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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2015 10:16:50 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2015 17:42:15 GMT
A fine Devastating pelvic thrust there. No wonder Superion looks surprised.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 9, 2015 18:38:27 GMT
A pelvic thrust to make the great Rik Mayall himself proud.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 10, 2015 13:17:31 GMT
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Dezzeh
Thunderjet
Wait, what?
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Post by Dezzeh on Jul 10, 2015 13:27:48 GMT
And you can guess at between £30 and 40 for postage, guaranteed customs at a minimum of £33.50.. Got mine form Kapow!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 10, 2015 13:34:07 GMT
As did I.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 13, 2015 9:35:34 GMT
Andu has been peer-pressured into pre-ordering UW Devvy. I hope he joins me in flipping the head to 'two eyes' vision
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 18, 2015 18:40:18 GMT
Amazon.com now seem to be shipping the Hasbro one to the UK, comes up as £137 including shipping and import VAT.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 19, 2015 18:48:10 GMT
Interesting.
I'm also finding some of the 3P shoulder extensions that we've seen interesting as well. The shoulders have always be a concern for me.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 19, 2015 19:15:06 GMT
What's wrong with the shoulders???
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 19, 2015 21:04:43 GMT
From the pictures I've seen, when you pose Devastator's arms, Scavenger and Bonecrusher's tracks stay in position against Devastator's body, and it makes his upper arms look really narrow and skinny. But the two different 3P add-on sets each have a shoulder section that seem to move the shoulders out, giving him better looking upper arms. Don't know if what I've just described makes any sense!
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 19, 2015 21:05:50 GMT
I'm wondering with this one as it seems far more available than Metroplex was, if it won't actually price drop on Amazon before they run out of stock.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 19, 2015 21:10:15 GMT
It's pictures like this which caused Shockprowl's concern - that he doesn't seem to have proper shoulder joints - more a hinge right at the top. All the official pics are posed to disguise how thin the joint is.  |
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 19, 2015 21:14:12 GMT
Yes that's it!!! To Pinwig you listen! Wise, he is.
And that's the worst shot I've seen of the problem! God it looks terrible! Is the Takara version as bad?!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 19, 2015 21:16:06 GMT
From the pictures I've seen, when you pose Devastator's arms, Scavenger and Bonecrusher's tracks stay in position against Devastator's body, and it makes his upper arms look really narrow and skinny. But the two different 3P add-on sets each have a shoulder section that seem to move the shoulders out, giving him better looking upper arms. Don't know if what I've just described makes any sense! Got some links to the extensions? |
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 19, 2015 21:17:31 GMT
I think it'll be the same. They've only spoken about adding elbows to the individual robots; not changing anything in the actual mouldings beyond that. I don't think it's a deal breaker, but it's going to need careful posing to disguise.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 19, 2015 21:18:08 GMT
From the pictures I've seen, when you pose Devastator's arms, Scavenger and Bonecrusher's tracks stay in position against Devastator's body, and it makes his upper arms look really narrow and skinny. But the two different 3P add-on sets each have a shoulder section that seem to move the shoulders out, giving him better looking upper arms. Don't know if what I've just described makes any sense! Got some links to the extensions? Errrrr... links... somewhere..... recent toy show had some.... Pinwig, help me out buddy? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 19, 2015 21:18:54 GMT
The shoulders, as shown on those pictures above, are mounted too high. I don't think I've seen a pose with the arms turned forwards at the shoulders either!
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 19, 2015 21:20:59 GMT
Oh I'm getting The Fear, Man!!!
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 19, 2015 21:21:48 GMT
Got some links to the extensions? Errrrr... links... somewhere..... recent toy show had some.... Pinwig, help me out buddy? The Perfect Effect kit is going to add in some blocks to improve articulation and make it look more solid:  I don't think he'll be able to do this kind of rotation without 3P assistance but I expect there are review videos on YouTube by now exploring this problem. If you deem it a problem!  |
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 19, 2015 21:23:51 GMT
Thanks, Cyber-pal. There's a 2nd set by someone else, I'm sure there is, darned if I can find it.... maybe I dreamed it.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 19, 2015 21:30:19 GMT
The arms there look too far away from the body. Am I remembering rightly that on one of the original arms (Scavenger?) the arm rotates and the tracks remain fixed while on the other (Bonecrusher?) the tracks move with the arm? |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 20, 2015 15:20:02 GMT
I...I...I can't see anything wrong with the shoulders.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Jul 20, 2015 15:41:42 GMT
I can see what would irritate people.
I *can't* see if it would irritate me, though.
Certainly it wouldn't be enough for me to risk a Perfect Effect purchase, though.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 20, 2015 20:38:30 GMT
I...I...I can't see anything wrong with the shoulders. -Ralph what? |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 20, 2015 20:42:26 GMT
Looks fine to me. It's a toy, not a display piece.
But if it really bothers folk there will be 3P shoulder options, which is fine by me as you have to buy a CW or UW Devastator to use the extra bits anyway so everyone is happy.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 20, 2015 20:53:43 GMT
Devastator demands PERFECTION!!!!
Not tiny flippy flappy shoulders!
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 20, 2015 21:04:42 GMT
Looks fairly perfect to me.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 20, 2015 21:13:42 GMT
It's certainly hard to criticise when you take a step back and think about what this actually is. It's astonishing. Who'd have thought it was ever possible?
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 20, 2015 22:20:09 GMT
Or the entire Combiner Wars line for that matter. We never would have thought it would happen....
Flip flap shoulders!!! NEEEAARRRGGHH!!!!!!!!!!
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