What up, Dinobros! What's poppin', stegasisters! Put 'em up, non-binaraptors!
Let's get it on like a Pteranodon!
So we're now into year four of the Gigapower campaign to dominate the third party Dinobot landscape
by blotting everyone else out with sheer brute humungitude
and after kickin' out a trio of impressive but broadly similar quadrupedal chonkers
we're takin' to the sky with this skinny swoopy guy!
Yes friends, this is Gigapower Gigasaurs HQ05 ...
Gordont... Gauden... Gardener?
Gouda, like the cheese? Gau-den-ter. Gaudenter.
And already we're off to a weird start, 'cos what is that name? I mean they're all a bit
weird but they sorta make sense in an endearingly mangled kinda way, but "Gaudenter"? What is that?
The best I can think is maybe it's garbled pseudo-Latin for "one who rejoices"?
Hey, as long as it starts with a G, right? Is that Swoop's personality? I dunno! All I can remember
is that time he couldn't see nothin'
and like, that one time he told those children he didn't have a stomach?
Me glad me not have stomach to leave!
Weird flex.
So scoop yer guts up and let's grab a gawp
at Gigapower Good-time-haver!
Yes indeed, check out this lithe loverboy, swoopin' on down into Gigatown with a decidedly
more skinny-ripped stature than his bulkier brothers. He's definitely in tune with the
Gigasaur gameplan, bringin' the striking height and visual might, while also keepin' all the
distinctive Dinobot trademarks in play, like the chromed-out creature features, swathes
of mechanical grey, and sumptuous circuitboard splendour.
And as is abundantly clear, this is the extra-shimmery Chrome version, boastin' a magnesium gleam
I ain't never seen, but he's also available in the more muted and mature non-chromey...
what's it called, Firefox version. And for the first time in the Gigapower timeline,
Glad-Feelings-Experiencer comes in a choice of cartoony blue or action-figure red!
I had to go for the blue one though, 'cos for me Swoop was always blue!
Like, his toy was unbelievably scarce. I don't know if the UK even got it.
So in this household, Rumble's blue and Swoop is too!
And Gaudenter's blingy blue bod sure do be shinin' like a massive sapphire nugget,
glimmerin' for the Gods with that golden Seeker beak, cheeky inlaid tummy pipes and hot red pec
panels, and like, there is something deeply satisfying about the way these skirt panels
line up just right. Why am I into that?
So being of somewhat slighter stock, lil Gauden Ramsay here's definitely the dancinest of
his behemoth brethren, mostly thanks to the recent Gigapower innovation of negative space.
Legs are lookin' slender and swish, pretty much just a pair of plain plastic planks jazzed
up with gorgeous greeblies. Knees can pop a sharp 90 to show off their cheeky inner
hydraulics and glorious claws
And while there's maybe not a ton of wiggle
in these stompy plimsolls, they've got the die-cast heftitude to keep him planted him in place,
like a weeble.
Head's feelin' feistily fiery with its daft rigid ponytail, face feels a smidge stern
and serious for a supposed full-time good-time appreciator, but if you want you can pop it
off and swap it out for an even angrier one.
I'm good.
Gotta be kinda careful with that forehead face-clip though, I've already caught a couple
flecks off there, not even tryin', but one day we'll all be dead so who cares.
Arms are lookin' ...normal? They're definitely somewhere for his hands to go. To be fair
they can kinda pose up a storm with swivels abound, five-finger funtime and a severe elbow
crunch, but aesthetically they're, let's say, not a highlight.
No sir, they leave that to the flippin' wings! Check out these shiny shoulder shapes, they
just dominate his entire look, blazin' away with blinding iridescence, pointy twin peaks
and pleasing patches of mechano-mess.
There's also something really fun about Commissioner Gauden's physicality, like, you can basically
see the entire dino mode just layin' dormant there, with wings folded and head patiently
bowed, and his tiny talons balanced on these humanoid shin stilts like a little Rory Calhoun.
