Animated Samurai Prowl

Ok this week I will be taking a look at the animated prowl that comes with the added side cart the becomes his armor in robot mode. There are some small details that have been changed from the original Animated Prowl like the strips on his arms are reversed as well as his lights on the back seat are now solid blue. The windshield now seems to have some tech like patterns on it that come out very nicely. The biggest different is the addition of the side cart that clips onto the side of prowl, that will become his armor in robot mode.


Prowl is a police bike this time around and to date i don't think animated as really let us down. He looks just like he did in the show. The gold and black paint used on him works well on this figure. on his back wheel he dose have a small kick stand that dose keep him up , but with this one you will have the side cart that will keep him up anyway. this has to be my favorite animated toy next to Shockwave/Longarm prime.

his Transformation is simple. Its just a matter of getting his lets out and set right. But make sure you remove his side cart to make it easyer and to unlock this leg from the weird side panels.

Robot mode dose not disappoint. seeing as Prowl is a "cyber Ninja" it makes senses to make him slim. with all his ball joints he has tons of articulation. Now on the original there where throwing stats on his legs, well they were not really inclued with the samurai version, they are still on his legs but you cannot fold them out, but if you removed them you can fit the old ones into his legs.

Now this is Samurai mode. the side cart now becomes his helmet, shoulder pads, shine guards and the wheel becomes his sword. Now his arms are being blocked by the shoulder pads but it still doesn't really do any real damage to him. This figure is really a good toy, the armor works well with him.

Now id need to give this figure a 4.5 out of 5. it only losses half a point just because of the lack of the throwing stars. If you have a Lockdown you really need to pick this guy up, they go well together. so if you mange to find one i would recommend you pick him up you will not regret it.