Transformers: Power of the Primes

Voyager class

Elita-1

Elita-1 is really a rarity for Transforms toys. To the best of my knowledge I think there’s four of her in plastic form? Part of the second wave of the POTP toyline, and I have to say….’Eh…’

I a retool of the wave 1 potp Starscream (which I passed on) I decided to take a chance on Elita.

Jet Mode:

This version of Elita-1 is a jet; and there’s LOTS of stickers…I actually wasn’t aware how bad the sticker situation is for this toy. I mean….seriously the amount of sticker use Hasbro plastered onto the jet mode is just too much there must have been a better option. Moving on, I guess the jet is okay; I mean I’ve seen worse. What I’m really not a fan of is the bottom part of the jet is literally a folded up robot mode, and that’s just sloppy…

Transformation to robot mode is easy; it’s just stupid easy. Moving on.



Robot Mode:

So robot mode is an improvement over the jet mode. There’s still a lot of sticker nonsense but it’s not nearly as offensive in this mode. Elita-1 has a serviceable robot mode. She has feminine qualities with jet parts for a backpack, (fold up pretty well I have to say), I really like her head sculpt, and overall she has a lot of smooth lines, and her white, pink, and red colors really work for her.

Accessories include combiner feet, Matrix core, and two of the tiniest, dis-proportioned pistols I have ever seen…These guns are really tiny, and they just don’t work. Asthetically they look good mounted on her shoulders, but as hand pistols they’re just too small.



Torso Mode:



I haven’t done that yet, bc I currently don’t have a complete team.



So all in all, I think Elita-1 is just okay…I mean; the jet mode is ‘eh’, the robot mode is ‘eh’, the exposed robot mode at the bottom of the jet is ‘eh’, the stickers are ‘eeeeeeehh’.



Really if it wasn’t for the fact that Elita-1 is still kinda an oddity in toy world of Transformers I probably would have passed on such a mediocre toy.

But Elita-1 IS kind of like a unicorn (NOT Unicron) I bought her. Does this make me a sucker? I think this makes me a sucker…

