The 3rd party acquisitions thread!

[VERT]

The QC has improved since the last figure. Still feels a little lite. The foot cannon is great. One LED for this toe cannons. :-) articulation is on par with any Hasbro figure

[Gasaraki]

I don't believe that link contains a KO. The KO Fansproject Insecticons were apparently of a pretty high grade. The only way to tell the not-Insecticons apart were the paint aps on the head and also if you look at the packaging box, the real McCoy has a tiny "R" in a small box located on the bottom right hand side of the front whereas the KO has a blank box. I got my not-Insecticons off RK and it looks like they've still got one of them stocked, and going for cheaper than the eBay link. And there's always our friendly member's sales thread, looks like gamblor916 has both sets for sale!

Been looking into the KO issue particularly with the FP Insecticons... I got all three, and interestingly whilst Thundershred and Backfiery have the symbol in the bottom right corner, Stormbomb's is blank. Now, I got him off Gamblor and I really really doubt he sold me a KO or that he thought it was genuine when it is a KO. I have searched around and cannot for the life of me find a pic of a Stormbomb box that actually has the symbol there, so I can only conclude that genuine FP Stormbomb box for some reason does not have the symbol.

(This includes peaugh's review of Stormbomb, and once again, I doubt that guy didn't realise it was a KO!! And if that's not enough, neither does the pic on TFsource site have the symbol)

I really wonder about the KO boxes that have been reported, and that such an obvious thing is made different... I suspect the KO company would not want people to be able to tell different (that's after all, the nature of KO!), so why would they build in this difference?

BTW, this may be obvious as well, but I don't think it's meant to be an 'R'... but rather a stylised 'FP'.

[gamblor916]

For the record the FP insects I bought were from RK and legit.

[Gasaraki]

For the record the FP insects I bought were from RK and legit.

Cheers... never doubted you mate

[Hursticon]

For the record the FP insects I bought were from RK and legit.

Same with my own.

[gamblor916]

I just had a look and the logos on all three boxes are different. Hadn't noticed that before.

[heroic_decepticon]

Picked up CA-11: Down Force aka not-Drag Strip from the shops yesterday.

Have also reviewed him haha - http://heroicdecepticon.blogspot.hk/...-aka-drag.html

[Hursticon]

With great thanks to Shirokaze: FansProject - Quake (Shockwave)...

[Trent]

So what's he like? I haven't even bothered to open mine yet.

[CBratron]

Quake is a fun little freebie. Fits in Collossus' grip.