Maketoys Cross Dimension Striker Manus / Optimus

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by daimchoc, Apr 19, 2016.

  1. Death333

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    So I bought one of these 2nd hand from Ebay. Everything appears to be fine until I start messing with the butterfly joints in the shoulders. Both ball cups are cracked. Only transformed once my ass..... I'm not even gonna bother going back to the seller on this. I don't need the headache.... anyway....

    This is generally not a problem but for the occasional arm popping off during transformation. And the chest cavity does a reasonable job at keeping everything together as long as I don't use the butterflies however, I'm wondering; Does anyone has a junker they'd like to part with? For reasonable bucks of course.

    Aside from this minor annoyance, I love this mold!
     
  2. Fortynickel

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    You should contact Maketoys and see if you can get parts. They have good customer service.
     
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  3. Megatron118

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    Seconded
     
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  4. Cavadus

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    That sucks, man. Someone must have really messed up transforming it. I've transformed mine a bajillion times and not a single stress mark anywhere.
     
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  5. Death333

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    I dropped them an email the day before yesterday as suggested. They're asking for pics of the offending pieces so I'll get on that tonight! Fingers crossed.

    Thanks for the help folks!
     
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    Actually the ball cup of the left shoulder also cracked fairly recently on my copy. While I've handled this guy a lot, you definitely don't have to 'really mess up' for this to occur and it's pretty obvious why.

    I poured some superglue in the crack, rebalanced the tolerances in the shoulder (loosening the screw and applying some lubricant oil on the butterfly) so to lessen the exerted force on the cup and then decided to just deal with it. But I guess I could have easily contacted MT because getting replacements (at a cost) from them is pretty easy.
     
  7. ali tavakoly

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    I love this figure!
     
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  8. mikeszekely

    mikeszekely Not Pessimus Prime

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    Yeah. I'm not usually one of those guys posting in every thread about how they want an OS KO, but I'd love an OS KO of Striker Manus and Planet X Jupiter. I had Jupiter, still have Striker, but they're both to small compared to my other Primes (MP-10, Op Ex, Power Baser, Gunfighter II, Alpha Pack, JuJiang Supreme Leader, Gorilla, Leonidas, and MPM-4).
     
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  9. Shin Densetsu

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    So aside from modification, what's the best away to avoid cracking the parts?
     
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    I haven't seen a single stress mark on Noir's hands. You can put 5mm pegs in fine.
     
  11. yvk2000

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    Honestly? Just studying the transformation sequence of the arms and the tolerances of the double joints at the shoulders so you know where to be careful when manipulating the shoulders (whether for posing or transformation). I think the cup on mine took the biggest hit when trying to get arms into place (still hate that aspect of this figure).
     
  12. archieboy

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    Looks like this will be rereleased, with the weapons pack as a separate release.

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  13. Tetiobot

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    Too late, Legendary Toys will steal some buyers thanks to lower prices. I'm honestly tempted to wait for MT re-release but now it's a matter of quality of LT-03 (painting? ratchets?)
     
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    It's possible for MT to try match the KO's price. Their Quantron has been sold for a lower price with each re-release. I do hope all this leads to better choices for us.
     
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    I will definitely will pick up the weapon pack. I think the fact they split the 2 items will help with getting more toys by making them more money in this case, as a lot of people got the Manus or Noir already. love my Striker. Never had a problem. One of my most fun and favs in my collection.
     
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    Heck yes, currently I got my Striker Manus and Rioter Despotron a couple of Doctor Wu's swords, but if the weapons pack get a solo release I'm giving them the correct arsenal!
     
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    LoL, there's a big difference between a rerelease and a stock closeout.
     
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    FANTASTIC, now the seller i sold my Manus to way under list price will not be able to resell for expensive, muhahaha, and thus i dont feel as bad selling for cheap.
     
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    Nice. That's great news for anyone who missed out on this guy.
     
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    Striker Manus is one of my all time favorite figures, I really want the weapons pack and I hope they do the translucent pieces in orange or blue to differentiate them from the red version that came with Noir.

    I could be swayed to buy the KO version if there are improvements or it comes to a way cheaper price so I had a second version of this guy to beat on and play with, with my kids.
     
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