I've put off doing this post for a bit now. When I originally planned on posting this, Heroic Decepticon posted his awesome
Japanese Mail Away Omnibots. There was no way I was going to post my common and modest Omnibots. Since enough time has passed, I suppose this is a good time to post Overdrive.
My goal for this year has been to complete my collection of 1985 figures, and it's been challenging, more so with the remaining Omnibots. Overdrive in particular was difficult to find a specimen that didn't feature a lot chrome damage on the legs. Just about every instance that I found for sale had anywhere from minor to major chrome damage. And I looked for an Overdrive for the vast majority of this year. Price-wise, Overdrive was high on my list to get because he's pretty inexpensive. After an exhaustive search, luck dropped one in my watch list. And at a great price! The only problem appeared to be some stickers that were put on incorrectly, but that's an easy fix.
Like the rest of the Omnibots, Overdrive features an attack mode for his vehicle form. Overdrive's Ferrari Boxer has wings that flip up from under the body and guns that come from under the hood. It's not unlike Track's attack mode.
Look! I wasn't lying! No chrome damage on the legs! Overdrive comes with three handguns, but he can only hold two, so I went with the two that I liked best. Overdrive's head is really small in proportion to the rest of his body. I really hadn't anticipated that from photos I had seen online. Articulation is restricted to the elbows and shoulders, which is par the course for most G1 figures, so I have no complaints there. Those misplaced stickers on the door are still bothering me, but I do have in my possession a sticker sheet for all of the Omnibots that I got from the great people at Reprolabels. I don't want to use them yet since I don't have a Downshift...yet.
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