Swindle01 wrote:why would i pay andy £70 when i can get the ko for £45 with free postage from other sites?
only reason andy has even lowered the price on this now is coz he knows everyone will buy the ko
robotmel wrote:Swindle01 wrote:why would i pay andy £70 when i can get the ko for £45 with free postage from other sites?
only reason andy has even lowered the price on this now is coz he knows everyone will buy the ko
Kapow Toys have the original version listed back up to £80!
Multiple Chinese sellers on Ebay knocking out the high quality KO (according to Robot Kingdoms comparison) delivered into the UK for around £30/£35!
Now owning a Battle Tanker upgrade can be easy for everyone at a good price....
but tracking down a G2 Prime in the UK has become a nightmare!
I can only guess that certain smaller UK Transformer retailers are gonna hold back their stocks of the G2 Prime for a while as the demand for him will increase with said KO being in arms reach.
Once everyone who wants one are happy with a KO Battle Tanker retailers will squeeze a few G2 Primes out at an inflated price, probably so they can break even with all the official MakeToys Battle Tankers they have in their stock rooms?
So I can only see the next step in the KO Battle Tanker saga being a KO of G2 Prime (especially in Scourge deco) being offered up over the coming months?
zodconvoy wrote:If the price was going to go up for G2 Optimus it would have before the Maketoys Tanker came out. I would also have said that KOs of it would be unlikely but with the mold being used for Botcon this year, it is a distinct possibility. If their isn't one by July, there won't be one.
Swindle01 wrote:really? because i saw 2 on ebay yesterday go for less than £12 with postage......
Swindle01 wrote:im assuming the same will happen with this figure over time now like what happened with the White classics prime all of a sudden costing over £70 just because of the city commander kit which you can get the ko of for less than £30
robotmel wrote:Exactly! KO Ultra Magnus and KO City Commander can be picked up cheap as chips now, so with the KO Battle Tanker being freely available for a good price, its only a matter of time for the G2 Prime to be knocked off in my opinion?
Swindle01 wrote:for those wanting to know KO Protector is being prototyped at the end of this month. Then depending on how the prototype is will depend on how long the ko is going to be
Swindle01 wrote:a fool and there money are soon parted
an extra £40 for a small toy robot face....wow...
Swindle01 wrote:a fool and there money are soon parted
an extra £40 for a small toy robot face....wow...
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
zodconvoy wrote:I got the KO Battle Tanker in the mail today! It has real good plastic and the plastic colors are spot on to the pictures of the real one but the silver paint apps are a mess. The LED for the sword is super weak, like ridiculously so. I didn't think they came that dim. The new crotch piece for Laser OP doesn't get all the way flush together with the back aft piece but it's on enough that the upgrade waist stays on so there's that. The plastic, while sturdy, has a lot of little extra nubs and bits (Drift's sword had this kinda badass hook at the tip) that need to be snipped off but not sanded down. The packaging is really cheap, like it was designed for nice thick card stock and they went with the thin cheap shoebox stuff instead. And if the plastic inserts were any thinner, they'd be imaginary. I actually like the weird, gilled faceplate but that's because I'm turning it into Scourge so it's okay to look a little ugly. It looks exactly like the pics Robot Kingdom posted so I didn't take any new ones. Honestly, having this on my table and painting it black, I really do want to get the real one now. The KO will do for making Nemesis Prime but that's about it.
I recommend it and a black can of spray paint.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Swindle01 wrote:its not as easy as -spray afew parts black -
theres blue/silver on scourge so unless your good at pannel linning....
Shadowstream wrote:But really that's all that would be needed from the battle tanker itself... 30 minutes of work, tops. I suppose they could go the extra mile and add chrome to the trailer itself, but at KO quality I don't imagine it being that worthwhile.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Shadowstream wrote:I am not referring to the base figure itself, I am well aware what an issue it would be to repaint, that's NOT what I'm talking about!
To clarify, the plastic is not what I'm worried on the KO Battle Tanker, I meant the chrome paint. In my experience KO companies generally don't do good paint, and knock offs with chrome are some of the worst offenders. Like I said it's not necessary though, chrome to me is little more than a happy bonus, and far from needed to get the base feel of an updated Scourge, just the fact that he's black.
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