IF Iron Factory Appreciation Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by Hybrid Style, Nov 17, 2019.

  1. Megatron118

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    Patiently hoping TCP gets Cyclonus in stock so I can purchase him alongside a few others in my cart…

    Also y’all think IF will unveil new figures for the upcoming year at TFCon, or just updates on the figures that haven’t been released yet?
     
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    IF usually reveals a few bots at that october show. then any remaining stragglers or protos that were shown are revealed in color along with the special con fig at SGC.

    also, if it were me i would just by my IF figs from @ToyDojo. they are simply the best around and if anything ever happens they will take care of you asap and out of their own stock.

    you wont get months of BS excuses from them.
     
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    So my Taobao order that included my DJD figures showed up, and I found that the Kaon/Vos set came with replacement shoulders for Tarn. What's the deal there? My Tarn seems okay, but is there something I should look out for with him?
     
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    If I remember right, the first run of Tarn had some common issue of breakage, so IF included some replacement pieces with all some of the other DJD members. Later runs were fine though, so they're just there as a nice bonus "just in case" I suppose :) 
     
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    The ball peg in the shoulder area was too tight on some copies and the ring the ball goes in would split. The new arms were definitely smoother when I installed them, even though my OG arms didn't break.
     
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    does that mean you scooped it up?
     
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    No, I missed it. Every time I’m almost able to find that figure, I lose out
     
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    Any other recommended TLC points for these bots? My copy of Merak definitely has some tight spots on his grabby arms that are calling out for shock oil.
     
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    My Blastoff has stress marks on the bicep mushroom pegs, so if you have that one maybe add oil there. They’re not even that tight on mine, might’ve already been there for all I know. But just an FYI. The heads on my Drift/Deadlock pair are tight too and could also use oil if you have those
     
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    just the usual couple of drops of oil and that is about it.

    be mindful of any stress marks. i think i remember like 2 cases of the arms cracking off or user error when this came out.
     
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    I might be alone in this but I'd love to see iron factory take on legends scale unicron trilogy designs. I'd prefer that to the samurai line they have going, personally. And it would be a nice nod as the ut gave us our first legends scale figures
     
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    i hope they can make the shatter class version of the 30 mold later. Already order the 30d, but just because i love this mold and late for the original color.
    If it recolor i rather have the dark green, and lightter dar, some yellow detail. For the record the IF ex 14m, 45m look damn stunning. This color look so boring.
    There is a whole univeser of shatter class right ? so they can technically make every of their figure with that color, isn't it ?
     
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    Received Dark Cygnus today. Alt head on him looks wickedly cool.
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