Friday, February 14, 2014

Quickstrike 1998

Professor blog: 000002 Subject: Quickstrike Brand of product: Beast Wars Original Release year: 1998

This beautiful item was released within the third year of the Beast Wars toy brand for Transformers. He is a hybrid of a king cobra and a scorpion and is affiliated with the Predacons. The Predacons are the villains of this particular Transformers series. The beast wars series continued the ball joint application that Generation 2 Transformers became famous for in the earlier 1990s. This enabled the toys to be posed in a wider of ranges than the Generation one figures. This particular toy was a part of a new sub series called “Fuzors.” The idea was to have two animals combined into one beast mode. Quickstrike was one of the Transformers that appeared in season 2 of the Beast Wars cartoon. He spoke with a Texan accent. He continued in the show until its end.

This particular toy is fragile and thin. The yellow plastic is translucent and is a little more brittle than the other plastics besides the notorious gold. Besides that, he is still a great figure to pose. He looks good in his beast mode and looks almost like the cartoon character in his robot mode. His pincers can open and close on his arms and the king cobra mouth does the same. The details on the paint job are amazing. The Beast Wars brand loves to add detail to their toys. The king cobra head has a total of seven segments so it can be posed quite well. His transformation method is a swing transformation. The tail makes up one arm and the beast mode legs make up the other. The most common locations of breaking points on this toy are either the ball joints or the pincers. Quickstrike is one of the toys that collectors aim for. He is known as an “on screen” character and thus most people who collect the brand will go for him before others.
Background of the toy: This particular Quickstrike came from Eric in New Orleans in a trade. He arrived into my collection in the middle of October of 2013. He has no breaks or chips. His signal is intact and his fragile plastic is well preserved for his age.

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