Their soild by my standards but then my figures haven't disvolved, only gathered dust as Superion has been on display with Defenor!
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Their soild by my standards but then my figures haven't disvolved, only gathered dust as Superion has been on display with Defenor!
I meant more the type of plastic on the fins, if it was the stiffer or more flexible kind. I've noticed the worst problems with when the soft stuff is near painted parts. I'm considering getting a Superion set for my nephew for later on, but I was hoping to avoid the trouble the POTP Powermaster jets had.
Stiff rather than flexible.
Oh, good. The tailfins from my TFSS jets (Fractyl, Windsheer, SG Starscream) all had the exact same problem, so I was really iffy on the new Superion if it would be a repeat. If my nephew starts being interested in them I will see what I can find for him.
Edit: that reminds me, the nosecones had the same issue. Turned to sticky goo. The Earthrise jets quit using it, though. What are the new Arialbots ones made from?
Edit: that reminds me, the nosecones had the same issue. Turned to sticky goo. The Earthrise jets quit using it, though. What are the new Arialbots ones made from?
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Dang, that's a good point. Those are annoyances on all the jets from that era (first really noticed it with the POTP jets).
Be wild if this is what finally got me over the fence on these.
Be wild if this is what finally got me over the fence on these.
Don’t have the aerialbots but they seem to be the same plastic as the rest of the jet but they decided to comply with safety regulations by sculpting the nosecones very round and blunt
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So the other day I lucked into Sky-Byte at Target.
I don't think people are talking enough about how good this figure really is. More poseable than any other Sky-Byte we've ever gotten. Looks just as good as the original, minus the spark crystal. Simple, yet satisfying transformation - which puts him head and shoulders above every other one we've gotten who've all been giant pains in the ass to transform.
Frankly, this figure is a joy. Full of personality, exciting, and fun. Goes well with the new Haslab and the Speedia Scourge we got a few years ago. Now we need a new RiD Megatron.
I don't think people are talking enough about how good this figure really is. More poseable than any other Sky-Byte we've ever gotten. Looks just as good as the original, minus the spark crystal. Simple, yet satisfying transformation - which puts him head and shoulders above every other one we've gotten who've all been giant pains in the ass to transform.
Frankly, this figure is a joy. Full of personality, exciting, and fun. Goes well with the new Haslab and the Speedia Scourge we got a few years ago. Now we need a new RiD Megatron.
As long as they also do a set in Ruination colors but really crappy plastic so that I can relive the days when the only Bruticus I had was the KO set from Tuesday Morning.
Thing is, The commandos would have to be remolded from the Combaticons. Becuase while they all had the same toys, they don't have the same appearance in fiction.
Armorhide is the only one you might be able to get away with being a straigh Repaint. Mega-Octane and Ro-Tor probably could but, to me, I think it'd look wrong. Movor and Rollbar have almost no similarities, if they make Blast Off's head animation accurate.
The Commandos also wouldn't be able to swap limb formations like they did in the show, thanks to the frame system.
I wouldn't be surprised if sometime down the line we also get the G2 repaints of Bruticus & Superion as boxsets, of course, there might be the Yellowesator
Not that most people care, but the UW team also scales better than the AotP team would. Mega-Octane is taller than Scourge, while Onslaught is shorter than Optimus. Fits nicely with CW Onslaught/Dolrailer being a little taller than Legacy G2 Optimus/Scourge. It's a minor point, but piled on top of the limb swapping and UW skewing closer to the toys while AotP follows the G1 animation, I have a hard time imagining an AotP Ruination set being something I'd be real interested in.
Now if they want to do Battle Gaia... I mean, I'd still strongly prefer basing it off CW/UW for the limb swapping, but I'd take anything they'd be willing to make.
