Reviews Coming in for the Jurassic Park Transformers Crossover Set and They are Not Good

Looks like another X over that I can skip with not a single one being worth it so far. I like Rex and its colorings but still think I prefer the original BW mold over kingdoms.

JP93 looks a mess so it's nice that skids wasnt a reuse of it even if the Skids figure looks a bit sub par too. JP93 seems like it needs some pull out feet or something to give the legs more definition (Even G2 megatrons breeaze block legs had little footsies).

Glad to see "early reviews" are all of 2 reviews. Great article title to earn you a burn.

Anyways, I got my set, and I could not disagree more with the "early reviews" outside of Emerje saying Tyrannocon is a nice figure.

Let's start with her. first ever leader class female, and she is a good big gal. I have very much enjoyed this leader T-Rex mold, and All 3 have been pleasantly different enough to warrant. I love the movie accurate heavy paintwork they did to mimic the JP Rex. She is very well done in terms of paint. Robot mode is also fantastic, the red really helps her shine, very bright and nice. Robot mode head is really sharp and a nice new addition to the mold. She is overall a very nice experience.

JP93 is also quite interesting. For one thing, that alt mode is clearly the star of the show. The amount of paint work and sculpting to make it accurate to the JP movies is great. This thing looks better than the actual JP Explorer toy that is out right now too. Transformation is pretty straightforward, but it has some nice touches, like the center of the hood piece. In a way, the transformation reminds me of a cross between PotP Jazz and SS86 Jazz. Robot mode is also pretty neat. He suffers from lack of any real prominent toes, but he really is not that bad. Love the door wings, one of my favorite things to have on a TF, and again the paint work shines. Lack of a waist and wrist swivel isn't that big a deal, TF fans have been overly spoiled lately with those from WFC honestly.

Overall, it is a very nice set. I can feel that part of the major expense was the amount of paint work and detailing to these 2 figures, I definitely see that. I still think it is too expensive for what it is, but I can see where the costs were going and I enjoy the set as a whole. It is a good set, and it will look great on my Jurassic Park shelf with Blue, the JPIII raptor, my other dinos, and my 4 human figures.

I feel I should add that my JP93 has gotten looser with a few more transformations. I seriously doubt over time it'll be able to stand on its own. Vehicle mode is nice and D-Max was right on when they said it looks better than the larger Explorers out there from Mattel.

So what I'm gathering from the two reviews in the article and the comments is that these are probably just unfortunate individual issues, but still understandable given JP93's construction.
Sounds like the usual affair of Transformers reviews making it seem like every copy is doomed - but, let's hope it REALLY is just an unfortunate happenstance.

Just opened mine and I don't see much point in transforming his feet at all. Aside from the ankle tilt, it kind of seems like extra steps thrown in to make him seem more advanced than he is.

Otherwise he reminds me of that old Classics Galvatron figure. It feels like he was supposed to be Voyager scale and got down-sized. Also, if he'd been voyager he would have scaled better with Regina and that price tag would have made a lot more sense.

Edit: Should also add that mine lacks the extreme Torso gap pictured above. Viewed straight on there's little to no gap.

In case any of this helps...

I'm not mistransforming him. Your pictures aren't straight on, if they were you wouldn't be able to see the top of the hood. You're basically saying the gap doesn't exist if you look down at it.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:I'm not mistransforming him. Your pictures aren't straight on, if they were you wouldn't be able to see the top of the hood. You're basically saying the gap doesn't exist if you look down at it.

Emerje

I can guarantee you the pictures are straight on. The hood slants forward when the bot is properly transformed.

Edit: The shelf is 11.25" deep, and I took this picture with a Samsung smart phone resting on the shelf in front of the figure.



This places the camera lens at 5.5 inches, which is roughly eye level with JP93.

I haven't retrieved a level from the basement yet, but in order to get the sort of gap visible in your pictures, I literally have to bend my knees so that I can look up from the edge of the shelf.

-Kanrabat- wrote:The set is worth it for the T-Rex alone. A leader cost 70/72$can. X-Panse, a leader X-over cost 90/94$can. That's ludicrous but understandable. So that mean JP-93 cost a whopping 60$can like Gigawatt, based on the 155$can price of the set. If I had paid this for JP-93, I'd be more pissed than I was with Gigawatt.

Going by US dollars, a Leader (at the time of this release) as still 49.99 so that's 50 for the T-Rex and 65 for the deluxe. Evenn if I'm wrong about the upcharge timing, it's 55 US. The set was 115. The only way to explain the upcharged price is the licensing fees that come with doing these crossovers.

Gigawatt is great - I don't have any of the other ones, but this one has photographic evidence of it's poor construction. I'm not upset I returned mine, as I was more or less banking on the cross licensing upcharge selling an extra could do for my future purchases. I generally think ALL these crossovers are grossly overpriced, but I paid for Gigawatt because I legit liked the figure. So far, I can't say that about any of the other ones. Maybe the dinosaur, but that's just a Megatron with a different head. Same with Draculon - which I would have bought if it wasn't the price that it is. Outrageous.

The only way I can see that the gap is really visible "at eye level" is if you define "eye-level" as getting down so that you can stare directly at someone's chest, and not their face.

Edit: Close up pic in profile. The chest slants forward, so you have to look up at the figure to not see the hood.