February Finds

[GoktimusPrime]

Cyclonus has, by far, the best alt mode I've seen in a long tie.

You're not bothered by the "openness" of the back?

So much detail and such a cool overall design. His left hip was slightly out of it's socket when he arrived and now moving that leg around causes it to work it's way out of the socket, which is a bummer.

Refund/exchange it dude.

This is my second one though, so my good one will be preserved in storage and this one will be for making "shooom" noises and playing around when nobodies's looking

Pfftt... so let them look. I make noises, voices, actions in public.

I'm not sure how I feel about this... especially after the uproar that TFP Prime has clear plastic in his elbows. I hope the Takara Primal doesn't have the same disintegration issue as the Hasbro Megs.

You should be okay. The disintegration issue has only been reported to occur in Hasbro Megatron and not Takara; it seems that Takara used better quality plastic than Hasbro on their Metals Megatron. Also the deterioration occurs in the brown plastic, not the clear one. It seems to suffer from similar frailty as the gold plastic used in some G1, G2 and BW toys (e.g. Slog, Bristleback, Pyro, BW Grimlock etc.)

And these!

I have no idea what they are. The seller threw them in with my takara set.
Still tossing up if I'll open them.

Ah yes, I have two of those sets. (one opened, one sealed) -- yours is already of the box anyway, so you might as well open them. I don't even know if keeping the sealed in box makes them worth more (is there much demand for these cards?)... I just happened to have two sets (they were pretty cheap when they came out, and I 'em for free anyway ) so I opened one box and keep the other sealed. I'd open them if I were you though. Buy some nice collectible card-sleeves and a ring-binder folder for storage/display. (that's where I keep all my cards including JP tech spec cards) They give you some cool bits of info like certain characters' height, weight etc.