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Can't unsee.

Yeah, I have them all preordered, too.  I just don't feel like waiting.  Slag, Rodimus, and Galvatron are currently my most-anticipated Transformers purchases... and I'm including the 3P stuff I have preordered.

Well, I did stop at Target today (and I was at my local Walmart on Saturday).  Didn't expect to find anything at my Walmart... I can go to the next two closest Walmarts to my house and find then nicely stocked while my local one constantly has half empty aisles.  Can't tell if the problem is distribution, management, lazy stock people, or employees grabbing them for scalping, but yeah, it's consistently the worst Walmart to shop at.  But to be fair to them, Target was pretty empty, too.  Couple of the Buzzworthy packs (the one with Exo Suit Spike, RotF Bee and Sam), couple of Cyberverse Arcees, couple of Kingdom Arcees (maybe '80s Hasbro was right and girl Transformers don't sell... at least in redneck Westmoreland County, PA), and that's about it.  Nothing bigger than a Deluxe.

On Wednesday I'm planning to pick up my dad and take him to lunch.  I can hit the Walmart and Target out that way, maybe I'll have better luck.

Got something a bit less commercial and very cool for you guys today.

This is a 3D-printed upgrade kit for Generations Selects G2 Megatron by Larkin (of Youtube channel Larkin's Lair).  Unlike the other kits I usually look at, even the 3D-printed stuff, Larkin's stuff is less an intentional move to get into the market for upgrade kits and more he happened to whip something up for his own copy that he showed off on his channel.  He seemed almost surprised that people wanted their own copies of it, so he tweaked the design and made a few to sell on Etsy (note that he apparently only put them up in batches of 20, and as of this writing they're apparently sold out).  So the first thing you're going to notice is that, compared to almost any other 3D-printed kit I've looked at, this one's looking a little rough.  Lines are very visible on all surfaces, especially the undersides, some lines are a little thicker than others, and there's wisps of PLA where the parts were cut off the support rafts.  It looks like something I might print from STL files on my cheap DaVinci Jr... and it might very well be.  But again, Larkin doesn't seem to be doing this to start a little side business, he strikes me as a hobbyist that's just trying to fulfill some of the demand for a kit like this, so I'm not holding it against him.

If you can't tell from the first image, this kit needs to be assembled.  So start by taking the muzzle and barrel and attaching them to the main cannon part.  Your mileage may vary (as the printing itself does), but for me the muzzle fit snugly onto the barrel, but I had to glue the barrel into the cannon.  OK, notice the gear-ish looking section on the cannon?  Take the purple box-shaped part and fit the gear down into it, so the pegs are toward the front of the cannon.  This provides a hinge for the cannon, with the geared part working with a tab in the box as a psuedo soft ratchet.

You can finish off the cannon by taking the great sensor piece and plugging it into the 5mm port on the side of the cannon.

To attach the cannon, lift the barrel and plug the peg on the box into the 5mm port on Megatron's backpack.  Then you simply fold the cannon back down; the shape is designed to fit around Megatron's backpack.

As for the rest of the parts, you get three sets for forearm gap covers.  Larkin included purple, to match Megatron's hands, and green, to match his forearms.  He also included a gray set, in case you want one for Siege or Earthrise Megatron.  The covers just wedge into the gap, and will need to be removed for transformation.  Larkin says he tried to do a hinged design, but the hinges wound up too thin and kept cracking.  If you don't care for them they are, of course, optional.

The last bit is a rifle meant to mimic the original G2 toy's gun.  The sculpt, while a bit rough, is fairly reminiscent of that gun.  However, on the original toy the gun was comparatively small, more like a pistol.  Larkin made his proportionally larger by choice.

Now, and I don't mean to demean the simple part I reviewed earlier to mount the fusion cannon to Megatron's shoulder, but I'm very impressed and pleased with how this looks.  Yes, the print quality is a little rough, and the body shape is really more G1 Megatron than G2 still, but the shoulder cannon is a lot closer to an actual G2 homage than a recolored Earthrise Megs.

Best of all, he can still transform with this kit.  Start by removing the cannon, gun, and forearm covers, and transforming him like you normally would.  Use the pegs on the side of the box part of the cannon to plug into Megatron's forearms, where his fusion cannon would normally go.

