Thoughts on these KO's - Cybertron.CA - Canadian Transformers News and Discussion

StarScreamix · 05-06-2008, 01:22 PM

I'm new to Cybertron, and I can feel the $ falling out of my wallet already.

I've already spent $150 because of Cybertron and it's only been 2 days!

Anyways while searching the forums I found a lot of talk about KO's. I did a quick search on ebay and found this seller. http://stores.ebay.com/TFtribe

Has anyone bought from them? How good/bad are their KO's? I have no where near enough money to buy the toys I want in their original forms, but I would love to have them in decent KO form. I'm looking at least 4-6 of the Gesalts and probably the tapes. They will fill in a few holes in my tape set.

Thanks all!

rid · 05-06-2008, 01:30 PM

As they say, you get what you pay for. I have the sets of Constructicon, Defensor, Aerialbots and so on. They are of decent quality but can be hard to combine. The pegs don't always align with the holes and so on. Furthermore, they will break off with time. When I went to pull the individual bots away fromt he combined form, I couldn't put the peg out of the hole. I forced it a little (and I mean a little, no twisting or excessive force) and the peg broke. So be warned.

If I were to rate them I would say it's a 5/10 for quality of the toys themselves and a 7/10 if you factor in the fact that it's less than $10.

Aernaroth · 05-06-2008, 01:35 PM

They changed the plastic for the scramble city box sets two or three years ago, and as such, they're now more fragile. The shrunk down G1 combiners/fortress maximus are pretty good though. The cassette blister packs are fantastic though. All the die cast parts have been replaced with plastics, and every once in a while you'll get a rumble/frenzy with a wonky head spring, but I was really surprised by how good they were. I think he's got a knockoff sixshot that was pretty cool as well.

I mean, they're knockoffs. The quality is usually lacking, but if you don't want to pay ridiculous sums of money to have a G1 set, or if you want something a little different and interesting, look into them.

Betsumei · 05-06-2008, 06:47 PM

Ooh, soooo tempting, especially those cassettes. My TRU Soundwave needs more tapes, but... $50 shipping is harsh on that $5 multipack. I understand it's from China, but the even the Constructicon set is cheaper for shipping. :P

brr-icy · 05-06-2008, 07:06 PM

i have a ton of kos, raiden, devi, defensor, superion, and frenzy/ratbat pack, as previously stated the quality is lacking, and if you're like me you'll probably want to replace them with the real thing, but they're nice for building a collection, especially the raiden and liokaiser ones, but yeah 50 to ship cassettes is ridiculus, we got six g1 liokaisers shipped ems from china for 74, and i'm pretty sure it was a much larger package lol, by the way welcome to the boards,

StarScreamix · 05-06-2008, 09:58 PM

THanks for the input so far everyone. I am going to get a shipping quote from them for a large order between my friend and I. So hopefully they aren't going to gouge me on shipping too much.

Otherwise does anyone know a good place to get KO's like these? Should I just check China town or Pacific mall, an asian mall in the Toronto area for anyone out of Toronto.

Thanks

Protoman · 05-06-2008, 09:59 PM

I have the Liokaiser, a little loose at times and the plastic is better then most KOs but not perfect either. The biggest problem? After getting it, it hit me that my favorite of the bunch Hellbat was remolded/removed in the form of Doubledealer with Hellbat's head.

StarScreamix · 05-11-2008, 08:35 AM

Thanks for the input on these everyone.

Anyone around here interested in getting in on a bulk order? I am going to be getting a bunch of sets for myself and few people I know. I am going to try and strike a good deal, possibly setting up a wholesale account with them if there is any interest in them.

Aernaroth · 05-11-2008, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by StarScreamix

THanks for the input so far everyone. I am going to get a shipping quote from them for a large order between my friend and I. So hopefully they aren't going to gouge me on shipping too much.

Otherwise does anyone know a good place to get KO's like these? Should I just check China town or Pacific mall, an asian mall in the Toronto area for anyone out of Toronto.

Thanks

The knockoff market in Toronto has kind of dried up compared to previous years, but check out both those places.

QuadESL63 · 05-11-2008, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Aernaroth

The cassette blister packs are fantastic though. All the die cast parts have been replaced with plastics, and every once in a while you'll get a rumble/frenzy with a wonky head spring, but I was really surprised by how good they were.

All my KO mini cassettes have diecast parts just like the real deals. Must be a different run. These cassettes (at least the ones with diecast parts) seem to be the gems of the bunch. The plastic they use is not really that bad compare to the KO combiners, mini Fort Max., etc. The fit and finish is a bit off, though, compare to the authentic copies but I would say the KO factory got it pretty close.