Crosshairs' legion toy looks fairly accurate to his Chevrolet Corvette Stingray alt mode in the movie-- keeping in mind the limitations of this small size class, of course. The major details like the slanted headlights and grill, the "vents" in front of the rear tires, and even the fairly long side mirrors are present here. It does fail a bit towards the back end, as he's lacking a spoiler, plus the back end really only has the taillights on the side; due to the transformation, there's just very visible balljoints and the top of his chest back there. His color scheme is fairly accurate, being a moderately light green on the sides and black on the top and rear portion of the front hood. I do wish the windows were a different color-- at least slightly-- to help bring them out against the black top, though, and the decorative patterns on his sides are missing, definitely giving him a bit more of a plain feeling. The only color other than these two visible in this mode is a silver Autobot symbol near the front, which honestly should've been a bit darker to contrast against the green better.
    Crosshairs' transformation is pretty simple, and is actually fairly typical for Legion-class car TFs, but in reverse in orientation, with the feet being near the front and the head towards the back end. First, fold up the hood and then fold it back; then fold out the sides to become his arms, split apart the front portions and fold down his feet, and then open up his chest and flip out his robot head before closing it. The end result is surprisingly accurate, at least for the body and legs. He has a slightly-simplified version of his "crumpled car hood" for the chest, along with a decently-sized waist with some black paint apps. His legs are the best part, working as his "hood trenchcoat" really well, despite only the wheel sections on the side actually being made from his actual car front. The upper sides of the trenchcoat are painted a nice black to make them look like faux windows, and his legs on the inside are actually separate pieces, with the flip-down, toed feet being accurate to the model but also long enough to keep him stable (the back ends of said feet are the halves of his car grill). His headsculpt is generally accurate, with the goggles on his forehead and othewise "normal" face, but only the face is painted silver (and the eyes blue)-- no black paint for his goggles, unfortunately. Something about the head seems a bit "off" as well-- it seems to be a titch too long in the face. The sides of the car form okay arms for the side, but as usual for Legion-class toys with arms made from the sides of the car, they're a bit 2-D, not being thick enough from a front view. The entire top of the car also just sticks behind Crosshairs' back. I guess it's their attempt at making it the back of the "trenchcoat", but honestly it just looks like a huge panel behind his body for no reason; the only trenchcoat-looking part is the upper legs. Articulation-wise, Crosshairs can move at the shoulders, hips, and up-and-down a bit at the ankles-- more-or-less average articulation for a Legion. (Yes, it does look like his legs can move at the knees as they're bolted there, but apparently that's just to keep the inner and outer leg parts together-- no movement there, unfortunately.)
    There are a few things I believe Hasbro could've done better-- such as a few more paint apps in vehicle mode and less of an obvious extra "shell" on the back of the robot mode-- but otherwise, Crosshairs is a fairly well-done version of the design at a small size. Not amazing, but he'll do if you like toys at this size.
 

Review by Beastbot

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