Beast Wars Neo Stampy

Story time! Whoo! My box of stuff from BBTS came today. I won a Stampy and a Bazooka from them on eBay and I decided to take advantage of their $5 flat shipping rate and buy some more stuff. I sprung for Mach Kick and BM Blackarachnia.

Okay, so the box came via UPS this morning while I was in the shower. I had to go to school, so I couldn't open the box, right? Well, I put the box in my car hoping for a free hour or something. Amazingly my calc professor didn't show today, so I opened them all. Good stuff, let me tell you. I might not review Mach Kick or Bazooka today as I'm scared to transform them (especially Bazooka, Mach Kick I can do fine, it just takes a while). Stampy and BA are just fine though. Anyways, on to the review!

I decided to pick up Stampy on a recommendation from various reviews and some people on ATT who already had him. First thing I have to say about him is he's tiny. BWN stuff (and pretty much all Japanese TFs for that matter) comes in a box, not on a card, and his box is tiny! And his beast mode is tiny! It was so cute. I was expecting him to be a bit larger, even though I knew he was considered a basic. Actually, he's the right size for a basic, I guess I was thrown off by how big Blackarachnia is.

Anywho, beast mode is a white rabbit. Actually, to be correct, it looks more like a hare because of the thin, ling legs and the thin body. He's pretty neat looking, though I kinda wish his eyes were another color. As they are now, they're red, which makes him look kinda weird, I dunno. He's also got the BWN problem of being preposed. Unlike the majority of the Beast Wars stuff which is in a regular standing position, some of the BWN stuff has a beast mode meant to be in only one pose. Stampy's is that of mid jump, or running. This wouldn't be a problem if he could do another pose (a simple sitting pose, for instance), but he really can't. You can make him sit on his little bunny butt with some effort, but it's not a convincing pose for a rabbit. Beast mode also shows off a lot of robot parts if you flip him on his back.

Transformation is simple, but fun. If you order the same set I do, don't get too used to the easy transformations, because Mach Kick and Bazooka are no picnic to transform. He also has a transformation like TM Cheetor, with the halves of his head becoming his hands (though Stampy can't join them together to make a gun) and the front beast legs being his backpack.

Robot mode is nice, though a bit chubby looking. He has his spark crystal in his chest, which looks quite nice, and there's a long knob under it, right about where his belly button would be if robots had that sort of thing. He has a third weapon mode that can be held by Longrack or Big Convoy (larger BWN toys), but I don't have them, nor do I care for his crappy weapon mode, so I'll pretend it doesn't exist for now.

Stampy has no weapons to speak of really. His rabbit ears are supposed to be swords or blades or something, but they can't quite get the right position, so he just ends up having a lot of rabbit kibble on his hands. If you really want you can remove the rabbit head halves by unscrewing them from his wrist, but then he'll have no head in beast mode.

Also it's worth note that his lone gimmick, which is used in weapon mode, causes him to shrug in robot mode. Just push down on his cotton tail. How cute.

All in all, despite some weird flaws and general lack of gimmick, Stampy is a cool toy. You can grab him on BBTS for $9.99, which is a good price, though if you check eBay you can usually get him for less (I paid $6.50 for mine). I wouldn't pay any more than that, which would really be pushing it if he weren't a Japanese import. He's a neat little bunny. I like it.