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They really are pretty big, aren't they? Almost the size of the new Voyagers.

It is a time-consuming and scary process transforming them for the first time, but it realy is fun and rewarding. Best 2 hours I've had recently!

Just got mine yesterday. It's so magnificent I can hardly stand it. The quality is higher than I expected, the engineering is great, and the whole set looks great in every mode.

It's sort of a shame this will forever be compared with Hercules. I don't have Herc, so I can't compare the two. But I think that in an alternate reality in which Hercules had never come out, fandom would have collectively fallen over itself to heap praise on MakeToys and declare it the new undisputed king of the 3rd party toymakers. I think this really sets a new standard.

TheForgottenTaxi wrote:Just got mine yesterday. It's so magnificent I can hardly stand it. The quality is higher than I expected, the engineering is great, and the whole set looks great in every mode.

It's sort of a shame this will forever be compared with Hercules. I don't have Herc, so I can't compare the two. But I think that in an alternate reality in which Hercules had never come out, fandom would have collectively fallen over itself to heap praise on MakeToys and declare it the new undisputed king of the 3rd party toymakers. I think this really sets a new standard.

I've had Hercules, and it's either you like the "classics" styled Hercules, that matches the more blocky designs of classics, or you like the more detailed "MP" style of Giant.

Other then that, they are two fraktastically amazing creations, the world will forever cave under their feet...


Until they see Uranus!

I don't own Hercules but I've seen it in person and I MUCH prefer the look of Giant. Hercules is cool but almost more Unicron Trilogy to me. Giant goes a lot better with the Fansproject offerings, and while both companies aesthetics are maybe a little too modern compared to Hasbro's figures, I feel they look better overall.

In my mind Maketoys is still an offshoot of Fansproject anyway, so they can share the crown.

Oh, to those who may have not read all the way back in the thread, be VERY careful when inserting/removing the screwdriver handles from Long Haul's bucket. It's a really tight fit. I didn't break mine but I stressed one of the handles.

kirbenvost wrote:Oh, to those who may have not read all the way back in the thread, be VERY careful when inserting/removing the screwdriver handles from Long Haul's bucket. It's a really tight fit. I didn't break mine but I stressed one of the handles.

Had to pop mine out from the other side using a dull pencil. Learned my lesson from Thundershred's blades...

Dull pencil, good idea! I used a small key but was worried about the key causing damage itself.

Woo hoo! Something awesome arrived in the mail today...





I look forward to writing up a review of this guy, but first need to finish the series of Optimus Prime reviews I recently started... Something to look forward to, I suppose. But my innitial impression, to reiterate, it that it is awesome.

I'm sharing the love with a quick crappy cell pic.
Chilling next to steel core..



Now having had both in my hands, I prefer this, just miss Hercs hands!



Action shot!

Was just having a bit of fun... Here's another pic:



I love my girlfriend. One of her first questions was, "Is that to scale?"

But as we all know, since when has Devastator ever worried about scale?

Yotsuyasan wrote:
But as we all know, since when has Devistator ever worried about scale?

When the name didn't match?