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Originally Posted by Xtreme987
Okay so R.E.D stands for Robot Enhanced Design but what is so "Enhanced" about these figures ?
From what I've seen with my own eyes & heard from others they don't seem that way. Let me know if you have the answer. I'd like to find out & I bet others would too. Thanx in advance.  |
To answer the original question.
They're kinda made of heavy rubber(?) and they're more like Transformer action figures(?) They're REALLY heavy. Like there's metal inside the rubber. They're pretty toon accurate too. No kibble since they don't transform.
They have lots of joints like head swivel, waist swivel, ankle tilt, ab crunch but odd things, like Optimus can't sit, as an example since his waist piece prevents his legs from going 90 degrees in front. They have some soft clicky joints in the knees and elbows. Optimus and Soundave have chests that open.
I can't really tell how they go together. There are a couple exposed joints but they don't have rivet marks like ARAH arms, smooth on both sides. No screws, no glue marks though they must be glued unless there are internal snaps that hold the parts together. No gaps in the seams either. Very well made these things though my Megatron has a losse ab crunch.
What else? You can swap the hands out. Megatron has one with an energon cube in it for example. Also, the weapons are the same hard rubber rather than the old school hard plastic.
I don't collect a lot of figures other than the Generations TFs and old school Joes so I don't know if this type of material is common but that hard, heavy rubbery stuff is new to me. It FEELS odd, like those remote controls or computer mice with that grippy coating that eventually comes off. But then again they also feel like really hard pink erasers, with painted parts. The old ARAH Joes used a few different materials over time as do the recent Generations TFs and this is stuff is new to me.
I personally really like them. I could care less about the "Transformer" part since I never get rubber wheels on my Autobots. I hope they do tons more of these things. They're expensive but pretty high quality figures.
