If there is one thing G2 is
not about it is subtlety. It seems like the entire line was devoted to garish colors, odd decorations and down right blatant pronouncements (
"Megatron Rules!" comes to mind). However it is this 'extreme' take on Transformers (which was present in many early '90's properties) which makes me enjoy them even more. So when I found out about some G2 Reprolabels for Classics figures I knew there was no way I wasn't going to get them.
Currently Reprolabels carries two G2 upgrade sets for Autobots:
Jazz and
Volt. Jazz of course uses the recent Reveal the Shield mold of the same character. Volt uses the 2010 Revenge of the Fallen Hubcap figure as a base. Fortunately I already owned Hubcap due to his innate similarity with Volt but I had to purchase another RTS Jazz since I only owned one. Usually Reprolabels makes things pretty easy for their customers; you remove old stickers and apply new ones. Except in this case due to the nature of the difference in the designs I had to remove most of the paint off RTS Jazz with rubbing alcohol. This was my first experience removing paint from a Transformer and although daunting at the beginning I was pretty happy with how he came out.
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| Before... |
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| ...and After |
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| My vintage G2 Jazz is looking pretty weary these days. |
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| The new stickers do a great job invoking that G2 feel. |
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| I'm not as satisfied with Volt, but overall he doesn't look bad. |
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| I never realized how small the laser rods actually were. |
I'm always on the lookout for new figures that could be converted to Neo-G2 figures, especially after the Botcon 2010 set. I only have one other right now which is
Mindset, so I am hoping for an upgrade to make him look a little less movie-ish.
