Transformers Defender Version 04 Tyrants Fury
Item No.: Asst. 5000888 Manufacturer:Blokees Includes:Blaster, Shoulder cannon, instruction card Action Feature:It's a kit Retail:$2.99 Availability: ca. August 2025 Other: Clearly the brightest figure in the batch
With the constant influx of new Blokees, I'm realizing I'm slow to open them and slower to review them. As such, I'm going to see if I can make Blokees Friday a regular feature for 2026. Let's find out!
I'm now opening these out of order, and Brilliant-Hound from Blokees is a glistening bright green clear plastic jewel that is going to appeal to one kind of fan and alienate the rest. The color is gorgeous, saturated, and with contrast in all the right places. His face is painted, there are Jeep vestiges, the headlights are painted, and there's a teeny tiny Autobot logo.
You also get a packet of desiccant at no extra charge.
The little guy has all the same articulation you expect with 14 points of ball-jointed limbs and a 15th with an articulated shoulder cannon. The clear gray balster fits in his hands, and the figure shares a lot of molds with other characters - legs are frequently repeated. It works, as long as the head, colors, chest, and accessories are unique it's good enough. Given Hound's power of hologram projection, the clear green color makes a heck of a lot more sense than the gorgeous but canonically dubious clear Ironhide.
The Blokees crew did a nice job matching the stock art in TFWiki, minus the stars on the chest or the stripes on the forearm. The light yellow legs look great, and the light deco is mostly what you would want and expect at this scale. I would love it if the shoulder rocket tip was painted, but it is what it is. And it's $2.99 so I'm not complaining, $3 these days is a steal and $3 30 years ago would still be a cheap collectible.
These guys aren't terribly varied, but they do a good job delivering the character in the form as promised on the box. The plastic feels good, the deco is nice, and the character does a good job matching the personality of the animation model. I feel like Blokees Defender (and Galaxy) kits are probably a better place to collect than Hasbro's product if you're a new fan. You can get a lot of guys, cheaply, and have an activity assembling them. They don't transform, but it seems adult fans increasingly don't convert their toys. If you just want a nicely sized representation of a 1984 Autobot, this is a good one. And I'll be happy to buy it again when it's in non-clear plastic.
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