BT-02 Lambor

A very impressive rendition of the Dodge Viper, BT-02 sports real rubber tires, die cast hood, front fenders, doors and grille. What struck me from the get-go about this toy was Takara's use of silver stickers on the mirrors to simulate real mirrors.

Moving parts in vehicle mode is limited to the hood, driver and passenger doors. However, Lambor does have moving front wheels but are not attached to the steering wheel and must be moved manually. BT-02 does have tilt steering.

The hood opens to reveal an 8.3 Liter 500 horsepower V-10 engine just like the real thing. The engine, as mentioned above is removable and doubles as Lambor's weapon for robot mode.

The transformation to Robot mode is pretty much straight forward if you follow the instructions. However, to me the transformation left me a little flat. I like complex transformations in my transformers, which shows me that some thought went into the engineering of the toy.

There is movement of the arms at the elbow, shoulder and wrists both axially and radialy as well as movement of the legs at the hips, knees and ankles.

Even though the figure has the capability of moving at the waste, the movement is limited due to the windshield over-lapping the waste pivot-point causing the complete movement to be hindered. There is no way around this unfortunately. Lack of movement at the waste greatly hinders the number of action poses for the figure as a whole limiting the pose ability to just the arms, legs and head.

The figure looks impressive with the weapon in it's hand but there is no "ball bearing" in the gun which seats into a hole in the hand for better grip of the weapon (like in BT-01) leaving the weapon to flop around after a while once the figure is handled.

To transform this figure back into vehicle mode, all one has to do is pull the trunk back over the head, fold the windshield down, twist at the waste and everything else falls into place.

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