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Postby Maz » Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:51 pm

FT-13 Mercenary is FansToys’ second evil insect after FT-12 Grenadier, and has a lot to live up to thanks to the success of the latter. Based on what was originally called a lamellicorn type beetle insect robot, Mercenary recreates the look of the original toy and on-screen inspiration. With die cast, chrome and clear plastic chest flaps a staple of FansToys’ Masterpiece-style bugs, a collector could either leave the figures stock and enjoy the cartoon accurate look or go full G1 toy-centric. Grenadier’s success was based on good quality, a lovely finish, fun transformation, multiple display options and a very good looking accurate evil insect/robot which was faithful to the source material – albeit with two releases to cater for which source material a person saw as greater priority. Mercenary has similar toy and cartoon appearances, so only one release was necessary.


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Postby Evil Eye » Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:27 pm

Motto: "Don't be a goddamn coward."
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Those optional articulated legs for bug mode are just so cool. Provided that Takara doesn't bring out MP Insecticons soon I may go for these.
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