Thanks to Dirge I got a Universe Bluestreak today in order to fix the part that had very bad wet paint on my Henkei Streak:
I know that in the last week or so I have been bashing Tak-Tom a lot due to their recent streak (no pun intended) of bad QC in their products (They still derserve it!
). However when I placed both figures side by side in Robot mode I realized that despite the bad QC, the Henkei version still made the Hasbro version look like a cheap KO. The plastic on Universe is so cheap that its almost like a KO and its also noticeably lighter in weight than the Henkei due to the much thinner plastic. You can't really tell by the pics but when you see them side by side in Real life the cheaper quality is very noticeable.
I was regretting having bought the Henkei version due to the bad QC but after I saw how cheap the Universe version is when it comes to materials used to make it, I came to realized that Henkei is still more worthwhile than Hasbro's despite the exchange.
I was ready to support this version of the Universe figure in favor of Henkei but after this revelation I am afraid that I can't, the Universe one looks ridiculously cheap next to its Japanese counterpart and chrome has nothing to do with it.
When it comes to repairing the bad paint on Henkei; unfortunately I didn't realize that the 'gray parts' on the figure were much darker, almost Black on Hasbro's particularly the roof section which I needed. However the different color shades doesn't look too bad on Henkei and its much better than my repaint attempt at the Henkei roof.
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