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Hi there. Over the past few months, I've seen pictures of iGear's Faith Leader, and I think there may have been a review on it, but I was just wondering, has anyone actually bought it? I collect all things Optimus, and I had been meaning to get this. I hadn't realized that it had already been released. I'm thinking about buying their 2nd edition Faith Leader with the cape, but I wanted to get some feedback. It looks great in pictures, but how is the quality? Thanks in advance for any input you can offer!! - tfphatty

tfphatty wrote:Hi there. Over the past few months, I've seen pictures of iGear's Faith Leader, and I think there may have been a review on it, but I was just wondering, has anyone actually bought it? I collect all things Optimus, and I had been meaning to get this. I hadn't realized that it had already been released. I'm thinking about buying their 2nd edition Faith Leader with the cape, but I wanted to get some feedback. It looks great in pictures, but how is the quality? Thanks in advance for any input you can offer!! - tfphatty

I don't own one personally, but from what I've heard the quality is fine, except that in scaling the figure down, several mechanical issues of the figure are not as strong or stable as they previously were.

I have both the Faith Leader and the Nemesis black version.

He rocks!

As CP said, by scaling down, some of the already small parts on MP Optimus become that much smaller, and thus more fragile, so care needs to be taken with them.

They won't break of you look at them funny or anything, just hold back on the brute force method or transformation.

The 'toon accurate head is nice, but it doesn't transform with it on, at least not that I have seen. The "ears" are a bit too wide for that. But for display it looks very nice.

Put it this way, I am now trying to decide if I want to dismantle my MP/Alt display shelf and use that area for other stuff.

Here is a video review that might help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y67gcS5ATBI&feature=channel