Mayhem Transformers Discussion: United We Shelfwarm

[unluckiness]

So a new third party mushroomed out of nowhere like they tend to do. This one's offering a 4 foot Metroplex as their first product. This thing's raising more red flags than China. Consider the following:
1. This thing's production run is only 1000 units
2. It costs $1000
3. $1000 shipped.
4. The dude behind this has only made 3D printed kits to make various combiners MP scale. Said kits are $300 each
5. There's a deposit to preorder it
6. He refuses to go through established retailers like BBTS, ShowZ etc. because "they might run off with the preorder money"
7. This guy's secure payment method? His Squarespace website.
8. This piece of furniture doesn't use any ratchet joints

I'm gonna be following this one closely. Not because I have any want of a person-sized plaything but because it's either a scam so blatant that I have to admire their chutzpah or a project headed by somebody entertainingly incompetent/ignorant.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I hope this isn't an intentional scam. This has the potential to be funnier than Kronos.

Oh God. Come to think of it, wasn't Kronos also 1000 units? Could this be the same guy looking for redemption?

 

[unluckiness]

Probably not. This guy is 100% trustworthy. He even posted pics of hiscar as proof!

 

[CoffeeHorse]

We'll find out. If a few parts need to be removed for no reason besides laziness and other parts are attached by spaghetti linkages, it's the Kronos guy.

 

[Caldwin]

This was being stocked at Walmart while I was looking around. I aways did like the insecticons.

Comparison with the vintage.

 

[Princess Viola]

I remember when the Legends Insecticons came out and you had people thinking they were smaller than the originals and it turned out that no, they were basically the same size.

 

[Caldwin]

Me? I only have Bombshell, but I don't remember doing a comparison or indicating one being bigger than the other.

 

[Princess Viola]

No people in general.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I think it would have sufficed to just get the Legends set in matching colors finally.

 

[Princess Viola]

Honestly I like how they're all mismatched tbh. I'd complain if two of them matched but one didn't but since all three are different, who cares?

Well besides weird nerds but who cares about them?

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Considering they weren't released in the same line, year, or even technically price point across all three (the first release of Shrapnel had that mini-Reflector that got budgeted out of the later rerelease), it's hardly surprising they don't match.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I like that all three have non-matching gimmicks, but the colors do bother me.

 

[Princess Viola]

I like how I just ended up getting all three of them.

Wasn't even planning on it, I just did.

 

[unluckiness]

i didn’t mind the mismatch between Kickback and Shrapnel since they were still in the same ballpark. Bombshell on the other hand, was orange in comparison

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Decided to try to solve my Ultra Magnus quandary by transforming them, starting with the Combiner Wars figure. That solved it. Those joints did not age well at all, it feels really creaky and unpleasant to move. And I forgot just how bad of a grip he has on his weapons.

Also took a look at my Beast Hunters Predakings, between the second Voyager (the one that's based on the upscaled Legends design) and the Beast Fire one. Voyager has a cooler sword, but Beast Fire isn't made of transparent plastic. And also has a slightly more coherent dragon mode.

 

[unluckiness]

Beast Fire is overall better TBH, aside from the shitty gimmickry. The dragon neck being immobile outside of the levers is annoying but the voyager doesn’t have much more movement either. Of course, uf space is the issue the ginormous wingspan doesn’t help with that at all

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

All versions of the character had pretty bad necks in dragon mode, so that's not really important. Shame he's not G1 or there would probably be at least a couple of third party options to choose from, but what can ya do.

 

[unluckiness]

I sold my Dragonfire off and kept the Cryotek colored Voyager one. Crappy dragonhead guns aside, it’s okay but the soft plastic suuuucks

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

That one can't hold its tail-sword worth crap, the wings are floppy, the head-guns are lame, and the dragon mode looks like it's getting eaten by its own ass.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I'd sell them all off. We'll get a decent dragon sooner or later.