by Warbreaker » Tue May 12, 2009 11:25 pm
- Motto: "Lines must be drawn. Limits must be defined."
- Weapon: Air Concussion Cannon
^You mean the Fast Action Battler version.
Before I go all giddy from the awesomeness, I have to note a frustrating problem on Long Haul that also plagues Demolishor, a problem where Hasbro's plastic-assigning department needs a fat slap across the face:
The miniature handrails appear to be made of rigid plastic. Given their tiny size and thickness a little budge causes stress-marks to pop up at the base of these rails EXTREMELY easily, just look at the picture of the FAB and Voyager alt-modes placed together and you can see one of the handrails is actually bent backwards along with turning white at the base(2nd from left); an excellent scenario for using the soft, bendy plastic we all typically see on sharp pointy swords, blades etc. But nooooooo, it has to be hard plastic. Breakage is something carefulness prevents, but kids aren't so restrained where playing comes to the mind, and I'm willing to put my money on countless kids manhandling their Demolishors/Long Hauls only to snap those handrails within minutes. If I ever meet the guy who halfassed the plastic assignment for the rails...
Ooother than that, ooooooh, nice! That sure puts his FAB version to shame (I swear, if I saw anymore LH FAB pics I'd be subliminally-convinced to buy his FAB toy, and I don't collect FABs)! Nice paint and mold detailing, decent-looking axes in BOTH his arms, decent feature of (presumably working) pistons in his elbow joints, he's practically a must have (though I must see if Takara's version also screwed up the handrails)!