Rollbar (Ruination Part)
Vehicle modeVehicle Mode (with weapons)Robot Mode
Allegiance: Decepticon
Size: Basic
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Japanese Name: Greenjeeper
Color Scheme: Dark army green, black, orange, and some silver, dark blue-green, dark brown-green, and sandy-yellow
Mold History: Rollbar's mold dates all the way back to 1986, when the mold was released as the Combaticon Swindle, part of the original Transformers line.
Rating: 5.2

    Vehicle mode is a jeep. This mode is rather boring, actually. There's very little to look at in this mode- the yellow fade on the front and the silver mirror are the only things that distract one from the boring dark army green and black that are prevalent in this mode. Even adding the guns on the top of the jeep add little. The seats are way too small to even allow Spychangers to sit in them. To top it all off, the wheels and the mirror are the only parts that move in this mode. What you're left with is a mode that does not catch the eye at all. The Decepticon logo is also rather oddly placed- you think it would be either in the middle of the backside or on the hood, but it's on the left side of the backside, giving a badly asymmetrical look to that part of the toy. At least there's no robot extras in this mode, though...
    Rollbar's robot mode is actually worse than his vehicle mode. Although the orange chest takes away from the boring color scheme a little, this mode just has very ugly proportions. First off, Rollbar's head is teeny tiny when compared to his body, especially his overly large and wide chest. His legs are also incredibly short, with the robot FEET actually being larger and longer than them. Rollbar's arms are also joined to his body not at the shoulders, where they should be, but at the ELBOWS, and it gives a very odd look to this mode if you don't have his arms positioned directly up and down. They also don't quite slide out far enough to clear the jeep parts on the backside, so you have the arms actually slant in a little from a directly-front on view, which, again, looks bad. He also can only move at the shoulders (elbows?) in this mode, at at the knees on each of his legs (although his legs can't move individually, and the knees don't stay locked in any position except straight down).
    Makes up either an arm or a leg of Ruination, depending on the configuration.
    Rollbar is just a rather boring toy in jeep mode, and a just plain badly proportioned toy in robot mode. If you're gonna get this guy, get him for the combining gimmick, not for his indivdual modes, because they really aren't that good.

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