My Silverbolt from Pulse arrived yesterday. I'm pretty happy with him for the most part. Superion's left shoulder ratchet's a little soft, nowhere near as strong as Menasor's. He can hold his arm out with Slingshot attached, but it doesn't take much to make it drop. Other than that, I'm a bit surprised that Silverbolt's attachment to the Superion frame is basically the same scheme as Menasor's, yet just different enough to make them incompatible. It's basically just like how the limb bots connect to the frames in the same way, yet you can't plug a Stunticon into an Aerialbot frame or vice versa. It just seems bizarre that they'd engineer them all to function so similarly, and not go that extra little bit to bring in at least a little bit more Scramble City functionality.
Might still be possible to make Nexus Prime flexible enough to plug into either frame and make him a universal torso bot, which I'd really like to see, but might be tough to pull something like that off. If not that though, I'm really confused about what they can do with him at a Voyager price point that would make sense for him.
Now if they want to do Battle Gaia... I mean, I'd still strongly prefer basing it off CW/UW for the limb swapping, but I'd take anything they'd be willing to make.
My Silverbolt from Pulse arrived yesterday. I'm pretty happy with him for the most part. Superion's left shoulder ratchet's a little soft, nowhere near as strong as Menasor's. He can hold his arm out with Slingshot attached, but it doesn't take much to make it drop. Other than that, I'm a bit surprised that Silverbolt's attachment to the Superion frame is basically the same scheme as Menasor's, yet just different enough to make them incompatible. It's basically just like how the limb bots connect to the frames in the same way, yet you can't plug a Stunticon into an Aerialbot frame or vice versa. It just seems bizarre that they'd engineer them all to function so similarly, and not go that extra little bit to bring in at least a little bit more Scramble City functionality.
Might still be possible to make Nexus Prime flexible enough to plug into either frame and make him a universal torso bot, which I'd really like to see, but might be tough to pull something like that off. If not that though, I'm really confused about what they can do with him at a Voyager price point that would make sense for him.
I think you might have a problem with the ratchets in Superion's arm if its dropping as my copy is not having that issue, the only issue I have is trying to get Slingshot to seperate and spread across the arm! With the battle station mode of Silverbolt, I don't use the offical way of attaching the two halves because its a very loose connection, so what I do, is use the two ports connection to effectively hold what is the torso and the upper parts of Superion's legs to the rest of it and move the chest plate so that Superion's gun can rest on top like normal and then it also covers up the unsightly gap from the weird leg desgin! Apart of my messing around with Superion, I found that his horns are connected kind of similar to Legacy Armada Megatron connection for his horns, but they aren't the same, just similar! the main complaint for Silverbolt I have, is where they choose to stick the Autobot symbol, upon his shoulder instead of slap bang in the middle of his chest as its rather off putting, while with Superion himself, honestly, I hope DNA or a third party produce a better head for him as he looks, kind of similar to his BW counterpart, AKA a giant robot with a dog head, thou I do wish they could of found away to store Superion's head in Silverbolt's chest for vehicle mode, I wouldn't of minded Silverbolts head on the outside because its less intrustive!
How did they do the Superion antennae this time? My Abominus one is holding up fine but my Scattershot version is all floppy and sticky.
Cricle port connection, nothing else but the sides of Superion's head to prevent it from moving
Oh, so this doesn't fold down at all? I guess that's one way to minimize the stress on it.
Nope, no folding, which is why you need to ensure that the head is in the correct place before sealing Silverbolt's chest, but the actual head is on a ball joint, so getting it right isn't to hard and there is slots within the chest for the antenna to park themselves in but not like the CW verison where they poke through and seemlessy blend with the robot mode chest
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As did I! He's a lot of fun, and feels like a properly big voyager - not that the Sideburn/Shadowstriker mold is any great shakes as a deluxe, but it feels like proper looming from sharkman, y'know? It's great that the shark mode isn't forced into a permanent banana pose, and the robot mode is plenty posable even with the shoulder planks and backpack.
Only knock against it really is there's no place to stash the missile launcher apart from the shark mouth - an extra pair of slots or 5mm port for it somewhere would have been gravy; as it is you can kind of fudge it by leaving the hand un-tucked and rotating the wrist in shark mode, or tossing it in the hollow shark head in robot mode, but neither's at all secure.