[CUSTOM] not-Hasbro
Posted by RedAleseides
One of my favorite 3rd-party products, and considering I've liked most of the 3rd-party stuff I've bought, that's saying a lot.
The packaging's art is fantastic, for a start:
A comparison of the stock to custom parts, and here HasTak's half-assedness really shines:
Parts assembled:
The best thing I could say is that I wouldn't even have bought Bludgeon (probably wouldn't even have known about it) were it not for this kit. The head's a bit wobbly, as many have noted, but it's also not that big of an issue, as many have noted.
The Pretenders arrived at the tail end of my childhood collecting, and they always seemed like the toy equivalent of a turducken. Who wants a robot nested inside of a humanoid flesh-suit? A demonic samurai flesh-suit is better, but making that flesh-suit the actual robotic form is even better. In a way, it's the logical extension of where things were headed, with designs like Cyclonus and Unicron in the middle.
I guess, having sold my MOTUCs, I was pining for Skeletor.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/2011 07:35PM by gingaio.
The packaging's art is fantastic, for a start:
A comparison of the stock to custom parts, and here HasTak's half-assedness really shines:
Parts assembled:
The best thing I could say is that I wouldn't even have bought Bludgeon (probably wouldn't even have known about it) were it not for this kit. The head's a bit wobbly, as many have noted, but it's also not that big of an issue, as many have noted.
The Pretenders arrived at the tail end of my childhood collecting, and they always seemed like the toy equivalent of a turducken. Who wants a robot nested inside of a humanoid flesh-suit? A demonic samurai flesh-suit is better, but making that flesh-suit the actual robotic form is even better. In a way, it's the logical extension of where things were headed, with designs like Cyclonus and Unicron in the middle.
I guess, having sold my MOTUCs, I was pining for Skeletor.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/2011 07:35PM by gingaio.
He's Fabulous.
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So, not only are we getting multiple "Classics" Devastators and multiple G1 Devastator add-ons from multiple companies, we're now getting multiple updates to Seaspray as well.
The iGear one:
The Maketoy one:
I'm definitely digging the iGear one myself. The proportions just look a lot nicer, IMO. Powerglide really looked nice in the previous prototype pics, but here he's looking ridiculously top-heavy. Too bad, since he's one of my favorite G1 characters.
More serious than thou
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2011 06:20PM by fujikuro.
The iGear one:
The Maketoy one:
I'm definitely digging the iGear one myself. The proportions just look a lot nicer, IMO. Powerglide really looked nice in the previous prototype pics, but here he's looking ridiculously top-heavy. Too bad, since he's one of my favorite G1 characters.
More serious than thou
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2011 06:20PM by fujikuro.
gingaio Wrote:
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> One of my favorite 3rd-party products, and
> considering I've liked most of the 3rd-party stuff
> I've bought, that's saying a lot.
Finally got my Blood the Dark Warrior set, and I'm agreed on all counts:
MUCH better now.
Best, Ken-A
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/23/2011 07:03PM by Ken-A.
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> One of my favorite 3rd-party products, and
> considering I've liked most of the 3rd-party stuff
> I've bought, that's saying a lot.
Finally got my Blood the Dark Warrior set, and I'm agreed on all counts:
MUCH better now.
Best, Ken-A
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/23/2011 07:03PM by Ken-A.
Say it with me: Showiness is next to godliness.
Damn, it was a long wait, but I'm happy to finally have Renderform's Darkwing head kit. G1 Darkwing was a childhood gift from my brother, and was my go-to Decepticon jet. (By that point, Thundercracker had fallen out of favor.)
While the new Darkwing has a different alt mode, it doesn't really bother me given that I spent most of my childhood pretending that Darkwing's alt mode was a cooler, more futuristic jet anyway.
The head kit is really nice. Along with the twin rifles, Azim even included alternate-colored visors.
The look is astounding. Even though HasTak half-assed it as usual, the paint job is ridiculously accurate to that of the original toy, and the mold seems as if it were made for a Darkwing homage (same transformation, same basic design of carrying the top half of the plane as a backpack).
It helps that I was pretty enamored with the mold to begin with. Silverbolt is one of the most boring characters HasTak could have chosen, but I'm a sucker for showiness and Takaratomy nailed it with its paint-job. And as a toy, DarkSilverWing's got the best vintage feel out of all the Classics--a ten-second transformation, totally showy bot mode, and a fun-ass gimmick (a G1 transformation sound chip).
Of course, to get the full effect, Renderform's head kit is absolutely required. That kid is really talented.
Superb.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/2011 07:01PM by gingaio.
Damn, it was a long wait, but I'm happy to finally have Renderform's Darkwing head kit. G1 Darkwing was a childhood gift from my brother, and was my go-to Decepticon jet. (By that point, Thundercracker had fallen out of favor.)
While the new Darkwing has a different alt mode, it doesn't really bother me given that I spent most of my childhood pretending that Darkwing's alt mode was a cooler, more futuristic jet anyway.
The head kit is really nice. Along with the twin rifles, Azim even included alternate-colored visors.
The look is astounding. Even though HasTak half-assed it as usual, the paint job is ridiculously accurate to that of the original toy, and the mold seems as if it were made for a Darkwing homage (same transformation, same basic design of carrying the top half of the plane as a backpack).
It helps that I was pretty enamored with the mold to begin with. Silverbolt is one of the most boring characters HasTak could have chosen, but I'm a sucker for showiness and Takaratomy nailed it with its paint-job. And as a toy, DarkSilverWing's got the best vintage feel out of all the Classics--a ten-second transformation, totally showy bot mode, and a fun-ass gimmick (a G1 transformation sound chip).
Of course, to get the full effect, Renderform's head kit is absolutely required. That kid is really talented.
Superb.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/2011 07:01PM by gingaio.
From TFW2005.com:
Giant head reveal (I was expecting a toy-accurate face, which I would prefer, but the Showy head's a small thing to overlook given how good everything else looks...I seriously might need to buy 2):
Sixshot (I don't understand the hate here...I hated the original toy and have no interest in the character, but the updated toy looks pretty awesome):
Headrobot's Whirl custom kit--head, blasters, feet skis (the most pleasant surprise this time around; it made me immediately buy a DOTM Vortex from BBTS and I'm counting on Headrobots to release a recolor to match the Vortex's colors...they better):
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/17/2011 08:51PM by gingaio.
Giant head reveal (I was expecting a toy-accurate face, which I would prefer, but the Showy head's a small thing to overlook given how good everything else looks...I seriously might need to buy 2):
Sixshot (I don't understand the hate here...I hated the original toy and have no interest in the character, but the updated toy looks pretty awesome):
Headrobot's Whirl custom kit--head, blasters, feet skis (the most pleasant surprise this time around; it made me immediately buy a DOTM Vortex from BBTS and I'm counting on Headrobots to release a recolor to match the Vortex's colors...they better):
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/17/2011 08:51PM by gingaio.
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