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08-15-2013, 10:56 PM | #5651 |
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Got my BBTS and Kokomo orders in. I haven't opened any of the joes yet, but I see a lot of what could have been. Budo could have been awesome had they put any effort at all into the paint apps. CCN could have been awesome had they just added one more color to the camo. SE could have been awesome if the body didn't suck so much (I've played around with the Frag Vipers a bit and I'm not a fan). But then again, there's Kwinn, CC, and SS. Toggle hawk... I don't even know when I'll have occasion to open it. But I bought one at MSRP (same as with the Skystriker) so nobody can point the finger and say I'm the reason why we don't get big veahicles any more.
On the TF side, I opened Boxbomber first. The colors on Birdbomber are just as bad as the pics. Electric blue and forest green. Why? QC was fine though. Tetra Sunstorm... dat face. WTF. I knew going in, but still. Bleh. Transforming him is very very fiddly. Robot mode is meh and too big to fit with the admittedly tiny classics Seekers. Alt mode looks pretty wild and made my nostalgia meter tingle. I'd probably prefer it in TC's colors, but I went with Sunstorm because he stayed on Cybertron and stuff. 30th triple changers: Springer is pretty cool, but there were issues with pegging and such. The tolerances seem to be off by enough to make pegging a suggestion rather than an instruction, but not enough to ruin the toy. Sandstorm made me smile. He's fun as hell, and might be my new favorite main-line TF. Blitzwing is a wreck. The tolerance issues are in full display here, as nothing wants to peg in correctly in any mode. I'll see if I can't improve it by de-warping the backpack/turret and sanding the torso seams. But yeah, not impressed. Haven't opened the new deluxes yet. |
08-16-2013, 12:47 AM | #5652 |
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Budo is easily spruced up with just a touch of black wash on the armored bits, I think. He DOES have some paint apps you have to look pretty close to see, some detail work. I don't see what the complaints about the CCN are based on, I mean I keep hearing that there are missing paint apps but he looks fine to me. I hope to find a couple more.
If I had my reviews to write over again I might've penalized "Ultimate Duke" a little more for how the inside of his arms get in the way of posing against the edges of his vest. But that's my only complaint after more than a week of futzing with these guys. Though the Storm Shadow CLAW pack is still incredibly stupid.
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08-16-2013, 04:08 AM | #5653 |
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Yeah, there's some gold drybrushing on Budo. Hardly any of the trim details are painted though. And his sneer-stache is just bad looking. CCN is missing a color or two for his camo to look like camo, and again with the no painted details, especially on the vest. Straps and such are easy enough to do myself, but it's just one part of overall obvious cost-cutting. Data Viper fared the worst though, I think. What was originally a pretty spiffy gray fractal pattern is now just a straight baby blue. The shoulder/head gear retained some of the pattern, but... why blue over gray? I don't get it.
So I opened my new deluxes. Why is TB's highlight color orange and not red? I thought it was just the photo color being off, but no, it's a deep orange. Hoist's tow arm was assembled backwards rendering it unable to be attached in alt mode. Pax's right upper arm was assembled backwards too. Both were easy fixes, but combined with the minor issues with Springer and the major issues with Blitzwing I'm left to scratch my head. Take into account all of the little stuff that plagues the club's recent releases, the hit-and-miss QC on even MP figures (paint on the Lambos, fit/tolerance issues on Acid Storm and the Hasbro cassettes (yay stress marks surrounding ball joints), the mess that was Rodimus Prime), and I'm starting to wonder if we're seeing the end of cheap Chinese labor being something other than, well, cheap. And before y'all just dismiss me as a negative nancy, Hoist/TB and Pax are pretty sweet toys. They're just a bit small. and I STILL like Sandstorm. And Kwinn. So there! |
08-16-2013, 04:34 PM | #5654 |
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aaaand it looks like it was a really bad idea to wait until two days before a con to finally sort through my modest ARAH collection.
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08-16-2013, 05:25 PM | #5655 |
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Those two Stormys look like they're making out. lol
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08-17-2013, 10:39 PM | #5656 |
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Got in the regular Hasbro Metroplex. I'm pretty disappointed.
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08-17-2013, 11:46 PM | #5657 |
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I want to like it, but can't. I'm talking in general regardless of version. is there something specific about the retail version you don't like? |
08-18-2013, 12:18 AM | #5658 |
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Have a good time at NJCC tomorrow, Hellion. I have come down n the side of not attending. Frankly I am an old and broken man and having had too many beers will be too hungover to drive to Wawa, much less to Jersey.
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08-18-2013, 12:18 AM | #5659 |
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I am planning on attending retrocon in PA on sep 14 though
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08-18-2013, 01:11 AM | #5660 |
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You... you're gonna leave me alone? With FOGGER?!?!?!?
Seriously though, I hear you. Although my alarm goes off in 3.5 hours, and I'm still going, so technically, I could call you a wuss. But I won't. |
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