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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
Almagnus1 wrote: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.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Almagnus1 wrote:It creates a weakness in the design: should that connector between the combined arm and the vehicle break, lose the pauldron.
The more I think about it, the more it feels like combined mode was designed first, and then everything designed around it.
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