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News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:22 am

Spotted this over at Chimungmung.com this morning!

After the recent KO of Thundershred now comes his his partner in grime Backfiery in full on knock off glory!

Fansproject Casuality CA-05 Backfiery has been given the KO treatment is now available for order from all good KO stockists!

Chimungmung have him priced along with his brother KO Thundershred at $38.00 with $12.00 shipping.
Tony being the nice chap he is has also thrown in a Decepticon sticker to make sure our insect follows the correct faction!

Check out the link below for more info on this, the second KO from the set of three.
http://chimungmung.com/product_info.php?products_id=810

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by **Rated X** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:27 am

Cool !!! Troop builders !!!

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:04 pm

Rated X wrote:Cool !!! Troop builders !!!

Really?! You must be loaded if you can afford to troop build at $38 a pop.

News Credits: 1 · by **Thadicon** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:37 pm

Im keen for the KO's even if its not the real thing. I missed out on getting the real versions

by **Mekatron** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:49 pm

Odd they're KOing these... the originals aren't even going for much more than the original retail price on eBay. Nice to see the people selling the KO's on eBay aren't even telling people they're KO's though...

News Credits: 5 · by **RodimalToyota** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:57 pm

TFsource and a few others still have the real deals in stock for the same price, why is this so awesome?

News Credits: 2 · by **xyl360** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:13 pm

Awesome, now how about KO Munitioner and Explorer (including the combiner bits)? Those are in dire need of either being KO'd or getting a second run from FP.

by **Rated X** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:06 am

Sodan-1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Cool !!! Troop builders !!!

Really?! You must be loaded if you can afford to troop build at $38 a pop.

One extra set to display in insect mode wont kill me. The CHMS purple air warriors were around 40 a pop in their time. Im banking on the price to drop another 10 bucks like CHMS Sunstreaker did. Now on the other hand, an army of IT Alicons is way out of my budget...

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:20 am

Glad I got the legit ones when they first came out.

Eventually these will go down in price. I don't know why they're priced so high right now, but there's no way they'll stay that high.

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:38 am

RodimalToyota wrote:TFsource and a few others still have the real deals in stock for the same price, why is this so awesome?

Nope theyre at $51.99 with shipping thats $69.68 in total. If cash is tight then a saving of $20 for the sake of a lower quality KO to some is a lot.

I heard the quality of the Thundershred was a little poor, so hopefully they may have improved on this one a little. :-?

News Credits: 1 · by **Thadicon** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:23 pm

Its awesome because I'm a student now and I don't get paid much so any saving is a good saving

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:27 am

Thadicon wrote:Its awesome because I'm a student now and I don't get paid much so any saving is a good saving

I agree, saving as much as $20 on an item & shipping is all good!
Im gonna take a pop on one of these via Tony @ Chimungmung and see what comes of it...?

BTW I am noticing more Chinese sellers popping up on Ebay offering limited edition, store exclusives, masterpieces, exclusives, 3rd party and knock offs for really cheap prices with sometimes free shipping which seems too good to be true?

From these listings I note in their shipping info that items may be subject to the dreaded 'customs charge'!
Is this how they offer free shipping by some how not marking certain things on their shipping label or perhaps something to do with value?
:???:

News Credits: 2 · by **Banjo-Tron** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:31 am

I would think that the saving is too insignificant to land yourself with what will be an either slightly or massively inferior copy though. These guys will be useful for troop building or kitbashing though I guess.