Toy Review - Kingdom Autobot Ark

[Nonalyth]

Picked this up cheap on Amazon, just $99.

Feel like I still paid to much. The QC is non-existent and the design is terrible. With a figure this size you'd think they could have invested in big, sturdy clips and tabs to hold everything together but I guess that budget went to a transforming Teltraan 1 nobody asked for, along with the accessory budget.

In robot mode the Ark has nothing to do, since it's not packaged with any weapons. The transformation feels... unfinished. Big flaps of plastic hang off the limbs and gaps are plentiful.

The main draw of the figure, the alt mode, doesn't fit together properly on my figure (which is apparently common). So far no amount of fiddling or massaging has convinced it to lock solidly. A titan with an alt-mode that isn't just some version of a robot sitting down would have been a novelty, but it can't even do that right (and again, gaps but everyone knows this by now.

Mainframe is crap. A kibbly mess that tripple changes between nostalgia, a gimped robot and nothing that barely clings together in any mode. Simply having the audacity to rotate a limb causes it to pop off its mushroom peg, and the entire thing feels like the cheapest of dollar store plastic. The only positive is it lets you store the few unwanted accessories this disaster comes with, including not one but two golden disks and a little satellite thing that's probably important to somebody.

This would be a reasonable kit if the quality was up to snuff, but as it stands I wouldn't recommend it.

[GoktimusPrime]

Picked up Dramatic Capture Series Mainframe in Shanghai. Nice to have a G1-accurate CHUG Mainframe toy, and aside from the blue feet, none of Mainframe's colours stand out in Teletraan-1 mode.




TBH, I picked the set up for Mainframe. I've already sold off the Optimus Prime and I'll be keeping Jazz (but selling off my original SS86 Jazz).
As it comes in a limited exclusive three pack, I can't say that I would recommend this set unless you're crazy enough to take the risk of selling off the unwanted bots. I think it's a more reasonable risk if, like me, Mainframe is the reason for wanting the set, as Optimus Prime and Jazz are more popular characters and should be easier to offload. Obviously, if you're happy to own all three figures then it's a no brainer.