What are the extra screws for?

 

The future is nigh.

 

Anyone preorder this from Chosen Prime? Hoping we see it soon.

 

That's odd.
Their free shipping option to the USA shows it can take up to 70 days without updates.
Otherwise it's $4 shipping to for 15 day shipping time.
https://showzstore.com/transform-element-te-01-optimus-prime_p1004.html

 

I did. Should be hitting any day now. I’m guessing they’ll get theirs this coming week.

Fun fact, this is my third TE-01. I sold the first in exchange for the V3 with extra head. Then I sold my V3 to someone who was desperate to find one quickly, knowing I could wait for the next batch. I don’t usually do that with figures but this one is so good and they keep releasing it that it’s been kinda fun buying each new batch.  

 

well it looks like it wasn't free as I had thought. Since shipping was listed as $0 I didnt notice “item costs” which evidently is shipping? But three bucks for 2 weeks shipping from china is pretty negligible and totally worth it.

 

Mine arrived from ShowZ today as well. I chose the free shipping option.

Unfortunately I didn't make it home before the apartment office closed for the day, so I don't get to check him out until Monday. Dang it.

 

I got mine from ShowZ a few days ago. Head was on backwards, as seems to be the trend with this batch. Matrix was present.

Unfortunately, there's a pretty serious QC issue. The figure has a bunch of rotating sections in the abdomen/crotch/legs area that all rotate around a central metal "spine". The section with the legs is connected to the very bottom of the spine with a screw. Well, my screw fell out. I thought it just got loose, but no, it's literally too small, you can insert it into the screw hole and take it back out without ever having to turn it. Either the screw is the wrong size, or the metal warped at some point and became too large.

If the screw is just too small, then the right fix is to get the right screw, but if the metal is actually misshaped inside, I dunno what the best move would be. I'm considering jamming some Green Stuff modeling putty inside the screw hole, dripping some super-glue in, and quickly putting in the screw. The Green Stuff is porous enough that it will get saturated by the super glue, and that tends to form a pretty strong bond, but I dunno if this fix will definitely work, and it's basically impossible to undo if it doesn't work out well.

 

The best is to contact your seller and ask for exchanging the figure or a refund maybe?

 

Mine turned up at the weekend. I'm afraid I have to add to the current QC woes. Matrix is there, everything is functioning fine, just one small problem with truck mode...

 

Must have parked in a bad neighborhood.

 

How could this pass the QC test?

 

:^0

 

Where did you order from?

Also, is it just me. or are there two very different shades of red going on there?

 

Man, i'm scared, very scared now.

 

I had some paint chipping on the front of the cab grille/rear butt cover, which is annoying but I'll live with it. Other than that no major issues.

Just Transformed to cab and back - that was a fun experience, was quite surprised at parts of it, very cool overall. Like how sturdy everything is and how cleaned up the bot mode is. The post on the 1st page asking whether it can transform at all is testament to how well engineered it is to conceal what is actually a very smart and involved but satisfying transformation.

 

Yeah, I'll probably check in with ShowZ to see if there's anything we can do. The thing is that I already threw out all the packaging, because the figure seemed fine pre-transformation, so I'm guessing that I won't be able to send it in for a replacement.

 

Opened mine up just now. It all looks good. Matrix was present and accounted for. The head was installed backwards, but thats an easy 30 second fix. Honestly, it's a really easy mistake to make.

Still a great figure, but my V2 somehow just feels more solid. Some of the friction joints feel tighter on it. But I think I had also added some future to some of the V2 joints, so that could explain it. Also, my V2 is currently in alt mode, so I can't compare joints side by side right now.

The biggest glaring QC issue on my new one, other than a few sprue marks, is his right toe has a fairly loose toe bend joint. I don't think it will affect anything, as you only bend the toe up when he's standing on the toe, so it would hold just fine. I'll probably put some future in it anyway. And there is a crack on the slider portion of that toe as well. See pic. Again, i don't think it will hurt anything, but I plan to reach out to ShowZ for replacement parts. It will require basically a whole new lower leg to fix that crack due to the presence of hidden pins.

As for the good, he's still a solid figure and I'm not disappointed at all that I purchased a second copy of him.

I love the fact that his gun is now black instead of grey, though I wish the LED was orange. I also do like the flat shoulder with no insignia indent.

I'm not sure I like the frosted windshield. I originally thought I would, bur now that I added reflective tint behind the windows of my V2, I think I prefer that look. I actually removed my cell shaded reprolabels because I liked the tint better.

Overall I'm super happy with the V4 TE-01. Hes still a great figure!

 

I'd love to see the tinted window pics!

 

I'm in the UK and ordered from TFS-Express/Omegalock, so I'm in contact with them to see what they're going to do. They got stock in last week, which was when I gave in to the TE-01 hype.   And yeah you're right, the cab window red is darker than the rest. I'm ok with that (it's less noticeable in robot mode) but worth keeping in mind.

Also forgot to note that like almost everyone else, my neck was on backwards. However as I was swapping to the movie head anyway, I just pulled up the picture posted on this thread and sorted it at the same time. I do really like this guy (actually enjoyed that first transformation, following the P4L video instructions) but there are definitely some minor issues I'd be more miffed about if he wasn't relatively cheap.