Toy Review: SIC Kiwami Tamashii Machine Tornador

This is a chibi version of the re-imagined S.I.C. Machine Tornador. How I love to use the word re-imagined. It has been about two years since Bandai produced a Kiwami Tamashii bike and I was pretty excited when I finally had one. I couldn't find its regular SIC version nowadays so I opted to get this instead. It's great if you have SIC KT Agito too. This is the reason why SIC KT Agito has the extra holding hands, to prepare for the machine that makes the rider.

The facade of the box is like your any SIC Kiwami design. This is slightly the biggest SIC Kiwami box as of this post and it promises a fun and delightful play for the fan-based SIC collector. Blurbs are shortened to SIC logos but behind, showcases different layouts on how this toy is supposedly worked with as a stand alone or with your SIC Kiwami Agito.

Out of the box, the bike comes with a clear stand and an additional peg to replace the gas cap for your Agito to stand on firmly on slider mode. The stand helps to make it sort of float but I'd rather have its kick stand to make it more realistically sound. Yellow panels are translucent plastic while the rest of the paint apps are either metallic or glossy finishes. Agito's symbol is evident on top but there is another at the bottom of the bike. I have no idea to which I can attribute this.

Machine Tornador is Agito's bike that transforms what it supposed to be a "slider". However since this is SIC, Bandai has placed wings and made the seat pad higher than the popy or the SH Figuarts version. A challenge beckons as you try to transform the bike to the slider, hinges are sooo tight I was a bit hesitant in wobbling the parts to loosen up. I recall I had that same feeling with the Auto Vajin, the parts at first were seemingly tight but after a few tries become ridiculously loose and it was a let down when bringing it back to its regular bike form. Bandai made slight adjustments to the Machine Tornador and transforming is not as bad as the Auto Vajin.

I like the overall design and the playbility of the Machine Tornador and it is proportionally equal to SIC KT Agito. SIC fans can truly can get a kick out of it. No pun intended.