City Commander - first review

[swoop]

My city commander order is shipping from robot kingdom as of yesterday. Just thought I'd let everyone know that they are finally shipping

[Kyle]

RK did not get theirs directly from FansProject.

City Commander is not officially shipping worldwide, until BigBadToyStore and TFSource ship theirs.

[swoop]

But those of us who ordered from rk should be getting ours soon

[heroic_decepticon]

My City Commander arrived in Singapore 2 weeks ago. Mum brought it over when she visited. I just opened it and transformed it with a friend who was over.

I got this to say to the guys at FansProjects- It is jaw-droppingly AWESOME to the nth degree. The design took into account every little detail, nothing was left to chance. It left my friend and me mind-numbed wrecks, drooling and staring at it for the better part of 2 hours.

The WST Dinobots were great 'customs', but this just blows everything that came before, and possibly after, clear out of the water.

[ecl27]

Since everyone says its good I'll balance it out by saying its bad. Theres only one thing bad about it and thats the gun. Too big! wayyy too big...If only that could be taken apart and made into two guns or a sword even.

To me they concentrated on the armor in great detail and left off with pieces which they just bundled up and called it a gun. But the armor is wayyyy cool :P~~~

[kurdt_the_goat]

I will put up my review when i get let the finer details sink in (and have a chance to take more photos - only got around to robot mode today). But, i will say that i agree with ecl27 about the gun - a sore spot on an otherwise incredible looking toy and fantastic achievement.

There's a couple ways you can put it on, but it's just too heavy regardless. Perhaps it should have been a lighter plastic? When on top, it tends to clash with the shoulders due to size, and when in front (looks better IMO), it will generally touch the surface, unless you rest his elbow on the leg pads or fluke a nice balance. Ideally i'd have preferred two smaller guns as well, but i've just got him displayed with the old Prime gun (silver one, i hate that wind vane gun), and it looks only a *bit* smaller than would be perfect.

Overall i have no regrets and to be honest, will probably never display my Henkei Prime standalone again; the armour looks so good! Considering i only have 1 Prime-mould toy, that's saying something!

[heroic_decepticon]

I can live with the BFG. Better to have it become a gun than some redundant part lying around I think.

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Mum took shots of us 2 babies playing...