My Power Baser v2 just arrived due to this comment lol! Now I wait for showz to ship my Athena... then the real wait begins.

 

AFAIK, no.
But it's safe to assume she will be compatible with any future Headmasters that FansHobby releases.

 

Thanks for the correction.

Just typed up the answer without double checking afterwards.

 

Tip for the headmaster insertion/extraction.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=941236329620803

 

I decided to add some paint apps to mine...love this figure!

- Gregg

 

@sodawilly did you add lipstick? You rework eyes too?
Black horns too, wow

 

Got my shipping notification 

 

Hm this one is not for me. In hand she feels cheap, Definitely will go to my CHUG shelf. She stands out like a sore thumb in my MP shelf. If this is an attempt to get people to rethink MPs as something that requires putting stickers on and/or accepting a transformation that requires taking the roof off, on top of plain plastics, then yeah, I am clearly not the target market. Takara MP Bumblebee might actually be a better value.

 

I added paint apps for the lipstick look besides adding the paint apps to the mini figure.

- Gregg

 

Well mine came in today, and all was well until I transformer her from robot to car.



So my window snapped off when I tried to rotate it back up. Manage to take out the pin and glue the pieces back together, but not sure if it’ll hold if I transform it (if not, I can keep that side windowless).

 

Awesome! Mine is on the boat, and Athena will be here in a few days from A3U.

 

Oh no! Thanks for the warning

 

I totally gotta start buying more local. The allure of “cheaper” is useless if I’m waiting forever for my stuff.

 

the black antennae really add to it. looks good. mine showed up yesterday and i love it. may have to paint the back of the arms and antennae black on mine as well.

 

Yeah, I get some of the issues. Haven't gotten mine yet, but hoping my impressions are positive when in hand.

The forced partsforming of the roof should never have been a thing--especially on something meant for MP. Designing that inner section of the roof to fit a hinge that unfolds to get the whole thing out of the way would have been easy. And as low as the cost of the figure is, tacking on a couple of bucks to make up that difference wouldn't have been hard. I also didn't like the fact that this concept really wasn't 'revealed' until recently, long after a lot of pre-orders went up. I don't know if it's something they chose to do or if it's something they didn't even think about, but it would have been nice to know up front.

It's the kind of thing where I'll likely remove those two swiveling back panels that fill in her back (if they are the only things that get in the way during transformation with the roof still on), and just glue the whole roof assembly to the post permanently. It might leave that area hollow, but the roof covers up the back anyway.

The sticker thing doesn't really bother me, and I think it was mentioned being due to the whole trademark/licensing issue they went that way. As a result, I wouldn't assume that's going to be a common occurrence. Even if so, it doesn't sound like the stickers are cheaply made.

And yes, she does look a bit plain. But some paint should help with that. I know not everyone has that skill, but lack of paint is an easy fix for me. Lack of, say, swivel hinges to keep parts on is a bigger bother. If everything else is fine and I can correct for that myself, I think I'll be pretty happy with this figure.

 

The OCD aversion a lot of people have to separating a transformer into parts during transformation is really, really confusing to me. The transformation is fun and easy, which is something I can't say for most 3P MPs, and nothing is left over in either mode. I don't understand how having, like, a spaghetti hinge stuck to roof during transformation would've made it more fun.

 

My personal take--I don't like a transformer having to come apart to transform. I want it all self-contained, weapons aside since those have no necessity to either mode. This isn't 1984 anymore where that's just how it was done, primarily because it was the best they could do. To me it's cheating, and I prefer better thought put into the process. And especially when it's the entire top of the car. Of course there will be exceptions to that rule. But when you don't need to do it, you shouldn't.

Cool for those that don't have a problem with it. But that's where I come from on the issue.

 

Plus, it might be a spaghetti hinge if it were added now, but that doesn't mean it had to be a spaghetti hinge if the design was done without the intent of partsforming baked in at an early enough stage.

It's like ER Cliffjumper- the aftermarket solution to fix yhe partsforming is an awkward spaghetti hinge that has to squeeze around and through the arms and legs because the cheat was decided early enough that the rest of the transformation is engineered around not having the roof attached.

Minerva here is not so bad, the main impediment is the back panels. But they exist because they wanted to make the backpack optional after it got pretty sizable, and then to maneuver the back pabels around, removing that backpack stopped being optional. There's a throughline of cause and effect there.

 

I decided to purchase her since she is relatively cheap and I wanted to give FansHobby figures a try. She is also highly unlikely to ever receive an official MP figure, IMO.

Now to see how long it will take for Tony to ship her from HK, and how long will the actual package travel...