Mindvvipe wrote:
Uhm... okay. Well, I liked the concept of a cheaper, quick/easy to transform gestalt that happens to be monsters, and therefore had lee way for being crazy looking. After actually putting it together, I was dissapointed at the fact that the knees don't swivel, each leg stands akwardly due to different heights, making it all look gimpy once I could hold it in hand and can actually tell it was gimpy, rather than see photos of it taken to make it look better than it really was. The arms were always okay to me, and the rest was okay too, considering the other stuff i said I already liked.
Yes, exactly, so why all the positive accolades for something that's admittedly flawed? Some people react with disappointment and frustration, I mean.
Then, after I had modified it to have giant arms with conceivable fingers, and legs that were quite poseable, I now love it coz it takes 5 surprisingly cool looking, albeit rigid robots (if you like G1, then this shouldn't really bother you), and gives them a combiner mode that has better poseability than any G1 combiner.
Disagree completely. The five bits fall apart mind of easy, and are NOT G1 quality. I don't have a G1 Rippersnapper who's head pops off constantly. The G1 limbs held in place, these do not (the connections are undeniably cheap and inedficient).
He's cheap, if you don't mind lousy construction and durability - chinese KOs? You have to wonder how close in quality they could reproduce this tiny Abominus (the KO might even improve on the durability).
Didn't think I had to spell it all out, but thats why I appear to disliked the figure, in its hasbro suggested configuration, but love it once I was able to fix my issues myself. It doesn't need glue to hold together, but the weight of each arm tends to draw each one down on the balljoint shoulder of Hun-grr. That is where you add glue for friction, not to have it actually stick in a permanent place. Hope that clears it all up. $25 isn't that much for this novelty. It's the only legends combiner that doesn't blow once I make it work for me, and each figure itself warrants it's purchase, and I usually?? don't even like legends/cyberverse/smaller and less poseable figures.
Well thanks for the thoughtful response. I think I understood your point. I was only lamenting the lack of collector unity on these issues: seems we CANNOT agree that Hasbro did a lousy job. And if we can't agree, we are not sending the message. I love some Hasbro releases (i.e. Junkheap), but the quality is horribly inconsistent between releases and I want some support on how bad Abominus turned out. I kind of hope they lose their shirt and consider doing a better job next time (i.e. how the free market is supposed to work! Before government bailouts and blind collector support).[/quote]
BTW, if you've been collecting long enough, you come to realize that even after spending a decent wad of cash on a bot you like, your going to get factory issues or whatever, and you either lump it, or spend the time to fix it and make it reach the potential it has. Just how Transformers are sometimes, especially with hasbro.
Yes, this. But if you've been collecting as long as I have, you realize you are not locked into Hasbro's crap, like a poor slave. Playmates, Mattel, Jakks Pacific, and 3rd Parties (if you are stuck on just TFs). My point is that an abusive bf doesn't get better over time. You either demand better or just date other people!
I was hoping Disney would buy out Hasbro, just to see someone else take control of the property. Hasbro is running it into the ground.
But hopefully they didn't fire all of their creativity, and some things will turn around (like the crappy small figures you mentioned - cyberverse is a poor replacement for scouts and legions/legends).
Well done!
I love Cutthroat, but he will just never be a good arm.
You simultaneously lament the set, while also downplaying the flaws and talking about how awesome it is. 
