Really, really good review.
Nice one.

 

in the future, you can get a hair dryer and warm up the part that is too tight to move.  

 

It's BBTS bro. All of their product arrives via rowboat. Be happy It's arriving before EOY. W/ BBTS you'll always get your order, but you'll be dead last to get it.

 

If you do get it to move I think it'll only get easier with repeat transformations. I struggled the first time too. Second time was much easier. Same with the left wing tab. Tough the first time. Went right in the second. I definitely scratched a bit of red paint however inside where the arms are housed getting him back into jet mode. Annoying but not visible in either mode so whatever.

 

If only the ankles were as tight as the nose cone.

 

I may keep this dude in jet mode, for now.

 

getting mine today. Still , quite sour that the QC madness hit again onto this figure after such gorgeous Arcee. I will find out soon.
Although seeing other on those Meteor and Deformation thread congratz on Tak QC failure is just pitiful that the tribal attitude going as strong as ever lmao

 

Looooooool

 

So, I don't have any cracks on mine, but I do have two stress marks on the post connected to the left foot. I thought there was just the one, but I went back and checked again and found another. I'm hoping that it was always there and I just missed it the first time checking. Also hoping that they don't lead to cracks or breakages.

So, for mine, I've got stress marks on one foot, missing the normal smiling face, and a few spots of paint chipping. Not great, but I can hopefully fix two of the three issues, assuming I find someone to swap the faces with or if I can eventually buy KO faces like the ones that were available for Megatron.

I saw @Jarrod had a good match for the red (thanks, btw!) - if somebody finds a match for the gray, please let us know!

 

Additionally, I found just Gray 306 to be a near perfect match on its own, when doing another touch up to a different part.

 

More like 15 years given the engineering is from MP-3, with some mods made for MP-11.

 

I posted this on the 3P forum for the UT Galvatron, but I guess it fits a MP-52 thread thread too. Yes, I know, wrong movie for this Galvatron.

Megatron, is that you?!!


Here’s a hint!


Bloooosh!

 

Awesome, must have missed that! Thanks x2!

 

I was just looking at the prototype pics again. The pin holes are definitely longer but they look kind of wonky because of the way the back of the jet tapers away from the centre. I'm thinking the taper made unreliable holes because they were oval shaped, so they decided to chop the odd geometry right out. But then you would think the pins would be shorter so you wouldn't see them sticking out like that. Anyway I'm pretty sure they were forced to do that because of the tapering jet geometry. It doesn't look great but it works pretty well.

 

Only Starscream figure I know of with articulation able to aim like this(this is pretty much Robot Damashii level arm articulation):

 

There's just so much expressiveness to this figure! Love it! The newer figures look so good together, but damn MP Soundwave looks rather dated now.

 

One leg! I guess this means mine ankles are ok.

 

Comes to V2 MP Starscream thread, nothing but floppy knees, cracked ankles and tail fins.   Sigh..... nothing but kiki, superglue, heat gun .......   Takara should release a D.I.Y kit that comes with the next release!