My Kingdom Rodimus Prime  


Of course the trailer refused to shut properly but I fixed it by applying a bit of superglue on the tabs. Now he's perfect  

 

Yo listen up, here's the story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night
And everything he sees is just blue
Like him, inside and outside

Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue Corvette
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen.

 

Megatron: I'll take the Steak, you can have the Salad.

 

Can y'all help me, I been wanting a WFC Megatron to go with my Kingdom Optimus but I don't know which one. Cause there's the Netflix Megaton but I think it's out of stock now and the Spoiler pack but it's $60 and I don't feel like spending that and getting another figure I don't care for. Or the Earthrise version but most people say the siege is much better.

 

I am personally a big fan of the Netflix Megatron, he’s the right combination of paint app and the Siege mold. The spoiler pack goes a step further and includes the matrix and bandoliers and the live Allspark and if you really don’t want the Purple Skelivor I would buy it off of you.

 

So I’ve never been huge into 3p or upgrade kits but kingdom Cyclonus has been the best figure of one of the coolest looking decepticons ever (in my opinion). So I’m curious to checking out an upgrade kit to make him even better, any suggestions for what to choose?

 

He's actually the one figure that I don't recall seeing a single kit for that really did much for it as he's quite one of the best of Kingdom.

But, I did buy an extra Sixgun (liquidation) to use as spare guns and using the larger ones for Cyclonus so that he's "balanced" and have a gun under each wings.

 

Man. I could not wait to swap these limbs. It upgrades both of them.

First impressions:

WC Arachnia (with Kingdom Arachnia's black spider legs)

Spoiler: Review details for WC Blackarachnia

- Lovely deco, with or without swapping limbs
- Overall well-molded (including a new head sculpt). I can't tell if the weapon is twice painted, or double-shot injection! But it looks good.
- They "solved" the issue with the tiny tab behind her chest plate breaking by removing this 'tab' detail from the mold. Her chest doesn't tab into the substructure at all as there's no tab, just a small square bump that doesn't tab in or provide any kind of frictional attachment to the substructure.
- I am very pleased with the high-gloss leopard print booba.
- Several of her joints have problems.
--+ Her neck and her breast plate share a pin that attaches them to the substructure and this pin is extremely loose. Her breast plate and head\neck assembly flop around pretty freely and must be re-adjusted any time you move her even a little.
--+ Conversely the ball joint for her head is extremely, extremely tight. Turning her head is just about as likely to torque the head peg as it is to rotate the head. I don't see how I can resolve this without breaking the glue that holds the halves of her head onto the peg.
--+ Her thigh pegs are similarly extremely tight. It must be an issue with thermal shrinkage in this plastic formulation. I feel like I will break her when trying to rotate her thighs.
- The green and orange plastic joints and pegs all feel fine.
- She has no trouble standing; her feet feel functional.

Kingdom Blackarachnia (with WC Blackarachnia's gold spider legs)

I feel that this is the new best version of this character. Huzzah! Other than the small tab behind her booba breaking, she's been great for me QC-wise and she can pose and stand with great balance.




She-Spider partners in crime!




Worlds Collide Nemesis Primal

This guy doesn't need much reviewing: he's fucking excellent. Every single joint is just about the right tightness, and all of his paint and deco is wonderful. Great accessories and high-quality paint application, good QC across the board. They were clearly proud of this character!



Brothers in Darkness

 

The spider-legs swap looks great. I want to do swap, but the plastic feels too fragile to me. If the Worlds Collide wasn't so spendy I'd give it a shot.

 

Could run it under warm water to make it softer if you want. But I understand your hesitation. If it helps you decide, I did it in a 75ºF room and rotated them to worry them loose, and it didn't feel too precarious. In other words, be careful and you'll likely be fine  

 

“Go, go Power Rangers!”
The 80’s and 90’s living in harmony.

 

I guess we’re doing tiny Soundwave boombox today  

 

Red is elegant.

Watch out for Auto-berserker!

 

Kingdom Rodimus and Galvatron are the only Kingdom releases I've picked up. To properly unite Firebolt with his partner I cut the peg down so that it could ride without issue on any of Rodimus' surfaces whether it be on his back or on his trailer.

Really love them.

 

Beg

 

Talked about this on the BW thread, but I'm honestly curious about this. The Maximals had 200+ troops in this version of the Beast Wars (I assume the Predacons had similar numbers) and speaking as a huge Beast Wars fan I could only dream of BW having that many figures to collect.

Though for the sake of Hasbro's budget let's cut that 200+ per faction down to just 100 or so. Beast Wars had a little over 30 characters per faction so 70 more to go.

I see several ways they could have gotten to a 100 each.

Army build with a bunch of Big Cats using the Cheetor mold, plus all the various species of scorpions, wasps, and spiders with the Scorponok, Waspiantor, and Tarantulas molds.

A third year of regular animals but they switch it up with bird/mammal Predacons (like a vulture, Shadow Panther, and the brown Wolfang repaint) and reptile/insect Maximals (sea turtle, bumblebee, ladybug). So an Aerialbots and Stunticons situation.

More Combiners.

More Fuzors plus Triple Beast Fuzors.
More original Transmetals and Transmetal II's not just upgraded forms of S1 characters.
More Fossilizers

Mythical creatures/cryptid forms: Give Optimus Primal a Bigfoot Alt-Mode

Minicons: these little guys would probably be an entire third if not more.
An additional gimmick they could do is make them elemental beasts/mythical creatures (so Pokemon which like BW came out in the 90's ...same year IIRC 1996) and they give whoever they powerlink too elemental powers. Add in Blast Effects and that'd be awesome for posing.

 

Thought this would be the best place for this. Happy 35th anniversary!

 

My most recent purchase was Netflix Megatron, ordered from UK Hasbro Pulse. I believe this is the first Netflix version. The second comes with the bandoliers. They are quite similar with a mettalic paint scheme, although that damage is different. Both are decent, I guess it depends what extras you prefer. The scratching on the first version (which I own) is a bit more extreme which might be off-putting.

If you don't care about the bandoliers he is a nice version. and comes with two Autobot weaponizers.



Third picture shows Crosshairs using the weaponizers. (The gun and the chainsaw thing.)