Twinferno's alt mode is one of the most unique I've ever seen-- it' s an ORANGE stealth bomber with two dragon heads on the front. Yeah, try to figure out the reason behind THAT one. Anyways, it's a bit difficult to judge the proportions on this one since it's so unrealistic, but GENERALLY I would say this mode looks pretty proportional here, with the exception being that the back thrusters jut out from the middle section of the "body" a bit too much. There's some definite kibble, though, since as with many of the jet-formers, there's some noticeable "robot parts" below the main thin frame of the jet "top" itself. From a side view, you can see basically the entire robot legs under there, as well as the upper robot arms. Still, from many viewpoints the orange stealth bomber parts do mostly cover them up. There is some pretty good mold detailing on this guy, though, especially for a RID2015 toy. There's several decorative panels, lines, and divots on the main body of the figure, with the back middle section actually looking like it's segmented beastly armor. The back side sections do mostly look like robot legs (which they are), but the tailfins on the back help to alleviate this somewhat in this mode. There's some nice grid detailing on the wings (which may be a little bit small proportionally, it's hard to say), with some sweeping points coming off the back ends that look a bit like dragon wings-- a nice touch. The two dragon heads up front have twin horns in an homage to G1 Doublecross, and have some fearsome looks to their faces with some jagged teeth (that still adhere to safety standards, of course). The color scheme is mostly a light, fiery orange, which of course fits the toy, with most of the robot mode-centered pieces on the back and front a light milky gray plastic. I wish the gray was a bit darker for better contrast, but it's still decent. The paint apps in this mode are quite well-done, with the dragon faces being painted a metallic orangish bronze on the top, with black horns. That orangish bronze is also used on the front "stripe" on each wing, and there's some nice light blue paint used on the cockpit and a few divot-like details, contrasting extremely well against the orange around it. That said, the back end is essentially bereft of paint in this mode, and a bit more blue on the light gray or orange would've worked wonders. In a nifty bonus, Twinferno comes with two sizeable flame accessories, which can either be attached to the back ends in this mode as exhaust flames or put into his dragon heads so they can breath fire. There is a port in the middle of the top of this mode if you want to attach a Mini-Con Weaponizer or other toy with a similarly-sized handle. For articulation, the two dragon heads can move up-and-down slightly at the base of each neck, and the jaws can open and close. Given that the rest of the toy is a vehicle, that's about as much articulation as you're going to get in this mode.
    Twinferno's transformation is pretty simple; unfold the back sides down to become the robot legs, fold back the cockpit onto the upper back, fold down the dragon heads to become the robot arms, and then flip the feet pieces forward slightly and the wings back slightly. It's almost identical to the Legion-class toy, which makes you wonder what the justification was for making this a non-show, new-mold Warrior toy design with so many other un-made Decepticon beast-vehicle designs from the show, but whatever. The end result looks pretty cool, and I do like the usage of the dragon heads as the hands in a nod to G1 Doublecross, though unfortunately they didn't give him the articulation to move the dragon heads sideways to look more like claws in this mode. The proportions are pretty spot-on in this mode, with little kibble; I find the wings frame the shoulders quite well, and the jet cockpit kibble behind the upper back stays out of the way and makes itself obvious in very few angles. I don't like the feet pieces, though; they don't quite come out far enough. They feel like they should come out just a bit more to make the feet completely flat, but nope, they stop just a bit short of that, making the feet slightly uneven (though he's still pretty stable). The head looks like a more "cartoon-ized" version of G1 Doublecross (with different colors), with a fairly standard helmet design with a bronze vent in the middle of the forehead, a blue visor with a slight indentation for the non-existent nose, and a "normal" silver-painted mouth. The main body details are really well-done with some detailing on the chest that looks like crumpled-up vehicle parts (even though that honestly makes no sense given how his vehicle mode looks), and there's some GREAT ab details with some circuitry lines here 'n there, and the front of the abs is painted silver with some bronze details. The arms and shoulders are fairly straightforward and mostly what you've seen from the vehicle mode, minus the pointy kneecaps and the bronze paint on the front of the feet. The addition of the black on the middle of the arms and the upper legs helps break up the colors even more, really making Twinferno actually NOT look like he needs more paint, for once. For articulation in this mode, Twinferno can move at the neck, shoulders, elbows (at two points), at the jaw for each head-hand, and at the hips (at two points), and knees. So overall he's pretty poseable, though I did wish he had waist rotation.
    Warrior class Twinferno is a pretty cool, very unique design, although a bit simplistic for the size class. He does have some kibble issues in vehicle mode like a lot of jet-formers, but his robot mode is nearly flawless. That said, with the exception of the flame extra bits and more articulation, there's nothing this toy has that the cheaper Legion-class toy doesn't have-- so keep that in mind when deciding which version to buy, if you don't want them both.
 

Review by Beastbot

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