Lockdown's alternate mode is a VERY chibi-fied Lamborghini Aventador. Most of the chibi-fied cars make the transition to Tiny Turbo Changers fairly well, but the way Lockdown's alt mode is proportioned, the windshield seems to stop rather abruptly, with the front section of the car showing up a bit too abruptly compared to the relatively streamlined actual Aventador. The fact that the actual front windshield is a hinge and not actually a molded-in window doesn't help matters much either, and is definitely the biggest eyesore of this mode. From the back end you can see the top of Lockdown's head and arms, but it's not obvious from any other viewpoint, and for the size and price point it's not a big deal. There are some of the basic shapes that make the Aventador the Aventador here, like the angular front bumper and headlights, the swoops on the doors, and the ridged part behind the rear window, though beyond the stars in the wheel rims the mold detailing here is pretty basic. The plastic is all a dull milky brownish gray on the toy, more or less fitting how he was colored in AoE, though a bit lighter than usual. There is some black paint here to break things up, though-- on the side windows and wheels. Of course I would've preferred some more paint on things like the headlights, but at this small of a pricepoint you gotta make some compromises.
    To transform Lockdown to robot mode, fold back the front section of the car and then slide his legs down, which slides his arms down as well. The end result is a bit similar to some of the other Tiny Turbo Changer "carformers", with a large section of the front car portion just hanging behind the skinny, proportionally tiny legs as the biggest downside. The back portion of the car mode also sticks up behind the robot head, and of course the arms are merely molded into the sides of the car mode. Again though, this is like a $3 toy, you're not going to get perfection, here. I find the arms and little bit behind his back a lot easier to overlook and accept as part of the tiny design than the chunk o' car hanging off his butt. The mold detailing on the robot parts is exquisitely done, with tons of movie-accurate details on the chest in particular-- almost TOO much, as there's so many details they all tend to blend together at this small scale. The legs also have his pointed toes and angular knees, and his arms have their main details replicated here, too. The head isn't Lockdown's normal face, but rather with his helmet down-- which is just fine by me, as I think Lockdown's more normal face would look downright scary in this "superdeformed" look. There is a bit of lime green paint in the center of his helmet, but otherwise this mode is pretty paint-free-- a bit of a bummer given how dull the main color is and how many molded-in details there are. For articulation, Lockdown can move at the shoulders in this mode.
    Lockdown is slightly below your middle-of-the-pack Tiny Turbo Changer. He uses some of the transformation steps many other TTT car-formers do, with an extra step to elongate his body a bit, the latter of which is appreciated. However, that big chunk of car hanging off him in robot mode is rather unsightly, as is the weird way the middle of his car body seems to "crunch up" against the front, and the boring colors don't help. Still, for what he is, he largely does the job.
 

Review by Beastbot

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