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by **Fausten** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:58 pm

I just received my 2010 Predaking reissue set. Decided to open it up and set the Predacons up on the shelf in 'bot form. Unfortunately, upon transforming Razorclaw, some of the gold paint on his right leg flecked right off! Not sure if this is a general manufacturing defect, or if I just got a bum set. I don't know what to do... kind of hesitant to touch anything else in the set.

Has anyone else received their set and noticed this issue?

News Credits: 1 · by **jlogano20** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:13 pm

no idea but doesn't everyone have trouble with gold paint??

News Credits: 5 · by **REMINATOR** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:19 pm

Prior to the release of the Predaking, we have some concern regarding the gold paint on plastic syndrome. From what you are saying, this doesn't sound too good. I was gonna purchase one. Let see what others have to say.

by **canuckster** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:04 pm

Got mine yesterday... haven't noticed paint problems but there have been a few minor issues.

Headstrong's Hologram came off for no apparent reason... can easily be glued back on but still kind of irritating.

Razorclaw's left leg peg for Predaking is oversized and takes quite a bit of force to push into both Headstrong and Tantrum.

Razorclaw's arms are extremely stiff in robot mode and I'm afraid to rotate them. There is a metal axle from shoulder to shoulder which the arms are attached with a plastic black cylinder, this cylinder it seems should be quite flexible for the rotating action yet looks brittle.

Similar can also be said of one of Rampage's arms, they also sit on a metal axle by plastic black cylinder but the cylinder looks way undersized and the arm requires too much force IMO to pull out.

Razorclaw, Rampage and Divebomb robot mode hands seemed to be poorly aligned and require an annoying amount of fiddling to extend and retract them properly.

Most of these issues are mute since it's just in Predaking mode, which sure looks good on my shelf finally.

News Credits: 1 · by **MightyMagnus78** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:10 pm

canuckster wrote:Got mine yesterday... haven't noticed paint problems but there have been a few minor issues.

Headstrong's Hologram came off for no apparent reason... can easily be glued back on but still kind of irritating.

Razorclaw's left leg peg for Predaking is oversized and takes quite a bit of force to push into both Headstrong and Tantrum.

Razorclaw's arms are extremely stiff in robot mode and I'm afraid to rotate them. There is a metal axle from shoulder to shoulder which the arms are attached with a plastic black cylinder, this cylinder it seems should be quite flexible for the rotating action yet looks brittle.

Similar can also be said of one of Rampage's arms, they also sit on a metal axle by plastic black cylinder but the cylinder looks way undersized and the arm requires too much force IMO to pull out.

Razorclaw, Rampage and Divebomb robot mode hands seemed to be poorly aligned and require an annoying amount of fiddling to extend and retract them properly.

Most of these issues are mute since it's just in Predaking mode, which sure looks good on my shelf finally.

I'm lucky enough to have the 20Th anniversary version of Predaking, and I can honestly say I've experienced none of the issues mentioned. I genuinely considered getting this latest reissue, however after reading this post, I'm sort of glad I didn't.

by **zonkers** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:24 pm

i've had zero issues with paint or transform with mine... some joints are a little tight & a little scary to move at 1st, but once i got past that 1st loud *CLICK!* the anxiety passed :-)

by **NTESHFT** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:05 pm

I won't know how mine will be until Christmas day :sad:

. My wife says I can't open it until then...... But as soon as I check it out, i'll post any problems on here.....

News Credits: 33 · by **Amelie** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:31 pm

Word of the wise here - if you have a problem - do not I repeat, do not tell the wife.

With any luck, you'll be fine and you'll not have to hide anything.

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by **Arucard** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:09 pm

Problems with mine:

Rampage only had one eye painted gold.

Razorclaw's hips are so weak that if Predaking holds his arms out, he flops over at the waist. I need to balance him with his right arm supported on the horns of his right leg.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:14 pm

Predaking is getting a lot of action on the forum today! Haven't got mine yet, still in my BBTS POL.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:15 am

Predaking vintage flops forward regardless of versions(mines the 1986 btw) so no need to worry.

by **NTESHFT** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:56 am

Amelie wrote:Word of the wise here - if you have a problem - do not I repeat, do not tell the wife.

With any luck, you'll be fine and you'll not have to hide anything.

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Oh, trust me, if there is a problem, I won't say anything. She did spend alot of money on it (plus the wings), and I did bug her really bad about this one. So even if it's falling apart, which I'm sure it will be fine, i'm going to love it anyways.

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:52 am

Question about this set, does it have diecast parts or is it all plastic?

by **NTESHFT** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:24 pm

I think it's shinny plastic.......................... UPS just dropped off a BBTS package. It's big.... I believe it's my Predaking. I can't open it it. The missus may get mad, plus I do wanna kind of be surprised....

by **zonkers** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:07 pm

zenprime wrote:Question about this set, does it have diecast parts or is it all plastic?

there are diecast parts (funny you missed a heated thread i was part of

), but its not overwhelming...mostly in the individual figures waists, with the exception being headstrong's (the rhino) back...

[edit:quoted wrong person at 1st, corrected]

by **zonkers** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:24 pm

headsortails wrote:I think it's shinny plastic.......................... UPS just dropped off a BBTS package. It's big.... I believe it's my Predaking. I can't open it it. The missus may get mad, plus I do wanna kind of be surprised....

i'm presuming 'shinny' meant 'shiny'

, & you'd be correct... the red & orange plastics have a kind-of pearlescent quality.. if you follow the link for my pictures in my signature, you can see (slightly) some of the sparkling effect it lends in some of the shots...

by **NTESHFT** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:34 pm

I got to look at the box yesterday.... impressive. I always wanted this combiner. The add on wings are massive! I can't wait to open this............

by **zonkers** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:32 pm

headsortails wrote:I got to look at the box yesterday.... impressive. I always wanted this combiner. The add on wings are massive! I can't wait to open this............

not to get you overly concerned or alarmed (or the wifey

), but there were reports in the past about the add-on wings scuffing up the gold decals & black plastic of the standard wings... i know it was acknowledged by the manufacturer & supposedly they were working on some kind of fix.... does anyone know if this is still an issue?

by **zonkers** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:52 pm

this was the news post on it... i don't recall seeing anything more since, but i could've missed somehting...

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ues/19981/

News Credits: 7 · by **alldarker** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:23 am

zonkers wrote:not to get you overly concerned or alarmed (or the wifey ), but there were reports in the past about the add-on wings scuffing up the gold decals & black plastic of the standard wings... i know it was acknowledged by the manufacturer & supposedly they were working on some kind of fix.... does anyone know if this is still an issue?

Yes, the scuffing of Divebomb's original wings is still an issue, but Crazydevy, the manufacturers of the add-on wings, have already made a (sort of) fix for the problem. The fix consists of adding a ("complimentary") new pair of thinner wings to the CDMW-11 wings, which fit on Divebomb and to Predaking's back, and which replace the original pair when adding on the large CDMW-11 wings.
See this topic for all the information and for pictures of the replacement parts!