The Cang Toys Breakhorn or Slag/Slug is the third figure in their take on the Dinobots. Slag has a design similar to Gundam, mixed with elements from his G1 design, like the triceratops head on his back and a mouth-like design on his chest.
Slag from the bottom of his foot to the top of his head is 9.8 inches tall, but from the bottom of his foot to the crest on his back is about a foot. Slag has three main weapons: dual blades that can be used as guns, swords, or can be combined to make a dual bladed staff, a wolverine esque claw that can plug into either forearm (it can also be combined with the dual blades to make an arm mounted crossbow weapon), and finally eight small daggers that can be mounted onto his back crest, held, or with included stands be displayed like missiles firing from his back.
Slag is also highly poseable in his robot mode, having fully poseable hands, arms, legs, head, and even an ab crunch, with most of it being ratcheted joints. Slag’s transformation is complicated and the instructions are bad, but his robot mode gets completely lost once he is transformed into his triceratops mode, still having good poseability, but his back legs in triceratops mode are generally not fun to pose, as there are three to four hinges and things that want to move other than what you actually want to move.
Slag’s weapons can be stored in the triceratops mode, giving him either blades on the sides of the triceratops or dual front facing cannons. Slag can transform again into an arm, as he is a part of the combining team the Dinobots, turning into the arm for Cang Toys’ Shuraking, or their take on Volcanicus. Slag’s transformation into arm mode is not fun and not as rewarding as the transformation into triceratops mode, as most of it doesn’t want to hold still while you are posing the arm. It wants to bend at the robot-mode hip joints instead of the heavily ratcheted elbow joint.
Slag includes a hand for the combine mode which slides onto the arm, is fully poseable, and can combine with the hand from the previously released Pterhowl, or Swoop. The combined hands make a wolf spider, which is a creative use of access combine mode bits.
Sadly, that’s where my praises for Slag end, at least on my copy of the figure. It has a lot of breakages, mostly minor like some tabs, but one wide spread issue with the figure is the triceratops heads clear balljoint, which on every copy of the figure has at least stress marks on the socket. The worst came out of the box completely broken off the figure. On a good note, Cang Toys said that they will be making a reinforced version of the triceratops head, which many fans like me are assuming will come with a future figure in the set, or you have to request it from Cang Toys themselves.
Overall, I personally rate Slag about a 3.5 to 4 out of 5. I want to love him, he seems really cool, but the breakage issues make me worry just handling him. Luckily you can request replacement pieces from whatever site you bought him from. However, you shouldn’t be needing to request replacement parts for a figure that will run you $150-$200. He is still worth it to me, as the full combiner will be, by my estimate, 3 feet tall.
