Something a bit different...Titans Return: Blurr

With a renewed love for a series of toys that I grew up with, I'm going to do something on this blog that I've always wanted to do in other blogs I've written; a toy review (or two).  So, with that, I bring to you the first of three (maybe four) reviews of the new line of toys from Hasbro called "Transformers: Titans Return."  The first figure I picked up was a character I grew up enjoying when he had screen time.  He's the fast talking, even faster speeding (get a drift that I like fast characters), Autobot named Blurr.
Blurr debuted in the classic Transformers: The Movie, an animated movie that came out in 1986, I believe.  Here's a link to a brand new blu ray version of the movie that'll be coming out in September of this year.  The first signs I knew I'd like this character was when he spoke to Ultra Magnus (the Field Commander of the Autobots still left on Earth.  Here, check out this scene below, and it'll basically show you how I instantly gravitated toward the him.

So, yeah......that was quite a bit of Blurr speaking and moving.  A bit more in one shot than what's needed, I'm sure.  At rate, you get the picture....he's fast.  So, Hasbro's decided to make a new toy of Blurr one with the great articulation that we have these days and some of the reminiscence of his Generation 1 (the first television series to debut and from this point forward, will be referred to as G1) look.  The first figure that came out of Blurr looked like this:

Yup, a brick.  But, we got a lot of those in those days.  Technology and a budding franchise that a company didn't want to invest too much money into (that's only my opinion folks) gave us a lot of bricks back then.  We did have to use our imaginations and we'e lucky to have the tv show to help supplement that.  Yeah, I know they were 30 minute commercials.....but that's what hooked me into this franchise.

There have been other iterations of Blurr in other lines I didn't collect years ago.  Here's a look at what they looked like:

Never owned those figures, more than likely, never will.  But, still like the character.  Which brings us to this, Titans Return: Blurr (the pictures below are from my vault):

The packaging for Titans Return is pretty average as they've been using a similar type of packaging for lines previous to this one (ala TF: Generations and Combiner Wars).  I like how they show that the gimmick for this line is that the head comes off and you are left with a headless robot.  The back side of the packaging shows Blurr in vehicle and robot mode.  I totally dig the vehicle mode.  It looks pretty much like the movie alt mode back in the 80's.

  Here are a few more pictures of the actual figure.  I had to put the Headmaster driver next to the vehicle mode Blurr because it reminded me of the old Transformers: Headmasters cartoon, which was supposed to be season 4 of the original Transformers series.  

I do like this figure, in general. He's articulated in the arms, waist, and legs, more so than I've seen some other figures these past few years.  The only gripe I have with this figure is the coloring.  If you'll notice, he looks like a mechanical Smurf.  There was at least a bit more to him in the series, I was kind of hoping for the same thing here.  I may end up customizing him or ending up getting the Japanese version later on down the line.  Here's what he'll look like in Japan.:

A bit more variety and the white changes up the monotony of the dark blue all around.  Attention to detail, Hasbro.  hahaha.....

For the last pic, I had to take one of Blurr mis-transformed. I love looking at these types of pictures and thinking to myself, "What the hell were they thinking when they did THAT?"

  See you next time with a review for Hardhead. No, that's not a typo.  C'mon, these characters are from the 80's.....people were high on an hourly basis coming up with this stuff.