Blot's chest in this mode-- and again like all PotP deluxes, it looks too bulky and like he's got a big hand on his chest, 'cause he does). The arms look great, though, with those Wolverine-like claws making him look rather savage and unique here-- though the downside to this is that his lower arms are pretty darned hollow. The chest is prety solid, with some basic, symmetrical details along the sides, with the center portion mostly occupied by his combiner port in his waist. The headsculpt is great. For the most part it looks rather par-for-the-course for a G1 Decepticon combiner head, with a fairly blocky head with small, curved antennae on the side, little vents on the sides, and a little rectangular bit in the center of his forehead-- heck, now that I look at it, Blot's helmet looks a LOT like G1 Soundwave's... but the face is what makes this headsculpt stand out. He's got a visor slightly segmented in two so you can see some definite "eyes" there, but his face looks miserable, with an extra-long frown line, and with his large lower lip, it almost makes him look a bit frog-like at the mouth and chin. Which makes sense, as he's a disgusting 'Con. Beyond these details and a few basic details on the lower legs, there's not much new detail-wise in this mode, given how many parts are visible in both modes. As for the color scheme, there's more light purple visible in this mode, but the colors are still broken up pretty well, with a lot of dark blue still visible, and some silver paint on the kneecaps and sides of the chest; some light yellow on a few of those simple details on the chest; and a little bit of light blue below his kneecaps. I quite like this light blue, and wish it was used a little more on the toy to help vary up the color scheme a bit more, even though what he already has is still pretty decent. There's also some silver on his face and red on his visor. For articulation in this mode, Blot can move at the neck, shoulders (at two points), elbows, rotation at the waist, movement at the hips (at two points), and knees. Thus, given that he's pretty balanced, you can get him into a lot of cool poses.
