People say to me “Trev”. And I say “Yes? What?” And they say “Why for the first review of a Transformer on your fantastic new Website that looks like it will eclipse Google within the week, would you choose to review a Transformer that doesn’t transform?”
Well, the answer to this is quite simple, we are now in the age of Titans! We have the giant Fortress Maximus from 1987 with a new one due this very year. In 2017 we are due to get a Titans-sized Trypticon. So to round out the gigantic foursome from the old G1 cartoon we need to look to a 3rd party product, albiet one that is actually sanctioned by Hasbro and Takara, and that is ‘Gigantic Action Scorponok’!
STATS
Size/class – Gigantic!
New/remould/redeco – New
Released here – No
Approximate Price – AU $500+
Approximate Size – 22 inches
Allegiance – Decepticon
Alt-mode – N/A
Main Features/Gimmicks – Um… he’s massive?
Main Colours – Green, Purple
Main Accessory/s – Shield, Gun, Shoulder Cannons, Face Visor
Positives
He is freakin HUGE, roughly the size of Fort Max and Generations Metroplex, though his weight is somewhere between the two. Despite having no alt-modes with of course is the primary flaw with this figure, his robot mode is a fantastic representation of how he looked in Season 4 of the G1 cartoon. If you wanna recreate the fight between Fort Max and Scorponok from the final ever episode of the the (US) G1 cartoon, then this is the guy you need!
Negatives
Just a few minor annoyances: the nubs on the end of his shoulder cannons are a bit too big for the holes so often pop back out. The nub on the gun is WAY too big for the hole in his claw and even with as much pressure as you dare exert you can’t get it in there so you have to kinda just balance it loosely in his grip. His articulation is not too bad but he suffers from the elbows only going inwards and not up at all.
Overall
He’s a big bad bugger of a Con and I’m happy to have him. Even happier I got him when HLJ had him at half price in their pre-Xmas sale and the Yen was weak – those factors combined meant I got him for a 3rd the price that BBTS was selling him for (I paid under AU$200 before shipping). I know of others that got him even cheaper! Now, a couple of years after his release, you will either find him much more expensive than the original price on places like eBay, or extremely cheap from online stores who never managed to get rid of all their stock, so do some shopping around. This figure will serve you well until that hoped-for day when we get a Titan-sized transforming Scorponok, but I wouldn’t lay money on that happening for several years at least yet.
For a review with extra pictures, you can view my review of this figure on Ozformers here: http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=20030&highlight=Scorponok