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Original characters-having no previous name usage and/or no previous counterpart- are a tricky matter in Transformers, which is why people were skeptical at the first mention of this "Lockdown" fellow. But once Hasbro began comparing him to everyone's favorite armor-clad clone, opinions towards Lockdown suddenly became overwhelmingly favorable- and then rose even higher upon the announcement that veteran actor Lance Henriksen would be providing his voice.
Lockdown's Vehicle Mode is a muscle car. Some sources describe it as a hybrid of 1980's Corvette and 1960's Cougar. Black, spiky, intimidating- all trademark Decepticon vehicle features are present here.
In Robot Mode, Lockdown is huge. I don't just mean "sorta tall for a Deluxe" huge. He's fuckin' TALL. He can stand eye-to-eye- with Ultras.
He's not just tall because of freakishly big limbs or anything. His legs are kinda long, but everything is properly proportioned.
Unfortunately, Lockdown (or at least my copy) suffers from undoubtedly the worst case of product quality control that I've ever seen. Immediately upon opening mine, I noticed that both hands were badly damaged, with the left one being almost completely broken off.
Aside from this defect, Lockdown appears to be a decent toy. His primary weapon, a giant metal hook with a mounted EMP generator trophy, can be mounted onto either arm. I can put mine on the left to cover the damaged part, but the gimmick which deploys the EMP cannons only activates on the RIGHT arm for some strange reason.
Articulation is fairly decent. He does actually have knees; they just don't show up too well in pics.
I'd say Lockdown's a fine toy if you can manage to avoid the little "quality control" problem.
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