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[Briggs]

Have any of you ever put together any of these, or seen the finished product?

I'm talking about plastic model kits of Victory Saber, Silverbolt (actually superion i think..) etc. The box covers look just like the actual toy versions, but I'm curious as to what the actual finished products look like.. how big, how similar to the toy version, etc.

Thanks

[waaaaghlord]

Here's some pics of a few of mine. These are all the Chinese KOs rather than original Kabaya kits, but the quality is mostly spot on. The multicoloured kits that come on three sprues are made of a decent quality plastic and the details are cast perfectly. The smaller single colour kits aren't quite as good. They're made from a shiny plastic and tend to have ocaisional moulding flaws.

[rob_charb]

Holy crap those rock! Where can you find these things?

[waaaaghlord]

Where can you find these things?

I mostly get mine from this US based seller:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/id=266500&ssPa ... MEFS:MESST

Cheap as chips and his international shipping works out quite cheap when you get a few kits at once. Since you're based in Taiwan you may well be able to source them a bit more locally though. The boxes are small with a random piece of TF character art (can be anything from G1 to Armada) and a 'Transformers, Generation One' logo in the the top left hand corner in the same style that Takara put on their SCF releases.

[rob_charb]

Cheers for the info. Must keep an eye out for these guys. Do they still transform?

I'm really digging that Metroplex...

[waaaaghlord]

Do they still transform?

Yes, they more or less follow the transformation schemes of the proper toys, although there are simplifications here and there. Metroplex for example isn't designed to transform into city mode, although he can still do an approximation of it, but transforms perfectly between bobot and mobile battle station modes. Galvatron follows the transformation scheme of the proper toy exactly, only difference being that the area that opens up for the batteries on the full sized toy doesn't on the Kabaya.

For some of the ones that I don't have pictures of, the Raiden kit has four of the individual bots seperate off and form their train modes but not their individual robot modes. There are three seperate kits for Star Sabre, Victory Leo and Victory Sabre. The first two of these transform between their own robot modes and alt modes but don't have the combiner function while the Victory Sabre kit transforms between combined robot mode and combined space fighter/jet thingie. Conversely the Dreadwind and Darkwing kits do combine into Dreadwing so just how close to the originals they are varies from kit to kit, but they're mostly not too far off.

[GreenLantern of Cybertron]

I have the Sixshot and the Starsabre of these kits, I cant say there good quality, but they are fun to build.

[Briggs]

Hmmm thanks guys.

How tall is that star saber?