Allegiance: Autobot
Size: Voyager
Difficulty of Transformation to Lion: Medium
Difficulty of Transformation to Spaceship: Easy
Color Scheme: Dull fuchsia, moderately dark purple, and some silver, light milky gray, dark glossy purple, transparent bright orange, and metallic black
Rating: 9.2

    Alpha Trion's little Titan Master is Sovereign, who seems to be a homage (in terms of details) to Cybertron Safeguard. In robot mode he's got the usual Titan Master proportions, though sadly no paint at all-- he's got a fuchsia head, arms, and legs; a purple body; and light milky gray legs. At least there's not only two colors in this mode, with the gray helping to break up the colors at least a little, but there's a lot of nice details here. The arms look fairly generic with merely hands molded onto the insides, but the lower legs have some interesting ridged boxy details on them, the main body looks very much like a futuristic piece of body armor, and the head looks rather "Needlenose-y" with two eyes, a faceplate, and a middle forehead vent with side crests. As with all Titan Masters, Sovereign can move back-and-forth at the hips and knees (as one, each leg is bolted together), as well as limited ball movement at the neck and shoulders. In head mode, Sovereign makes for a pretty good Alpha Trion head, with a bit more of a stern yet wizened look. He's got a three-pronged head crest, and little vents on the sides of the cheeks. His eyes are rather narrowed, but look pretty good with the dark purple on the headcrest lined around said eyes. The rest of his face and beard (and his eyes) are a nice silver.

    Alpha Trion's first alt mode is-- surprise!-- a technorganic lion! This is a really nice nod for BotCon fans, as the first-ever toy of Alpha Trion was originally planned to be a redeco of Beast Machines Snarl, a... technorganic lion. (The basic idea was eventually released as "Alpha Trizer" at BotCon 2014.) For the most part, this is a pretty solid mode, with generally good proportions and an appropriately thick body for a lion. The only exception when it comes to proportions in this mode are the folded-up robot toes on the hind legs, which really make those hind legs far too thick and can impede articulation back there a bit, as well. From a side view, the way the body folds up via a hinge in the center of the body does leave a slight gap that you can look through the lion mode from the side, but this is relatively minor since it's not visible from the vast majority of angles. The color scheme is fairly classic Alpha Trion, being primarily maroon/fuchsia and a medium purple. Both colors contrast against each other quite well, though if the fuchsia was just a TOUCH lighter I wouldn't complain. There's also-- unfortunately-- some light milky gray, mostly on the upper rear legs and a few other minor parts like the hinges that connect the lion head to the body and the lower ankles on each lion leg. It's a really blah shade of the color, and the silver paint looks much better. Alpha Trion's colors are varied up quite nicely, with some silver on the mane (to make him look wizened and old), parts of the main body, and lower back in this mode. There's some nice metallic black on the paws, and a REALLY nice bright transparent orange used for the cockpit cover and the sword-tail that both contrasts excellently against the purple and complements the fuchsia quite well. The only paint apps I really feel are missing from this mode are the eyes, which are same purple as the "eyebrows" around them. The mold detailing is very nice for this mode, with sections of rounded, intricate, archaic-looking parts on the shoulders, back, and portions of the lion mode head especially. The detailing on the claws, lower legs, and the like also looks quite technorganic and awesome. The lion face is a nice mix between angry and wizened, though I'm not sure what's up with the unicorn horn. That kinda feels out-of-place. For articulation in this mode, Alpha Trion can move at the front knees (at two points), front ankles (at two points), back and out a bit at the rear hips, back at the knees, and back-and-forth at the rear ankles. Unfortunately the shoulder articulation isn't existent because of the transformation, and because of the lion teeth actually being the robot fists his mouth can't open and close. One last note-- above the cockpit you're supposed to attach a Alpha Trion's maroon triple-barreled weapon that can seat a Titan Master, but it doesn't hook on much. There's two shallow tabs that are theoretically supposed to connect the two parts, but they're so shallow even the slightest bump will cause the weapon to fall off, which is a bummer, and there's no other way to store it in this mode.
    Alpha Trion's other mode is a futuristic spaceship, which-- not coincidentally at all-- somewhat resembles Vector Prime's alt mode. The front section is flat and looks a bit like an aircraft carrier, along with small "wings" on the side. I wouldn't call this a bad mode by any means, but it is the weakest of Alpha Trion's three modes. The wings are fairly weak, consisting of just the robot shoulders folded up-- the arms and lion head halves are quite obvious there. On a lesser note the lion paws are a bit obvious on the sides of the ship and on the bottom, near the rear. The cockpit from the lion mode fits best in this mode, looking like the "command center" of the spaceship near the back. The front two-thirds or so have panels that fold out to make it relatively flat and, again, like an aircraft carrier, so Alpha Trion looks more mechanical and less technorganic in this mode. The paint on this mode is also a bit sparse compared to the other two modes, with the top spaceship parts not having much paint on them, and same with the "command center". The three-pronged maroon weapon mentioned earlier pegs in solidly right in the middle of this mode, so no issues there, thankfully; the sword is pegged in the side of one of the rear side "wing" portions of this mode, which is a solid connection even if it sticks out pretty blatantly. There's also four pegs for Titan Masters to stand on on Alpha Trion's "aircraft carrier" portion of this mode, near the front.
    Alpha Trion's robot mode is surprisingly close in terms of transformation to his spaceship mode-- the main differences are that the side "wings" are folded out to become the shoulders and arms, the leg panels are folded up and separated into the actual legs, and of course the Titan Master is plugged in. This is Alpha Trion's best mode, and looks really really regal and ancient. The lion head halves used for the shoulders may seem like "kibble" to some, but I think the silhouette really helps enhance the look of this mode and looks great, especially with the jaw portions gone and forming his lower arms. The only real "kibble" I would say this mode has is the cockpit on the upper back, though it does fold up and stay in its place and doesn't get in the way of articulation, so that's a really minor downside at best. The lion paws are all folded up quite nicely on the chest and lower legs. The chest is very intricately and wonderfully detailed, again looking not coincidentally like Vector Prime's chest with lion paws. The transparent orange "jewel" in the center can be pressed in to pop up little side antennae extensions for the head, which help Alpha Trion look even more regal. The "loincloth" has some nice technorganic detailing on it, as well as some silver "fur" detailing on the sides-- really it all just looks so great, I love that they took the "basics" of Alpha Trion and added so much to him. Of course, he can hold both his sword and his gun easily in his hands. As for articulation, Alpha Trion can move at the head, shoulders (at two points), elbows, wrists, hips (at three points), knees, and ankles (at two points). Thus, except for the waist, he's quite articulated, and pretty well-balanced and proportioned as well. He is a bit "thick" in terms of his appendages, but he can still get into some pretty awesome poses.
    Titans Return Alpha Trion is my favorite voyager-class mold from the line. He's got a very majestic, royal-looking robot mode, a beast mode that's an homage to a BotCon toy, and a spaceship mode that's an homage to Vector Prime, which was redecoed into Alpha Trion FOR BotCon. The color scheme is also solid, and there's only a few minor-to-moderate extras in any of his three modes. So: solid modes, great colors, obscure homages. What's not to like? Buy him, please.

Reviews by Beastbot

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