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RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

nycPrime wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

RAR wrote:I suppose if you feel brave you can unscrew Scourge take the inner part of his neck out and zap it with a hair dryer or hot water give the now malleable plastic a gentle squeeze then plunge it in cold water to set it tighter.

or the reverse if the neck on a toy is to tight (like Sentinel Prime).

I'd think carefully before trying that though likely easier to stick a bit of extra plastic in the gap instead.
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I just looked at Scourge, and this would be a very difficult proposition. There are no exposed screw holes. (Nice work Has/Tak!) There might be one under the chest sticker, but it doesn't feel like it. The only screw holes I see are behind the pinned hinges for the back wings. So, to disassemble the chest it would require unpinning the wings first to get to the screws holding it together.

This also makes it impossible to tighten the chest together to see if that solves loose head syndrome. I guess I'll just stick with some small pieces of paper or card stock. Seems to work well enough....

I agree that the paper in the head socket works well enough. It's the wrists that bother me the most. There's nothing exposed so don't think I can get any floor/nail polish in there. There nothing to take apart there either.

I see what you mean. If the wrists are closed up into the forearm, there is a little gap where I can see the pin. Perhaps, as I have seen some mention, if a syringe is used, some floor polish can be squirted in there.

Of course, not everyone has a syringe laying around...

Scourge's wrists aren't pinned. You can pop them right out.

Yeah, I just saw your post after I hit submit... Indeed, what I thought was a pin was just light reflecting off of the plastic peg. No syringe needed!

Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

nycPrime wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

RAR wrote:I suppose if you feel brave you can unscrew Scourge take the inner part of his neck out and zap it with a hair dryer or hot water give the now malleable plastic a gentle squeeze then plunge it in cold water to set it tighter.

or the reverse if the neck on a toy is to tight (like Sentinel Prime).

I'd think carefully before trying that though likely easier to stick a bit of extra plastic in the gap instead.
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I just looked at Scourge, and this would be a very difficult proposition. There are no exposed screw holes. (Nice work Has/Tak!) There might be one under the chest sticker, but it doesn't feel like it. The only screw holes I see are behind the pinned hinges for the back wings. So, to disassemble the chest it would require unpinning the wings first to get to the screws holding it together.

This also makes it impossible to tighten the chest together to see if that solves loose head syndrome. I guess I'll just stick with some small pieces of paper or card stock. Seems to work well enough....

I agree that the paper in the head socket works well enough. It's the wrists that bother me the most. There's nothing exposed so don't think I can get any floor/nail polish in there. There nothing to take apart there either.

I see what you mean. If the wrists are closed up into the forearm, there is a little gap where I can see the pin. Perhaps, as I have seen some mention, if a syringe is used, some floor polish can be squirted in there.

Of course, not everyone has a syringe laying around...

Scourge's wrists aren't pinned. You can pop them right out.

You're right! Time to get to work.

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

I love injecting heroines!

Wait, wrong website.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

I love injecting heroines!

Wait, wrong website.

Oh my gosh.

SillySpringer wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

I love injecting heroines!

Wait, wrong website.

Oh my gosh.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.




On a more on-topic note, I bought Galvatron the other day, along with Wheelie and Rewind. Almost immediately I bent Rewind's gun pretty badly because I tried to transform him out of his tablet mode and totally forgot that his gun was pegged into there. Got it mostly back in shape but still, not proud of myself for that one. Otherwise he's a great toy. Wheelie, as they've said, doesn't peg together well in alt mode but you can make him work. I love that he can carry titan masters inside of him. This gimmick is great! Galvatron is so close to being a fantastic toy, but the flaws everybody complains about hold him back: cannon blocking his articulation, the lame helmet, and the extending bar on the cockpit that mostly just gets in the way in every mode. I'll probably pick up some shapeways mods, namely this IDW helmet. The jet mode is pretty awful and I'll try to forget it exists. The Titan Master having only 4 paint apps (and all of them eyes) is pretty lame, but he looks good overall and will look better with that helmet, so I'm happy with my purchase.

