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Wheel loader DOES look badassed. Here are a few more of Dump Truck:

TJ Duckett wrote: It's unfortnate that Flux Convoy seems to have been bitten by the "hater bug", but that's the internet and trolls for ya... and, of course, I'm just calling it like I see it.

He did ask for some clear pictures of the face... so here, how about some very clear shots of both the bots and the gestalt?

No, what's unfortunate is that everyone got so butthurt about my two cents of your "review". It isn't so much that I'm trying to be insulting but would you have sat 14 minutes of that? To your credit, you've mostly taken it in stride and shown clear pictures. I thank you for that. However, I'd ask that you keep your personal attacks or insults to yourself though. Troll? Please, you don't know me or my experience in the fandom.

TJ Duckett, can those pistons on the back of his arms be used for anything cos they look redundant to me so far.

Almagnus1 wrote:Really, this seems like a case of "you get what you pay for". Yeah, Herc will set you back at least another $100-$200 over Giant (depending on how lucky you can get), but that extra $100-$200 brings you generally better engineering because the design team could budget for it.

Does 'better engineering' include all the flaws in the molds that I read about?

I get my set b in Wednesday and I will be doing full reviews on everything alt mode bot mode and combined mode and I will compare every mode to hercs modes. I will be doing 3 separate videos one for each mode and I will try and be as thrall as possible. So if anyone wants to check them out they will be going up in the afternoon sometime because my ups driver comes anywhere from 10am to 2pm

This review was awesome, don't know what some lamer is talking about, they should probably just delete their account for all the whining.

This is the best representation of G1 Devastator to date, I have a full G1 crazy devy set and it is a complete waste of money compared to this set (In green). The robot modes are definately something to be desired but that's why I have hercules. I intend to display the green set in Devastator mode (As he is the TRUE representation of the character), and hercules in their individual but highly accurate to the G1 robot counterparts infront of devastator, and it will look amazing. Not to mention all of the dynamic poses you can get out of the hercules robot modes.

If you doubt me I'll post some pictures up some time, my hook has got his arms crossed with both guns in hand in quite the gunslinger fashion, my Scavenger looks as he did when he leans in to fire upon the autobots much like he did in the Transformers movie (1988), and scrapper (My favourite of the constructicons) in a kneeling shooting pose with his abdomen leaning away from his target to balance himself, quite freaking awesome.

Flux Convoy wrote:

TJ Duckett wrote:QQing nonsense

I'd say Cool story... but, that really wasn't.

Jehuty wrote:This review was awesome, don't know what some lamer is talking about, they should probably just delete their account for all the whining.

This is the best representation of G1 Devastator to date, I have a full G1 crazy devy set and it is a complete waste of money compared to this set (In green). The robot modes are definately something to be desired but that's why I have hercules. I intend to display the green set in Devastator mode (As he is the TRUE representation of the character), and hercules in their individual but highly accurate to the G1 robot counterparts infront of devastator, and it will look amazing. Not to mention all of the dynamic poses you can get out of the hercules robot modes.

If you doubt me I'll post some pictures up some time, my hook has got his arms crossed with both guns in hand in quite the gunslinger fashion, my scrapper looks as he did when he leans in to fire upon the autobots much like he did in the Transformers movie (1988), and scrapper (My favourite of the constructicons) in a kneeling shooting pose with his abdomen leaning away from his target to balance himself, quite freaking awesome.

LoL @ the first sentence, and the gestalt mode IS nice, but I'm liking the Hercules bots as seperates a bit more. They've got that beefy, "monster" vibe to them next to classics that just looks great.

Transformation video:

As I'm looking at these well captured poses (kudos, Kuma), I'm thinking of some minor mods I can do for Mobile Crane. First, Im just going to unscrew the crane and install a make shift peg system onto it. Then I gotta carve the ball socket in the back of the combined mode head.
Then again, perhaps this is something Dr. Wu can hook up? We'll see, but these seem like minor mods for those with a hobby dremel a leftover model sprue tree and some superglue gel.

Court Jester wrote:As I'm looking at these well captured poses (kudos, Kuma), I'm thinking of some minor mods I can do for Mobile Crane. First, Im just going to unscrew the crane and install a make shift peg system onto it. Then I gotta carve the ball socket in the back of the combined mode head.
Then again, perhaps this is something Dr. Wu can hook up? We'll see, but these seem like minor mods for those with a hobby dremel a leftover model sprue tree and some superglue gel.

Hey, thank you. Honestly, I'd love to see what you do with the crane. In hand, it feels like it was screwed on to maintain tightness in bot mode (since, in alt., the pressure of the two sides would keep it tightly in place. I "get it", but I also feel like something could've been set up to make it removable.

Thanks for doing that video =)

Are there any stress marks showing on Dump Truck's bumper? That seems like a place where part of the bumper might eventually snap off. Otherwise Dump Truck looks solid.

I'm really not liking the head/foot thing for Mobile Crane.... it just looks sloppy to me =/ I'm trying to think of another Transformers team that has combination kibble this badly, to help with the mental thing that it's not as bad because HasTak's done it before (that is, ignoring the G1 Gestalt Pile'o'Parts issue for the moment - Devastator, Raiden, and the Micromaster combiners are fairly bad offenders there).

The other quibble is more GEEWUN than anything else - and that's directed at the crane. I do find the integration intersting, but the lack of a rotating crane in vehicle mode seems odd to me =/

Other than those two issues, Mobile Crane actually looks better, now that I've seen him transform. Definitely better than either of first two.

I don't know if the original review covered this, but I don't recall seeing vehicle/robot => combined mode transformations for either of them.

Mykltron wrote:

Almagnus1 wrote:Really, this seems like a case of "you get what you pay for". Yeah, Herc will set you back at least another $100-$200 over Giant (depending on how lucky you can get), but that extra $100-$200 brings you generally better engineering because the design team could budget for it.

Does 'better engineering' include all the flaws in the molds that I read about?

With having Herc in hand, the only flaws I see in the molds are Exgraver's shovel (the original is startng to show some stress marks), and a potential with Heavy Labor's hip.

Thankfully I have replacement parts for both (thanks to TFC), and the only other quibble is that some of the trim on the underside of the red translucent scope is just a tad bit too wide to fit into the red combined mode gun straight, so it's on crooked. Seeing how both guns spend more time attached to Heavy Labor in combined mode in storage so Herc can wielding the crane boom as a club, I think that QC issue might be something I can live with.

While I can see some issues possibly arising from the arm connectors, I also see the same issues with Giant, because it looks like it's a round peg going into a round hole with only friction holding it in place (which means they will eventually get loose if fiddled with too much).

If there are other QC issues, please let me know, cause I haven't found any. Herc's rock solid.