MPM-6 Ironhide

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by is456, Jan 9, 2018.

  1. BLNadal

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    Had been seven months since his release, idk if we will see something new
     
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    Friendly reminder that I'm selling this guy complete if any of y'all want him. Just PM me!
     
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    Picked up a KO of this guy recently (just a straight KO, I think) and I've been having a fiddle with the shoulders. It's not perfect, but I've found a couple of possible solutions to get them to stay together more solidly.

    Option one is to wedge the rectangular tab between the tab socket and the inner body, rather than going into the tab socket itself, and then once you push the hood halves together it seems to be more solid than using the actual tab. Tried to highlight what I mean in the first picture with the red outlines, 'X' for the normal socket and the tick for where i mean. (If you can see the PhotoBucket watermarks, they're inside the camera on the left.)

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    Option two is to ignore the tab and the normal appearance of the chest entirely and rotate the chest pieces inwards and wedge them in place, so the wheel wells face forward. It's surprisingly solid despite only using friction, and this has the advantage of moving the arm attachment location to the outside of the body. It's not even that inaccurate - in certain poses that's what his chest should look like, as shown in the 'Mexican Standoff' scene from DOTM.

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  4. Tarrn

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    General question BTW: Is Ironhide's ab crunch at all necessary for the transformation? About the only real flaw on my KO is the floppy crunch, and I was considering just gluing it together to make the figure more stable and less likely to slip out of alignment during transformation, but I don't want to have missed something in the transformation where the abs have to bend in a click or two to make it work.
     
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    The crunch isnt needed in the transformation.
     
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    I am sick of all these OSKOs give us regular or undersized KOs.
     
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  8. Dillpickle

    Dillpickle This looks like cool place to kick it!

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    I’m sick of KOs in general.
     
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    That's too big for what I'm after. Hopefully it will spur a Black Apple version.
     
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    There wouldn't be a need for these KOs if hasbro/takara did it right the first time.
     
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  11. Shmoptimus Prime

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    Sad but true. At this point I’m just looking forward to the DNA kit.
     
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    TBH that upgrade kit got me excited about the figure again.
     
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    Is the upgrade kit out allready?
     
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    should be next month? not sure :D 
     
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    I’m with you there.

    I prefer smaller figures myself (skipped over any regular size MP10s, straight to KBB MP-10V)... But I’d sooner take a KO the same size over the oversized stuff. Not sure what the obsession with bigger figures is, it’s just not for me. Then again, this is coming from a person who doesn’t care about scale.
     
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    If the DNA kit truly does fix this figure I might pick both up
     
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    Yep, as soon as I finally get the toy...
     
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    I’m still a little hesitant about that set, because I got a 3D printed piece from Instagram to clip over those areas to hold the chest in place, and after only 2 months, the plastic expanded outwards and didn’t hold anymore, and the chest became just as loose as before. Hopefully the kit is designed differently to avoid that
     
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