My daughter is now 6 and when I was reading with her, many times she didn't stop her breath at commas or periods and just kept going. So I always had to remind her to stop at those and don't be like Blurr. She kind of didn't know what I mean, so I played the '86 TF movie and let her see how Blurr talks. Now she stops at those symbols.

 

I want a Blurr but so far haven't found what I like. Animated one looks best close to him but still something not right (well, Animated line doesn't fit well with Classics. Don't look at me about Arcee, I have no other choice). Then IDW changed his entire look in All Hail Megatron, like it or not I will leave that open but then Hasbro announced a new Blurr toy coming out in Generation line. Sounds like a good news but then the design is based on the latter and worse part is he is a repaint of Drift. I really don't want him when I saw the stock photos but later softened my mind. So I bought him when I saw him. Wow! He has a 9 at rank on his tech specs! When did I see him making some orders or commanding troops? All I see based on his movie and season 3 appearances is most of the time he is running errands for high commands especially for Rodimus Prime and Ultra Magnus. And then he has 9 at courage? Even bots like Wheelie just asked him to run when they are in trouble and he just did what they said without trying to rescue them (same thing in IDW's ongoing #3). And many times he always panics out loud first that forces others (such as Rodimus) to shut him up. Anyway, now to the toy.

 

Blurr's alternate mode is the same as Drift. Besides the color, the only difference is Drift has a much higher spoiler that has a connector in the middle. He is basically painted as many different blue, just like he looks on screen, but those paints feel very scratchy especially those light blue on the hood. I am so afraid if I put my finger nails on it, I might scraches them. Did Hasbro use the wrong paint (like Universe Prowl), again? I can't even say if I want to let my son touch it or not. Other than this huge paint issue, he rolls much better than Drift for some reason.

 

The major reaon I didn't like this toy initially is not because of he is a repaint, but his head. I don't mind IDW's new design but Hasbro just made it too big. Then Seibertron's owner came out with a new design to differ him from Drift which is not folding up the feet and straighten up the shoulder to make him look more closely to his G1 and animated look. This fan made mode will make him so much taller from a deluxe class size to voyager class size but the tip toe makes balancing him a little bit harder and leaves the lower leg hollow. But with the extended legs and shoulder, that will actually make his head look smaller and better fit with the whole body. So I think I will put him in this form rather than the original one (the last picture showed him in the official form). He is heavily armed with three guns and finally priase to Hasbro that they are using the hard plastic on all the guns instead of those floppy PVC plastic on Drift's sword. Two smaller ones are on each side of the hip pockets and one hugh long sniper rifle is on the back. There seems no point for him occupying all three (unlike Drift) so I can see down the road any two of them will go to the others who lacks a meaningful weapon. The scratchy paints are still there on his shoulder and chest, though.

 

Transformation: 6 - Identical to Drift but those scratchy paints are scary.

Fun: 7 - I think I've said enough bad things about this figure but TBH, this is a fun toy. Good car mode with sizeable robot mode and weapons. Untortunately the painting quality kills the value.

Display: 10 - He is a great display piece as long as not trying to scratch the paints with your finger nails. The car mode looks even better after I added silver on hubcaps.

Value: 7 - $9.00 from Walmart. Nice price but the painting quality control is bad.

Overall: 8 - Despite the flaws of his painting quality, Blurr is a good figure. But I think he deserves his own mold instead of being a re-mold from an ambiguous character.