Clifford, the Big Red Dino.

So Hasbro made a brand new Scorn for TLK. Even though Scorn wasn’t in the movie. Not even as a cameo!

I’ve said before that there were not enough Dinobots in the TLK movie. It’s great that there we got more dinos in the toyline though.

It still didn’t save TLK unfortunately.

Alternate mode

Scorn is a mean looking Spinosaurus! My brain associates the Spinosaurus with Ice Age. That’s right. Scorn is Rudy. Man, that dino must have scarred a bunch of children for life. Rudy was scary and so is Scorn. That said, the bright red colours somehow make Scorn look kinda friendly. Just a tiny bit friendly.

Seriously, I’m so impressed by Scorn. He’s huge for a Voyager. The molded detail and paint is outstanding. You wouldn’t expect something like Scorn from a recent mainline Transformer. The huge amount of silver paint on top of red plastic really makes Scorn pop on a shelf. Also, Scorn has a molded tongue inside his mouth. A molded tongue.

For posability, Scorn has a ton in dino mode. His head can look up and down as well as side to side. Also, it rotates 360° and his mouth opens. His arms are ball-jointed at the shoulders. His legs rotate as well as go in and out at the hips. He’s got thigh swivels and bending knees. His tail rotates 360° at the base of the tail. It’s also jointed to bend at three places.

Transformation

Woah, this is an interesting transformation. It’s much more involved than most beastformer transformations and is definitely more complex than the first crack at Scorn from AOE.

This transformation is the perfect example of a complex transformation that’s not frustrating to do. I especially like how they handled the dino mode head.

Robot mode

Woah, Scorn has been on that juice. He got swole. Seriously, Scorn looks more dangerous in robot mode than dino mode. That’s saying something. A lance/whip arm and buff normal arm. Stompy, strong looking legs. A head that looks like it could headbutt a building to dust. Just, wow.

The good paint and huge amount of molded detail carry over into robot mode. What’s impressive and unexpected is how far they went to change the dino parts to robot parts. Like the feet which are completely swapped out in robot mode. Also, the dino head hides away out of sight.

Scorn has a lot of articulation in robot mode. He’s only missing a waist swivel. His head is ball-jointed. His arms both rotate as well as go in and out at the shoulders. He has bicep swivels and bending elbows. The lance/whip arm retains all the articulation it had in dino mode. His normal hand has wrist swivels and opening fingers. His legs rotate as well as go in and out at the hips. He has thigh swivels and bending knees. His feet are ball-jointed.

Gimmicks

There aren’t any here. Scorn doesn’t even have separate weapons come to think of it.

Not that he needs any.

Toy or collectible?

More collectible than toy. But even then, if you gave him to an older child, they’d have a ball of a time with Scorn. He’s a big cool looking robot that turns into a big cool looking dino. He’s also available at a pretty reasonable price new or used.

For adult collectors, Scorn is easily one of the best Bayverse Dinobots available. None of those were terrible and most of them were actually pretty good. But Scorn just demolishes them. The only other Bay-Dinobot that would give Scorn a run for his money would be the Studio Series Grimlock. And even then, it’s up to debate who’s better.

Closing

Voyager Scorn is definitely an upgrade to the Deluxe Scorn which was a pretty good figure in it’s own right. It’s just Voyager Scorn is so great.

Voyager Scorn is easily one of the best Transformers to come out of the TLK line and maybe one of the best Bayformers released ever.

I highly recommend him to everyone.