Titan Class METROPLEX

[SofaMan]

Got mine this week too. He's very cool, though of course the exchange rate collapsed by about 10% between the time I preordered and the time I was charged. The US$165 worked out to about AU$190, which is comparable to what will be the local price. Still, I got him a bit earlier than the local supply, so I don't mind paying a bit of a premium there.

It really is a bloody enormous toy. It took me two days on and off to finish doing all the stickers!

[GoktimusPrime]

It really is a bloody enormous toy. It took me two days on and off to finish doing all the stickers!

Dude! That's even more insane than Fortress Maximus! (took me about 1~1.5h to put all the stickers on him)

[SofaMan]

Dude! That's even more insane than Fortress Maximus! (took me about 1~1.5h to put all the stickers on him)

All told I probably spent a couple of hours on the stickers, over those two days - the hardest part was wrangling this toy the size of a small child into a stable position so I could place the stickers correctly.

[griffin]

Imagine doing it twice... or more, if you get multiple versions.

[Necare]

I wonder he meant shipping to US place he stores and not to Australia, kind of difficult to see how he manage to get it shipped here at that price, I would start selling here and make a big profit without being called a scalper.

He arrived! This toy is bigger than my son! Wow! $105 shipped! It was $155 from Amazon shipped, but I took the offer to apply and purchase with an Amazon CC for this purchase which was an instant $50 credit. So purchased and shipped to Sydney for $105 USD. Not bad.

I havent even begun to place the stickers on this massive machine!

Everyone enjoying theirs!

I have the encore Fort Max on my POL, but most likely wont be shipping that till October when the TW figure is due in.

Cannot wait to compare. Now only if there was a decepticon with this titan class. The G1 Skorponok just doesnt cut it!

[GoktimusPrime]

All told I probably spent a couple of hours on the stickers, over those two days - the hardest part was wrangling this toy the size of a small child into a stable position so I could place the stickers correctly.

It took me over 2.5 hours (probably a tad under 3h) to get all the stickers on!! Things that were frustrating were:
+ Sheer number of stickers, some of which were tiny and I needed to use the edge of a box cutter to help apply.
+ The black stickers that go on the right shoulder are hard to wedge in, especially the long one where one end has to dip into that TINY space -- I find that the sticker gets scratched when the head moves. I've had that sticker pop out when moving the head and I've had to use my cutter blade to wedge it back in. If push comes to shove, I'm gonna cut the end of that off.
+ The sticker instructions are just craphouse.
+ As you said, it was hard getting the stickers into certain positions. A few of mine are crooked.

Imagine doing it twice... or more, if you get multiple versions.

Oh gawd... after I'd finished applying all the stickers I installed a pair of batteries and the sound gimmick initially didn't work. I tried another pair and it still wouldn't work. At first I freaked out not so much about the trouble of exchanging this toy, but having to redo all the stickers again! Honestly... I'd just live with a busted electronic gimmick than spend another 2.5~3h of my life reapplying all those stickers!!

[Jetfire in the sky]

Now only if there was a decepticon with this titan class. The G1 Skorponok just doesnt cut it!

Very true, nemesis Metroplex perhaps Titan Trypticon would be Metro's direct opponent though. Imagine that !!

[BigTransformerTrev]

Got my Metroplex 2 days ago - haven't opened it yet due to the massive POL I got but I can hear something rattling loose in the box - pleeeaassse let nothing be broken in there! It would cost a fortune to ship back!

Will have to open him up tonight and have a gander

[Paulbot]

Got my Metroplex 2 days ago - haven't opened it yet due to the massive POL I got but I can hear something rattling loose in the box - pleeeaassse let nothing be broken in there! It would cost a fortune to ship back!

Will have to open him up tonight and have a gander

I had the same thing. I carried it home inside the Amazon box worrying why there was a rattling, but when I opened it everything was still in the twist ties, so I'm not sure exactly what was causing it.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I had the same thing. I carried it home inside the Amazon box worrying why there was a rattling, but when I opened it everything was still in the twist ties, so I'm not sure exactly what was causing it.

Ah, anxiety level decreasing, need to kill fading - cheers Paulbot , hopefully it turns out the same for me when I get home. He was packaged pretty safely and securely so you wouldn't think something would break in transit