awesomeness. these might pop my dr.wu cherry. now to bring FE Arcee out here to grad school with me after thanksgiving

 

Fakebuster's versions are a bit more detailed. The only cons would be that you have to paint it yourself and they don't cover the hands fully. They're ~$10 on shapeways.




So to reiterate, Dr. Wu's version has two things going for it if you can wait for the release: prepainted and they cover the hands fully.

 

Why must everyone make these for the FE mould!?!?!

Please give me some for the PRID mould. Which is more accurate except the colour. :/

 

Looks good, but I actually prefer the RID Arcee to the FE Arcee.
Oh well...

 

Good find. Can't be too careful after after fakebusker's designs for DOTM Megatron's shotgun and the hands for Leader Optimus Prime were stolen and then sold by 3Ps. Dr. Wu's Arcee blasters appear to be original in their design and molding, so I'll be picking these up.

As for the FE and RID debate, I like both figures; they each have their pros and cons but the FE has grown on me and looks great opposite Voyager Starscream (another scale oddball).

 

You know we can talk about "original design" all we want from fakebusker's stuff, but in my opinion, they are still leeching off of him.

The design doesn't have to be the same. The details is just a superficial change. But the underlying engineering design is the same about how it interacts with the figure.

So basically, they took the idea and the implementation from fakebusker, mod it a little superficially in terms of detail, and called it their own.

 

To be fair, they're going off on the same show design for the same figure, so some similarities are bound to crop up. (Technically both are in the wrong for infringing on HasTak IP but that's a whole other topic altogether.) This doesn't look like an obvious straight copy of fakebusker's design like the shotgun and knuckle hands were.

 

Yeah, I suppose you are right.

But I just can't get over the feeling that Dr. Wu is just like reading fakebusker's thread and just like "oh here's a good idea lets do it".

 

Yes!!! I knew if I waited long enough someone would get it right, now if Dr. Wu would make some show accurate (pre-painted of course) stingers.

 

It is what it is. The Internet is a double-edged sword. Dr. Wu's stuff has been pretty good so I don't think they'd start going down the road of straight KOs just yet when they've (or he? hard to believe it's just a single guy behind Dr. Wu as someone might have mentioned) given us original molded stuff so far.

 

I'm all over these! Like others have said, I just wish they were for the PRID mold instead.

As someone who owns FB's Shapeways blasters I can say they represent a nice mid-point between Dr Wu's effort and something Hasbro might produce, but still don't cut the mustard. I'd much rather have Dr Wu's set- they are pre-colored and appear to cover the hand much better than FB's. Nothing against FB's set as it's nice, but Dr Wu seems to have cracked the code (as it were) on how to do this set right!

 

well, I mean, shapeway items are expensive and rough.

So yes, on one hand I am glad for these. I will also give Dr. Wu credit for their Prime Prime blasters and matrix sword, but it doesn't mean I don't feel some of their product ideas are a bit shady in terms of originality in design.

I am glad they make mass production version.

 

I fail to see how Wu's work steals from fakebusker. (Let me rephrase... On this item, in particular.)

The only thing that has them being alike is that they're weapons for Arcee that mount on her arms. Big difference is the Wu weapons are professionally produced, painted, mount in various and different ways onto the figure. Fake's don't connect the same way, aren't professionally produced (that's not a dig, btw, just point out a legitimate point), aren't painted and feel more like a garage kit (from what I'm told) and these look to be more of a toy feel.

The only thing they have in common is the same overall idea: Weapons for Arcee. The similarities stop right there. The only links people see are the ones they make in their minds. Flawed links.

 

Ew, First Edition Arcee.

 

well fakebusker also made the prid that does wrap around TF: Prime deluxe RID Arcee Blasters by fakebusker83 on Shapeways

 

Oh yes ... fuck yeah.

 

I'm in for a set of these!!

 

I hear this quite often and am curious each time. Have you tried the "polished" option at Shapeways and seen any quality change?

 

Huh never really noticed how uncommon FE Arcee is   Im glad its for FE and not PRID I preffer my FE

 

Sweet