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News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 10:48 am

Preorder up on BBTS:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... m_content=

I question whether the diecast will totally shred the opposing plastic joint pieces they interact with, but this looks pretty solid.

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:16 pm

Hm... I'm not sure if I should just get this just in-case..

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:35 pm

mooncake623 wrote:Hm... I'm not sure if I should just get this just in-case..

The two pieces pictured are slightly different... I wonder if you need to get two sets to use for both knees?

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:59 pm

megatronus wrote: I question whether the diecast will totally shred the opposing plastic joint pieces they interact with, but this looks pretty solid.

Think the company creating these realized the diecast metal parts was a bad thing. Thats why a short while later he re-created everything using plastic parts. I even created a thread months ago showing off all the plastic replacements parts that were being sold for MP-09.

When these first appeared on the TFW 3rd party forum section months ago. TFW forum members heavily guessed the metal joint pieces would shred the other plastic pieces inside the knee joints areas.

What X2 should have done was also make diecast parts for the other stuff inside the knee areas. like the connecting tabs and other connecting parts.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 2:40 pm

i wonder how these would look on the not black rodimi.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:20 pm

fer $10 I preordered them...

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:58 pm

Nothing is wrong with my MP-09 Knee joints on my display shelf, So I don't need these replacements parts.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:15 am

Hmm, given the horror stories I've heard about MP Rodimus's shoulders and knees literally exploding, this could be a very good thing. Joints on MP figures should be diecast by default unless they asolutely need to be plastic.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:47 am

Delta Magnus wrote:Hmm, given the horror stories I've heard about MP Rodimus's shoulders and knees literally exploding, this could be a very good thing. Joints on MP figures should be diecast by default unless they asolutely need to be plastic.

I don't think diecast should be a requirement on any MP - except for maybe in the lower legs/feet. It's a nice feature, but I can't see MP Sideswipe or Prowl really needing it. Rubber tires are more what I'm looking for, but I understand that the rubber won't survive certain climates, so I endure.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:55 am

Yeah, I see what you mean. I'm only really talking about the jointwork though (and the legs/feet) as those are put under a lot of stress and metal is good for things like that. I've never handled an MP figure though, so I can't really comment, but I think that it could be used to avert nasty breakages (like Rodimus's exploding shoulders).

Really we need a new MP Rodimus figure, but eh.