Yes of course, as for me I also displays them as the combined mode, that is for sure. If you want a hint about the final match... seriously they both have Big Pros, and Big cons on both sides...
But as for now, lets continue this match up with the 2nd part match:
WELCOME BACK to the showdown of the Year!
HERCULES VS
YELLOW GIANT!
Tonight's Matches will pit, to me, the Bests from the individuals bots:
Heavy Labor VS
Dump Truck
Dr.Crank VS
Crane
Lets begin our 3rd Match with
Dr.Crank VS
Crane
And first up Vehicle mode:
Dr.Crank: This will be a hard match... Dr.Crank is just awesome, the vehicule mode is great looking, the crane arm is just friggin' awesome and extend so long, 3x its original lenght. The addition of having a spinning rotor is Great... my only gripe with this is... WHY THE HELL TFC bothered making that little pulley rotor, and not put a tiny rope in it for the hook at the tup of the crane?? I love to have that option and if I want i can insert my own rope and all, but Why have they not done it in the first place??
Crane: Love the visual, just like all the others of the Giant's vehicule sets, they all look like actual real looking vehicules, the Crane truck looks like a real model. incredibly detailed... The crane does extend pretty far, but only 2x its original length, here are the 2 down side from the crane though first it doesn't rotate... it goes up and down and that's it,
Dr.Crank's goes up, down and spins... heck its even detachable,
Crane is not detachable, but we'll get back to this in robot mode. and the second thing about the crane arm that bothers me, is that it feels cheap. The plastic is rather thin and feels like it could break easily when fully extended. Its not much of a problem, I'm really nit picking on this... but still feels too thin for its own good. Maketoy probably made it thin to be much lighter so that it wont topple the truck over when fully extended... its understandable, but feels flimsy.
Robot Mode:
Dr.Crank's robot mode is practically identical to
Crane, they have the same transformation... with minor details different.
Dr.Crank is a bit simpler to transform, but its not a bad thing. I like the fact that the crane arm is detachable and you can place it either stored in his back or on the back of his head there's a "pike" sticking out that think looks ugly unless you plug the crane onto it which then looks really awesome and feels like he's carrying a giant cannon on his shoulder. Problem is that crane is mighty heavy and whether you store it on his back or on his shoulder, its hard to make him stand straight with that in hand.
Crane's transformation, although almost identical to
Dr.Crank, is a bit more intricate and I love how it is. The robot mode looks so good. Fit, slim...
Dr.Crank feels like he has a tiny back pack due to his transformation into
HERCULES and having the giant head tucked in his back...
Crane doesn't have this problem. The
YELLOW GIANT's head is actually his right foot... at first I wasn't too sure about that... but after playing with him... man I love this, its brilliant... yes he's antisymmetric, but I really love the look of it. Here's my nit picks of his robot mode: the waist split, just like
Dr.Crank,
Crane splits in two to form the chest of their giant robot mode. Now on
Dr.Crank the split in the middle of his body is quite tight, but on
Crane its not as tight and.. ok it doesn't fall apart when in robot mode, but it feels like it splits open too easily for my taste. and to me the bigger problem is the crane arm... its attached to the forearm and doesn't tuck away nor unplug... it's screwed there and that's it. You can try to turn it backward, but it doesn't go back completely, and the crane arm stays angled up 45 degrees on the back of his forearm. The only way to have it is in front, as a weapon, it looks very nice, but its not an option really. The Crane arm, once it is extended, can then bend 90 degrees in the middle... this will be mostly for the
YELLOW GIANT's mode, because it still looks mighty awkward in his robot mode. I seen an image on the net where the crane arm is detached and tucked away in his back... I looked at my
Crane and the crane arm really is screwed on the forearm... unless I unscrew it, there is no way to place it there.
Match recap:
Dr.Crank:
Love that crane arm, detachable gives lots of options for posing and articulation 3x long extended crane looks awesome, option for people to place a tiny rope to make a functional pulley crane using the tiny rotor at the base of the crane it great... but I hate the fact that we have to do it and TFC didn't bother to make it themselves, the crane is a bit heavy and in robot mode will make the robot topple over easily.
