Main
Features
 FOTD
 Toy Fair 2023
 SDCC 2023
 Toy Fair 2020
 NYCC 2019
 SDCC 2019
 Toy Fair 2019
 SDCC 2018
 Toy Fair 2018
 HasCon 2017
 SDCC 2017
 Toy Fair 2017
 SDCC 2016
 Toy Fair 2016
 SDCC 2015
 Toy Fair 2015
 SDCC 2014
 C2E2 2014
 Toy Fair 2014
 SDCC 2013
 C2E2 2013
 Toy Fair 2013
 SDCC 2012
 C2E2 2012
 Toy Fair 2012
 NYCC 2011
 SDCC 2011
 Toy Fair 2011
Archives
 Books
 DVD
 Music
 Statues
 Prop Replicas
 Toys
 Video Games
Credits
Contact


This site is part of Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Entertainment Earth affiliate programs. We may earn a commission when you click one of their links.


Related Links:
16bit Tumblr
16bit Twitter
16bit Instagram
ASWN
EE Podcast
Galactic Hunter
Glyos News
OSM News

Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown Hasbro, 2014
Day #978: August 4, 2014
Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step FigureLockdown
One Step!

Transformers Age of Extinction One-Step Changer
Item No.:
Asst. A6151 No. A6156
Manufacturer: Hasbro
Includes: n/a
Action Feature: Transforms from car to robot
Retail: $9.99
Availability: June 2014
Other: Not good

  PREVIOUS RSS NEXT  

Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step FigureIt's exceedingly rare that I get a Transformers toy that I hate - but here we are! This Lockdown seems to have a faulty transformation mechanism. The car sculpt is good, and the robot is pretty nicely sculpted. There's a lot of greeblies, a good amount of paint, and it has no problems standing. So what went wrong? Well, when your entire gimmick is a one-step transformation, it needs to stay transformed. It could just be my sample, but in less than a couple of hours and maybe four transformations, it refused to stay in car mode. I had to put a rubber band around it to stay in car mode just to take photos for this site.

Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure

I'm perfectly happy to try out "simple" toys, but there's a catch: the mechanism has to work. For those of you who are long-time readers of my stuff, you may have noticed that I like any toy that works as advertised. When a manufacturer sets out to do something and succeeds, I'm happy, even if it's not necessarily my kind of a thing. Most of the original 1980s Minibots were simple, and I loved Smash and Change Optimus Prime for this new movie too. Lockdown has no features in car mode other than pushing down on the hood and it transforms - and after I opened it, he sure did. He's about 5-inches tall in robot mode, but has no moving parts other than those for transformation. On my sample, the arms squeeze in and so do the legs, and when you squeeze down the hood everything locks in place. For about three seconds. And then it automatically pops back out, thus ruining the "fun" Hasbro intended for this design.

Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure

I know people will say buy this for your kids, but please don't. At $10 it's a dubious proposition right off the bat, but the fact that the mechanism on mine failed in minutes makes me want to say "don't bother." Even if the functionality worked, this toy is basically sized like a generously good McDonald's Happy Meal Toy ca. 2003. It seems a tiny bit better than what should go in a box with things you can put in your mouth that vaguely resemble a hamburger and french fries, and in robot mode it has no problems standing around. I'm not sure if this one is going to Goodwill or will stand in the back of a shelf in a closet. On one hand, I don't need it - on another, I'd hate to think some poor kid or mother might be swindled out of a quarter and end up with this toy.

--Adam Pawlus

Sample courtesy Hasbro.

Additional Images

Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure
Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure
Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure

Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure
Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure
Hasbro Transformers Age of Extinction Lockdown One Step Figure

Click here to see more Hasbro figures in Figure of the Day.

Click here to see more Transformers figures in Figure of the Day.

Want to buy this figure? Check Transformers availability at our sponsors:
Entertainment Earth

HTML Comment Box is loading comments...

Featured Toy Video

Click Here for 2013
Figure of the
Day 2014
January 2014
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
February 2014
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
232425262728
March 2014
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031
April 2014
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930
May 2014
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
June 2014
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930
July 2014
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031
August 2014
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31
September 2014
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930
October 2014
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031
November 2014
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30
December 2014
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031
Click Here for 2015

16bit.com is best not viewed in Apple's Safari browser, we don't know why. All material on this site copyright their respective copyright holders. All materials appear hear for informative and entertainment purposes. 16bit.com is not to be held responsible for anything, ever. Photos taken by the 16bit.com staff. Site design, graphics, writing, and whatnot credited on the credits page. Be cool-- don't steal.
We know where you live and we'll break your friggin' legs.