KM-06 STORMER

This is the 3rd Seeker installment by Mastermind Creations. The first one was a limited edition pure white version known as KM Awakening while the second version was KM-05 Screecher (the supposed Starscream). As you can clearly guess, Stormer is a rendition of Thundercracker.

The toy comes with a short train track as well as a series of plastic blue caps, for you to seal off the screw head openings. Hence if you take a look, you will hardly see any screw openings.

I have applied gold markings on parts of the figure. Also, the only extra detail on the toy is the green markings as can be seen above. I really appreciate the efforts of Mastermind for such a small part of the figure.

Stormer comes in the form of a 3-winged plane from the steel ages. It resembles the early inventions of the Wright Brothers. There's one main factor why you will never see toys like these bring produced by mainstream toy manufacturers & that's because of the safety issue. If you're wondering whether the wings & propellers of the plane are sharp, they are pointy sharp alright! You could probably use the wings as a letter opener if you wanted to.

A closer look shows Stormers face resembling that of Thundercracker.

One main weakness of these third party toys is the plastic quality. You gotta be really careful when you transform them as they do feel a little fragile at times. Also try not to have sweaty palms when you're transforming Stormer, you don't wanna hurt yourself from the sharp edges.

 
The rear wings can actually be spread open giving Stormer a larger wingspan when flying I suppose. Even though the rear or Stormer looks bulky, the figure is actually quite sturdy.

Various other poses of Stormer.
 

The additional wings tucked along the waist can actually be removed to become fighting blades. Alternatively, you can also combine both of them together to form a huge scimitar.

 

Here's one cool thing I found out from another blog that the instruction manual doesn't show. You can actually combine both the blades along with the rear wings, to form a gigantic shuriken.

I'm sure Stormer is going to need a whole lot of strength to even flip that at someone. Having said so, wouldn't something as huge as that be bloody visible for the opponent to have plenty of time to evade? Go figure.

Lastly, here's a concept art of the early designs of the three Seekers. Although they're not the same, they do bear a lot of resemblance.

To me this has been a fun piece to look at & appreciate. I really do look forward to upcoming figures from Mastermind. One to mention would be Hexatron, which I have yet to purchase.