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by **Us and Them** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:46 am

I bought 2 of these guys from this ebay seller in China. It's a Gen-2 Laser Optimus done as the 2007 movie colors. It is actually pretty decent. A chromed grill. It looks hand painted in some areas..Some sloppy aps here and there..The stickers are blah at best..The chest ones, that normally say "Optimus Prime" have that, reversed colors, and it's backwards, "Prime Optimus"--clever. They did a nice job though of doing the flame decal on it. The plastic is really nice, not official quality, and the joints are some what loose, but, it isn't fragile by any means. No trailer, or gun, but it does come with the sword. I think I'm gonna take this one and repaint a robot mode to make it look more movie like.

I plan on picking up a few more of the KO ones as well..While cheap..I kinda think they're pretty cool.

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:52 am

ZoneDaiatlas wrote:Also our friends over at "Age 3 and UP" will be selling KO's of G1 Sunstreaker for $64.99...
http://www.agesthreeandup.com/main.jsp? ... ct_id=1681

That sounds awesome. Could the quality of this KO be similar to a real Hasbro/Takara TF? After all, that is a hefty pricetag for a KO.

by **vidmouse** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:29 am

Saw some KO supercon Primes at Big Lots the other day, some were actually close to the correct red/blue color, some were yellow, all had yellow heads. The interesting thing was that they all had different rear ends... a cement mixer, a crane, a dump truck, a garbage truck :grin:

I missed out b/c I didn't have my camera and didn't want to shell $2.50 for each.

In afterthought, I might go back and get the cement mixer one and somehow repaint/kitbash it into a Scourge w/ the cement mixer part as his tanker.

Sorry no photos...

News Credits: 4 · by **Bumblethumper** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:18 pm

Us and Them wrote:I bought 2 of these guys from this ebay seller in China. It's a Gen-2 Laser Optimus done as the 2007 movie colors. It is actually pretty decent. A chromed grill. It looks hand painted in some areas. I think I'm gonna take this one and repaint a robot mode to make it look more movie like.

Be sure to post your results. Might be worth doing.

What I find interesting about this figure, is all the trouble they went to make the truck mode match the movie is hidden by packaging it in robot form.

News Credits: 4 · by **Bumblethumper** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:22 pm

Scaleface wrote:Giant protoform Optimus Prime and Starscream. These are as big as the Voyager class Optimus and Starscream toys.

http://cgi.ebay.com/TRANSFORMERS-Protof ... dZViewItem

They cheaped out on the Optimus there... it's got starscream's body with a different chest piece and head.

by **Cungitron** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:58 am

Hey All

Saw someone mention ko alts. Here is White Hound. I got it from an ebay seller called kenscollection in Hongkong.

I added the autobot symbol from a reprolabels sheet

The only fault i have with it is that the waist is a little loose and it scratches easily. Other than that its great

by **swampflight** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:21 am

I live in Melbourne,FL.and the Big Lots here has started selling over-sized K.O.mini-cons.The quality of the plastic is actually pretty good and they look and transform almost exactly like the smaller ones.These figures also have a good potentional for customizing.I apologize for the lack of pictures. :DINO:

News Credits: 49 · by **Scaleface** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:02 pm

I have 4 local big lots and they all have the $2 figures, but none of them have the cars, they all have the jets, the tanks or the construction vehicles. Anyone know if there are any of the knockoff cars in the lower Michigan area?

by **Wes Crayon** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:18 pm

Scaleface wrote:I have 4 local big lots and they all have the $2 figures, but none of them have the cars, they all have the jets, the tanks or the construction vehicles. Anyone know if there are any of the knockoff cars in the lower Michigan area?

I don't, but it sounds like I'm in the opposite boat -- our local one has (or had, the last time I was there) tons of the cars and military vehicles, but none of the construction ones. Hrm.

by **Supercollider** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:21 pm

Just a flying visit befor emy newbron starts bawling again.

This Ebay sellers got several combiner and alternator KO's
http://search.stores.ebay.co.uk/nanxing ... ingwaipo16

Also he's using Seibertron images for the Grimlock Alt so can someone flag that up to Siebs himself to take it up with him.

News Credits: 49 · by **Scaleface** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:58 pm

Wes Crayon wrote:
Scaleface wrote:I have 4 local big lots and they all have the $2 figures, but none of them have the cars, they all have the jets, the tanks or the construction vehicles. Anyone know if there are any of the knockoff cars in the lower Michigan area?

I don't, but it sounds like I'm in the opposite boat -- our local one has (or had, the last time I was there) tons of the cars and military vehicles, but none of the construction ones. Hrm.

Want to trade a few? How many construction variants do you want? I think there are 8 molds in 2 colors each.

Like SirToys on Facebook · by **SirToys** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:19 am

Transformer Knockoffs are Awesome! been following this thread for a while, always intended to post pics of my collection, finally did, took too many, so made an album,

http://www.actionfigurechecklist.com/Images/Album/

by **Auto Bot** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:09 am

Scaleface wrote:Giant protoform Optimus Prime and Starscream. These are as big as the Voyager class Optimus and Starscream toys.

http://cgi.ebay.com/TRANSFORMERS-Protof ... dZViewItem

This is good!

News Credits: 5 · by **horus** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:50 pm

Us and Them wrote:I bought 2 of these guys from this ebay seller in China. It's a Gen-2 Laser Optimus done as the 2007 movie colors. It is actually pretty decent. A chromed grill. It looks hand painted in some areas..Some sloppy aps here and there..The stickers are blah at best..The chest ones, that normally say "Optimus Prime" have that, reversed colors, and it's backwards, "Prime Optimus"--clever. They did a nice job though of doing the flame decal on it. The plastic is really nice, not official quality, and the joints are some what loose, but, it isn't fragile by any means. No trailer, or gun, but it does come with the sword. I think I'm gonna take this one and repaint a robot mode to make it look more movie like.

