Dave's Transformers Cyberverse Rant: Scout Wave 4 Saw Tooth Spin Scraplet (no altmode) The wave also includes a retool of Optimus Prime with a swinging axe instead of a snap-out rifle. Hard pass. Permalink: http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Cyberverse/Scout4 CAPSULE $8 price point. Saw Tooth Spin Scraplet: It's a nice little gimmick on legs, but too big to fit in with most other toys and too expensive to armybuild for what you get. If there were two smaller versions for $8 I'd definitely recommend it, the mold is fine in an absolute sense. It's just too expensive for what you get. RANT Packaging: Same as previous Scout waves, this has the "Power of the Spark" trade dress. Note, Scraplets are clearly meant for army-building, so of course this wave was short-shipped and I never actually saw any Scraplets on the shelf, just a bunch of axe-swinging Optimuses. I got my two online, expecting to find a third in person (ha) to achieve the Ernie Bushmiller "some" threshold. DECEPTICON: SCRAPLET Assortment: E1883 Altmode: None Transformation Difficulty: 1 step (opening mouth) Previous Name Use: None Previous Mold Use: None Epithet/Gimmick: Saw Tooth Spin Function: Vessel for the Spark of the Primes (well, Starscream seems to think so) Packaging: One tie holds the Scraplet into the blister. It's not really in any particular mode, more of a "dead and lying on its back" pose or something, to fit into the blister. The instructions do have a "transformation," but it's just getting it out of weird packaging mode and into its single actual mode. Robot Mode: Okay, I've said in other reviews that I'd prefer just Actionmasters if they can't afford proper transformations in this class, so I guess...request granted? Sort of. This little dude is reasonably show-accurate, but has very little articulation...no transformation worth mentioning, but no useful joints as payback. It just sort of sits there and does its gimmick. The rear legs wiggle, and the waist bends for Packaging Mode, but that's basically it. The rear leg range of motion seems mostly to let it balance in Packaging Mode in case it's not on a totally level surface. The forelegs do not move at all. The mouth opens as part of the gimmick. 2.5" (6.5cm) long as a quadruped and 2" (5cm) tall. In Package Mode it's bipedal and 3" (7.5cm) tall. Either way, it's only to scale with the Ultimate figures, and is way too big by comparison to the Warrior class. Compared to other Scouts, it's some sort of plot device Super Scraplet. It's mostly black, light gray, and silver, with shiny blue eyes. The legs and gimmick button are light gray plastic, the eye lenses are clear light blue plastic, the abdomen and the rest of the head are black plastic. The outer facing of the face is painted silver with white and dark gray scratches and other Siege-like battle damage. The eyes are partially painted in medium opaque blue to give something of a glow-like effect to them. A ventlike detail on the forehead is painted light blue. Articulation already complained about. There's no real connectors, although the hollows on the inner faces of the elbows are about 5mm. (The legs are tapered and can be jammed into a fist or sufficiently deep socket on a victim figure, but that's not really secure.) Gimmick: Pushing down the button on the back of the head makes the toothy maw open up to reveal a spinning grinder disk made of clear blue plastic with its grindy face painted white with an airbrush shot of blue paint at the center. The wheel is an inch (2.5cm) in diameter and spins pretty well if you push the button down firmly. Overall: Not bad for a $5 army-builder...but not a good value for an $8 toy that has already apparently become scalper bait. It really supports the theory that Cyberverse toys are being marked WAY up in order to compensate for holding the line on the Siege toys' pricing. Dave Van Domelen, would rather have had a multipack of to-scale Scraplets like the Mouser packs TMNT has had on occasion. Just spring-loaded chompy jaws as a gimmick, and maybe a 5mm post to connect to a figure it's attacking.