This time around Anakin's alternate mode is the freighter Twilight, which has a pretty interesting shape. It's very asymmetrical, having one large and one small wing on one side, but no wings on the other! (Don't ask me how it's supposed to fly.) The smaller wing can also fold straight downwards, but then it's awfully awkward to pose on a flat surface, of course. Anyways, as with most SWTFs, the Twilight mode is pretty darned accurate. There's some pretty obviously "cracks" in the mode, especially on the top, but the number of mech mode extras is minimal. There are a few, though-- for some reason the hand on the left side doesn't QUITE fold up under the engine vent it's supposed to, and it's fairly obvious something is up with the two turbine engines (at least I assume they're engines) on the left side of the vehicle. (One becomes R2-D2 and the other his upper right arm.) On a lesser note, the rear, which is a cargo bay, looks fine when the ramp is folded up. Keep it down however, and Anakin's mech mode legs and feet are exposed! As for weaponry, Anakin has a spring-loaded missile launcher on the topside of this mode, and the gun on his large wing can rotate around in place.
    Anakin's mech mode is decent, and following the alternate mode, is rather asymmetrical. His right arm is the weaker of the two, having some obvious alt mode parts hanging off the lower part of it (including the "wing" of the Twilight, which just detaches from the vehicle mode and re-attaches here-- a bit cheat-y, I must say, and it falls off way too easily. His left arm is better, with a strong shoulder made out of a decent chunk of the vehicle mode. Otherwise he's pretty decently proportioned, with his legs and arms not being overly skinny like on many SWTFs. I like that the vehicle mode splits apart at his waist to form a bit of a "skirt", though the "hood" around his head is considerably less convincing. Really, they shouldn't try to mimic cloth in plastic form-- it just looks weird. Anakin also has a slice of his vehicle mode hanging unapologetically out of his upper back-- and horizontally, at that. It doesn't get in the way of articulation, but it does look bad. Speaking of articulation, Anakin can move at the neck, shoulders (at three points), elbows (at two points), wrists, waist, hips (at three points-- though restricted due to the skirt armor), knees (at two points), and ankles (at two points). So he can get in a pretty decent number of poses. As for his color scheme, brown shows up more obviously in this mode, and helps to break up the blue and white and make him one of the more colorful SWTFs (though that's admittedly not saying much). The one thing that does big me color-wise about him is that he has FOUR different shades of brown in robot mode, all of them slightly different from each other. In some case like this, simplicity is usually best, and two shades really would've been enough. Plus, the shade used for his headsculpt looks all milky and made of "impure" plastic, which doesn't fit an otherwise decent headsculpt. Anakin has three little accessories-- first, he has a handheld spring-loaded missile launcher-- and the missile is his lightsaber, which he can also hold in his other hand. I love it when they do little things like that, and the blaster looks perfectly fine without the missile in it, so no worries there. He also has another gun (which doesn't fire a missile), taken from the tip of his small wing in alt mode). What's also cool is that Anakin comes with a little R2-D2 accessory, made up of a small part of the vehicle mode that detaches. It can move or anything, unfortunately, but it's still a cool little touch.
    Twilight Anakin is above-average as far as Star Wars Transformers go. He's got a few minor problems in vehicle mode and some more significant problems in mech mode, nearly all of them related to kibble. They're not nearly enough to ruin the figure, though, and he's definitely one of the more unique and colorful SWTFs with some cool accessories. Mildly recommended if you like really unusual alt mode designs.

Review by Beastbot

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