Total TR collection so far:
Galvatron, Skullcruncher, Hardhead, Buzzsaw, Wheelie, Rewind, Horri-Bull, Squeezeplay.

I notice how on some sources Galvatron's cannon is attached further away from his arm on a strut (sometimes anyway).

I understand there is a shapeways part that allows the cannon to be mounted differently.

Bit irksome that the one toy that needs a wrist joint doesn't get one where others where it's a luxury do.
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THANKS

For the Megatron links - I must have missed him as he was last - perhaps I was interrupted when looking at them or something.

I'd also skipped Gnaw & Bee too it seemed.

So cheers - many thousands of thanks.

RAR wrote:I notice how on some sources Galvatron's cannon is attached further away from his arm on a strut (sometimes anyway).

I understand there is a shapeways part that allows the cannon to be mounted differently.

Bit irksome that the one toy that needs a wrist joint doesn't get one where others where it's a luxury do

Yeah, this piece by the same maker allows Galvatron's cannon to be side-mounted, but I don't like how the bottom panel of the cannon makes it then stick out from his arm a lot. I honestly wish they'd just stuck the 5mm tab directly onto the cannon.

And wrist joints wouldn't solve this problem. He needs forearm swivels. Well, more of them. He has a set above the bicep, below the shoulder, but that's above where the cannon attaches.

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

Female superheroes?

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

Female superheroes?

Looks like you've got a buddy, Nemesis Maximo

Kurona wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

Female superheroes?

Looks like you've got a buddy, Nemesis Maximo

How can female superheroes be a hobby? I mean, yeah they're awesome, but liking something doesn't make it a hobby. (Don't ask bronies though.)

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

Female superheroes?

Looks like you've got a buddy, Nemesis Maximo

How can female superheroes be a hobby? I mean, yeah they're awesome, but liking something doesn't make it a hobby. (Don't ask bronies though.)

Making them? Writing them? Profiling them? Looking into their origins and conceptual history? There's a lot of possibilities.

SillySpringer wrote:but liking something doesn't make it a hobby.

Remember what site you're on.

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:but liking something doesn't make it a hobby.

Remember what site you're on.

I guess when you look at it that way...

Oh who am I kidding. Memes fix everything.

That Bot wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

I love injecting heroines!

Wait, wrong website.

Oh my gosh.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Alright, give me Ham on five, hold the Mayo! (You good person, are awesome in my book for this quote!! )

And yes, I added an e on the end by accident... Stupid relying on those squiggly red lines....

That Bot wrote:On a more on-topic note, I bought Galvatron the other day, along with Wheelie and Rewind. Almost immediately I bent Rewind's gun pretty badly because I tried to transform him out of his tablet mode and totally forgot that his gun was pegged into there. Got it mostly back in shape but still, not proud of myself for that one. Otherwise he's a great toy. Wheelie, as they've said, doesn't peg together well in alt mode but you can make him work. I love that he can carry titan masters inside of him. This gimmick is great! Galvatron is so close to being a fantastic toy, but the flaws everybody complains about hold him back: cannon blocking his articulation, the lame helmet, and the extending bar on the cockpit that mostly just gets in the way in every mode. I'll probably pick up some shapeways mods, namely this IDW helmet. The jet mode is pretty awful and I'll try to forget it exists. The Titan Master having only 4 paint apps (and all of them eyes) is pretty lame, but he looks good overall and will look better with that helmet, so I'm happy with my purchase.

Total TR collection so far:
Galvatron, Skullcruncher, Hardhead, Buzzsaw, Wheelie, Rewind, Horri-Bull, Squeezeplay.

Yikes! I have almost done that myself with Rewind. I now never keep him in tablet/cassette/whatever mode because of this very thing. I sometimes feel like I am losing my marbles.

Or maybe my head is full of too many Airplane! quotes...

We have to get these people to a hospital.
A hospital, what is it?
It's a big building with patients in it, but that's not important right now...

