That Rook guy is pretty handy, all right.
Transformers: Age of the Primes Thread: ll First Post All Listings II Update : April 12th, 2027 Bonus Wave: Repaint fun, Beast Wars, G2, Machine Wars
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This isn’t the first time I’ve had a head staring at me from a lithotomy position, I guess.
I always folded the legs down on the original heads to make a more blocky version, but I also grew up with the old Headmasters, so I know I'm biased.
Size comparison? Not everyone has an Armada Era Sideways handy.
EDIT: Oh wait, nevermind. It was all one image but there's no evidence the photographer kept the scale accurate.
Yeah, it's just three separate pics stitched together of all three motorcycles up close.
And, FWIW, whenever he posts these comparisons, they're always doctored pics using his phone's AI, rather than genuine representations.
At least they're not GIFs that change before you can actually get a good look at what it's showing.
Sometimes they are, unfortunately.
Does anyone actually have Liege Maximo in hand yet? Supposedly there is some clear plastic cracking issues where the cannon connects to the underside of the ship, I was wondering what that connection looks like and how easy it would be to sand it.
Amalgamous prime!
Thanks, I hate it.
Okay, to be serious: The various modes look okay, the robot mode is absolutely gorgeous. Largely because it's NOT the standard form for a transformer (novelty counts for something!), hulking, almost alien even for them. The colours are... meh. Gray, gold and black. John transformer, everybody. He's got really good articulation, ridiculous numbers of articulation points, and is generally (in robot mode.) a fun looking toy.
Yeah, the instructions kinda... suck, and I've already broken him trying to transform him. The ridged plate that goes behind his head in robot mode.
But... you know, OTHER than that...
While I'll have plenty of fun posing him, I'm going to put him back into robot mode, and probably never transform him again.
So, I don't really hate him, I am just frustrated I broke him because he is VERY fiddly and obtuse.
Thanks, I hate it.
Okay, to be serious: The various modes look okay, the robot mode is absolutely gorgeous. Largely because it's NOT the standard form for a transformer (novelty counts for something!), hulking, almost alien even for them. The colours are... meh. Gray, gold and black. John transformer, everybody. He's got really good articulation, ridiculous numbers of articulation points, and is generally (in robot mode.) a fun looking toy.
Yeah, the instructions kinda... suck, and I've already broken him trying to transform him. The ridged plate that goes behind his head in robot mode.
But... you know, OTHER than that...
While I'll have plenty of fun posing him, I'm going to put him back into robot mode, and probably never transform him again.
So, I don't really hate him, I am just frustrated I broke him because he is VERY fiddly and obtuse.
Amalgamous is a fun idea, and his non-standard robot design is great. But he doesn't really break down into enough small parts to really sell the "turns into anything you want" concept. The big torso chunk is the main offender.
Also, his head keeps falling off.
Also, his head keeps falling off.
I thought that was Nexus.
I was hoping that wasn't the reason I'm not seeing any fun fan modes for this thing, but I had a feeling.
Aside from the T-Cog in his head that I forgot about until after uploading the pic, this is as much as he breaks down.
Yeah, the torso really needed to break down further into more modular pieces. It's a really big chunk of the toy that does so little on its own. That's why it was so difficult for me to combine my three Amalgamous Primes into the big 12-armed monstrosity that I made them into, since the torso pieces for each offered so little modularity and connectivity between each other that I really had to get creative in my struggle to combine them together.
Same. My first Amalgamous has that piece held in place entirely by friction. The instructions were really useless in explaining how to fold down the head (since it's not as simple and straightforward as one might think, there's a precise part that has to be folded down but the instructions don't point that out very clearly) and how much force is required to move the part that allows the head to fold down (since the part in question is really tightly in there and takes more effort than one might expect in order to move it). And because the instructions are no help with this, it's very easy to break the panel behind the head that hides and covers the part that needs to be folded down.
And that looseness of his neck peg is why I also chose to keep the plastic stretch tie that secures the head to the neck in the packaging wrapped around the head of all three of mine, even if that means I can't open up their noggins to take out the Cog accessory without first needing to unwrap the stretch ties.
I expected the shoulders and waist to pop apart as well. Wow. So most of the thing is one huge chunk.
Weaponizers and Modulators were great. How are we going backwards?
Weaponizers and Modulators were great. How are we going backwards?
What the Junkions and rock guys basically being regular transformers with removable forearms and shins didn’t clue you in?
If anyone has time, I would love to see how Amalgamous' parts look when used with the Junkions