So depending on my motivation when I get home, I'll be back either tonight or tomorrow night with the rest of the review. So unless I have some ungodly delay before my second flight, I expect I shan't get back to this again before I get home. I do have a layover on the way home, but not a long one. I still have a bit more to chat about on vehicle mode, but it isn't much longer before I need to get on an airplane, so I should go for now. Even if you do leave out the flame, I suggest still stowing the weapon itself back there, as otherwise it leads to his back end looking a bit gappy.
If you don't like the blue flame sticking out from behind Hot Rod, as it is his weapon's launchable missle, it can be omitted if you wish. What becomes Hot Rod's weapon in robot mode can stow underneath the back end of his vehicle mode, and looks like some sort of jet engine spewing blue flame out from it. If this was a printing error just on my set of stickers, a design flaw present on all copies of this set, or some sort of unfathomable intentional design choice, I could not say. On the opposite side (as can be seen in the photo at the top of the page) the second panel has solid orange, and the diagonal slashes are only present in the third panel. On one side (as seen directly above) the second and third side pannels from the front both feature red diagonal slashes through the orange on the lower half of the stickers. There is a curious asymetricality on the Reprolabels stickers. I frankly think he looks better with a nice big one on his hood like his G1 version had.
As like many of the other original Classics figures, Hot Rod had no faction symbols other then the one revealed on his rub sign (located on his roof). The larger Autobot sticker on the hood is also a Reprolabel, although just a stand alone one I had added to this Hot Rod well before I had the dedicated sticker set for him. The headlights have also been covered up with stickers that present some much nicer looking headlight detailing, but unfortunately don't seem to photograph well! but again, the reason for these stickers will be more clear later in the review. I will admit the flames may have been better for Hot Rod. Now there is just the orange detailing on the lower half of each side, as well as the small Autobot logo behind each front wheel. This set pretty much just changes the side panels, which originally featured a flame motif right behind the front wheels on each side. There was an earlier set for Hot Rod that made different modifications to his deco, but I went for this set for reasons to become clear later in the review.
HOT ROD RODIMUS PRIME UPDATE
All in all, I'd say that this updated design found a nice way to update Hot Rod's original asthetic, which while cool to a kid in '86 today to an adult might look kind of silly, and still make him recognizably Hot Rod while making him look. Obviously this is nothing like the average sports car you will see on the street, although if you remove the spoiler it does bear a resembelence to a concept car called a Dome Zero, so at least it has that going for it. While posts about new figure sightings are not forbidden, the sub has several chat rooms which are more appropriate for them.Sorry, sorry, I can't keep that line of thought going and keep typing with a straight face. Practice good reddiquette and be mindful of the general Reddit content policy. Please review the subreddit rules before posting for the first time.
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