The 3rd Party Toy Picture thread
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Mine is an Autobot named Trample. . . .
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Pangu Toys "Flame Blade", their "Takeda Shingen/Red Lio Convoy" figure, just arrived. He's mainly in metallic red, gold and bolt-gun metal and looks gorgeous. His hip skirts and two heads don't have actual female ball-socket joints and rather just use whatever negative space is there to host the male ball-socket joints. His Lio-Convoy head is rather loose (which could be fixed with a little nail varnish) and he can't grip his axe well (as the pole will slide through his hands easily). There's also no full weapon storage for all three swords and his axe in either bot or liger mode.
I think he could have done well with a stand out at least a weapons stand, like Musha Gundams and Takeda Shingen had (to host his katanas, etc). His hip skirts also impede his arms from posing in a relaxed way, close to his body.
Overall, it's still a nice little display piece if you like samurai bots.
I think he could have done well with a stand out at least a weapons stand, like Musha Gundams and Takeda Shingen had (to host his katanas, etc). His hip skirts also impede his arms from posing in a relaxed way, close to his body.
Overall, it's still a nice little display piece if you like samurai bots.
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I nver liked OpOp's colors but the original PE POTP Primal homage had the closed mouthplate. Thankfully, the knockoff has the correct sculpt, even if incorrectly painted. The sword, monkey abd electronics were a decent bonus for the incredibly cheap price but the tolerances are all over the place.
I'm waiting for a hopeful Primal Prime recolour.
I nver liked OpOp's colors but the original PE POTP Primal homage had the closed mouthplate. Thankfully, the knockoff has the correct sculpt, even if incorrectly painted. The sword, monkey abd electronics were a decent bonus for the incredibly cheap price but the tolerances are all over the place.
Cover me in Energon and throw me to the Minicons!
Look at those abs!
I'm not gonna bother with the vehicle modes. They're shit and the transformations are terrible. The little gorilla minicon's kind of crappy in terms of build quality but the originals were a bit janky as well, so I can't complain, especially for the price.
The original toy had good vehicle modes, especially some slightly tweaked fan modes for the wings on the jet and the position of the cockpit in armoured ground vehicle.
I'm not gonna bother with the vehicle modes. They're shit and the transformations are terrible. The little gorilla minicon's kind of crappy in terms of build quality but the originals were a bit janky as well, so I can't complain, especially for the price.
They’re still Optimal Optimus’ vehicle modes and therefore garbage. The truck mode doesn’t even bother to secure his arms and they just float around pretending to be attached to the wheel. The new jet mode tries to hide the arms but it’s still not all that great. If this were engineered to have a smoother transformation, I’d probably give it a go but the transformation process is just not pleasant and kind of finicky overall.
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To you maybe, but I rather like them all. I've had no problems securing all the various parts on my original PE Op Op, so perhaps the mileage might vary?
The arms have no way to attach to the wheel in truck mode. The ratchets can hold the arms in position but that’s just lame when even the original BW toy fastened the arms to the wheel. There’s really no excuse not to secure those in a 20+ year more advanced toy with an unlimited budget when there’s so much nonsense in the cockpit/chest transformation.
I'm not sure they attached to the wheels in the original toy either?
I wish I could find the pics I took of my PE version's fan modes for this figure's alt modes. I'm sure I posted them at another site somewhere ages ago...
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