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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby Trikeboy » Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:17 am

I'm uploading a video review of these two so stay tuned. To tide you over, I have typed up the bio's if you are interested. They have lots of references in them and are actually entertaining.


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From peaceful industrial Farm-'bot to Police Force, the road to Weapon Specialist was a long and arduous journey.

Fresh from his protoform, he was designated a life-time of agricultural work on the Energon farms of Broga-957, working with a small cluster of fellow farm-'bots, generations of whom were birthed from the same protoform batch.

His life was changed one day upon seeing his first flying 'bot, but wonder changed to terror as the flying 'bot razed the land, destroyed many Energon vaporators and left several Farm-'bots as charred husks of wire and twisted metal. From that day, Weapon Specialisy vowed to leave his homestead and protect his homeland.

Against his friends wishes, he gave up everything to enlist in the Police Force. Despite bullying at the hands of hot-headed recruits, who picked on him for his cyber-rural background, he strived to improve himself, pushing harder, faster than the other 'bots. He passed all of the tests with flying colours, grace and and civility, earning the notice of an Elite Cadre of guards, and en route earned his famous nick-name due to his "nothing can upset me" facade and gentle personality - nothing cout faze the 'bot with the bright future, and no insults could penetrate his armoured hide.

Finally the day came, and like all Police units he was due to be upgraded to the standard police 256-OZU-004 body-type. It was meant to be the biggest day of his life and the start of an illustrious career, however during the spark-transplant procedure something went wrong...

An attack on the centre during the critical moment of spark extraction almost claimed his life, but instead left his body incomplete and malformed. His head missing? His face in his chest? His arms, by his waist? No rotor manoeuvrability in his legs?

He was put on spark support, and trapped in that body for 26 long cycles. Finally, after years of waiting, an experimental procedure by a Medical Specialist who was afflicted by the very same uncommon condition freed them both and made them mold brothers.

After vast cycles trapped in his hideous body, during which time he was passed over for the best Guard unit, Weapon Specialist's once jolly demeanour has been replaced with that of a gruff pragmatist, one who has set out to make a name for himself and re-invent himself as a Weapon Specialist, siding with a new leader, a leader he has faith in, who has stood up and taken charge, voicing his opinion against the council to warn about the coming tide of evil...

But that was just the start...

The first of many.




Mecdical Specialist



All Medical Specialist ever wanted to do was help 'bots, and to that end he devoted his spark to science.

His proudest moment came as he became understudy to a famous scientist, and for mega-cycles the two studied the robotic form, creating a better understanding of mechanical life and pioneering the entire science beind CR chambers. Over time, his master grew more and more disturbed, wanting to experiment and dismember live species and try strange experiments, to see if he could even create life itself.

When Medical Specialist objected he made one mistake, he tried to talk to his mentor rather than alerting the authorities, leaving his cruel master only one logical solution: using Medical Specialist as a live experiment, he attempted to split his one spark amongst many duplicate bodies. The science was far ahead of it's time and beyond comprehension, and as testiment to the pairs work, it almost succeded, but the huge amounts of raw energy resulted in a massive backlash, destroying the hand and burning out the opic sensor of his now Cyclopean master and trapping Medical Specialist in a horribly twisted, malformed shell. No head. Stubs for arms. His surgeons hands destroyed. Unable to even transform into a vehicle form intact.

For years, Medical Specialist roamed the wastelands, a half-dead, half alive "empty" until one day, an engineering 'bot recognised his former saviour and endeavored to help. Together, the two used left over Cyber-Ballast (Kibble as it has become known) to patch his vehicle mode and, working witha third party, created a technique known as parts forming, in an attempt to recreate a head.

It was too little to late for Medical Specialist, bat at least he was now able to communicate without fellow 'bots having to look through his chest cavity. Re-vitalised, he returned to his life's work, determined to fix this blight which affected only a small minority in their otherwise magnificent culture.

His first major experiment worked, saving a volunteer Police Officer from a doomed exisence, the two have since become good friends and allies. Determined to find all others who are also afflicted, Medical Specialist has already started working on several different molds but not before successfully turning the experiment on himself.

But this was just the start...

The second of many.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby daimchoc » Mon Aug 20, 2012 12:21 pm

Good job Trikeboy... Can't wait for the video review. ;)
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby mooncake623 » Mon Aug 20, 2012 2:47 pm

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yeah, looks like they fit Masterpieces pretty well. Comparison with Inferno suggests they're pretty well scaled for Classics too. Nicely done, iGear!


How can they scale well with Classics and Masterpiece? They look nice posed with certain characters in both lines but they look too big for classics (Esp when you stand them next to the seeker mold)and too small for masterpiece (when pose next to MP-01) they line they fit with Best is IGEAR's PP line.

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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby craggy » Mon Aug 20, 2012 3:17 pm

mooncake623 wrote:
yeah, looks like they fit Masterpieces pretty well. Comparison with Inferno suggests they're pretty well scaled for Classics too. Nicely done, iGear!


How can they scale well with Classics and Masterpiece?

