Transformers Defender Version 04 Tyrants Fury
Item No.: Asst. 5000888 Manufacturer:Blokees Includes:Sword, instruction card Action Feature:It's a kit Retail:$2.99 Availability: ca. August 2025 Other: Triple changer minus two modes
With the constant influx of new Blokees, I'm realizing I'm slow to open them and slower to review them. As such, I'm going to see if I can make Blokees Friday a regular feature for 2026. Let's find out!
The second most famous triple-changer as a one-mode, 2-ish inch figure. Blitzwing from Blokees is mostly molded in color. The collectible figure has a load of articulation but is fundamentally the same as the previous waves' robots. This is not a complaint, I don't know why you would want to change up a pretty good body.
Now mostly in purple, 14 points of ball-jointed limbs await you. Surprising no one, it looks exactly like Blitzwing! The yellow plastic helmet has a red painted visor and gray painted face. The chest has some printed graphical details. Everything else is molded in color. Joints are tight and pretty much perfect, reusing the same hands, forearms, shins, and feet as most other lesser robots in the line. It's kind of perfectly good. As you've seen in other reviews (or experienced) it is kind of unthinkable to have a figure of this size with ball-jointed wrists and ankles. With American toy companies struggling to get anything cheap out, it's kind of astonishing to see a figure in 2026 that's not only good, but it's cheaper and better than a similar product from 40 years ago.
The detail on the torso is fantastic. The front has the plane cockpit and faux sticker detail as you'd expect. The back has the wings, and the turret, and even some vestigial tank treads. It's nice.
If you're a 1980s kid you might recognize the size of the figures being almost the same as Battle Beasts, but what surprised me was the sword is also the same color. The roughly 3mm pegs fit in the old figures' hands quite nicely, so if you just want to steal blasters to give your 1980s toys? Consider these. The ABS plastic is nice and hard, but mostly I'm just blown away by the color match.
Some collectors were super excited for Kre-o, Hasbro's LEGO-like figures for Transformers and a few other brands - and I'm thinking I'm feeling that for these. While not brick-compatible the quality remains excellent and with at least six series known to us, that's a pretty satisfying little collection. I expect they will continue to expand and diversify, and hopefully gain more fans so they can do more brands too. I like this guy a lot, and I assume a redeco as Overcharge is probably coming eventually.
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