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Impossible toys sent us some pics of their upcoming Allicon figure. They say it stands about the same size as G1 Soundwave and is fully transformable.

Not really much of a transformation though... the alligator head flips out of the chest and the robot arms take its place.

It looks nice, but so did their Valkyre figure, which turned out to be a poorly made figure. As much as I'd love to buy a few of these for my Quint display, I think I may wait for others to jump first.

that does look good. maybe a bit big though, if it's on par with G1 Soundwave. I'd rather they were a bit smaller (maybe same height as Gen Kup?) and thus, cheaper, so that if they're good quality, a little swarm of them would be realistic to buy.

Doesn't look too bad...but yeah, quality is a concern here.

Mkall wrote:It looks nice, but so did their Valkyre figure, which turned out to be a poorly made figure. As much as I'd love to buy a few of these for my Quint display, I think I may wait for others to jump first.

Personally, I love the Valkyrie I own. To be fair, I knew what I was dealing with when I bought it, so I had no expectations. Still, she ended up surprising me. Even though she's not perfect, she's quite an impressive piece to me and looks nice in my collection.

I'm willing to give them a shot on this guy. However, you do make a valid point about Valk being poorly made. I got lucky, I know this. There were many more who weren't. Breakages, glues not holding, bad paint apps, etc.

It *looks* more sturdy, though. They're at least using screws this time, instead of plastic everything and a bunch of glue. He could be hollow crap, but that plastic looks plenty dense to me. Perhaps they learned their lessons and heard the cries of the public?

The tail, however...it looks a bit sketchy. I can't tell if that's flash from the camera, or stressmarks on the hinges...

Still, if it's an affordable price and it's as good as Valk, or even better, I'll buy it.

Even if the quality's poor I'm down for this. It's just nessasary to make my movie cast. Although the arms are kinds stubby in bot mode.

Autobot032 wrote:

Mkall wrote:It looks nice, but so did their Valkyre figure, which turned out to be a poorly made figure. As much as I'd love to buy a few of these for my Quint display, I think I may wait for others to jump first.

Personally, I love the Valkyrie I own. To be fair, I knew what I was dealing with when I bought it, so I had no expectations. Still, she ended up surprising me. Even though she's not perfect, she's quite an impressive piece to me and looks nice in my collection.

I'm willing to give them a shot on this guy. However, you do make a valid point about Valk being poorly made. I got lucky, I know this. There were many more who weren't. Breakages, glues not holding, bad paint apps, etc.

It *looks* more sturdy, though. They're at least using screws this time, instead of plastic everything and a bunch of glue. He could be hollow crap, but that plastic looks plenty dense to me. Perhaps they learned their lessons and heard the cries of the public?

The tail, however...it looks a bit sketchy. I can't tell if that's flash from the camera, or stressmarks on the hinges...

Still, if it's an affordable price and it's as good as Valk, or even better, I'll buy it.

I too had a Valkyrie and a Paradron Medic. My Paradron was of good quality and the Valkyrie was not, so I ditched it in favour of Delicate Warrior and never looked back. Paradron and Knightbird are still on my shelf.

I'm hoping that the price is decent enough on this guy that I can get three of them to put with my Impossible Toys Quintessons but time will tell.

If it's the same size as Soundwave it might be too big. Still, I do like it and Valkyrie for that matter. A few shots of it next to a G1 Sharkticon would go miles towards making this a Must Buy.

I like it. Not sure if I like it enough to buy one but yeah.