The gun can plug into a 5mm port on top of the cannon, or into one of the ones on the sides of the tank.  Likewise, the forearm covers can plug into the rearward ports on the treads; the tabs that help secure them in bot mode have just enough of a lip to get clearance for tank mode there.  You may, if you choose, still use the panel that Hasbro means to fill out the back of the tank.  But, we're tossing aside the fusion cannon and the old tank barrel/sword part; there's no room for it now.

And here we have the completed tank mode.  I mean, that looks pretty good to me, eh?  Sure, the turret lacks the taper in the front from the partsforming chunk, but the lack of taper didn't really bother us on the Siege version, did it?  So as with the robot mode, no, it's not a perfect G2 Megatron (and, at this point, I'm kind of hoping Hasbro does a new properly-scaled G2 Megatron and G2 Laser Optimus, although I have no reason to think either are in the works), but it's definitely in the ball park.

The turret still swivels; nothing in Larkin's kit interferes with that.  But, it does one better.  The hinge at the back of the cannon allows it to be elevated in tank mode.  It leaves a bit of a gap under it, but I don't really have a problem with it.

So, yeah, I'm a big fan of this kit.  I might have liked it better if someone like DNA or Go Better did a bit more professional kit (maybe with one that has gap fillers for the insides of his lower legs that could fold out to fill in the back of the tank instead of that awful partsforming panel), but in absence of such a kit this is the best option for turning Gen Selects Megatron from a green-and-purple camo Earthrise Megatron into something actually reminiscent of G2 Megatron in more than colors and alt mode.  If you have Gen Selects Megatron I'd go so far as to call this kit a must-have upgrade for him.  The only catches are the less-polished print quality and the fact that you'll have to stalk Larkin's Etsy in the hope of a restock.

2 hours ago, sh9000 said:

I saw WFC Kingdom Galvatron in person at Target this morning but left it there.  I think he would have been better without the added purple marks that to me look like slime.  Also saw a Legends scale Soundwave that looked cool but I didn’t buy it either.

Where? I'd have gone gone with both. Well, I need a birthday present for my daughter's friend, so I guess I'll go to Target tomorrow. Even though I'll bet my local Target doesn't have squat.

27 minutes ago, slaginpit said:

Newage

Yeah... I think I prefer Magic Square's designs most of the time, but Newage might be the better choice for Shockwave. And the Seekers.

14 minutes ago, slaginpit said:

me too but it looks so cool

I think i might get shockwave too

 

Which Shockwave? Magic Square or Newage?

I'm trying really hard not to get into a Legends collection- haven't even bought a Megatron.  But I ordered the four in-stock Magic Square Stunticons and preordered a restock for their Motormaster.  I'll ship all five when Motormaster comes in.

46 minutes ago, Magnus said:

So resurrecting this thread as it's been close to 3 years since I paid USD$102 as a deposit to MAAS toys for their Hovertank, with no news and their website gone without a trace. 

I'm guessing i'm never getting that money back at this point right?

Unfortunately, probably not.

46 minutes ago, Magnus said:

Scum like this make getting legitimate projects started that much harder, since, at least in my case, I doubt i'll invest in one again. 

For what it's worth, from what I'd heard about the whole situation, MAAS Toys was not a monolithic entity out to screw people.  They were fans, they had designs, and they really did want to bring them to the masses.  Some of the MAAS Toys team were, themselves, screwed over.  Almost all the trouble with them can be traced to one individual who oversold, underdelivered, then took the money and ran.  Indeed, if everything I'd heard is true, this individual didn't just screw MAAS Toys and their customers, he might actually have something to do with Maketoys being reduced to a shell of their former selves.

I'll probably still get him, if only to judge him in hand, but I do think that this is a lateral move from T30 Waspinator at best.

Speaking of figures I've gotten... I'd bought MPM Optimus and Bumblebee when TRU was still around.  I forget where I got Barricade at, but as one of the few movie designs I actually liked he was definitely getting bought.  After them, I ignored the MPM line until they started popping up at Target, where the novelty of buying figures like that in actual stores sold me on Starscream and Ratchet.  Having Bee, Ratchet, and Prime motivated me to pick up Ironhide and Jazz to complete the first movie Autobots, but without Blackout and Brawl I wasn't feeling any strong urge to pickup Megatron.

And then Hasbro dumped a bunch for like $60 on ebay.

