You’re asking the girl who posted this a few weeks ago?
:Retraumatizing me like Shax over here.
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:Retraumatizing me like Shax over here.
I'm ... Just broadly asking, in case anyone's found a workaround by this point. I'd like to save a splurge for this set, but this worries me. Sorry about that.
The $15 price increase out of the blue plus the fragility of the Minicons really has made this go from a no questions pickup to something I'm probably gonna pass on unless I find a deal.
Lol it’s ok I wasn’t being that serious - apparently this set is doing the online equivalent to shelf warming on Pulse, so if I really want to I can just pay it and get another set; and that I can afford to do that currently also helps. But it would just be so damn annoying to have to get doubles of PERFECTLY good 3 other figures just to get the one figure replacement.
As far as preventing the breakage, I would say either have the patience and hand articulation of a surgeon while transforming it, or have that, AND find a way to sand down the little grooves on those little hinge pieces (which why they decided to make paper/thin connectors SOFT RATCHET is SOOO fcking stupid it’s beyond comprehension).
Buuuut short of doing any of that… it may break.
If it helps, that little fin piece is largely cosmetic and just for the robot mode of Jetstorm, and doesn’t affect combination into the Star Saber at all. I’d recommend leaving that piece as-is out the box and skipping the step to transform it so you don’t have to deal with it. Leaves Jetstorm with a slightly jankier backpack and gappier torso, but… he’s a Mini-Con, and no one is gonna display the Star Saber Mini-Cons as individuals so who the eff cares lol.
"Soundwave! Bring me my newspaper!"
Random - but I managed to find a way to securely store all the Stunticons onto Motormaster’s trailer.
And yes, they are stored SECURELY, cus here’s the whole frikin thing being held upside-down
And nope, I didn’t use any additional special parts, but I did cheat ever-so-slightly with using some of their weapons ports to connect some of them together.
For all he complains about carrying his team of useless grunts, he never meant it THAT literally.
"Optimus Prime is dead, so now I have to outdo Ultra Magnus instead! I'll show him! I'll show Galvatron! I'll show everyone!"
"...aww, nuts."
"STACK AND ATTACK!"
...sorry, wrong 80's toyline...flashback...
...sorry, wrong 80's toyline...flashback...
Was really torn between "three wise bots" and "three king Grimlocks," but I only had two different deluxe-sized Grimlocks, so wise bots it was.
I love the 'shepherds' and their flocks...
Re: the drinking, it occurred as foretold in prophecy...
And not joke-related, I decided to just add a couple of small yellow dots to the axe I wanted to add to HasLab Optimus. I noticed he had a couple of yellow bits, so adding them to the axe makes it a bit closer to matching. And on THAT note, my nephew wound up with two 'toy' Gears, so I got one! And I noticed that he is pretty close to the same colors, so I am head-cannoning this as an upgrade to Roller.
For a set I was considering flipping nearly immediately, I've done a lot of work on it and added a fair bit.
Re: the drinking, it occurred as foretold in prophecy...
And not joke-related, I decided to just add a couple of small yellow dots to the axe I wanted to add to HasLab Optimus. I noticed he had a couple of yellow bits, so adding them to the axe makes it a bit closer to matching. And on THAT note, my nephew wound up with two 'toy' Gears, so I got one! And I noticed that he is pretty close to the same colors, so I am head-cannoning this as an upgrade to Roller.
For a set I was considering flipping nearly immediately, I've done a lot of work on it and added a fair bit.
"One of these things is not like the other."
Happy holidays, AllSpark.
Happy holidays, AllSpark.
It's long past time that we got Hanukkah Magnus to go with Christmas Prime.
Followed by Kwanzaa Rodimus?
