![]() ![]() When pictures of this toy first started popping up online, everyone was asking one question: can he replicate the infamous gunface? Answer: yes, he can. It’s not a spectacular joint setup, but I think it’s really all he needs. He’s also one of the more well-articulated deluxe cars in the line, with a balljointed neck, swivel and balljointed shoulders, universal elbows, universal hips, and single-joint knees. He’s packed with a ton of really nice detail, especially in the legs, and none of it feels particularly lacking of paint apps. If you just forget what Lockdown is like in the film itself and treat this toy as just a random movie Decepticon, it becomes a lot easier to forgive the toy’s flaws. Now, all that being said, I actually quite like this toy. Even the face is too thin and too long to match up with the model. The legs look the part, but end up far too skinny to be proportional. ![]() His shoulders and arms are much bulkier and larger than they need to be, and the car door panels stuck to his lower arms do him no favors. It’s odd that such effort went into making sure the car headlights are there in robot mode when plenty of other AOE figures have no problem “cheating” such details. The chest was clearly designed with the intent of having the Lamborghini headlights line up in the chest, which is accurate to the film, but it leaves Lockdown with a very odd, round-looking body. Elements of the design are clearly seen, like the head, chest layout, and legs, but it’s all, well, wrong. This toy is short, brown-grey, and squat. Lockdown in the movie was of roughly equal mass to Optimus, mostly colored black, and had a very muscular build. Quite frankly, this is not the Lockdown that was on screen in Age of Extinction. Regardless, the transformation is smooth and intuitive, striking that good balance of complexity and simplicity that the best recent movie figures have. This is obviously not true, and I don’t remember enough about Roadbuster’s transformation to say much on the similarity. I’ve heard that Lockdown’s transformation is very similar to DOTM Deluxe Roadbuster’s, to the point where people were speculating that the former may even be a remold of the latter. What’s the deal? Also, you can plug his huge cannon onto the back of the car, but why would you do that? My first thought was that it was done to make him look more interesting like with the Dinobots, but as any Bionicle fan will tell you, brown is not a good color for standing out on toy shelves. The dark greyish-brown is also a really odd color choice given the straight black and grey color palate of the character in the film. Also, Lockdown feels strikingly lightweight, which, combined with the clip-on wheels, can make him come across as feeling cheap. In plastic form, the overall character of the car is preserved, though it is a bit small (which becomes important later). Lockdown assumes the vehicle form of a Lamborghini Aventador, which is an intimidatingly awesome car that matches his character perfectly and looked excellent in the film. My initial reaction was one of anger and frustration, but I got over it because this is still a pretty nice rendition of a gorgeous car. Yes, it looks kind of dumb and no, I don’t see a reason for it other than laziness. Let me just get this out of the way: there are no windows. ![]() Not bad at all, but how does the long-awaited deluxe Lockdown match up to the onscreen character? And then he proceeded to continuously surprise everyone by being a solid character with an impressive amount of lines (delivered by a top-of-his-game Mark Ryan), easily proving himself to be the most effective villain of the film series. After getting a brand new homage toy in ROTF’s offshoot line and an appearance in IDW’s Drift miniseries (and, more recently, in MTMTE), Lockdown surprised everyone by being announced as the main villain of the fourth movie. ![]() Lockdown has come a fairly long way since his introduction in Transformers Animated as the harbinger of the show’s darker themes. Yes, it’s back to the Transformers 4 toyline, as the final member of the main cast and the movie’s main Cybertronian villain has finally found his way onto shelves with a proper toy. ![]()
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