Quote Originally Posted by kup View Post
I just received a second hand Universe Countdown (Big thanks to Blackie)

Don't buy him! He is not worth the rip off TrU price tag of $80. He is made of considerably cheaper plastic than Cybertron Defense Red Alert and Botcon06 Megatron - the painted parts are not well applied either. It is very disappointing that such an expensive and over priced retail figure is so dodgyly made and on top of that a store exclusive.

I can understand why Blackie wasn't impressed with him - It is of cheap KOish manufacture and it shows despite the overall concept of the character and repaint being rather good.

Note: Quality of figure is Hasbro's fault not Blackie's. I am thankful to Blackie for selling it to me at a decent cost.

Well Hasbro said in their answers somewhere months ago that because they sell such a larger quantity of Transformers now they did have to drop quality.
When will they understand that we'll pay higher prices for better ingredients in our product? Sick of seeing that almost transparent plastic...especially the grey.

Thanks for the honest review though Kup. It's ensured I'll keep mine MISB. No point in opening crap...it looks better in the box.