Megatron's a pretty big figure, standing one of his bulbous heads over MPM Optimus (or like three of Prime's heads).  Aesthetically, though, I'm not convinced he looks that much better than the Studio Series toy.  Some of the molded details on the MPM are better, sure especially around the pelvis (where the SS figure reused parts from the RotF version) and lower legs (because the SS version has his alt mode wings stuffed into his calves).  But, the paint is actually better on the SS version.  Too much of MPM Megatron's "silver" color is bare plastic.  Much of the paint on MPM Megatron is actually copper accents that the CGI model either didn't have, or if it did were far more subtle.

Speaking of those folded-up wings... yes, MPM Megatron winds up with cleaner legs, especially when viewed from behind.  The cost of cleaner calves, though, is that his wings and tail are instead folded up into a fairly obvious backpack.  That's kind of a pick-your-poison, I guess.

Well, MPM Megatron does have the SS version beat on accessories, at least.  You get his flail, although there's not weight at the end like the SS version has.  Also, the bulk of it is a very rubbery plastic.  You get a fusion cannon, something I wish the SS toy had.  And you get a tiny diecast Allspark.

Alright, so Megatron's head is on a swivel for looking left and right, with a double hinge that technically allows him to look almost straight up, as well as a good bit down.  However, moving the head up or down really destroys the sculpt and looks very unnatural.  Plus, the lower hinge is really a c-clip, and is extremely prone to coming off.  His mouth can open wider, but it doesn't totally close.  His shoulders rotate on ratchets, and some of the detail on the edge of his shoulder hinges up so that his arms can ratchet laterally, but only about 60 degrees.  His biceps swivel, and his elbow ratchet 90 degrees.  His wrists swivel.  On both hands, his two larger fingers are hinged at the base and have an additional hinge.  The three smaller fingers are molded together as a single piece hinged only at the base.  His waist swivels.  His hips ratchet forward and backward, but the spaces between the detents are very large; three clicks takes you from straight to 90 degrees forward, and he only gets one click backward, and they're pretty loose between clicks.  Fortunately, the lateral ratchets feel much better.  The spikes on the outside of his hips fold out of the way, and the hips move laterally 90 degrees.  His thighs swivel just above his ratcheted, single jointed knees, which bend 90 degrees.  Then his feet... well, they kind of suck.  See, he's got great up/down tilt, way more than he actually needs... because his feet are connected on a double hinge.  These hinges are not necessary for transformation, and they're not ratcheted, so he's a little prone to tipping forward.  I thought maybe tightening the screws would help, but they're in as tight as they can get.  Meanwhile, he does have an ankle pivot, but it seems at first like it doesn't move much and wants to naturally go back to straight.  If you force it enough, the ankle will pop into place for a wider stance... one that's too wide, really.  So, too shallow, or too deep; 45 degrees isn't happening here.

If you want Megatron to use his flail, you actually pop his hand off, plug one end into his wrist socket, then plug the hand back on the other hand.  Was that how it was in the film?  I can't remember, but the SS figure's flail isn't molded to look like a hand.  The fusion cannon also works by plugging into his wrist socket.

Or, you can pop off both of his hands, and change the angle of the wrist peg on the cannon so it can plug into both of his wrists.  The the top of the cannon opens and a much larger barrel unfurls, to recreate that one scene in the movie.  Yay.

So you don't lose them, you can store his flail and cannon in robot mode.  It's hard to tell from this picture- heck, it was hard to tell from the instructions- but the cannon plugs into Megatron's butt.  Then, the end of the flail that you'd plug his hand into plugs onto the peg on the cannon that connects to Megatron's wrists.  The other end has a small peg that plugs into a spot on Megatron's back.  Megatron's hands also have small tabs that fit into the holes on his butt.  I don't know if that's intentional or not, but there isn't room enough to store both hands, and I don't think you can store the flail with a hand on his back.

As for the Allspark, it stores in his chest, of course.  There's a large translucent red plastic piece behind his chest with a cutout just for the Allspark.  You technically don't even have to open his whole chest; a small part of his chest is removable, in case you wanted to display dead Megatron with the cube jammed in there.

Megatron's transformation isn't too complicated.  You have to combiner-wars the legs to collapse them, and the nose has to be unfurled from the inside of his torso.  His chest turns inside out a bit, and his backpack unfolds into his wings and tail.  His arms collapse into the void left by the unfurled nose, sure.  But... he's mostly just lying on his tummy with his arms outstretched in a Superman pose.

