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    Quote Originally Posted by reillyd View Post
    Oh my gosh. It suddenly sounds like creepy pet names for a wiener !
    Rollbar/Grind Rod could have been a coincidence of Engrish, but now with Hardbone being revealed there's no doubt about it, those brilliant Toyworld designers must still be in primary school


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    Quote Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime View Post
    Rollbar/Grind Rod could have been a coincidence of Engrish, but now with Hardbone being revealed there's no doubt about it, those brilliant Toyworld designers must still be in primary school
    Well Aurora is a fairly normal name, I sorta get the feeling they meant to call Hardbone Hardskull, but got confused. At least Hardskull would make a lot more sense.

    Are Toyworld Japanese? Certainly wouldn't be the first time this has happened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord_Zed View Post
    Well Aurora is a fairly normal name, I sorta get the feeling they meant to call Hardbone Hardskull, but got confused. At least Hardskull would make a lot more sense.

    Are Toyworld Japanese? Certainly wouldn't be the first time this has happened.
    I found Aurora to be a bit of an odd choice, they could have easily gone with Flashlight or Torchlight? The rest of the team names shouldn't really bring up any innuendo even with the worst Engrish

    Hardskull would have been a good third-party adaption

    Was only assuming that TW is Japanese because of their domain: http://www.toyworld.jp/cms_category.php?id=2


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    He's pretty damn impressive looking like Hegemon before him. A good toy no real big complaints, only minor ones.

    I found a few of his joints a little on the loose side like Hegemon too, however nothing serious so far.

    I'm glad the weird transparent yellow muzzle on his main cannon is removable, I think it looks better without it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord_Zed View Post
    He's pretty damn impressive looking like Hegemon before him. A good toy no real big complaints, only minor ones.

    I found a few of his joints a little on the loose side like Hegemon too, however nothing serious so far.

    I'm glad the weird transparent yellow muzzle on his main cannon is removable, I think it looks better without it.
    I agree, he is pretty good despite the minor joint flaws but he can still hold a pose with pretty decent articulation.

    In regards to criticism, the headmaster is a little lame. The Headrobots Hothead headmaster is better with more playability despite both sharing similar flaws. Although the Hardbone head is a bit better articulated, the X-1 Code headmaster is more innovative when it comes to the gimmick due to the auto-hiding face.

    At first I didn't like the yellow muzzle but it grew on me so don't mind it.

    Overall, a fine toy, worth getting. Only sorry to see the same minor flaws as Hegemon transitioning to this toy when they should have been easily refined.

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    So my ultimate question is, is it worth it? I have the other headmasters on order, and i guess this one would fit in well with them.

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