Cyber Slammers Jazz

I have a review in the works, but got lazy and didn't finish it. Today I, well my mom got me a Cyber Slammer. She didn't know that it was for kids, smaller than I, but she knows I love TFs and got me Cyber Slammers (CS) Jazz at Ross for $4.99

The vehicle mode of CS Jazz is a miniature form of the Pontiac Solstice. It's pretty squat in length and wide in width. Molded of greyish plastic, it has several paint apps, including "sparkling" blue windows, red tail lights, light "sparkling" blue and yellow head lights, black grill and side vents, and a red Pontiac emblem in the front. The back wheels are slightly larger than the front, with rubber treads around the wheel for friction. A minor problem shown in the picture and the final product is that assembly sticking up above the hood sculpt. It's mainly due to the tension in the spring, I believe...

The main gimmick and fun of the toy to kids is the automorph feature. Not called automorph though, in car mode there is a plastic white molded switch, hold the back wheels, push the switch towards the back and let it go on the ground or any flat surface. Jazz will spring up instantly or after a few inches of rolling. With the most of the plastic in the body of Jazz's semi robot mode, him springing up will cause the Solstice to do a pop up wheelie.

In his go-cart mode as I like to call it, it's basically Jazz and what happened to him when Megatron ripped him in two. The only robot parts seen are the waist up, no legs. Jazz is pretty nicely molded overall though, much leaner than the deluxe. From the front it's awesome, but because his body and feature, he pops out from the middle and along with him the roof and doors of the Solstice.

Despite being a "kiddies" TF, he does have some articulation. His ball jointed and really limited to movement. Just a few degrees to the left or right, and his head can do a slight nod. Paint is good, some bronze apps, and his Solstice paint scheme. His visor is done great, as he has purple paint apps on both sides for to signify lighting, the middle is blue, that's cool!

To transformer him back this is where Slammers come in play. First and most importantly, the switch you pushed to the back, push it forward so a hole on exposed in the switch area. I got confused the first time, and I actually had to read the instructions. From then on, slam him down. Though I pull the front and push him down, kids would slam them down either way.

At first, when my mom was like look in the back and see what I got you, I was hoping for the Final Stand Longarm, not the case. After examining it and deciding to open it or return it, I returned to my Movie Jazz collection tactics and opened him. He's quite fun, and very cute. At $4.99 I can surely recommend this. After all, my mom was about to get Robot Heroes if not for Jazz...