And it's kinda cool man, it just gives him this vibe like he's in touch with his dino
mode. Which obviously also means, Were-odactyl mode!
Definitely doubled down on the weapons with this wickedly pointy pair of giant red megadaggers,
plus a tasty twosome of wieldable wing blasters with little fold-out handles and weird wiggly butts.
Why?
You can even stash everything away, like the swords can clip into this little back-dangler,
and there's dedicated gun storage on the wings.
So yeah, Gaudenter is kinda the least weighty of the Giga gang, Gigang, but that's just
how a Swoop's gotta be! He's solid and smooth and just fiercely alive. Swooperman that ho!
[POUNDING CLUB BANGER]
Transformation's suspiciously swift! You pretty much just squish the bod down and then scoop
the legs out of his legs. I mean it's not like difficulty is the point of the Giga boys,
they're not goin' for super complex, but Gauden Brown here seriously takes like 20 seconds.
And I respect that! You get in, you get out, you get it done.
And yes indeed, this is one mighty winged
robo lizard, bringin' the beak and the dinobot chic!
Um, I think you'll find it's a Pterosaur, which is not TECHNICALLY a dinosaur.
So check it out! Gaudenter definitely frolics up snoot-first, with miles and miles of toucan styles
serrated semi-teeth and beady little sticker eyes. Bod's a sexy little can of pepsi,
barely keepin' the limbs contained with his arms bulgin' out and the shins strapped to
the back like giant shoulder blades.
But once again it's the wings that steal the show with their chromey baloney! Seriously,
he's like friggin' Klaus Chromey over here! Look at them shine! And the wingspan's so
flippin' enormous and ostentatious it basically forced me to upgrade my whole photo setup.
But I wouldn't change it man, they're so spectacular I could just die...morphodon.
And they've even packed these tiny hands with individual wing fingers.
Wingers.
I sorta love how daft his little legs look down there! Look at these stubby little
toestacks and don't get me started on his dumb little hamster tail. Only thing I'm not
mad about is his basic little Lego neck - like, I get that with certain components you gotta
put function first and they just look how they look, but it does look conspicuously
bad and sounds even worse. So... straight in the bin.
Anyway, Gaudenter's gone a bit easier on the old Diaclone dino clothes, with like just
the optional wing bombs and a replacement see-through head.
I'm good.
But I guess because he's not quite as much
of a hyperchonk as we're used to, they've gone ahead and filled out the price point
with a huge ass Giga sized flight stand! Get a load of this museum-grade beast base, poppin'
straight out of the hangar of my dreams with a tilty telescopic boom arm along with individual
remote control spotlights! This is just what he needs man, like those group situations
can get a bit messy when there's so much dino meat on the go, so it just kinda gives him
a chance to stand a chance. It's got swap-out cloaca clips to work in both modes, and honestly
when you add this kinda size and shininess to THIS kinda height,
it's f***in' impressive.
Like, centrepiece worthy.
But being of a more cack-handed persuasion, I still managed to ruin it! 'Cos like, these
battery panels are screwed shut so tight that my screwdriver just chewed up the heads.
Now I'll never get it open. I dunno if that's more me wreckin' the thing or the thing wreckin'
itself, but between us, we've managed it. Third party people, PLEASE stop making me
do DIY. Something goes wrong every time! It can't always be my fault!
Anyway, with that, we are 80% through the Gigasaur experience! So, would I recommend
Gaudenter? Do I need to? I feel like you already know whether you're gonna get one or not.
'Cos it goes without saying that he's at his best as part of the herd, but I dunno your
life. Maybe you just really like Swoop! And this is maximum Swoop!
This is Swooper Charger Heaven! This is just Swoop through the Gigapower filter
of city-stompin' size and immaculate execution, so yes, obviously I think he's good.
Oh, I've finished.
So cheers for watching and thanks once again to the Gigapower gang for lettin' me check
out this slick son of a Quetzalcoatlus. Swoopy doopy doooo!
Whay! Cheers for watching gang, and huge thanks to Tapewyrm for supportin' the show.
Love you, bye!
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