Today is yesterday was May 15!  That's the street date for Victorion, sorta.  I mean, a lotta online retailers were allowed by Hasbro to start sell their Victorion stock, like Big Bad Toy Store and Entertainment Earth and TFSource and other places, but I got mine off eBay a few weeks ago from a seller who jumped the gun, and Amazon.com seems to have yet put up theirs properly.  I mean, you can still buy it from Amazon.com from various sellers, but there's no proper "actual $99.99 suggested retail price from Hasbro-the-seller" option yet like there was G2 Superion.  But, y'know, she's out there.

And she's damn pretty!  I mean, she's not AS pretty as she would be if they'd kept the bright teal, but the red and sea-green is still fantastic.  As I've said, Combiner Wars has been pretty heavy on the white-with-red, so something that's solid red-and-green is a breath of fresh air.  Victorion is like the similarly red-and-teal Perceptor, if Perceptor were a big combiner lady made out of six smaller ladies.  

Since Victorion was created to be sold as a boxset, Hasbro's done away with the hand-foot-gun weapons and tooled her some individualized parts.  She has new giant feet parts with ratcheted ankles so she can stand with her feet at a splayed angle.  She also has new not-so-giant hands which have articulated fingers at the knuckle.  (same as the standard Combiner Wars hands, weapons peg through a stigmaga-hole on her wrist)  These weapons do stow when not in Victorion mode!  The feet are supposed to peg into Pyra Magna's ladder assembly, and the fists are supposed to slot into the feet.  There are little grooves on the feet that are super easy to miss, and I had trouble finding them even after being told they were there.  But they keep the fists snug in place, so they do their job.

You could also give the fists to somebody else, like Rust Dust the motorcycle girl who I haven't really reviewed individually since she has no retoolings unlike everyone else in the set.  But once she is granted Victorion's fists, she becomes... The Tickler!

Also, all the individual components' weapons combine into a giant, very ornate sword.  These parts are also new!

And, of course, the head is new.  It's very tall, very detailed, and very meticulously painted.  I like it.

Since the limbs are interchangeable, there are multiple ways of going about doing it.  You can have the helicopters as arms and the cars as legs, or vice versa.  You could also make her not symmetrical, I GUESS, but why???  Personally, I prefer using the helicopters as arms and the cars as legs.  Since the new hands are so much smaller, they kinda look a little ridiculous attached to the ends of the cars-as-arms.  Like she's wearing giant, flowing sleeves.  Plus, with cars as legs, it means she can do tough stompin'.  

She's pretty amazing.  I recommend her.  

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.