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Wed May 27, 2026 11:45 pm

Is it just deliveries to Canada & the U.S. at this point?
Anyone else received theirs outside of North America?

News Credits: 2 · Thu May 28, 2026 5:06 pm

Just received mine yesterday and it is amazing. Each figure looks great and feels solid. Not as many hollow spots as I feared and they have really good articulation. Ball joint wrists and most have great neck/head movement, which are important for posing. Although I really wish Hellbat had the cutout on back of his head to look up more like some of the others, well it would be sweet if they all did. Even the combiner joints on the bots give a bit of an ab crunch and waist tilt to the side.

Robot modes are awesome, alt modes decent, combiner mode is super great. They look super cartoon accurate, which is my preferred style. Weapons are awesome, breast guns and spears. Pretty good stands also. No QC issues I see yet.

All in all I am super happy with it. Victory Saber is my only other HasLab and now my second favorite. My wife isn't that into Transformers, but was jealous at the fun I was having opening up the boxes and playing. She couldn't help but join in. Brawl is still her favorite though and she says he could take them all on, lol.

News Credits: 2 · Fri May 29, 2026 2:53 am

Hero Alpha wrote:Just received mine yesterday and it is amazing. Each figure looks great and feels solid. Not as many hollow spots as I feared and they have really good articulation. Ball joint wrists and most have great neck/head movement, which are important for posing. Although I really wish Hellbat had the cutout on back of his head to look up more like some of the others, well it would be sweet if they all did. Even the combiner joints on the bots give a bit of an ab crunch and waist tilt to the side.

Robot modes are awesome, alt modes decent, combiner mode is straight fire. They look super cartoon accurate, which is my preferred style. Weapons are awesome, breast guns and spears. Pretty good stands also. No QC issues I see yet.

All in all I am super happy with it. Victory Saber is my only other HasLab and now my second favorite. My wife isn't that into Transformers, but was jealous at the fun I was having opening up the boxes and playing. She couldn't help but join in. Brawl is still her favorite though and she says he could take them all on, lol.

Holy crap this is all music to my ears....thanks Hero Alpha! Now I am unfortunately ready to pay top dollar for this 'ol boy!!! :VEHI:

News Credits: 7 · Sat May 30, 2026 5:19 pm

Got my notification last Thursday. He'll be arriving on Tuesday, but I won't be home to sign, so I instructed them to send it to my nearest Wal Mart so I can sign there and pick him up.

News Credits: 42 · Sun May 31, 2026 11:28 am

Ugh, Haslab QC strikes again. I have a misassembly on Gaihawk that will not allow me to transform him back from arm mode into either bot or jet mode. The misassembly appears to be on the combiner shoulder ratchet and is preventing the black part for the shoulder connection from folding back in. It was very difficult to fold out as well. I believe the black portion of the shoulder ratchet is not fully into its correct spot within the torso and causing interference with the black part the folds out. I've circled the part in the torso causing the interference and the part of the black fold out shoulder connection where it interferes.

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Unfortunately the torso is glued together, so there is no way to safely take it apart to try and fix it inside the torso. However, I do think I can fix the interference issue by sanding down the part of the black shoulder connector where it interferes.

The issue did not affect the shoulder in combined mode at all, so I think my fix should work, but I'm going to wait and see if mine was a one-off misassembly, or if it is a larger issue that may have replacements like the past Haslab QC failures before I try anything.