Seibertron wrote:I'm EXTREMELY picky with paint apps and stickers. From the exterior of the package, there's only so much you can gather about the figure since it's in vehicle mode. The "chest" sticker was my biggest focus since I saw so many various flaws on the ones that were packaged in car mode facing correctly. Some of the chest stickers had small black spots, some of them had specs of dust/dirt UNDER the stickers (which is what causes those tiny little bumps under stickers), some of them had very tiny (and I mean tiny) wrinkles, and others just had minor imperfections with the edges and such (or angle of the sticker). I found two that seemed to be absent of any flaws. I have an eye for imperfections with Transformers toys. It has become an obsession of mine, but man when I find a "near perfect" Transformers toy, it just makes me thrilled! Swapping limbs, heads, and accessories is also a favorite thing of mine to make near perfect figures. My obsession with this stems mostly from doing macro photography with Transformers toys for the past 14 years. It drives me crazy when I see flaws in close-up shots of figures of which I have 4000 to 6000 pixel wide original images.
Ugh, just looked at the 2 Hot Rods I picked up and they have different flaws on each of them than what I was looking for earlier at the store. One has a paint flaw on the bottom of the windshield and the other has a comparable paint flaw above the windshield. Just need to find one now with out any paint flaws around the windshield and I'll mix and match parts and sell off the one that I consider "flawed". Urgh.
And I thought I was obsessive about getting "perfect" paint jobs on my figures!
At least I know I'm in good company. I know what you mean about mixing and matching parts too. I've had to do that before. It's very hard sometimes to get a flawless paint job, sometimes just based on how a figure is packaged. I ended up with a Generations Deluxe Thundercracker with a completely blue face once. You'd never have known before opening him up because he's packaged in his alternate mode. More recently, I got a Power of the Primes Tailgate with splotches on his doors, but again, because of how he's packaged in robot mode, those parts are hard to inspect without opening the packaging. I made the mistake a few weeks ago of trying to correct a paint splotch on Siege Sideswipe with some rubbing alcohol. I ended up rubbing the red paint off too of what I thought was unpainted red plastic. Luckily, I was able to find another copy at a different store, with a much better paint job, and found a home for my paint error one with someone else here on the boards.
I guess was lucky with my Vintage G1 Hot Rod. Whoever picked him off the shelf at my Walmart chose one with pretty much flawless sticker placement for the chest/car hood. I didn't notice any big paint errors either. This is even more incredible since mine was one of the ones put in backwards, so you couldn't really see much of the front of the car in the box anyway.
New Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC?
). Skywarp is marginally different from a mold we just received, and Astrotrain I've found to be a very weak looking mold (I have the oddly colored PE one). Ooh! An idea just occurred to me: Scramble City box sets! I'd buy that in a heartbeat!
At least I know I'm in good company. I know what you mean about mixing and matching parts too. I've had to do that before. It's very hard sometimes to get a flawless paint job, sometimes just based on how a figure is packaged. I ended up with a Generations Deluxe Thundercracker with a completely blue face once. You'd never have known before opening him up because he's packaged in his alternate mode. More recently, I got a Power of the Primes Tailgate with splotches on his doors, but again, because of how he's packaged in robot mode, those parts are hard to inspect without opening the packaging. I made the mistake a few weeks ago of trying to correct a paint splotch on Siege Sideswipe with some rubbing alcohol. I ended up rubbing the red paint off too of what I thought was unpainted red plastic. Luckily, I was able to find another copy at a different store, with a much better paint job, and found a home for my paint error one with someone else here on the boards. 
- Let's Release a random assortment of original series toys for *Holiday 2018* (no doubt to cash in on BB 80's nostalgia)...., oh and check back in 2 years for Astrotrain... 
