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It's true, I double hinge all of the combiners elbows unless the molding won't allow (StrafeJelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Everyone loves a double hinge for the elbow, right?I'm not too bothered by the hollow look, it's a fair trade-off.
Wolfman Jake wrote:This is definitely not news, but I thought I'd post this here anyway. Thew has put up a review of Power of the Primes Punch/Counterpunch today, and it's exactly the kind of Thew review you'd expect!
https://youtu.be/HtNr129VovM
Nemesis Primal wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:This is definitely not news, but I thought I'd post this here anyway. Thew has put up a review of Power of the Primes Punch/Counterpunch today, and it's exactly the kind of Thew review you'd expect!
https://youtu.be/HtNr129VovM
You mean Counch/Puntercounch?
My Jazz didn't even come with instructions in its packaging.Skritz wrote:Jazz is absolute rubbish, ech, mine feels like a Knock off. Now visually he looks okay, that's not the problem, the problem is the plastic feels utterly flimsy, weak and brittle. Nothing tabs in properly. Good thing I only got him because he was on sale for utterly cheap.
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.'
Skritz wrote:Again, to reiterate: he doesn't look bad, I actually quite like him as some new CW-style car mold with a hood chest. That's neat. But quality-wise this is the most rubbish thing I've ever added to my colletion and is a floppy mess that just doesn't want to stay together.
And to top it off he's not the 'hilarious variant' which would have been one thing to make him funny, at least to me.
As usual YMMV with QC and expectations. I have the non-maga variant and it seems fine and on par with rest of the PotP figures. I find it to be a really cool mold with a lot going on for it. My copy tabs together fine in both modes and holds all poses well. I do wish I would had waited for Ricochet though, as RTS Jazz (to me) is considerably better, but that's a damn high benchmark to overcome.Wolfman Jake wrote:Skritz wrote:Again, to reiterate: he doesn't look bad, I actually quite like him as some new CW-style car mold with a hood chest. That's neat. But quality-wise this is the most rubbish thing I've ever added to my colletion and is a floppy mess that just doesn't want to stay together.
And to top it off he's not the 'hilarious variant' which would have been one thing to make him funny, at least to me.
You might have ended up with a lemon, unfortunately. I've handled several PotP Jazz figures over the last year, and most of them hold together well. The clear plastic areas may feel flimsy and potentially brittle, but I've had no breakage issues yet, and most samples tab together as intended. The only big issue I have with one of my copies is that the combiner feet don't seem to like to stick in solidly in the hole at the back at the car. The other copy I have right now does the job just fine (and is the one I, not coincidentally, use in combined form mostly).
I don't do it with all of mine. Depending on which figures I use as arms. As I look at my combiners on the shelf, I notice that those who have cars for arms are locked together, thus have shorter arms. Bruticus, on the other hand, with Blast Off and Vortex as arms, have the joints. Moonracer and Firestar are also arms on Betatron, and have joints.carytheone wrote:Who's not doing this
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:Recently, I've been giving some re-thinking to my plans for what I want to do with both Elita Infin1te and Inferno's combiner.
My most recent plans for the two were to give Elita limbs from Moonracer, Novastar, Siege Greenlight, and hope that Habro may come through with one more fembot limb (Lancer, perhaps). While Inferno would get a full set of four limbs via Jazz, Wreck-Gar, Ricochet, and Red Swoop.
However, looking at Elita's box art again got me thinking. If I were wanting to try and adhere as close as possible to the official configuration for her seen in said art, then I would use Jazz and Ricochet as her legs, and Moonracer as her left arm. For her right arm, the obvious choice would be to use Novastar, but since the right arm is completely cut off from view in the art, that gives enough ambiguity for her right arm to be officially ambiguous, which would allow me to use Greenlight for the right arm without issue.
Now, why the use of Greenlight instead of Novastar for Elita? Well, because of Novastar's relationship with Inferno. She could theoretically form his right arm, with her already having been his right hand bot. Sure, I could instead just give Greenlight to Inferno and Novastar to Elita, but Novastar at least has some personal connection to Inferno, arguable making her, more than any of Inferno's other potential limb choices, more sensible a choice to be a part of his combiner form.
Limbs that were previously assigned to other combiners: Sludge and Slug (who belong to Volcanicus) as the legs, and Jazz (whom Elita already took possession of in her artwork) as the left arm (the right arm is cut off from view).Wolfman Jake wrote:So, what does the packaging art depict as the limbs that Inferno is "supposed" to use?
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.'
Rodimus Prime wrote:I don't have Elita, because I'm not fond of the mold too much. I have Starscream and I'm not impressed.
I'm a little sour on Starscream, myself, but mostly because I just got one for Christmas and it's a broken copy. One of the wings is missing the pin that attaches it to the body (it's hanging on by friction alone), and one of the little wing fragment pieces that connects to the jet's nose broke instantly because the plastic is warped where the little bolt that connects it to the jet's nose goes.Emerje wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:I don't have Elita, because I'm not fond of the mold too much. I have Starscream and I'm not impressed.
Honest opinion, the mold is much better on as Elita 1. I really don't like the Starscream figure, but she looks great!
Emerje
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.'
Well that's a bummer. That mold shines as a torso, is so-so as a bot and alt-mode is jet like. Elita wears it better.Sabrblade wrote:I'm a little sour on Starscream, myself, but mostly because I just got one for Christmas and it's a broken copy. One of the wings is missing the pin that attaches it to the body (it's hanging on by friction alone), and one of the little wing fragment pieces that connects to the jet's nose broke instantly because the plastic is warped where the little bolt that connects it to the jet's nose goes.Emerje wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:I don't have Elita, because I'm not fond of the mold too much. I have Starscream and I'm not impressed.
Honest opinion, the mold is much better on as Elita 1. I really don't like the Starscream figure, but she looks great!
Emerje
Emerje wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:I don't have Elita, because I'm not fond of the mold too much. I have Starscream and I'm not impressed.
Honest opinion, the mold is much better on as Elita 1. I really don't like the Starscream figure, but she looks great!
Emerje
Sabrblade wrote:Recently, I've been giving some re-thinking to my plans for what I want to do with both Elita Infin1te and Inferno's combiner.
My most recent plans for the two were to give Elita limbs from Moonracer, Novastar, Siege Greenlight, and hope that Habro may come through with one more fembot limb (Lancer, perhaps). While Inferno would get a full set of four limbs via Jazz, Wreck-Gar, Ricochet, and Red Swoop.
However, looking at Elita's box art again got me thinking. If I were wanting to try and adhere as close as possible to the official configuration for her seen in said art, then I would use Jazz and Ricochet as her legs, and Moonracer as her left arm. For her right arm, the obvious choice would be to use Novastar, but since the right arm is completely cut off from view in the art, that gives enough ambiguity for her right arm to be officially ambiguous, which would allow me to use Greenlight for the right arm without issue.
Now, why the use of Greenlight instead of Novastar for Elita? Well, because of Novastar's relationship with Inferno. She could theoretically form his right arm, with her already having been his right hand bot. Sure, I could instead just give Greenlight to Inferno and Novastar to Elita, but Novastar at least has some personal connection to Inferno, arguable making her, more than any of Inferno's other potential limb choices, more sensible a choice to be a part of his combiner form.
Tekka wrote:What she doesn't realize is that Springer actually loves Rodimus.
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