Crane.
great looking robot, ingenious way to place the YELLOW GIANT's head on the foot, realistic looking vehicle mode, but the crane looks flimsy, its not detachable and limits the poses for the robot mode.
I really cant decide which of these is better than the other... I REALLY love
Crane, but I'm a bit turned off by the crane arm's limited movement and options with it. Otherwise there's not much difference with his counter part
Dr.Crank. So I'm going to throw a
TIE between these two.
Next up is
Heavy Labor VS
Dump Truck
Vehicle mode:
Heavy Labor has not much to say about the vehicle mode, looks nice, rolls and all... nothing but few very small nit picking, its a dump truck, yet the container in the back clustered with his 2 arms and takes a lot of place and looks not so good with the 2 fists in there not hidden or anything.
Dump Truck looks really nice in vehicle mode if you look at it from the front; with the front grill, bumper & cab... but not soo good from the sides or the top. Just like
Heavy Labor, he's a dump truck and to me, a dump truck should have a container on top to carry stuff... but his container is completely filled up with the arms and so he cant carry shit. His fists are clearly visible from the back, but to me, the biggest pain is the attachment points of the
YELLOW GIANT's knee, they stick pretty much to the back. Yes
Heavy Labor also has this attachment points to the same place, but they stick out much less. A really cool, but useless thing is due to the transformation, his front wheels can turn left and right just like the real thing. its useless but very nice addition really.
Robot mode:
Heavy Labor's transformation is pretty simple and straight forward, I love the way the arms transforms, they could've been much simpler, but TFC made it different and I like it. I again don't have much to say about his robot mode, he's good looking, simple, and everything works. If I REALLY want to be nit picky, I'd complain about hos his head feels loose, but the chest locks it in place so there really is no problem.
Dump Truck's transformation is totally the opposite... it is insane what
Dump Truck goes throught to become a robot. he's so far the more complicated one to transform of the bunch. its really not a bad thing... I LOVE when transformers toys are complicated to transforms... and
Dump Truck takes the cake. He looks somewhat a bit like
Heavy Labor in the end, but he is so much more. I really love
Dump Truck's transformation and robot mode. But that level of complicated transformation also brings out a few problems; his forearms are split in 2 and you need to stick them together to make the forearms... the problem is they don't seem to stick too much together, they don't hold too good... but luckily even if they are not stuck correctly together, it doesn't look bad. My main problem is the headlights flaps, you may have read in a previous post I made my complaint about it. But if you look at the picture of the vehicle mode of
Dump Truck, the Headlights are on "flaps" that you need to rotate inward. That articulation joint is INCREDIBLY TIGHT, and after a single transformation, the flap on the right broke, the plastic completely broke off, and the flap on the left shows heavy stress marks. This is completely unacceptable. Apparently in the 3rd package of the
YELLOW GIANT set, Maketoy will have a replacement for these flaps. I really cant wait to see.
Final thoughts on that match:
Heavy Labor has nothing really to say, he's a good looking vehicle and robot mode, with a simple transformation. the only thing bad I can say about him is really a tiny problem about his hands completely out in the open on the top of his vehicle mode and doesn't look too good...
Dump Truck has an amazing transformation, really complicated, lots of moving parts going around and I totally love that. the turning wheels are the cherry on top for the vehicle mode. But the problem of the vehicle mode is the attachment points of the YELLOW GIANT's knee that stick pretty much to the back. But it is nothing compared to the headlights flaps that broke upon the first transformation.
I would've given the fight hands down to
Dump Truck, I love the look in his 2 mods, but I love even more his transformation, everything is so great and nice about this guy... but the simple fact that he's not totally functional and broke upon first transformation is totally unacceptable... its too bad really. The simplistic, but yet functioning
Heavy Labor wins this match... he will bare the winning title until
Dump Truck gets a fix for his headlights.
That is it for now!
Thank you for joining and reading this long ass review comparison. The upcoming battle that will pit,
Structor VS
End Loader,
Mad Blender VS
Mixer and the final everyone been waiting for:
HERCULES VS
YELLOW GIANT! Will be in a few weeks, as soon as I receive my 3rd and final set of the
YELLOW GIANT :-)
Good Fight, Good Night!
