Revenge of the Fallen Toys comments/discussion

[jaydisc]

Me and STL found the same issue last night. Also confirmed that Peaugh's is also misassembled. I'm going to fix STL's by removing the pin if he'll let me.

[kurdt_the_goat]

Good to know i'm not going crazy

[Firecracker]

Did you have to point that out... now I have to fix it.

[kurdt_the_goat]

Oh sorry What's involved in taking the pin out? Is it heating it up or something? If so, I really don't think it's worth the hassle.

[Firecracker]

Punching the pin(s) out doesn't require much effort. You just have to be careful.
I need to do the mod as I'll never look at ol' Mixy the same again. It'll bug me...

[Autocon]

i just wont open my mixmaster

[jaydisc]

Oh sorry What's involved in taking the pin out? Is it heating it up or something? If so, I really don't think it's worth the hassle.

Not really. You have to assess which direction the pin was put in as you have to tap it out the reverse direction using a hammer and a nail. Ideally doing it on a piece of would wood () which has a small hole you can work over so the pin can go into the hole as you tap it. LCZ128 sent me a link to a helpful page when I asked about this some time ago. It was quite help. I'll ask him again.

[Lord_Zed]

Well finally had some time to have a look at leader Prime, and yeah ok I agree with pretty much everyone who's harped on about how awesome this toys is. I mean I usualy avoid leader class like the plauge, Th las leader I bought was the extremely mediocre Cybertron leader Prime, I intended to eventualy get the previous Movie Prime leader but never quite.

But this guy is awesome, and his transformation makes him worthy of his size. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned how his wheels are plastic as it had been intended to make them split apart ala the movie but it would of cost to much. Understandable but I kinda wish they had done that, given him chrome and a silver paint job, add a gun that Transforms into his fuel tanks and sold him of as Ultimate movie Prime. Don't get me wrong I think this Prime is awesome and actualy worth what I payed for him for a change, but with a few more tweaks he could pass of as a Masterpiece I think.

it makes me want to buy Leader Megs, but I know he'll dissapoint me compared to Prime, I know it was the same way with the first movie to. I wonder though do the designers get the brief for Megs and Prime at the same time and get say 6 months to make them, and then then spend 5 and a bit months designing Prime and then mock up Megs up in the last 2 weeks before deadline? it sure seems that way.

I also bought Breakaway who I thought was rather mediocre, untill Kup pointed me to the mod to fix his issues, I'm quite happy with him now he's an interesting toy with a novel transformation. While he was in pieces I decided to try and make the blue look a bit more metalic with some rather slapdash painting.


I also added some metalic chips and scratches to Sideways, and washed his red torso with black ink to bring down the colour and expose his detail. I really like the toy, except for the over use of red plastic. unfortunately none of the pics I took turned out to well.

[kup]

Well finally had some time to have a look at leader Prime, and yeah ok I agree with pretty much everyone who's harped on about how awesome this toys is. I mean I usualy avoid leader class like the plauge, Th las leader I bought was the extremely mediocre Cybertron leader Prime, I intended to eventualy get the previous Movie Prime leader but never quite.

But this guy is awesome, and his transformation makes him worthy of his size. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned how his wheels are plastic as it had been intended to make them split apart ala the movie but it would of cost to much. Understandable but I kinda wish they had done that, given him chrome and a silver paint job, add a gun that Transforms into his fuel tanks and sold him of as Ultimate movie Prime. Don't get me wrong I think this Prime is awesome and actualy worth what I payed for him for a change, but with a few more tweaks he could pass of as a Masterpiece I think.

it makes me want to buy Leader Megs, but I know he'll dissapoint me compared to Prime, I know it was the same way with the first movie to. I wonder though do the designers get the brief for Megs and Prime at the same time and get say 6 months to make them, and then then spend 5 and a bit months designing Prime and then mock up Megs up in the last 2 weeks before deadline? it sure seems that way.

I also bought Breakaway who I thought was rather mediocre, untill Kup pointed me to the mod to fix his issues, I'm quite happy with him now he's an interesting toy with a novel transformation. While he was in pieces I decided to try and make the blue look a bit more metalic with some rather slapdash painting.


I also added some metalic chips and scratches to Sideways, and washed his red torso with black ink to bring down the colour and expose his detail. I really like the toy, except for the over use of red plastic. unfortunately none of the pics I took turned out to well.

Yeah the pictures are not doing Sideways justices, his new touch ups do a lot to add more movie like realism into the figure.

Breakaway is pretty awesome too, his little fixes and mods were a bit harder than anticipated but Zed pulled it off pretty well and its amazing how much more 'life' a bit more articulation can add to a figure.

Breakaway's new awesome metallic paint job also brings much added realism more true to the feel of the movie bots than that bright blue. Awesome job!

[Paulbot]

Hey, can one of you guys with Mixmaster take a photo similar to the one i've done below? I tried transforming to 3rd mode and can't seem to do it (i hope i'm not just tired!) - Looking at the instructions, i think this long bar with hinges has been assembled wrong - thankfully it doesn't affect the other 2 modes. From what i could do, the 3rd mode really looks crap and nothing clips nicely like the other 2 modes do very well - so i'm not really fussed, just curious if it is indeed assembled wrong.

Me and STL found the same issue last night. Also confirmed that Peaugh's is also misassembled. I'm going to fix STL's by removing the pin if he'll let me.

I looked at Mixmaster is store today and then remembered these posts. Does this issue only affect the "base" mode? Any obvious way to tell there's an issue when the toy's in vehicle mode (and still in the store!?).