Posted May 8, 2016 at 6:55 am

We found out that Victorion was gonna have a pair of twin sisters in its roster not too long after we found out OUR kids were gonna be twins.  And so I have a special place in my heart for them.

There was a lotta bellyaching about there being two reuses of the Alpha Bravo helicopter mode in this set, generally the the tune of "how is hasbro so stupid to use this mold twice," but, like, that's what people voted for. Clearly the helicopter was desired a bunch, since it won the vote on two of the limb's respective polls.  I'm cool with it, even beyond the YAY TWINS! aspect, because the helicopter's one of the better toys in the Combiner Wars moldset.  Probably why it got a lot of votes.

The helicopter twins are Stormclash and Skyburst.  Stormclash is the one with the shades or goggles or whatever you want to call them.  The one with the nonseparated eyes.  That's one of the nice things about this set is the face diversity.  Some have goggles, some have masks, it's nice.  We don't get a lotta girl Transformers with goggles or masks.  

Beyond the different heads, the two have a mirrored sculpt and deco.  They're kinda like Tomax and Xamot that way.  (they also finish each other's sentences)  One has a patch of red on one side and the other has a patch of red on the other side, and so on.  Like the cars and Pyra Magna, both have new forearms and chestpieces, the latter of which is where the mirrored sculpt is actualized. 

They both have big feather-like swords that become the two halves of the combined weapon's blade.  

One downside is that since the Hand/Foot/Guns are not included in Victorion, as she has newly tooled hands feet, and weaponry, the helicopter twins in helicopter mode don't have any landing gear.  I mean, I guess they don't have any landing gear regardless, since an HFG isn't a landing gear, but I was kind of using them as that with my other versions of the mold.  Without them, they kinda just lay there on the ground, like a flopping fish on land.  Oh well.

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