Emerje wrote:I don't have mine handy, I just stuck them in a box a few weeks ago while I build new shelves, but this image on
eBay proves they were properly made on the Hasbro release.
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I feel like a lot of people would have noticed and reported if the side of their firetrucks were bowing out a little.
Emerje
Okay, we seem to have had a biiiiit of a communications failure here. Let me see if I can clarify things.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:However, my Optimus is a frankenformer, with a Takara right paldron and a Hasbro left paldron. And the cylinders are the same "handedness", so the notches don't align.
This isn't a matter of correct or incorrect assembly.
This is a problem caused by my Optimus' paldrons
originally coming from different figures - one came from a figure where the barrels were attached with the notches
towards the front of the paldrons, one came from a figure where the barrels were attached with the notches
away from the front of the paldrons.
Neither way of assembly is incorrect, because thanks to the way the codpiece is hinged the
only thing that matters is that the notches are at the same height. The problem with my copy is purely due to it being a frankenformer.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:What I'm curious about is, is this assembly difference a Hasbro vs. Takara thing? Or is it something that varies from figure to figure no matter which market it was for?
That is to say, is the barrels being attached with the notch
away from the paldron front a Hasbro thing while them being attached with it
towards the paldron front is a Takara thing? Or does it vary on a per-figure basis?
Emerje wrote:this image on
eBay proves they were properly made on the Hasbro release.
So, yeah, about that. 1. See point about neither way of attaching the cylinders being incorrect so long as they're both of opposite-handedness. 2. Looking closely, that pic shows the barrels attached with their notch away from the front of the paldron (just like on my own Hasbro paldron).
Contrast that with Seibertron's Fire Convoy (picture used in first post of this thread), whose paldrons have the barrels attached with the notch towards the front (just like on my own Takara paldron).
So in actuality, that eBay pic seems to support the idea that this is a Hasbro vs. Takara difference.