Moonracer
(Power of the Primes)
Moonracer's finally got her own brand-new mold, and her alt mode is a futuristic speedster-kinda car. It's much longer proportionally than any real car, and much skinnier. As opposed to many "futuristic" or "Cybertronian" alt modes, though, Moonracer isn't just obviously her robot mode in a yoga position, but rather looks like a legit vehicle-- always a good thing, of course. She's very sleek, the only real exception to this being the rear top section, which has a few points that stick up a bit more than you'd expect on a super-aerodynamic car-- but they do become her chest and body in robot mode, and it's a minor issue at best. What is a considerably more noticeable/bigger issue are the very obvious hands on the back end-- in fact, this mode really doesn't have much of a back end. Her hands are folded up behind the rear side pieces, and her hands fold just blatantly outwards towards the middle. There's really not even much of an attempt to hide them. HOWEVER-- her Prime Armor can be pegged in slightly above this area, effectively eliminating the gap from any view except directly from the back, so that's a huge bonus. Plus the end of her Prime Armor looks a bit like a thruster, so it's easy to see it as her method of propulsion in this mode. The rest of this mode is a mixture of slight angles, with a very low "roof" to the vehicle and an extensive amount of transparent plastic for her "cockpit", which is most obvious on the front portion behind her immediate front section, but also continues on the top of her mid-section and even a bit on the top of the rear section, where her stomach is in robot mode. It widens out ever-so-slightly near the rear, but still keeps her slim profile. The mold detailing is fairly minimal because of the "speediness" of this mode, but some basic ridges and divots are here and there, with her cockpit windows particularly detailed. (That said, the bottom of her feet are rather obvious inside the window of the front portion of her cockpit.) Her color scheme, as befits Moonracer, is primarily a nice seafoam green, with white more predominant on the rear sections. The transparent light blue used for her cockpit portions-- and the middle portion of her Prime Armor-- both complements the green and contrasts against it by being a bit darker. There's also a bit of dull yellow piant on her headlights, as well some light pastel purple on a few minor bits, giving her a nice accent color that really helps her pop that extra bit. She also has an angular white section near the front of this mode, affixed with an Autobot symbol in the middle of it in case you forget her allegiance. She comes with a black sniper rifle accessory, which can be stored on ports on either side of this mode, near the rear. There's also one peg for a Prime/Titan Master to stand on in this mode, on the "hinge" part about halfway back on the top portion of this mode.
To transform Moonracer to her robot mode, there's a lot of rotation of different portions of her waist and legs, but basically, her arms and head unfold from inside the rear portion of the vehicle, the white parts of the rear portion fold back, and then the front halves of her front vehicle section become her legs, while the section covering the middle of her vehicle mode ends up on her back. This means she's got quite a backpack in this mode, with roughly half of her mass ending up there. However, her leg joints are strong enough and she's got long feet with strong heels, so although this can upset her balance a little, it's not as much as you might think. Ignoring the big backpack, there's two other very noticeable pieces of kibble, and those are the front side sections on the sides of her lower legs. They just don't really fit with her otherwise very delicate, skinny feminine form well at all, and should have folded away or compressed a bit more. Still, her "core" proportions are pretty good, with a fairly slender frame and arms, and slightly thicker legs. I particularly like the design on her body and lower legs-- the quick change from white to light purple to seafoam green looks quite nice, and the "cockpit" in her stomach gives her quite a unique look there. For her headsculpt, she's got a fairly hefty collar around her neck, with a streamlined helmet with some minor swept-back antennae and a fairly friendly, feminine face. It's also got some nice color variation; beyond the seafoam green on her helmet, she's got a yellow dot in the middle of her forehead, white trim around her perwinkle face, and light sky blue paint on her eyes with some pastel purple on her lips to make them slightly darker in color than her surrounding face. For articulation in this mode, she can move at the neck (at two points), shoulders, elbows, inwards at the wrists, rotation at the waist, and movement at the hips (at two points), knees (at two points), and ankles (at two points). Her hips and arms are on balljoints too, so keeping in mind her backpack, you can get her into some neat poses. Her Prime Armor piece can either be held in her hand, slotted into the holes on the side of either of her lower arms, or pegged onto her body-- though given how it pegs in, it looks like she's wearing some sort of baby carrier, and not a piece of armor! As with most Prime Armor pieces, Hasbro doesn't really seem to know what to do with it if she's not in a limb mode.