(This could go on for a while....)

Agamemnon wrote:

That Bot wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Whew, I don't have to take up heroine...

Thats too bad, I was hoping someone would share my other hobby.

I love injecting heroines!

Wait, wrong website.

Oh my gosh.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Alright, give me Ham on five, hold the Mayo! (You good person, are awesome in my book for this quote!! )

And yes, I added an e on the end by accident... Stupid relying on those squiggly red lines....

That Bot wrote:On a more on-topic note, I bought Galvatron the other day, along with Wheelie and Rewind. Almost immediately I bent Rewind's gun pretty badly because I tried to transform him out of his tablet mode and totally forgot that his gun was pegged into there. Got it mostly back in shape but still, not proud of myself for that one. Otherwise he's a great toy. Wheelie, as they've said, doesn't peg together well in alt mode but you can make him work. I love that he can carry titan masters inside of him. This gimmick is great! Galvatron is so close to being a fantastic toy, but the flaws everybody complains about hold him back: cannon blocking his articulation, the lame helmet, and the extending bar on the cockpit that mostly just gets in the way in every mode. I'll probably pick up some shapeways mods, namely this IDW helmet. The jet mode is pretty awful and I'll try to forget it exists. The Titan Master having only 4 paint apps (and all of them eyes) is pretty lame, but he looks good overall and will look better with that helmet, so I'm happy with my purchase.

Total TR collection so far:
Galvatron, Skullcruncher, Hardhead, Buzzsaw, Wheelie, Rewind, Horri-Bull, Squeezeplay.

Yikes! I have almost done that myself with Rewind. I now never keep him in tablet/cassette/whatever mode because of this very thing. I sometimes feel like I am losing my marbles.

Or maybe my head is full of too many Airplane! quotes...

We have to get these people to a hospital.
A hospital, what is it?
It's a big building with patients in it, but that's not important right now...

(This could go on for a while....)

McCroskey: Now your husband and the others are alive, but unconscious.
Johnny: Just like Gerald Ford

SillySpringer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:but liking something doesn't make it a hobby.

Remember what site you're on.

I guess when you look at it that way...

Oh who am I kidding. Memes fix everything.

And an expensive one at that:




I quit this hobby to get into Transformers, a far cheaper hobby where you get to actually play with what you buy.

Also, my favourite quote from Airplane was:

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

That Bot wrote:Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Agamemnon wrote:Alright, give me Ham on five, hold the Mayo!

I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you.

Yotsuyasan wrote:

That Bot wrote:Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Agamemnon wrote:Alright, give me Ham on five, hold the Mayo!

I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you.

And remember...

Working in retail, I wouldn't be surprised the box got mixed up...99% of the time there is a central distribution center that gets stuff from companies like Hasbro, then gets them to all the stores out there.

ALSO...does no one else know that Walgreens has a website? I was having problems finding their exclusive Marvel Name, so I bought it online from them. No Brainstorm listed yet, but if I don't see it on a Walgreen's run I'll order it online....Just saying.

That Bot wrote:Almost immediately I bent Rewind's gun pretty badly because I tried to transform him out of his tablet mode and totally forgot that his gun was pegged into there. Got it mostly back in shape but still, not proud of myself for that one.

If it makes you feel any better, I did the exact same thing the first 2 times I transformed him. Still not happy or proud of it and I keep forgetting that gun is in there.

Someone say something about Krok being a jet retooled from Mindwipe? Thanks to someone on Twitter, it looks like it works pretty well. https://twitter.com/1000sky_mmsr/status/771708915033657344
Retool a couple of parts on Mindwipe, include a Titanmaster vehicle Gatoraider, that turns into a nosecone, and I think it could work. Too bad that Krok is already rumored to be made from Skullcruncher, because I actually really like this idea.

So... Cosmos no 3???

Spotted Chromedome, Wolfwire & Highbrow at The Entertainer in Glasgow(going for 20 quid each!) so check any Entertainer that may be near you, for those