-Kanrabat- wrote:I love my Rexes and I wonder if they'll repaint it again?
A Chaos Effect deco would be cool.
-Kanrabat- wrote:I'll also point out that T-Wrecks crotch/waist pegs are scareingly tight so maybe they "fixed" the issue by making the Jurassic Rex's easy (too easy) to peg and unpeg?
I think it's just something that varies from copy to copy, because my Tyrannocon Rex's tab together super tight. Assuming we're talking about the tabs that join the pelvis halves.
Got my hands on the set thanks to an Amazon gift card and it being on sale, and I'm enjoying it a fair bit thus far.
Tyrannocon Rex is neat. Her colors work well, and I like her head design. It looks kinda like a blend of G1 Grimlock's head with a robotic version of Megatron's mutant mask. First time owning the Kingdom Megatron mold, and it's not bad. Interesting how the tail is upside-down compared to the original Ultra-class mold from 1996. Speaking of the tail, I still wonder why they didn't make the it detach like in the show. It does kinda restrict the usefulness of the fist.
JP93 is delightful. Basing his head on Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck's nose is unmistakable, even robotified) is admittedly an odd choice IMO, that feels like it might have been better saved for a Jeep robot (same for his role in the box story). But that doesn't make me dislike him. I also know
why he's one of the Ford Explorers - the T. Rex breakout was evidently The Scene for big JP sets (it was done in the Mattel action figure line, the Lego line, and even an expensive metal statue).
I love the effort put into capturing the JP tour car look, they did a brilliant job with that. It ends up not bugging me that he has ball joint elbows instead of pin hinge + mushroom peg; ditto for having ball joint hips and transformation joint knees (although the sculpted regular knees above that are a bit cheeky as a result).
What does bug me is the difficulty with tabbing the inner part of the feet in. The tabs don't align quite right with the notches on the moon roof/sole panels, and look a smidge too long. I wonder if filing off the corner that overshoots the notch would make a difference.
Nevertheless, I greatly enjoy the figure overall. Gonna have to take some shots with my Kenner Jungle Explorer (which will absolutely dwarf him lol).
I'd love to see them do more with this crossover, honestly. Like a Jeep Autobot, maybe JP93 with a new head (so as to have two tour cars)... More dinos if suitable molds are made (like, say, if they did a Core-class version of Dinobot) or they're willing to use old ones (namely, Bazooka, Saberback, and Guiledart)...
Speaking of old molds, it's a pity the RID Autobot Brothers' molds are toast, because X-Brawn is a Mercedes M-class and thus could have been retooled into one of the cars from The Lost World. But hey, if that one leaked listing
does turn out to be him...