Evac here-- despite being in Transformers Prime-style packaging-- is actually a "leftover" mold from the Dark of the Moon toyline-- from the Transformers: The Ride character model, in fact! Unlike this character's deluxe version, though, this smaller version is a mass-release. (Of note is that, despite it being in Prime-style packaging, the "Prime" subtitle is noticeably missing from the front of the package.) Evac's vehicle mode is a bit funky-looking, but that's on purpose-- it's a replica of the four-seated passenger car that you go through Transformers: The Ride in, and is revealed to be Evac during the ride. It definitely doesn't look anything like a real car, but its proportions compared to the "real thing" are pretty spot-on, with the exception of the black-painted "window" section, which should be a bit larger. His color scheme is a moderately dark blue and black-- it's not particularly bad, but not particularly good, either-- just a tad boring. In this mode, there's a silver-painted "turbo engine" near the back, silver headlights, and a tad of yellow on the rear spoiler, but generally it's almost entirely the blue and black. The mold detailing is quite intricate on this toy, though, fitting in with a movieverse toy with littke sylized vents and edges all over the place (and, again, accurate to what you're in in the Ride). Evac comes with the standard Autobot Cyberverse red two-barreled weapon as an accessory, and in vehicle mode he can hold up to FOUR Cyberverse-compatible weapons-- there's two ports for them on each side.
    Evac's transformation is pretty par-for-the-course for a Legion car figure-- his arms form from the sides, his legs fold out from the back half, and then you rotate his car front down to become his chest-- but it still results in a robot mode that's quite accurate, if perhaps a tad "leggy" proportionally. His hands are simply molded onto the insides of his car door pieces, but again-- this is typical for a Legion class figure. I wish that the more angular windshield pieces behind the arms had been left on his back in this mode, though, as they are a bit distracting in a negative manner. Although he's still predominantly blue and black in this mode, a few more paint apps make themselves known, such as the plaster-y white on his waist and face and the light red on his upper arms, both of which look nice against the blue. The silver from his car mode also ends up on his chest and inner legs, as well, so Evac's color scheme pops a bit more here. His robot mode details are quite impressive at such a small scale, with little movie "metallic shard bits" all over the place. The one exception to this is his face, where the mold details all run into each other and thus make his face look indistinct. His eyes are painted light blue, though, so at least that's cleared up. For articulation, Evac can move at the shoulders (at two points), hips, and knees, with the former two points on ball joints. If you rotate his knees back a fair bit, though, due to his transformation, it makes his leg look like it's splitting in half in an unnatural manner given how the wheel hubs and the black pieces they're connected to always stay at his knees-- which normally looks good, but in this specific instance it is a bit of a drawback. On a smaller note, when posing his arms his chest can inadvertently flip up as well-- I wish there was a tab or something that hooked in the chest flap to the body. Evac can, of course, hold Cyberverse-compatible weapons in either of his hands, and the ports on the sides of his car mode that are now on his shoulders work well enough, though the wheels on his knees obstruct the ports on the sides of his lower legs now, unfortunately.
    "Prime" Cyberverse Evac is a pretty great rendition of the character for the scale, and is definitely worth a purchase if you want this rather unique Transformer but don't want to spend the extra cash on the Transformers: The Ride store-exclusive deluxe version. It's also just a pretty neat-- if unremarkable, engineering-wise-- Cyberverse mold on its own that's actually one "up" on the deluxe version in that it has minimal kibble issues and isn't as fiddly.

Review by Beastbot

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