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grimdragon2001 wrote:ok, looks like we are going to have to get 2 sets and do a lot of painting. I can see getting 2 characters out of the arialbot and stunticon molds, and vortex has me convinced he can do blastoff as well, but how are we supposed to get swindle out of brawl?

I'm totaly with you on the Vortex, being retooled as BlastOff, I think that he was initialy designed as BlastOff, but they are previewing him as vortex first as if it was the other way round we would definently think theyhave just retooled blast off to make vortex. This way we accept the mould as vortex, but when he is released as blastoff, as he will be more suited to the mould it will have less compramises. The robot mode is BlastOff all day long, I had to look twice, there are parts there that have been forced to wrk as a helicopter, as the arms could be so much better, as there is no need for them to be so rounded. The Helicopter is so generic they could of made decent arms that merge to make the tail, instead the arms are the nose of a shuttle, which double up as the tail of the helicopter, plus the parts that finish off the tail are obviously the parts needed to retool BlastOff into vortex, otherwise for such a small figure those parts would of been simplified and incorporated into the mould more.
I must say I am disapointed in the combined mode, as the torso parts had such an improved look when in there uncombined characters, I thought the improvements would of run through into the merged form, but sadly the flaws remain, and possibly worsened. These sort offigures are for the fan who has everything.

There wouldn't be much in the way of re-tooling. The base figures will be like little Mr Potato Heads and you just add appropriate parts (wings/rotors etc).

A little disappointed they went this way, but given the size and simplicity of them it's not surprising.

DTR69 wrote:

grimdragon2001 wrote:ok, looks like we are going to have to get 2 sets and do a lot of painting. I can see getting 2 characters out of the arialbot and stunticon molds, and vortex has me convinced he can do blastoff as well, but how are we supposed to get swindle out of brawl?

I'm totaly with you on the Vortex, being retooled as BlastOff, I think that he was initialy designed as BlastOff, but they are previewing him as vortex first as if it was the other way round we would definently think theyhave just retooled blast off to make vortex. This way we accept the mould as vortex, but when he is released as blastoff, as he will be more suited to the mould it will have less compramises. The robot mode is BlastOff all day long, I had to look twice, there are parts there that have been forced to wrk as a helicopter, as the arms could be so much better, as there is no need for them to be so rounded. The Helicopter is so generic they could of made decent arms that merge to make the tail, instead the arms are the nose of a shuttle, which double up as the tail of the helicopter, plus the parts that finish off the tail are obviously the parts needed to retool BlastOff into vortex, otherwise for such a small figure those parts would of been simplified and incorporated into the mould more.
I must say I am disapointed in the combined mode, as the torso parts had such an improved look when in there uncombined characters, I thought the improvements would of run through into the merged form, but sadly the flaws remain, and possibly worsened. These sort offigures are for the fan who has everything.

To be fair, this combined mode is more of a "Hey, look at the thing we did because why not?" rather than the main show. The big finale is the limbs combined with a proper torso.

Could they have made this more complicated? May just sit this one out.

It's so amusing how they managed to pull of such complexity with gum kit toys!!!

What is this, a combiner for ants?

I shall call him... Liokaiser Jr., only because of the way he has a jet's canopy forming his chest.

Burn wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wait, the kits will come in different colors? So does that mean there's a possibility of getting a box that's all vortex and Brawls in different colors and thus not get a complete set?

There's 10 to a box so you'll have 6 unique and 4 double ups.

When you buy a box it's never lucky draw. You always get the same assortment so you can always complete a set.

But that's assuming each mold comes in only two colors and if each color comes in a box. We might have a situation where in a case all of the brawl/swindle molds are green.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Burn wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wait, the kits will come in different colors? So does that mean there's a possibility of getting a box that's all vortex and Brawls in different colors and thus not get a complete set?

There's 10 to a box so you'll have 6 unique and 4 double ups.

When you buy a box it's never lucky draw. You always get the same assortment so you can always complete a set.

But that's assuming each mold comes in only two colors and if each color comes in a box. We might have a situation where in a case all of the brawl/swindle molds are green.

thus why I mentioned painting earlier. get 2 of each, paint one to match the other guy and boom, full set

IF they come in similar colours, they will have sticker sets to fix things up.

These kits may not be the highest quality, but there hasn't been a Kabaya figure in recent years that has been disappointing.

Burn wrote:IF they come in similar colours, they will have sticker sets to fix things up.

These kits may not be the highest quality, but there hasn't been a Kabaya figure in recent years that has been disappointing.

To be fair, they're a good deal sturdier than most of the FoC deluxes.

RAcast wrote:

Burn wrote:IF they come in similar colours, they will have sticker sets to fix things up.

These kits may not be the highest quality, but there hasn't been a Kabaya figure in recent years that has been disappointing.

To be fair, they're a good deal sturdier than most of the FoC deluxes.

Hasbro/Takara's gunna need this.

Mindmaster wrote:

RAcast wrote:

Burn wrote:IF they come in similar colours, they will have sticker sets to fix things up.

These kits may not be the highest quality, but there hasn't been a Kabaya figure in recent years that has been disappointing.

To be fair, they're a good deal sturdier than most of the FoC deluxes.

Hasbro/Takara's gunna need this.

Ahaha, nice one man. Bazinga!

It's true though.

I love the little buggers. I don't love putting them together (yay for fat fingers!) but I love opening them and working out the engineering that's gone into them and how similar, but different they are to their larger versions.

And as others have said, they're often more sturdier. Sure they may lack ball joints, but they're still surprisingly articulated.

Which reminds me, I have a Deathsaurus kit I haven't put together yet. I think I'll go do that!

Anyone else getting a Bombshock vibe from Brawl?

Japanese store amiami shows off another image of the Kabaya Series 7 Gaia Scramble limbs. This image show both alt modes that each limb can achieve and also a couple of the combiner forms.

I love the look of those lil guys in both modes! Very clever idea it works surprisingly well.

So the space shuttle and helicopter dudes are triple changers? They have the same robot mode and bits for either sort of vehicle, so...

Handels-Messerschmitt wrote:So the space shuttle and helicopter dudes are triple changers? They have the same robot mode and bits for either sort of vehicle, so...

They all are. Each robot contains (in box) contains enough bits to make either vehicle A or vehicle B.

Right... like legos are triple changers. Wait... huh.

Some of the colors are off. Unless the cores will be in different colors as well

What's with the colours? I hope we get a g1 colour scheme ...

I got my sets today and I'm confused and disappointed. It doesn't seem like you'll be able to build the combiners the classic G1 way with the box of limbs as it is.