Deathsaurus1 wrote:My nitpick is his hands. But otherwise a great leader class blackout!
-Kanrabat- wrote:This confirm my two most wanted for the first wave: Starscream and Grimlock.
Come on out over here already!
nycPrime wrote:Received Blackout today. I find the helicopter mode to me a panel-y fiddly mess. As I'm popping one part in, another part is fighting to pop out. Are others experiencing the same? Maybe I'm mistransforming it.
nycPrime wrote:Received Blackout today. I find the helicopter mode to me a panel-y fiddly mess. As I'm popping one part in, another part is fighting to pop out. Are others experiencing the same? Maybe I'm mistransforming it.
Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:nycPrime wrote:Received Blackout today. I find the helicopter mode to me a panel-y fiddly mess. As I'm popping one part in, another part is fighting to pop out. Are others experiencing the same? Maybe I'm mistransforming it.
The rear side of the pelvis has a small rectangular slot. The arm that holds the big round dome over his head in robot mode has 2 rectangular pegs, one smaller than the other. Make sure that smaller peg is tabbed into that slot, it should help.
Seibertron wrote:Deathsaurus1 wrote:My nitpick is his hands. But otherwise a great leader class blackout!
I really like Blackout, he looks great. The hands bug me a lot though. By any chance are the hands assembled backwards? It seems like they'd be a lot better if they were flipped around. Unfortunately due to the style of pin, extracting that pin to try it out is beyond my skill level.
Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:Hey boss, I pulled his hand off and mounted it back on the arm 90degs over. It's not pretty but I think it looks and works better.
I'll do a quick write-up soon.
william-james88 wrote:That Bumblebee is easily the worst toy I have handled in the past few years. He just falls apart and is one hell of a chore to transform. I ended up just removing the piece that didnt cooperate ( the roof of the car) and then plugged it back in when I was done. I cant believe such an engineering mistep would be released by hasbro. A pin would have made all the difference in the world.
I do like Sarscream though. He works really really well for a voyager class and it doesnt at all feel less complex from using the engineering of a smaller class. And man, they used that same technique for the alt mode paint job that Takara used with the recent Beast Wars toys, giving it all that texture. Super cool and well done. And the plastic has a great quality to it. Its everything I would want from a transformer and my favourite toy of the year so far (with Bumblebee being the worst).
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:In summary, he is a great example of a guy who needed the better movie toy treatment, and he got it, spectacularly. Easily recommended at retail price guys, no need to be skimpy with this mother. And finally: he is loads better overall than pretty much every Grimlock toy ever, and definitely better than any Grimlock I own.
Carnivius_Prime wrote:I agree about Starscream but I'm kinda disappointed you hate Bumblebee that much. I've enjoyed mine a lot. The roof thing could be fixed (and mine seems better now I applied a bit of nail polish to make that joint more snug and less prone to popping off). Only issue I have is getting the hood into place in both modes. I feel I'm missing some step to make it easier but not sure what but I love the toy a lot both in car and awesome robot mode and he's spent a lot of time on my desk in the past couple weeks getting transformed and posed a lot.
Spider5800 wrote:
Would guess one of those two unnamed leaders is Grindor. Do the Blackout mold in lighter gray plastic and new head and you're done. We already know they're doing repaints with Starscream getting his tattoos, and I'm sure some people would want Grindor to reenact that forest fight from RotF anyway. That's easy money, and I don't see Hasbro passing that up.
So really, its just a question of who the last leader would be. Constructicons would be cool, but they're such minor characters in the big scheme of the movies that I doubt it. Would guess something like the Fallen, another Dinobot, or a Jetfire that can combine with the voyager Optimus somehow. Not a lot of other BIG bots that make sense for that size if they're trying to keep stuff in scale.
william-james88 wrote:Where exactly did you apply the nail polish?
Bucky wrote:Spider5800 wrote:
Would guess one of those two unnamed leaders is Grindor. Do the Blackout mold in lighter gray plastic and new head and you're done. We already know they're doing repaints with Starscream getting his tattoos, and I'm sure some people would want Grindor to reenact that forest fight from RotF anyway. That's easy money, and I don't see Hasbro passing that up.
So really, its just a question of who the last leader would be. Constructicons would be cool, but they're such minor characters in the big scheme of the movies that I doubt it. Would guess something like the Fallen, another Dinobot, or a Jetfire that can combine with the voyager Optimus somehow. Not a lot of other BIG bots that make sense for that size if they're trying to keep stuff in scale.
Grindor had crossed my mind, and at first I was really hoping they wouldn’t go that route. Thinking more on it, though, if they did do some retooling, I’d kind of really like that. A lighter gray, like you said. A new head wouldn’t be a bad thing, even though I’m sure they actually share the same head design in the movies. I’d really be into the idea of them retooling his disappointing hands, and adding a movie accurate rotor weapon hand attachment, like Grindor had inRotF. That, in place of the Scorponok figure, would be enough to make Grindor’s silhouette stand out from Blackout’s. Blackout’s rotor gun is neat, but Grindor’s rotor was used more like a big saw blade in the movie. I sincerely doubt we’ll get that though.
william-james88 wrote:Thanks man, very helpful. Once Hip-Hopotimus Prime does a write up, we could news both these fixes in an article
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
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