My 1st purchase from Chimungmung arrived today and boy did I get a great deal on a figure that I both thought I had missed out on and has incurred a staggering mark-up on the after-market!


I like to think that in the last 8 or so years I've developed a fairly thick plating against being pressured by my peers... In this case though, both Deceptic_Optics & 1AZRAEL1 won-out however.










This is a "Masterpiece" of a 3rd Party figure, in every regard!
















That blazing yellow LED of his makes EVERY other figure's optics look completely dead by comparison :




So this figure, being from the 3rd production run by FansToys, came with the replacement "solid" mauve hand & blaster along with the substitute left forearm assembly, which allows for the hose's connection to be rotated under the arm ala G1 accuracy.

The new forearm assembly unfortunately negates the ability to also have the LED functionality, as there simply isn't the necessary space available (Without major modification) to allow for the battery-pack and/or switch - this is absolutely no issue for me however as I had always intended to withdraw both batteries at anyway.

The process of swapping the parts out was really easy; the only hassle was that the screw's heads are slightly too large for their recesses in the rotating part of the replacement forearm, otherwise it was actually a really enjoyable 15 or so minutes and the bonus faction stickers were also an absolute blessing!
(The batteries were already present too; they weren't mentioned in the listing at all and also made it through customs! )

All in all, I'm thoroughly pleased and satisfied that I've got my $173-worth out of this amazing figure (Sans-postage it came to $135 ) and I can't wait to see/handle FansToys upcoming efforts , as they are clearly the "goto" for Masterpiece-level 3rd Party figures.