The lack of folded-over feet, the largely visible head, the bigger fins on the wings, the smaller vertical stabilizer, the wings blending into the tail, and the lack of a visible gap between his legs (when viewed from above) do make MPM Megatron more accurate in alt mode than the smaller Studio Series version.  It's hard to say exactly how accurate it is to the barely-glimpsed space jet we see in the film, though.  It's definitely lacking a lot of the smoother, flowing lines seen in the concept art.  And he just sits in this mode; there's no landing gear or anything.

I do like how the fusion cannon fills in the back, though.

As for his other accessories, the flail uses 3mm pegs on one end to connect to his ankle on one side, then the other end plugs under Megatron's wing.  It's not pretty, but it's storage.  As for the Allspark, it doesn't even have to be removed for transformation.  It just stays in his chest.  I was a little worried that it might fall out, but it hasn't yet.

Honestly, I think movie 1 Megatron is one of the worst designs in the Bayverse- a collection of jagged metal in a humanoid form that transforms into "Cybertronian jet," so it doesn't have to be anything real, but still winds up looking like a collection of jagged metal.  Maybe MPM Megatron is a success, then, given that he kind of looks like trash in both modes.  I like the RotF and DotM bodies better, but I guess this is the way to go if you're thinking about collection the cast of the first movie and then stopping.  That said, I think Megatron is ok at best.  As @lechuck noted on the upcoming MPM Bumblebee Prime Hasbro's interference with the MPM line has left us with bigger, more complex, more expensive figures than the mainline, sure, but they still feel pretty far from "Masterpiece."  If I'd bought Megatron at full retail price ($160) I'd probably feel ripped off, and frankly I don't really recommend MPM Megatron.  That said, I think he's ok for $60.  Now c'mon, Hasbro, give me and MPM Brawl and Blackout so I can be done.

So the new MP Starscream is right around the corner, and while I know some MWers are in, I also know some of you aren't fans.  May I offer you an alternative... one that isn't Maketoys will-it-or-won't-it reissue Meteor?

No jet mode pics yet.  It's being listed as the first product from a new company, Deformation Space.  However, given some similarities with the Newage Seekers, and the web of connections between DX9, Newage, and Transform Element, there's some speculation that Deformation Space is TE or at least producing a design from the same people that brought us some TE's Optimus and Mirage.  With pandemic shipping and what not I have no idea what the final cost will be where you live, but the Chinese price is expected to be between 600 and 700 yuan ($95-$110 USD).

I'm not sure I feel a need to replace Meteor, but I hope this thing sells like crazy.  Not so much because I want Takara to fail (honestly, I'm thinking DS could sell a reasonable run on these and Takara will still sell out of MP-52), but because competition in the 3P MP space is dwindling, and someone needs to offer an alternative to all the BS that goes along with Fans Toys these days.

Ok, so this might be Kingdom Waspinator, or might be a heavy custom.

I gotta say... I'm kind of hoping it's the latter.  I mean, I like what's going on with the wings here and ditching the flapping gimmick, and the wasp head seems both more organic and more cartoon accurate than the Thrilling 20 one.  I like that he's get hinged elbows instead of ball joints.  But the engineering is entirely too similar, with the arms half-heartedly tucked between the body and his folded-up legs forming the wasp chest, so it's got the same weird, chunky proportions.  It even looks like his weapon stores the same way.  Given what Hasbro's already pulled off with Primal, Megatron, Airazor, and Blackarachnia (and to a lesser extent Cheetor and Dinobot), I kind of expected more, like some kind of simple-yet-clever new transformation that made for a better all-around figure.

I think I'm going to get this kit, for Wheelie, the dino arms, and the forearm covers.  Maybe the feet fillers.  But if anyone else wants the sword, neck, or teeth lemme know.

Ugh.  I might still pick it up, if only because seeing it on the shelf at my local Target will make me more inclined to buy it than I otherwise would be, but I'm still holding out hope that a 3P will do a better one that's MPM-scaled and not ThreeA.

I'm fairly content with the Grimlock upgrades I already got, but I think I like that Wheelie better than TR.

7 hours ago, slaginpit said:

just got payment request for my preorder of UT megatron 

I'll pay mine tonight when I get home.

Man, when it rains it pours. I only bought maybe one 3P toy in April and nothing in May. Now I bought Mista on same, have to pay for this, want to get Magic Square's Stunticons, plus I'm expecting some stuff that's been out in China to hit my domestic store any day.

And according to Bubbeh MS is using less of that mushy nylon plastic. I might check out their Menasor, too.

Despite Newage's rising prices I think I'm in for both Devastators. Birth look much better than anything in a larger scale, and I've got all the other Devastator's, so it'd be weird if I didn't get these.

