So over Christmas I ordered myself a fair few TFs- I got God Neptune (no pics I'm afraid), ER Optimus Prime, Selects Super Megatron and ROTF Superion.
God Neptune is a hell of a set. The white looks much better in person, and the paint apps are nice and crisp. Also one of the few HasTak combiners that IMO needs absolutely no 3P addons to be perfect. The hands and feet are great and the proportions are excellent. Out of the team my favourite is probably either Scylla or Coelagon. Only slight combined mode problem is that Scylla does not make a very good leg, but honestly I prefer her as an arm anyway, canon be damned.
Optimus Prime is damn near perfect. He's the G1 Prime we've waited years for, and slight proportional issues and colour layout aside there's very little I'd change about him. A CHUG scaled G1 Prime would have to be a miracle to unseat this as the definitive Voyager Prime for me. Now can we please have that Armada Prime, Takara?
Super Megatron, whilst not quite as amazing as Prime, is a lot of fun. Really cool robot modes, and the different configurations are great to mess with- I like to have his weapon in cannon form with the "ultra" chest and the triple-barreled gun on his shoulder homaging the G1 back cannon. His alt modes aren't perfect but they're not terrible either, with a nice swooshable space jet mode and an abstract but still cool tank mode. I'm glad I got him anyway.
And then there's ROTF Superion. I wanted the Energon version (I had Windrazor and Terradive as a kid) but I couldn't find him for a sensible price, so I settled for the ROTF deco as it was only £30. Thanks to Mkall's guide from way back when I was able to fix his legs (even if I nearly ballsed it up several times) and honestly? Whilst he's not perfect, he's actually quite fun. Some tolerance tweaking with superglue was necessary, but for a £30 investment, you can't complain. The Raptor mold is my favourite, though the A-10 mold is great too and Stormjet, once you fix his legs, isn't awful. Of course they won't be representing Superion in my collection, rather his little brother Hyperion, made of the auxiliary Aerialbots. I described them in full in another thread, but here's my basic headcanon for who they are (incidentally the limbs are all female)-
Stormjet (the torso)- An interceptor plane who hates going too fast and wishes he was a slow-moving cargo freighter instead.
Windrazor (the white Raptor)- A hothead who loves fancy flying, she usually ends up using all her fuel with her afterburners.
Zephyr (the charcoal Raptor)- The polar opposite of her chassis-sister Windrazor, quiet, shy and bookish, and would rather be reading about aerial maneuvers that actually doing them.
Terradive (the burgandy A-10)- Obsessed with diving attacks, which she usually misjudges and ends up plowing into the ground. Fortunately she's tough as a tank.
Thunderbird (the pink A-10)- Has a massive crush on Stormjet and wishes she could go as fast as him, often has to be rescued after attempting high speed antics her slow ground-attack airframe wasn't built for.
Hyperion (the combined mode)- Smaller and weaker than Superion but faster and far more mentally stable and also more energy efficient.
(I do have the upgrade kit coming in the post but it will be a while.)
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Haven't opened it yet, but the figure itself seems fine (I mean, it's still MP Arcee), but I feel like I'm lucky I wasn't sent an empty box.
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