Toy Review: Maketoys Himed
Everyone’s favorite part of combiner toys is how they can combine! But if you’re me, that’s a nice gimmick, but you don’t really care and just want a toy of the left arm.
The boy shows art of the actual toy, which I prefer over having renders of the toy.
The back of the box shows us all the cool poses Himed can do!
Side one shows us Himed’s front
And side two shows us Himed’s back. Simple box but good enough.
As ever, I enjoyed how easy he was to remove from the box and how easy he was to remove from the plastic shell. I was disappointed that his gun didn’t have a place in his plastic shell and was just sort of thrown in. Oh well.
I don’t love his shoulders, but aside from that he has a good design. Very basic for a more high end toy though. No double elbows or fancy hand poseability.
And his legs are hollow. Of course, he is meant to be the arm of a combiner, so doing things to lessen his weight makes sense even if it does make him a bit more disappointing as a stand alone toy.
I’ve always loved First Aid’s chunky back kibble. I still love it.
He’s got a nice cute face. It’s very simple though, hard to mess up. Up this close, the paint on his visor looks a bit sloppy, but you’re never going to see him from this close.
His gun is so large and chunky. I don’t know if it’s meant to combine with the other protectobot guns to make a super gun.
His wrists turn to allow him to hold his gun in the completely stupid way that he holds his gun in the comics.
He turns into a nice solid ambulance that’s fun to push around the table while you make a siren noise. The transformation is very simple and you practically don’t need the instructions. But this ambulance has a terrible secret...
His head is just kinda...in the front window of the ambulance. Judging you for making siren sounds... I’m not sure if a solid window would have been a great solution since it would have made the overall toy look cheap. Maybe just turning his head around during transformation?
They painted all the other windows... Maybe it would have been okay...
You can peg his gun into his vehicle mode to make the most menacing ambulance that everyone would immediately pull to the side for.
Whirl can pick him up and that’s sort of cute...
But Springer can carry him and that’s very cute.
OVERALL I think Himed is a solid toy, but he doesn’t bring anything amazing to the table. Other than there not being very many First Aid toys out there, since combiners are more of a hassle to make, there’s no reason to pick up this guy unless you want a First Aid and you missed out on Combiner Wars. He’s good and better than the standard Hasbro fare, but not by enough to justify the increased price point.
