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12-11-2017, 05:16 PM
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Location: Toronto, Ontario
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Re: Counting 'em down again! One more time :)
I am wondering where this is going!!
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12-11-2017, 05:19 PM
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#42
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Re: Counting 'em down again! One more time :)
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Originally Posted by PrimeCron
I am wondering where this is going!!
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Not where you think
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12-12-2017, 12:59 AM
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#43
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Re: Counting 'em down again! One more time :)
Carnage alt mode looks stunning
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12-14-2017, 08:02 AM
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#47
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Re: Counting 'em down again! One more time :)
December 14
Introducing on the black background hailing from Fans Toys brought to me by way of Madhaus Toys, at a weight of 575 grams, the transformer that time didn’t forget but he probably did, Grimlock’s story telling buddy, the crazy old…
Fans Toys FT-22 Koot
If you buy this guy and want to transform him then I have some advice. Have a lot of patience, one stiff drink and a letter opener. I had the first and the last but didn’t have the middle one and will probably need it now. Hmm I wonder what’s upstairs? Hold on I’ll be right back. Alrighty then one rum and coke and I’m good to go. So out of the package he has some heft to him. Die cast in the legs and the chest, has a backpack but it’s not as bad as I have heard some people say. I find both the elbow and shoulder ratchets a little strange but liveable. Good overall interpretation of Kup I will say that. His Targetmaster, I can’t recall the name has some half decent articulation himself but he reminds me of Nightstick a great deal. I did apply a label to the chest of Koot’ bot mode and then carefully sliced in half to properly separate the chest. Looks ok but before he went to bed my son said he could see the cut line but oh well. For all the alternate pieces he comes with I’m not even going to bother with those. As I have said many times I’m not the comic book guy anymore so his “cygar” is really lost on me. Now for the fun part, the transformation. Holy crap I personally believe that whoever designed this guy was drinking a much stronger rum than I was and probably in the same quantity as Captain Jack Sparrow, asked why the rum was all gone and went for more. I mean damn, that is by far, the finickiest transformation I have run into since ROTF Leader Prime. Someone from X-Transbots must have snuck in there because there are some clearance issues. Now the reason why I suggest the letter opener is for the wheels. Regardless if you are going to robot mode or to alt mode you have to slide the wheels either up or down and it is a tough mechanism to slide without some help that is for damn sure. I didn’t find the overall transformation difficult just a pain in the you know what. The way everything has to tab together is unusual and the people writing the instructions were definitely drunk. In the end I like the figure, didn’t enjoy the transformation but I would rather do that than EVER transform Crash Hog again because that is a genuine PITA, big time. One thing I would add is that with all these companies doing Targetmasters, I would hope or wish that they were closer in size. X-Transbots Fracas measures up well to, oh crap hold on. Recoil that was his name. OK so Recoil and Fracas scale well together but when you bring in Unique Toy’s take on Haywire he is so short by comparison. I think he might be the same height as Hasbro’s Nightstick. Either way great looking figure, very well done in each mode, it’s just the journey to get there that requires a good drink
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