By now, anyone has even the most basic of understands of toys knows what this is a rip-off of. Yep, you guessed it, that ever-popular series Transformers. It's even got box art that looks suspiciously like Optimus Prime. (Apologies for the glare, still setting up a good place for pictures) Anyway, these can't be worse than Hawk Overlord, can it...?
To answer that question, yes, it can get worse. The basic figure of Hawk Overload, as flimsy as it was, made sense. The arms and legs were the correct lengths, etc. Quick-Change, however, just seems to try to create an appealing vehicle, or in our case, animals, and then shove a robot down its throat and hope it sticks.
For the animal forms, they're okay in terms of ascetics, aside from the non-sticking stickers. The designs were actually a lot more detailed than I thought they'd be, but that's not really saying much. When it comes to functionality, however, it trips on its shoelaces and falls flat on its face(s). There's no articulation in both the legs and the arms at all. The only thing you could call articulation is in the bird-thing's wings, and that just allows it flap around awkwardly. In the end, you get a bird...like thing, and a humanoid shark. I can somewhat understand the bird, albeit the fact it's not a vehicle makes it seem completely out of place, but I'm not quite sure where a two-legged shark comes from. Atlantis? Maybe.
The robot forms are somehow worse, though. Didn't see that one coming, right? The arms are just tiny bricks of plastic, barely jutting out in front of its chest, or in bird-things case, nowhere. There's a small hole in each of the hands, as if there was supposed to be an accessory that came with this. The legs are just carved out sections of the plastic brick, heck, the bent-backwards animal legs keep it more upright than the actual legs do.
Upon further notice, I've found tons of scratches on bird-thing. Tsk tsk, Polyfect.
TL;DR Summary
Don't really feel like I got my two bucks worth.
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