Besides, with UT, GT, Maketoys, Badcube, and DX9 ghosts of their former selves, Fanshobby focusing on Masterpiece, XTB pricing their stuff higher than their QC really allows, and FT's prices gone straight to crazy town, my collecting has really slowed. At least this is something.

11 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

Apparently Micky-D don't care, but David and I do.

They can't care, they don't exist anymore.

Boeing, on the other hand, is probably just glad to cash a check.

I feel the same way about the new MP Starscream that I do about Arcee... It looks ok. Maybe a little too toon, but it's a big improvement over MP-3/MP-11 in robot mode. But I already have Maketoys' Starscream and don't feel a need to upgrade.

On 3/6/2020 at 7:16 PM, Tking22 said:

On that note, season 2 of Kingdom releases next week, an absolutely brilliant, well made and acted, Korean zombie series, also on Netflix of course :). Highly recommended, really great stuff, far superior to Walking Dead IMO, but that's not exactly a hard task. It takes place in feudal Korea, apparently based on a Korean comic called Land of the Gods, once again, highly recommended even for those with zombie fatigue. 

I guess, by the lack of the discussion, that no one else watched it?

Well, I'm watching it now.  I gotta say, I don't really like zombie stuff.  I feel like it's been pretty played out, mostly because there's only so much you can do with zombies as a plot.  What makes Kingdom interesting, though, is that zombies are a part of a plot, but not the plot.  Rather, it's a period political piece.  Like, tell me if this sounds interesting-

It's the early 1600's, Korea.  The country is suffering after two consecutive defeats fighting the Japanese, and the peasants are starving.  There's this ambitious, wealthy clan (the Hanyeon Cho) that's been infiltrating the government, and their masterstroke was getting the king to marry the daughter of the clan's head.  She's pregnant, and the crown price knows that once that baby is born the Hanyeon Cho are going to get rid of him and his father, so he secretly begins plotting with the scholar-class to usurp his father and take the throne before then.  But the a wrench is thrown into the machinations of both the Hanyeon Cho and the prince when the king suddenly becomes ill.  The queen restricts access to the king's palace, and no one else has seen him for days.  The prince, believing his father is dead, thinks it's his chance.  But the queen and the Hanyeon Cho, knowing that the king's death would end their claim to the throne, insist the king is alive but can't see anyone as he's very weak.  What's more, they found evidence of the prince's plots, and brand him a traitor.  The prince and his bodyguard manage to escape the capital and set off for a small village, the home of the physician that treated the king, as they believe he's the key to exposing the king's true condition.

Sounds pretty good, right?

Ok, plot twist.  The king is a zombie.  What's more, the king bit the physician's assistant, who dies during the return trip to his little village...

So anyway, yeah, I'm only about three episodes in.  But I'm digging it so far.

1 minute ago, M'Kyuun said:

Do you mean legends sized copies of the WfC toys?

No, the opposite.  Sorry it was confusing, because of my phone's stupid autocorrect.  Should be "WFC-scaled," not "scanned."  As in, I wish NA, MS, and MFT took some of their Legends-scaled figures and upsized them to work with WFC.  While I think Hasbro's done a pretty great job with a lot of them, there are some definite missing and misses that I would be easily covered with some upscaled 3P Legends.  Heck, there are a even a few, like the Seeker mold, that I think are fine in the official line but would still replace just because I think the Legends ones are better.

I still wish Newage, Magic Square, and MFT would consider doing WfC-scaled figures...

While you can't throw a rock these days without finding some kind of 3D-printed add-on kit for official Transformers these days, but they mostly seem to be coming from China.  And with the pandemic affecting shipping prices the kits can often cost as much or more than the figure itself, if you're in the US.  And unless it's coming from Go Better it might not even be worth it.

Well, it turns out there is a cheaper alternative... get your 3D-printed kits from a US-based source.  New kid on the block JRC Design recently opened up an e-shop (jrcdesignstore.com), and I decided to give him a look.  I wound up grabbing four small kits.

First up we have this little orange bit.  It's for the Gen Selects G2 Megatron.

What you do is fit that notched end into the groove on Megatron's right shoulder.  This puts a 5mm peg on the top, that you can then plug his fusion cannon into.  Not quite as good as having an actual tank barrel, but it's closer to G2 than simply G1 Megatron in green and purple camo.

