Darkling Lords · Series 1 · 1987

Skyclaw

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Hand-To-Hand Weapon
Lance
Primary Colour
Red
Secondary Colour
Black

Review

David Mapes

The Sky Claw is the only largest flying vehicle released as part of series 1 of Visionaries (the others being the Dagger Dart and Capture Chariot'S flight-pods. It's my second favourite released Visionaries vehicle, instandly recognisable as a plan, with multiple gun (twin cannons under the wings, referred to as pods in the Hasbro catelogue), dual canon for the passenget, single rifle fot Mortdredd and topped off with a batterying ram (as crashing into your enemy seemes to be the main attack method for Visionaries designers).
Originally conepted to have blue guns and gold wings, the colours were eventually swapped around.

The Sky Claw's design is made up of plates with two large seats and two staff holders at the bak. The triangular design is similar to that of the Decepticon seakers on Cybertron from the Transformers line (cartoon episode). The Sky Claw has two large holograms on the wings of bird of prey from Prysmos. In the cartoon series the dragon / phylots from the wings were used on occasion to attack the Spectral Knights,

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