MINDVVIPE wrote:Metrosuplex wrote:MINDVVIPE wrote:Thanks dude! I was not going to stand for the crappy hasbro setup. When I first put it together and saw how the knees were, I was very dissapointed. But thanks to those extra weapons, you can actually get some sick poseability, propotions, and stability. It holds together quite well, and any lose joints can be fixed with a lil super glue.
I am astounded by how optimistically disappointed you can be about a figure set! You simultaneously lament the set, while also downplaying the flaws and talking about how awesome it is.
I respect your will to love Abominus (I love the G1 version far more), but I'm still completely shocked by your enthusiasm for what many would consider a "bad" product. Me? I hate this Abominus and expect Hasbro to do better. GLUE may "fix" the problems, but I don't spend $25 on something, just to have to glue it properly (unless it's a model kit, obviously).
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.
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.
Didn't think I had to spell it all out, but thats why I appear to dislike 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.
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.
Wait, what? The legs are different legths? I did not know or notice this. Hold on...
EDIT: Not seeing it, unless I have Rippersnapper/Cindersaur transformed wrong. (Or Blot, but he's harder to screw up...) I loved this little combiner, even as is. I plan on jumping on the Target 2pks just for scramble city llike substitutions. I'm gonna have to figure out what you did with the weapons, but as tight as the Target 5 pack weapons are on mine, I'm not gonna be Able to get the axe apart without breaking a peg, and I have it how I like it. SO unlessI can scroung eenough weapons off other Cyb figs, of which I own four plus Abomy and Cindersaur, its sadly not gonna happen. I do like your mode though quite a bit. The only thing that would've made him bette for me is if I coulda found the other three combiner limbs and not had to get them in crystal candy colors...