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craggy wrote:I definitely find that in my construction vehicles that turn into alien robots, that combine to form a bigger alien robot, realism is my primary concern.


I lie. I hadn't even noticed what side the cabs were on. If they're on the correct side, it makes no real difference to me.

Hotrodimust wrote:I've recently put reprolabels on 3 of my herc figures with the 4th figures set on its way and I can't tell you how much better the figures look in bot mode and alt mode and with scrapper oops I meant NOT scrapper you get decals for herc wing chest plate it just really slaps some g1 on him. Also I got the upgrade kit to make him look a little more how he was in the show but I like how he dosnt have four arms that just sit around useless in alt mode but we will see how it goes when the kit comes out. And my set b finally comes in tomorrow so I get to check out most of giant my self in hand and not thru pics because nothing gives you a better feel for a figure than your own hands lol

craggy wrote:

Hotrodimust wrote:I've recently put reprolabels on 3 of my herc figures with the 4th figures set on its way and I can't tell you how much better the figures look in bot mode and alt mode and with scrapper oops I meant NOT scrapper you get decals for herc wing chest plate it just really slaps some g1 on him. Also I got the upgrade kit to make him look a little more how he was in the show but I like how he dosnt have four arms that just sit around useless in alt mode but we will see how it goes when the kit comes out. And my set b finally comes in tomorrow so I get to check out most of giant my self in hand and not thru pics because nothing gives you a better feel for a figure than your own hands lol

four arms? he's not Goro from Mortal Kombat.

craggy wrote:If I'd been able to understand the post properly in the first place I might have picked up on that being a typo.

Anyway, GIANT in green: Looks very nice, and the price for the combined set is pretty good. Kapow says it is expected in May, we got any more specific dates from anywhere else? Even just "late" or "early" May...or does May indicate the usual for 3rd party items, by which I mean June-July-ish?

Hotrodimust wrote:

craggy wrote:If I'd been able to understand the post properly in the first place I might have picked up on that being a typo.

Anyway, GIANT in green: Looks very nice, and the price for the combined set is pretty good. Kapow says it is expected in May, we got any more specific dates from anywhere else? Even just "late" or "early" May...or does May indicate the usual for 3rd party items, by which I mean June-July-ish?

All other sites say June but I wouldn't see why not may since set c for the yellow version release in may but who knows

Banjo-Tron wrote:I just pre-ordered mine on Kapow. I hope my bank account forgives me

Hotrodimust wrote:I just got my set b in and I'm highly disappointed my left arm port sucks every time I move the arm it pops out and the left connection tab to connect Crane and dump truck won't insert into the little whole I tried pushing it in with a small object but the tab is as far over as it can go and even if it did go in the connection isn't great anyways the tabs are very small IMO this set has nothing on Hercules and you can see how the extra money is spent

craggy wrote:

Hotrodimust wrote:I just got my set b in and I'm highly disappointed my left arm port sucks every time I move the arm it pops out and the left connection tab to connect Crane and dump truck won't insert into the little whole I tried pushing it in with a small object but the tab is as far over as it can go and even if it did go in the connection isn't great anyways the tabs are very small IMO this set has nothing on Hercules and you can see how the extra money is spent

YEAH!

craggy wrote:

Hotrodimust wrote:I just got my set b in and I'm highly disappointed my left arm port sucks every time I move the arm it pops out and the left connection tab to connect Crane and dump truck won't insert into the little whole I tried pushing it in with a small object but the tab is as far over as it can go and even if it did go in the connection isn't great anyways the tabs are very small IMO this set has nothing on Hercules and you can see how the extra money is spent

YEAH!

Hotrodimust wrote:

craggy wrote:

Hotrodimust wrote:I just got my set b in and I'm highly disappointed my left arm port sucks every time I move the arm it pops out and the left connection tab to connect Crane and dump truck won't insert into the little whole I tried pushing it in with a small object but the tab is as far over as it can go and even if it did go in the connection isn't great anyways the tabs are very small IMO this set has nothing on Hercules and you can see how the extra money is spent

YEAH!

Ok got an update I got my crane and dump truck to connect I was actually doing it wrong when you put yours together you will probably see what I was doing. But that makes me feel a lot better about my set but the left arm still doesn't connect very well the right arm is great

Hotrodimust wrote:Ok got the left arm to go in good to there is a small button you have to push to release the arm but if yo press it to insert the arm it goes in better but in the instruction they only say to press the button to remove. So honestly IMO giant is turning out to be really nice I mean I love my herc but the shoulder articulation is superior on giant. We are gonna get some nice poses as long as the leg come out just the same

Banjo-Tron wrote:

Hotrodimust wrote:Ok got the left arm to go in good to there is a small button you have to push to release the arm but if yo press it to insert the arm it goes in better but in the instruction they only say to press the button to remove. So honestly IMO giant is turning out to be really nice I mean I love my herc but the shoulder articulation is superior on giant. We are gonna get some nice poses as long as the leg come out just the same

Phew - you had me worried there. I have a lot of respect for the 'early adopter' pioneers who have to deal with QC issues on initial runs. Although it does seem that maketoys are good about remedying problems (as are the other reputable 3rd parties)

El Duque wrote:Courtesy of ACToys we have a couple of images of MakeToys Devastator homage Giant in green. MakeToys is in the middle of distributing their yellow version of Giant with Set "B" consisting of Mobile Crane and Dump Truck currently hitting online retailers. According to MakeToys the green version of Giant will be released as giftset featuring all six figures later this year. Images mirrored below.

Update: MakeToys have now released official versions of these images and announced these will be released as one set priced at 31,500 Yen (approx $386.50).

warzon3 wrote:Any update on when Green gets released? I'm assuming it will be mid July as opposed to later, but I could be wrong?