Reissue Seeker Missle Launcher Question |
02-25-2006, 01:44 AM
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#1 | | Decepticon Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 110 Location: Hermiston,Oregon | Reissue Seeker Missle Launcher Question
Okay, I'm a bit confused on this subject. Everywhere I've read about the reissue jets, it says they've had their launching mechanisms disabled, which I take to mean they don't "shoot" at all, period. However, the launchers that came with my reissue Skywarp and Thundercracker all "shoot", and with pretty good force behind them, as well. Was this a running change that no one has mentioned/noticed? The figures were quite obviously NOT returns, so I know it wasn't a case of some one buying them, modifying the launchers, and then returning them (Why go through all that trouble of modifying then returning? Makes no sense.) for some one to purchase them later, 2 or 3 months apart at that. (I bought Skywarp first, then T-cracker a couple of months later.)
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02-25-2006, 05:04 AM
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#2 | | Caught in a Bad Romance Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 22,347 Location: Killa Kali Los Angeles home of tha scandalous Collection Count: A gazillion. News Credits: 12 | My Skywarp reissue shoots pretty far as well. I bet it was just a mistake in the writing on the paper-work. 
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02-25-2006, 05:23 AM
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#3 | | President of Calendars Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 5,585 Location: So. California | Im quite sure that the reissue jets have working missile launchers. Somebody is probally confused with the reissues that have had the launching mechanisms disabled, such as the US versions of Hoist and (I think) Inferno.  | |
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02-25-2006, 07:03 AM
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#4 | | @deathformer Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,037 Location: Monmouth County, NJ Collection Count: 800-ish | I think the choice was either to neuter the launchers or upsize the missiles. Inferno for one got neutered, the jets got upsized.
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02-25-2006, 11:58 AM
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#5 | | Captain Fantastic Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 9,793 Location: The land of small parking lots Collection Count: I'm supposed to know? I can see 9, plus sammich bot. News Credits: 8 | Jazz and Ricochet were also upsized | |
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02-25-2006, 04:30 PM
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#6 | | Decepticon Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 110 Location: Hermiston,Oregon | Thanks guys! I figured something like that must have been the case. The thing that still confuses me is what brought me to post: I was toolin' around on Fred's Varients pages and read the page on the jet variations. On that page he has a (small) section for the reissues and said (paraphrasing here) that the launching mechanisms were disabled as well as having "missles on steroids". That inspired me to get out my reissues and check their launchers and then to start this thread. It kinda makes me wonder if the people who have written reviews for them have actually opened the boxes and fiddled/played with the figures at all.... | |
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