Predaking 2010 Reissue Confirmed!

[k.wong23]

Still bloody waiting on mine Between customs and Auspost, it's been in the country for 5 days now!!

Don't worry mate, hope it arrives for you soon!

To put stickers on or not?

[heroic_decepticon]

i think its about time i take a walk to Mong Kok and pick a piece up, assuming they have hit HK already... heh.

[Hursticon]

Still bloody waiting on mine Between customs and Auspost, it's been in the country for 5 days now!!

I know how you feel dude as my Sixwing spent almost a week sitting between Customs and Auspost, tis the season perhaps but I think a degree of laziness is also playing it's part.
Hope you get your set soon dude, I've never owned a complete one before and all I can say is... I'd never want to be hunted by these guys.

To put stickers on or not?

I did, all except for the red eye stickers for the Alt modes with the exception of Razorclaw.
As this was my first time putting stickers on G1 figures, I was naturally quite nervous but by the end, which took 3 hours to get to , I was pretty satisfied with my efforts:

The worst were the new Red eye stickers, trying to wrap them round the head and down into very narrow spaces whilst ensuring they're lined up correctly was truly nail biting!
I like how they look though as they help to give a very uniform look but when they catch the light they look awesome IMO.

Also, this may be just my set, but the rub sign on my Headstrong came off really and ridiculously easy.
I wasn't game enough to see if the others have the same problem but just so others know to look out for it - Be Careful When Handling The Factory Applied Stickers.

i think its about time i take a walk to Mong Kok and pick a piece up, assuming they have hit HK already... heh.

If you can find one Heroic and you feel like spending the dough, I'd say grab 'em dude, though I'm sure you've already got 2 or so complete sets already.

[heroic_decepticon]

If you can find one Heroic and you feel like spending the dough, I'd say grab 'em dude, though I'm sure you've already got 2 or so complete sets already.

hey, how do you know I have 2 sets?
My 2004 reissue is still MISB, just didn't get around to opening 'em.

I'm pretty sold by the gold colours and also the eye stickers you keep mentioning (and saw your photos too). I love the consistency of Decepticons having red eyes... if I do get the set, these are the main reasons. heh.

[kaiden]

annoyingly mine isnt stuck in customs but stuck with the lazy ass courier.

the normal austpost guy came and delivered my order from RK yesterday which i signed for. by the afternoon i checked my mailbox and there was a card saying they had missed me and i needed to go to my local post office to pick it up.
so when i got there the employee told me that its still with the courier and that he hadnt written what time i could pick it up.

lazy ass courier couldnt be bothered to carry it to my door.

[5FDP]

Don't worry mate, hope it arrives for you soon!

I know how you feel dude as my Sixwing spent almost a week sitting between Customs and Auspost, tis the season perhaps but I think a degree of laziness is also playing it's part.
Hope you get your set soon dude, I've never owned a complete one before and all I can say is... I'd never want to be hunted by these guys.

Cheers guys! Yeah, hopefully it will arrive today because I rang Auspost yesterday and they said it arrived at their mail sorting center awaiting pickup by the courier.

Maybe it has a bit to do with the time of year, but whenever I order something (from RK or other online sellers) it spends the least amount of time coming from whichever country it's being shipped from. The delay is always when it hits our shores.

BTW Hursty - awesome pics It's not helping matters though as it makes me want mine now!

[Doubledealer]

I received my Predaking in the mail yesterday too. My level of excitement when opening the box certainly went over 9000, in fact, my brain was struggling to process the sheer amounts of awesome I was taking in. Talk about Xmas coming early!

Hursti, with your rub-sign issue, did the whole thing come off or a thin layer of clear plastic? My Razorclaw had a thin clear plastic film which came off but the main rub-sign is still there. It can't be a protection thing as I swear the others didn't have it. Weird. Oh and how did you get your Rhino dude (lulz) to stand up in bot mode?? Mine always falls flat on his back!

If anyone's looking to not apply the stickers, would you please consider selling me Predaking's middle waist sticker from Razorclaw's set? I knew I shouldn't have tried applying the stickers after a long day at work yesterday, managed to botch that one sticker good 'n' proper. >_<*

[kurdt_the_goat]

Mine came today! Excited to open but a little disappointed the box doesn't have a window flap, i thought it did from some of the earlier pics! It has a handle though!

[Hursticon]

Hursti, with your rub-sign issue, did the whole thing come off or a thin layer of clear plastic? My Razorclaw had a thin clear plastic film which came off but the main rub-sign is still there. It can't be a protection thing as I swear the others didn't have it. Weird. Oh and how did you get your Rhino dude (lulz) to stand up in bot mode?? Mine always falls flat on his back!

For me dude, the whole bloody sticker slid right off, kind of annoying too so obviously I've not tried to rub any of the others.
With regard to getting Headstrong to stand upright, due his die-cast heavy back , what I did was to rotate the red hip plates at the sides of his feet around until he was propped up. Bare in mind though that they'll only hold his weight if he isn't bumped, at which point he'll immediately fall over.
It's the only major drawback to this set that I could find at all.

Mine came today! Excited to open but a little disappointed the box doesn't have a window flap, i thought it did from some of the earlier pics! It has a handle though!

Wasn't too fussed about the window myself, the Handle does help quite a bit though.

[Doubledealer]

For me dude, the whole bloody sticker slid right off, kind of annoying too so obviously I've not tried to rub any of the others.
With regard to getting Headstrong to stand upright, due his die-cast heavy back , what I did was to rotate the red hip plates at the sides of his feet around until he was propped up. Bare in mind though that they'll only hold his weight if he isn't bumped, at which point he'll immediately fall over.
It's the only major drawback to this set that I could find at all.

Wasn't too fussed about the window myself, the Handle does help quite a bit though.

Gah, bad luck with the rub-sign mate. Hopefully there was enough sticky to put it back on! Thanks for the tip re: Headstrong, I'll be giving that a go when I get home methinks.

Glad everyone's enjoying this brilliant rendition of Predaking, and for those who don't have him yet be happy in the knowledge that the build quality is lightyears ahead of Hasbro re-issue Piranacon (as you'd expect, coming from Takara). All I need now is 5 Energon cages and I'll have my own private robot zoo...