Sideways
Decepticon,
Revenge of The Fallen
Despite Sideways
being given a small role in Transformers : Revenge of The Fallen,
getting chased and cut in half by Sideswipe, he was given a sweet
looking car mode. At first glance, one could have mistaken it
for the Audi R8 Sports Coupe. The most noticeable difference are the headlamps
and rear lights section plus the centrally located exhausts. This is due Sideways not being a licensed
product from Audi AG. (As Audi is part of the Volkswagen group,
whose policy of not having its vehicles related to any warlike
toys).
Sideways' car mode
is metallic gray. In addition, there are some black effect stripes
near the rear wheels and the lower section of the doors. The use of
lighter shade of purple for both the front and rear windshields and
the side windows. It may not be much, but the toy designers really
went a step further in etching the details of the rear mounted
engines. There is a big Decepticon logo at the back of the car.
In robot mode,
Sideways' color scheme has more black and red sections compared to
metallic gray. The color combination seems to pull it off,
though it will get some using to, for the red sections. The head
sculpt reminds us of Barricade. There is piping for the eyes to give
it a magenta-ish glow. There is a spinning saw on his right arm. As for the for the
left arm, there is a fake wheel. A
spare wheel, perhaps? While looking at Sideways' form, he seems to
look "bug-like" with his pair of "wings" which are actually the side
window panels.
Sideways has the
Mech Alive plus the Automorph gimmick. The Mech Alive gimmick
is mainly for the arms. Whenever the arm is moved, gears will spin
at the elbow and inside the upper arm. As for the Automorph gimmick,
Sideways begins the transformation by pressing on the front grille
while in car mode.
Sideways is
fairly decent in terms of posing though one has to try to find the
"sweet spot" in getting him to stand upright. He is a bit on the top
heavy side while his feet are too small thus affecting the stability
while being posed.
Overall, one
shouldn't overlook Sideways just because he died too quickly in the
movie and for being a baddie. Even though Sideways, has some
minor flaws, mentioned earlier, he is one of those in the list of
must-have Deluxe class figures.
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