Hasbro: We have Metroplex at home.
I feel the Binaltech Asterisk did him justice too. Not the Alternator though.
Got charged for the Alpha Trion/Orion Pax set.
Mixed feelings. I want AT but don't care much about Orion and have been feeling like it was too pricey for my blood and I should probably cancel. Procrastinated too long on that. I'll be happy to get the set and all, but I feel guilty about it. Don't like overspending on myself with the holidays coming up.
-ZacWilliam, I need to consider now whether to cancel Serpentor who I kind of want more but I'm not as big a Joe collector and who is even more expensive, but damn he looks so cool...
Mixed feelings. I want AT but don't care much about Orion and have been feeling like it was too pricey for my blood and I should probably cancel. Procrastinated too long on that. I'll be happy to get the set and all, but I feel guilty about it. Don't like overspending on myself with the holidays coming up.
-ZacWilliam, I need to consider now whether to cancel Serpentor who I kind of want more but I'm not as big a Joe collector and who is even more expensive, but damn he looks so cool...
Yeah, I don't want Pax either, but at least he also comes with Vector Sigma, so two out of three ain't bad.
Slapped together my Combiner Wars Devastator and god my copy sucks. He can't hold his gun because his elbow joints are way too lose. (Scavanger and Bonecrusher have similar issues) and the bots lack basic articulation. I know they reissued this toy recently, but god I honestly would go for a new Devastator at this point. I dunno how they'd release them at this point, but good lord. Can't track down an upgrade set either, they're all going for exorbitant prices.
Slapped together my Combiner Wars Devastator and god my copy sucks. He can't hold his gun because his elbow joints are way too lose. (Scavanger and Bonecrusher have similar issues) and the bots lack basic articulation. I know they reissued this toy recently, but god I honestly would go for a new Devastator at this point. I dunno how they'd release them at this point, but good lord. Can't track down an upgrade set either, they're all going for exorbitant prices.
For those that are fans of "Notroplex", DMA are releasing a kit to fix some of the problems with it:
- https://tformers.com/dna-design-dk-...oplex-titan-class-upgrade-kit/47692/news.html
- https://tformers.com/dna-design-dk-...oplex-titan-class-upgrade-kit/47692/news.html
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I love DNA kits.
This one fixes my biggest problem with Metro, that his hands don't work appropriately in his worker or what I call his 'brute' mode. That's the mode my original one spends the most time in and it's the one I like the most. I'm glad this fixes that issue for me. that it comes with a Drillbit is a nice bonus.
This one fixes my biggest problem with Metro, that his hands don't work appropriately in his worker or what I call his 'brute' mode. That's the mode my original one spends the most time in and it's the one I like the most. I'm glad this fixes that issue for me. that it comes with a Drillbit is a nice bonus.
The way they desgined the Titan verison is so that the hands are stored away and you connect his weapons/tools are the hands!
I like the look of that kit.
Also charged for the Hero is Born set. Happily preordered the DNA Metroplex upgrades.
So, the offical precursor to Hasbro doing their own Drillbit has been made.
DNA - Here's a Grimlock set, with Wheelie.
Hasbro - Studio Series Wheelie
DNA - Here's a Slug set with transforming Exosuit.
Hasbro - Studio Series Spike
DNA - Here's a Metroplex set, with Drillbit.
DNA - Here's a Grimlock set, with Wheelie.
Hasbro - Studio Series Wheelie
DNA - Here's a Slug set with transforming Exosuit.
Hasbro - Studio Series Spike
DNA - Here's a Metroplex set, with Drillbit.
Yeah, I'd be surprised if an official Core or Deluxe class Drillbit isn't coming down the pipe fairly soon.
Keep the order for Serpentor. If nothing else, I suspect his resale value in the next couple years will be better so you'd at least be able to make back the money and then some. Or you'd have it when you fancy having a fancy Serpentor and the secondary market is 2-3x the price
Nearest constuction site or you could comission him to build a new level to your house for storage purposes!
Yeah. I don't care for that particular look. I'd like him to be able to use his hands in both modes and have that as an extra for when I want to do that.
I like that this kit largely stays within Hasbro's design style. Hasbro has done the reversible thumbs idea plenty of times.
Upgrade kits are weird sometimes. Sometimes it's a little too obvious that it's a different company's design ideas slapped on to a Hasbro toy. Even if the result is an improvement, it's distracting. Like the toy equivalent of uncanny valley, or something. I know I'm looking at a Hasbro toy but something doesn't look right.
This is a good one.
Upgrade kits are weird sometimes. Sometimes it's a little too obvious that it's a different company's design ideas slapped on to a Hasbro toy. Even if the result is an improvement, it's distracting. Like the toy equivalent of uncanny valley, or something. I know I'm looking at a Hasbro toy but something doesn't look right.
This is a good one.
I wonder if Hasbro desginers are purposely desgining their figures so that they can get upgrades made by third party groups?
I doubt it. Hasbro doesn't have a lot of reason to endorse third party groups.
I can't imagine they would.
-ZacWilliam, they don't have a financial reason to care about that (the opposite in fact) and I can't think of a single realistic reason they'd want to even outside of that.
-ZacWilliam, they don't have a financial reason to care about that (the opposite in fact) and I can't think of a single realistic reason they'd want to even outside of that.
The concessions they make to fit in a budget are fairly obvious and 3Ps love low-hanging fruit.
This. HasTak would certainly love to do all of these things but we sure wouldn't love the prices.