...

I plan on picking up a few more of the KO ones as well..While cheap..I kinda think they're pretty cool.

can he be retroffited with electronics or are those options gone for good?

also bought a prime but he's still on it's way to Portugal

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:36 am

Paul Grant wrote:Transformer Knockoffs are Awesome! been following this thread for a while, always intended to post pics of my collection, finally did, took too many, so made an album,

http://www.actionfigurechecklist.com/Images/Album/

I love that oversized Brawl of yours. Very cool. Very very col.

by **Auto Bot** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:34 am

I've seen some minicons KO. Don't know if i'll get them or not.

I forgot their names. They're the bicycle, skateboard, and scooter.

News Credits: 49 · by **Scaleface** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:42 am

That's Perceptor - aka the Street Action Team.

I just got a line on some redecoed knockoff minicons and Micromaster sets. All in shocking neon colors.

by **Bonger** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:20 am

Can anyone who has these WST KOs give me a quick review.

Thanks!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-Combin ... dZViewItem

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:37 am

Cungitron wrote:Hey All

Saw someone mention ko alts. Here is White Hound. I got it from an ebay seller called kenscollection in Hongkong.

I added the autobot symbol from a reprolabels sheet

The only fault i have with it is that the waist is a little loose and it scratches easily. Other than that its great

I really like those white KO Alts. I'm really looking for a version of Sideswipe in white, and one of the Subaru and Mustang molds would be great too. Does anyone know if these exist?

by **Cungitron** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:31 am

rpetras wrote:
Cungitron wrote:Hey All

Saw someone mention ko alts. Here is White Hound. I got it from an ebay seller called kenscollection in Hongkong.

I added the autobot symbol from a reprolabels sheet

The only fault i have with it is that the waist is a little loose and it scratches easily. Other than that its great

I really like those white KO Alts. I'm really looking for a version of Sideswipe in white, and one of the Subaru and Mustang molds would be great too. Does anyone know if these exist?

I think the seller i bought it from also had Sideswipe in white. He's not listed on Ebay anymore but his website is under construction. http://www.kenscollection.com. The company that makes these ko's is called A&L but a quick google yielded no results :-(

News Credits: 7 · by **waaaaghlord** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:56 am

Bonger wrote:Can anyone who has these WST KOs give me a quick review.

Thanks!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-Combin ... dZViewItem

I've got Fort Max, Superion, Defensor, Devastator, Bruticus and Menasor. They're okay as boosters for the WST line but nothing all that special quality wise. The joints on the gestalts are a bit tighter than some of the larger KO versions which helps, although my Max is a bit floppy. The Scramble style combiners don't have fully interchangable limbs, the arms can only be arms and the legs can only be legs. While the limb-bots are a goodish match for WSTs the torsobots tower over them, but this is far less of a problem if you plan on keeping them in combined mode. As with other KO versions of the Stunticons a couple of the cars are replaced by random Technobots. The labels are of the "cheap and likely to come off" variety and are usually poorly applied, I've removed them from all of mine except Defensor and I'll probably take those off at some stage (kind of regret removing the purple stripes from Motormaster's truck mode though). The Liokaiser I've avoided because it replaces one of the jet arms with some sort of tank, I've gone with a KO Kabaya Liokaiser to go with my WSTs instead.

They're far from perfect but do make good boosters for a line that died too young. If you're planning on playing with them a lot then they're not the greatest thing in the world, if you just want to display them alongside the WSTs then you should probably go for it.

Reprolabels have done a set at this size for Superion, so other reduced size sets for these KOs may well be forthcoming somewhere down the line, which would add to their asthetic value considerably. Hope that's of some help.

by **blunghole** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:01 pm

Scaleface wrote:That's Perceptor - aka the Street Action Team.

I just got a line on some redecoed knockoff minicons and Micromaster sets. All in shocking neon colors.

Okay, I need those. Where can I get them?

News Credits: 1 · by **Powersa** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:45 pm

rpetras wrote:
Cungitron wrote:Hey All

Saw someone mention ko alts. Here is White Hound. I got it from an ebay seller called kenscollection in Hongkong.

I added the autobot symbol from a reprolabels sheet

The only fault i have with it is that the waist is a little loose and it scratches easily. Other than that its great

I really like those white KO Alts. I'm really looking for a version of Sideswipe in white, and one of the Subaru and Mustang molds would be great too. Does anyone know if these exist?

KO Alt Dodge Viper - yes.
KO Alt Subaru - yes.
KO Alt Mustang - yes.

I've seen photos of them.

News Credits: 3 · by **muswp1** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:35 pm

Does anyone know if there is a new KO of G1 Swerve (the minibot)? I've seen a couple popup on E-Bay either MOSC or sealed in the bubble with the card cut out around the bubble. I've also seen a Tailgate and Pipes cut out in the same manner. All the sellers have been in the US.

by **vidmouse** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:27 pm

buddahscott wrote:
Scaleface wrote:That's Perceptor - aka the Street Action Team.

I just got a line on some redecoed knockoff minicons and Micromaster sets. All in shocking neon colors.

Okay, I need those. Where can I get them?

I agree, they are very cool-looking.
I'd even like to see a photo of the one in the 2nd photo
that looks like a blue Hot Rod -- can you post a photo
of it transformed into robot mode please?