and the terrible articulation

 

Going back to actually producing test shots and making modifications before release might help. You know, actually doing some quality control.

Shocking idea I know...

 

Since going by FT's timeframe of 2nd quarter you can bet your right butt cheek it will be atleast October before its release,FT is infamous for delays.

 

If he has terrible articulation then there's a few other Fanstoys figures that also have terrible articulation that get a pass.

Truth is he isn't as bad as what some are saying. Yes he has an unforgivable lack of up/down head movement and lacks some of the extra stuff we expect in 2019 but he can still pull off dynamic poses like similar figures of his ilk have been doing for years. Much better than figures like Apache and Lupus for example.

Some ppl are like a dog with a bone here and I wonder how many ppl complaining about things like articulation have actually handled him or if they're just regurgitating rhetoric.

 

I find the character to be quite annoying. He's almost as boring as Wheelie. Given the problems of the latest FT releases, I won't go though all the trouble of selling my Buzzing to end up with a defective Jabber. What I have is good enough.

 

I have 7 fanstoys products but not the ones you mention. I'm a fan. I've never had a FT figure that couldn't look up. Like you say, it's unforgivable. That's why I'll pass of Hoodlum. I passed on thier arcee too which I didn't want to do as like I said I'm a fan. I'm swaying towards xtb as my preferred 3p nowadays.

Edit - I'm 100% in on jabber but he better be able to look up

 

to be fair, i have all fanstoys releases except the insecticons and hydra, and i love the dibots and phoenix, and yes lots of them get a pass but some are awful like rouge, they where the standard for 3p for me, nowadays the bots look and feel amzing, but they lots of flaws and i really miss the quality releases from them like the dibots and phoenix.
Those were amazing bots with fun transformations

 

Exactly. Think they're losing thier way a bit over the past 12 months. However I'm dying to get hold of a Quietus when I see one for a good price that thing is beautiful

 

that is indeed a beauty, but also has problems and anybody who denies it, is not fair, he looks and feels amazing but not perfect

 

I'm OK with it as I'm a box to display kinda guy.

 

He's like my boiler, works fine but is not to current standards!

 

Somewhere on a factory floor in Foshan, in a parts bin full of Jabber heads, the muffled voice of John Moschitta can be heard:

"Iwanttobeontheshelfalreadywhat'stakingsolongOMGguysshipmeshipmeshipmetheAutobotsneedmehurrydalianjjhurry"

 

Welp, there's nothing wrong with folks passing up FT figures. That leaves more copies for the rest of us.  

 

I don't have much experience with FT pre-orders, I have Motormaster and Blurr pre-ordered. How or when should I realistically expect for them to be keep release month or are these suspect to even come out this year?

 

Great display. I love the season three cast.

 

Close your eyes and throw a dart in the general direction of a calender and add 6 months to 2 years and hope for the best.

 

I believe every blurr figure has a chance to be the most articulate figure ever. And this guy looks like he has some good range. Especially in the elbows, knees and head. If he’s fun and the entire opposite of hoodlum I would gladly get him. But I hope he’s fun. I really do.

 

Unless you're getting them from Taobao.com where there's a bit of a discount for preordering, then I would just buy them when they actually drop instead of preordering.

 

Are they usually in stock for the first week of release?

 

I really hope jabber comes after the start of the combiners