How can they not?

looks like they're about Voyager size. So will fit with Classics as a Voyager sized bot. Looks like they're up to new MP Prime's chest, so can fit there if people like the old toy scaling. They'll probably be around the same height as MP Sideswipe.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby Trikeboy » Mon Aug 20, 2012 3:54 pm



Here is my video review, its my first so there maybe times you can see it a bit amateur. I have even bigger respect for other reviewers such as Peaugh. I hope it answers some questions.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby craggy » Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:28 pm

Trikeboy wrote:

Here is my video review, its my first so there maybe times you can see it a bit amateur. I have even bigger respect for other reviewers such as Peaugh. I hope it answers some questions.

jings!
I'm glad you did the size comparisons, a head taller and a lot chunkier than Jazz is fine for my Classics. Only problem now is finding someplace that has them in stock and finding the money for them.

Don't like how the red Ratchet head is in with the instructions though. I really want that on him and it not being in the blister gives me the fear. Might put the grumpy IDW style face on Ironhide if I get him, and do like the options, but the standard faces are ok by me. Do sort of agree about the mass of accessories they come with, but it is nice to get the options and I can use a lot of those with other figures, if they're 5mm posts.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby Trikeboy » Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:35 pm

craggy wrote:
Trikeboy wrote:

Here is my video review, its my first so there maybe times you can see it a bit amateur. I have even bigger respect for other reviewers such as Peaugh. I hope it answers some questions.

Don't like how the red Ratchet head is in with the instructions though. I really want that on him and it not being in the blister gives me the fear.


I don't know if you know, but iGear added the red head after these kept getting delayed. By that time I'm sure all the blisters were done so they would have had to redo them again and delay it even more. The boxes are sturdy and the instruction sheet is bagged. The head is well protected and should not cause any problems.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby craggy » Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:40 pm

cheers, I actually didn't know that. The red head is the tipping point for me, actually. It's the comic book style Ratchet that I grew up reading and being badass, as opposed to the guy who got killed in the first few minutes of the film.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby Wh33l Jck » Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:54 am

Gosh these guys do look really good. I was going to hold out for Arsenal Primus cause he fits better classics size wise.

Can you pose him /mis-transform so he is maybe a head smaller than classics prime?

Also what is up with those long plastic panels behind his arms, can you take them off or are those in there permanently? It doesn't look too bad until you lift his arm up to pose with a gun and it is just dangling there?
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby Trikeboy » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:41 pm

You could lower the thighs into the lower legs a bit more but you will sacrifice articulated knees for a different height. Beyond that, there is no way to mistransform him to stand shorter.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby mechinyun » Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:49 am

I got Ratchet today- love him!!

I do am a big fan of the marvel comic version of him. The red head is great.

One thing I have noticed on everyones pictures and vids is a slight mis-transformation.

At the red torso, the big hinge rotates independently of whats below and above it, so you can turn the hinge around to the back side, looks alot better!! Check it out guys!

For everyone else, pick this guy up.. hes totally worth it.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby daimchoc » Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:38 am

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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby Trikeboy » Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:34 am

mechinyun wrote:I got Ratchet today- love him!!

I do am a big fan of the marvel comic version of him. The red head is great.

One thing I have noticed on everyones pictures and vids is a slight mis-transformation.

At the red torso, the big hinge rotates independently of whats below and above it, so you can turn the hinge around to the back side, looks alot better!! Check it out guys!

For everyone else, pick this guy up.. hes totally worth it.


Thanks for pointing it out, I have made a follow up video to highlight that address a couple of other things I forgot to mention. BTW, I don't subscribe to that transformation step of folding in the wheel arches. It looks like it was intended to function like that but to get them into that position puts too much stress on the plastic and could cause breakages.

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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby Wh33l Jck » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:01 am

Trikeboy wrote:You could lower the thighs into the lower legs a bit more but you will sacrifice articulated knees for a different height. Beyond that, there is no way to mistransform him to stand shorter.


Could someone please squat thier legs like this and take a photo of them next to Classics Prime to see how short they could get next to him???

I really didn't think scale would be such a problem for me, but I really need an excuse to buy these guys!
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby DJrasmo » Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:15 pm

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for those of you who have the FP G3 Trailer for Classics/Henkei OP, if you have already installed the weapons rack pieces on the insides of the trailer you know there is almost a quarter inch of peg that continues to stick out...

I took my dremel and shaved these down so they were flush with the edges of the weapon rack pieces, and now not only does the trailer look cleaner on the inside, but Ironhide and Ratchet can fit inside OP's trailer (without shaving the pegs down they get in the way).
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby daimchoc » Sat Sep 01, 2012 9:31 pm

I have the G3 trailer, but I'd rather put the PP05s with MP-10. Fits nicely in the trailer.
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby RodimalToyota » Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:25 am

Do they have rubber tires?
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby daimchoc » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:15 am

PP05s are being sold at the iGear shop individually again.

Well, at least PP05M - http://shop.igeartoys.com/index.php?rou ... uct_id=116
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Re: PP05 in-hand pictures

Postby Son of Carl » Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:04 am

I am still on the fence with these two. I like them, but I wish they were both a tiny bit taller. They were designed to be in scale with Faith Leader and look perfect beside him. They just look a little too short beside MP-10. And I know that the second I buy them Takara will reveal their official Masterpiece versions.
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