Warbotron

[fordjuse]

Originally Posted by Echotransformer

If you don't mind me asking, do you have a source on this info?

To my knowledge even Microblaze hasn't been confirmed to be shut down...

By one of the Microblaze designers himself. BTW, What else have they released? NOTHING!!

[Larkhainan]

Rumor was supposedly Warbotron wasn't really a new company. Never really seen confirmation to that rumor, but what exactly stops a company with a bad QC/QA/design record from just re-branding as a different company? Not like you really need to fight to get onto shelves or something.

Take your hypothetical Menasor design, claim it is MP cars now, rebrand and ship the box out the door free from any baggage of your earlier products.

[Matrix_Holder]

Renaming your company happens more than you'd realize.

[Dynamo.Dave]

Cube-X to BadCube comes to mind...

[Matrix_Holder]

Originally Posted by Dynamo.Dave

Cube-X to BadCube comes to mind...

entirely different companies and I think they only hired 2 of the designers from cube-x to join the team and they also produce in a completely different factory.

[optimusb39]

Originally Posted by Matrix_Holder

You got very, very lucky. The majority if people had missing parts, wrong parts, stressed out of the box joints and other parts. You do have a qc problem with yours but you've been lucky that it's still ok, in combined mode his ankle ratchets are clear orange brittle plastic that is guaranteed to snap eventually. It came with an extra set but it's still cheap brittle orange clear plastic. It's the worst decision warbatron could have made for ankle design.

When i got mine the first thing i did was open the ankle ratchets and use a fine grit sandpaper to remove a 1/16" off the tip of the tooth. Without such a sharp point the ankles moved beautifully. The only other issue i ever had was the transperent cockpit for airburst. It developed a stress crack internally in the windshield after pushing the nosecone in place in shuttle mode and pressing the tab in. Found out that its easier just to grab the shoulder pads and oull them out to the sides before folding nosecone away rather than yank the cone up. Didnt have any other problems with mine.

[Dynamo.Dave]

Originally Posted by Matrix_Holder

entirely different companies and I think they only hired 2 of the designers from cube-x to join the team and they also produce in a completely different factory.

Probably for the better! I figured they were the same company rebranded, but I guess more spiritual successor.

[hardreturn]

Originally Posted by Matrix_Holder

Renaming your company happens more than you'd realize.

heh