The 3rd party acquisitions thread!

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Overall I am impressed with the quality of this set.

The method that the limbs combine to form Giant is a bit strange, and personally I prefer the FP Colossus combination method.

That said, I felt there was care taken to ensure that all the components slotted together nicely.

It's inevitable that I'd think back to my FP Colossus and compared this with it. I think Colossus still has slightly better integration and versatility of the way it uses the components.

However, Green Giant is still a very nice set, with a good colour scheme and attention to detail. In my opinion, a definite buy if you can afford it.

Here are some photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shgt/se...7631063959772/

Sam, I think you have yours not properly transformed and connected. I can see that one leg is shorter than the other possibly due to Mixmaster's robot mode waist not being pushed in. I also fell on this trap when I first combined it and it took me a while to realize what was wrong.

This figure is much more stable than FP Bruticus as all combiner limbs are ratcheting joints but for the ratchet to work, you need to properly lock the joints. If not done properly, the arms will either be weak or flop around.

Remember what I said about buttons for hooking up joints on the previous page.

However, the instructions for actually combining the figures into Giant leave a bit to be desired as I felt some steps could have benefitted from additional photos.

I do totally agree on this. The instructions are nice looking but they skip steps! However once you transform once for any figure, you don't really need the instructions any more as the design is pretty good. However the engineering must be understood first, this is different to a standard Hasbro toy.