RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Those mistransformed stock images of K-9 are very strange. His torso extension is due to his altmode transformation. That hinge shouldn't be visible in Bot Mode. It would be like having Cybershark standing up with his Bot legs in Shark Mode. When even the box art (and old marketing shots) makes it clear that his torso doesn't have a black break inbetween the white and blue of his colour palette. Who [at HasTak] looked at these images and said 'yeah that looks fine!'
This isn't the first time the stock images have been Cleary and insanely wrong. We've seen FAAAR worse.
Yes, yes we have
Dear Primus, have we ever.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:william-james88 wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:william-james88 wrote:Got Primal for $9 today and Tigatron for $5.
Dang, nice. Still feel like $9 is too much for Primal though
Wohoho, shots fired!
It's not that I don't like the mold, but when I got it, the plastic quality just didn't feel good. He does not feel good in hand. He's loose, light, and a lot of things either move when they shouldn't or don't hold together like they should. I just don't like the reissue.
I'm sorry that's been your experience; mine is fairly solid and feels just as hefty as the original to me, and the only things I've noted as loose on him are things that on my secondhand 1996 Primal take excessive force to move.
My only complaint is that the missile launcher springs are underpowered, but that can easily be changed and it doesn't ruin the satisfaction of having a complete Primal (my '96 Primal is missing one sword, two missiles (three if you count the one I have but which is playing hide-and-seek in my room), the mutant mask, the mace, and the left gorilla back panel - meaning he's stuck with the left cannon perma-deployed).
Also, I hope you're being hyperbolic with "$9 is too much for Primal" because that's dirt cheap for a complete figure this size, and even if you got a Primal that turned out poorly... at $9, you effectively got a complete spare parts kit that can be used to restore an incomplete original Primal.
For less than what a single one of his accessories would cost you on eBay. I'd say that's a pretty good deal.
My reissue is perfectly fine quality-wise, so it's straight-up supplanting the original in my collection. I'll still be restoring the original to completeness, but it's no longer as urgent. I think I'll also be turning him into an Ultra-class Nemesis Primal.
I've also recently acquired reissue Cheetor. He's pretty good, although I haven't tested the water gun yet. The beast mode articulation is a disappointment (enough that I do also want to get the Kingdom toy), but on the flipside he has and can store his full weapon set
without having to not only buy 3P add-ons, but then modify said add-ons due to their design failings.
However, I
am annoyed by the fact that they still haven't reversed the stupid retool to the beast mode head hinge that Takara made for their release of Tigatron. I get what they were going for, but it was a dumb thing to do (especially as a true retool instead of just alternate parts) because the figure as a whole doesn't really accommodate it and it results in an incomplete transformation.
Can anyone supply photos of the unvandalized hinge? I want to see how hard correcting it would be.
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