Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-44 Convoy/Optimus Prime Ver. 3

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  1. deadgiveaway

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    Mine has arrived and is sitting on my front porch with no one home- I think. I asked them on the site to put it on my back porch, but nobody ever seems to pay attention to that. Hopefully no thieves come along in the next 3.5 hours.
     
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    I find that HT are absolutely beautiful shrunken replicas of some of my all-time favorite characters. And they do make up the bulk of my collection. But, I do put them in mostly mild poses an add plastic any place where the rubber makes contact with itself. And I certainly do worry about their longevity with all that rubber and vinyl. In fact, I worry a lot about the longevity of all my toy collectibles. Plastic doesn't last forever and I often ask myself why I'm spending $100s on stuff that may fall apart in 5-10 years.
     
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  3. FireSkyJet

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    Out for delivery mother truckers! (See what I did there? Prime = truck. mother truckers... not mother f'ers. I'm funny.)
     
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  4. Lklee78

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    My left knee ratchet is not working properly (no clicking sound and blue tab doesn’t go in the slot) So I tried the method of shaving off some of the plastic on the blue tab. It still doesn’t work. When I opened up everything nothing seemed to be broken. Anything else I should try?
     
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    Thanks. It's a diorama I built over the summer. I'm waiting for MP Hound so I can take a picture of that iconic scene.
     
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    You’ve got an amazing eye for detail, what’s it made from? It looks like actual plastic but also some kind of cardboard/craft foam at the same time
     
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    Some plain boring poses from last night. They ain't exactly friends after all...
     

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  9. LizardbotHero

    LizardbotHero I am a warrior

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    That doesn’t really answer my question... I said I already saw that. What I would like to know is how can I tell whether or not it’s broken or about to break without taking it apart?
     
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    They look so good together. I wonder if you can make them do a handshake? That’d be a neat idea for an alternate future where they come to a truce instead of Prime dying.
     
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  11. AirComm72

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    GIVE ME YOUR ADDRESS THERE.

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    Ehh got anyone that can drive by or keep an eye on it? A kind neighbour might even be able to put it on your back porch for you if you know any of them that well.

    A neighbour of mine caught someone snooping around my apartment porch when I wasn’t home the day my MP-36 came but I already knew because I have that ring app hooked up just for deliveries like this. Especially if it shows the driver being an asshat and treating it like it’s a “soccer” ball. Got video proof with time stamps.
     
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    I used pink insulation foam boards. The stuff is so easy to work with. I ran through a couple sizing runs before I settled on the final version. The line drawing took a lot of time and mixing colors to yellow the orange some really worked. My progress is on the Diorama Appreciation thread.

    I've heard the arguments about TT going straight too but I absolutely would see someone's kidney to continue down this path and maderhe diorama in th spirit of the animated movie.
     
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    Has anyone tried putting batteries in their Prime yet? I think mine has a defective voice box. The only phrases he can finish without cutting out immediately are "Cybertrons transform" and "Cybertrons attack". Cycling doesn't really work either. Sometimes he gets a different voice clip (but the only one that he can actually finish is the pained yell), but he keeps defaulting back to saying "transform" and "attack". I haven't heard even the beginning of any English phrases.
     
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    So assuming you didn't get broken knees out of the box, would you be free of any issues as long as you didn't bend the knees too far in either direction? And if they are broken will you not hear ratcheting in that moderate movement, or is it only in the extreme bends where you would hear it?
     
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    After the heating, one of my antennas grew!

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    Hmm, could be a loose wire in the actual box with the speaker causing it to cut because the connection wouldn’t always be there..if there’s a way to get to that maybe have a look
     
  18. stevenkliq

    stevenkliq Swontonimus Prime

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    Okay, then I have unlocked it from the gun pod itself. I pulled down the blue block. But I am still have trouble sliding it off. I am supposed to slide the gun pod up, away from the connection joint, right? Mine wouldn't budge and I was worried I was going to break something so I quit .. and my fingers were getting sore from the many failed attempts. lol

     
  19. Lklee78

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    I believe the problem is my ratchet is too strong for the plastic so the notch is starting to shear. How should I fix this? As you can tell I already shaved off some of the plastic on the blue tab. Ignore the sloppy paint job from the factory on the white part.
     
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