Despite the abundance of sculpted detail the only place I could find to stick it in tank mode is under the partsforming back end.  All-in-all, it's a simple thing that doesn't totally fix G2 Megatron, but it helps.

Next up we have another small, simple part for a tank.  This one's for Kingdom Warpath.

You take his partsforming shield/tank front and plug the part onto it like this.

The idea here is that if you don't want Warpath using it as a shield, and you don't want the shield sticking up so far behind his head, this part lowers how it sits on his back.

You don't even need to remove it for transformation, as it sits in the hollow void between his legs.  As with the G2 Megatron kit, this kit isn't going to blow you away but it does provide a simple solution to a minor irritant.

Next we have a part for Kindgom Ultra Magnus (sorry, doesn't work with Siege).  This one is less about fixing a problem and more about adding utility.

See the peg in the middle?  It works with the Matrix that came with Earthrise Optimus, Studio Series Hot Rod, and presumably Kingdom Rodimus Prime.

If you open Magnus up you'll find two raised posts where the clear windows are screwed into the white plastic.  The holes in the part grab onto those posts, Matrix side down.  You should be able to fold the white Optimus head in behind it, so it can stay in for all three modes.  Emphasis on should.  The peg on my copy was a little too thick for the Matrix, so I couldn't get one to sit low enough for the Optimus head to get the necessary clearance.  I'll work on filing it down later.  If everything fits properly, you should be able to see the Matrix through the truck's windshield in truck or white Optimus mode.  It's kind of a novelty, though, because you won't really see it in Magnus mode, and the entire part has to be removed to take the Matrix back out.  Still, it's something.

Lastly, we have a small pack with guns and spoilers for Spinout and Cordon.

You'll recall I already picked up Nonnef's kits for those two, and yeah, the 3D-printed guns are looking a lot less polished than Nonnef's rifles.  They'll do in a pinch, though, when you consider that JRC's kit supplies both figures for slightly less than a Nonnef kit with guns and spoilers for just one of them.

Of course, we have to consider the spoilers, too, and that's were JRC fares a bit better.  The color match seems to be about the same as Nonnef's, and in bot mode you can store them on the back of the leg, same as Nonnef's.  Because the holes run the whole way through the calf you can push them in flush.

They pull ahead in alt mode, though.  Recall that Nonnef's spoilers didn't plug directly into the car.  You either had to use some obtrusive black riser pieces, or some included 5mm to 3mm pegs.  If you went with the risers you didn't really have a good place to store them in bot mode.  If you went with the peg adapters they were extremely difficult to remove from the arms in robot mode, and the sides of the spoilers were switched so that it was wider at the ends than in the middle.  JRC's have none of those complications, just simple 5mm posts in the right spots so that the spoiler looks correct.  Now, I'll still say that the Go Better kit for Sunstreaker is the best way to add a spoiler and gun to him.  However, Go Better hasn't made that kit available in Spinout and Cordon's colors, and even if they had it's a pretty expensive kit.  You might be cool splurging on a main character like Sunstreaker, but a cheaper option for the repaints is definitely welcome.  Of course, if you don't want to splurge at all JRC does have a version of this kit with a gray spoiler for Sunstreaker.

Ultimately, I think that comparison with Go Better doesn't just apply to spoiler kits.  JRC's stuff is still a bit rough and lacks the paint and polish you'd find in one of Go Better's kits.  If there's a figure you really want to improve and money is no object then you might want to take a look to see what Go Better is offering.  JRC's biggest advantage, though, is price.  I paid $23 for my Go Better Sunstreaker kit.  I paid under $20 before shipping for everything in this review.  The majority of his kits are under $5.  So give him a look, you might find a cheap solution that fixes a minor issue you have with a figure.

4 hours ago, Wolf-1 said:

From the photos on Pulse, it looks like they've neglected the 5mm ports at the very back and changed the shape of where Nonnef's filler pieces go as well.  There does appear to be a slot cut into the rear portion of the rear quarter-panels which should allow for some sort of spoiler.  While I haven't purchased one, I don't think the other popular "spoiler kit" will work either; seems like it will require a new kit.

Yeah, I looked a bit closer and you're right.  Dang.

Well, I don't know about G2 Sideswipe, Deep Cover, the other Deep Cover, Tigertrack, or Clampdown... but Earth-mode Red Alert sure looks like a thing...

If you never picked up Siege Refraktor BBTS, TFSource, and Entertainment Earth are taking preorders for the toy-colored 3-pack with  the extra camera parts.