gothsaurus wrote:The earlier article didn't have any verbal explanation, just photos. BUT it looks to me like there are clips that hold the engines in. Guessing you could access from the back and un-clip them to remove, but inserting them again would be permanent again — unless you did a mod.
Very much a bummer that Takara didn't stick with the POTP design to retain the play value of the accessories. I'd love to swap engines in and out of that thing, but since it means actually modifying a quite-expensive figure, guessing I'll just enjoy swapping engines in the Hasbro one.
Rated X wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:Rated X wrote:So are the fake engines actually glued in there or just wedged in super tight? I get that he didnt want to damage the toy to find out. But somebodys gotta do it. I got a feeling they are similar to the pink thing that comes with POTP starscream and the paint made them tight as hell to remove.
There are pictures here earlier in that show them, plus the mod to remove them, clip them and attach them to the backs of the Headmaster figures.
Thanks ! Thats awesome ! This is one mod I might be tempted to do !
primalxconvoy wrote:Rated X wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:Rated X wrote:So are the fake engines actually glued in there or just wedged in super tight? I get that he didnt want to damage the toy to find out. But somebodys gotta do it. I got a feeling they are similar to the pink thing that comes with POTP starscream and the paint made them tight as hell to remove.
There are pictures here earlier in that show them, plus the mod to remove them, clip them and attach them to the backs of the Headmaster figures.
Thanks ! Thats awesome ! This is one mod I might be tempted to do !
That's a mod I'm going to do. It looks pretty easy. One mod used modelling clay/putty to fill in the back of the engine plates, possibly to allow the screw to "bite" into something.
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- Just found these pics of the clones, and someone managed to find guns for them. You can see the Legends ones opposite their G1 versions. I've no idea where those new guns came from; Shapeways? From existing official toys? Anyone know?
gothsaurus wrote:The earlier article didn't have any verbal explanation, just photos. BUT it looks to me like there are clips that hold the engines in. Guessing you could access from the back and un-clip them to remove, but inserting them again would be permanent again — unless you did a mod.
Very much a bummer that Takara didn't stick with the POTP design to retain the play value of the accessories. I'd love to swap engines in and out of that thing, but since it means actually modifying a quite-expensive figure, guessing I'll just enjoy swapping engines in the Hasbro one.
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
primalxconvoy wrote:Why didn't they make the holes for the Titanmasters the other way round? At least that way, the heads on the them would be pointing UP (like the original), instead of DOWN (in the new version). I doubt it would have been difficult to do...
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:Why didn't they make the holes for the Titanmasters the other way round? At least that way, the heads on the them would be pointing UP (like the original), instead of DOWN (in the new version). I doubt it would have been difficult to do...
That would have required a whole new chest piece at the very least, for a very insignificant detail. Why bother?
Because then the faces people would stick in there would be upside-down. While, yes, having faces in the chest at all is silly, having them upside-down would be *too* silly.primalxconvoy wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:Why didn't they make the holes for the Titanmasters the other way round? At least that way, the heads on the them would be pointing UP (like the original), instead of DOWN (in the new version). I doubt it would have been difficult to do...
That would have required a whole new chest piece at the very least, for a very insignificant detail. Why bother?
I meant, from the very beginning. Why didn't the original have this? It wouldn't have been hard and would have meant the figures looked correct. Using Headmasters would have looked silly either way, so there's no reason not to.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Because then the faces people would stick in there would be upside-down. While, yes, having faces in the chest at all is silly, having them upside-down would be *too* silly.primalxconvoy wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:Why didn't they make the holes for the Titanmasters the other way round? At least that way, the heads on the them would be pointing UP (like the original), instead of DOWN (in the new version). I doubt it would have been difficult to do...
That would have required a whole new chest piece at the very least, for a very insignificant detail. Why bother?
I meant, from the very beginning. Why didn't the original have this? It wouldn't have been hard and would have meant the figures looked correct. Using Headmasters would have looked silly either way, so there's no reason not to.
blackeyedprime wrote:The extra bend backwards torso joint is a weird feature over the sky shadow mold and probably good for flying robot poses.
Sabrblade wrote:Check this out.
Here's a few comparison pics between the new Legends Overlord and the 1988 original toy, and it turns out that not only is the Legends one more show-accurate that the Titans Return Overlord, but it's also more toy-accurate as well. That dark blue is way more closer the original toy's dark blue than Hasbro Overlord's bright blue, as well as the toes being colored purple like on the original toy:
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