MP-51 Arcee Chest Upgrade

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by DaFinchi, Sep 11, 2021.

  1. DaFinchi

    DaFinchi Well-Known Member

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    So I figured it was worth giving a shout out to Hafiz Zul, who has produced a fantastic upgrade kit for MP-51's chest. Photos below.

    I held off getting this toy purely because of that chest. Yeah, fine, if you like it or don't care, good for you, but for my part it made the toy look nothing like the G1 animation character, and so made it a hard pass. This chest upgrade, to my mind, fixes that perfectly.

    The colour matching is spot on, the parts line up seamlessly and the toy still transforms just fine. Oh, and the paint app is better than was on my out-of-the-box MP-51, which was chipped, smudged and flecked, with paint over the lines.

    Installing the part was a bit of a hassle as you need to knock out the pin from a fairly fragile chest part. Not for the faint hearted. I gather a few folks had their original part or the new part (which is made out of resin) break on them. However, I have little experience modding toys and zero experience with pins, and mine came out fine. I just flattened the head of a crosshead jeweller's screwdriver and that knocked the pin out in a few taps.

    You can get more info on Hafiz's FB page which is at Hafiz Zul

    TMReviews has posted a great review, including installation tips, at


    But if you go down this route, I do advise you check out Hafiz's installation instructions, which are at

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    I have the Toyworld one (ugh) and the MMC one (better) but don't like either the colour or body shape of the FT one (again, YMMV, it's all subjective).

    Now I'm just going to get Snaku's amazing faces printed (Minor/Repaint: - Snaku's Custom Faces for MP51 Arcee) and I reckon this will be my ideal MP Arcee :) 
     
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  2. Bakarina

    Bakarina Unapologetic Megatron Fangirl

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    I am heartened to see the poor gal get some desperately needed uplift on her robo boobs. (Why do transformers need those things anyway?)
    Here's to hoping the KO includes the kit by default! I'm too terrified to fiddle with pins.
     
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  3. DaFinchi

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    Oh, easy, female-coded Transformers need roboboobs because they were modelled on the mammary glands of their creators, the... *checks notes* ... er... Quintessons. Um.

    Yeah, it could have been an expensive thing to go wrong, but honestly, I'm a complete muppet. If I can install the mod, I imagine most folks could :) 
     
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  4. Murasame

    Murasame 村雨

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    Nice, now I may buy Arcee
     
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  5. Dickyscrubbs

    Dickyscrubbs A booby trap that catches boobies…

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    Need to see a side by side… before and after
     
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  6. TaurusOxford

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    Pssst, try actually watching the video.
     
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  7. Alph

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    She needs a face upgrade too, but this is a good start. Shame there isn't a way to make her feet look normal.


    I wish a more high end company would produce something like this, like Shadow Fisher or Fansproject or whatever. I feel like all upgrade kits lately have been these homemade 3D printed affairs.
     
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  8. Dickyscrubbs

    Dickyscrubbs A booby trap that catches boobies…

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    Psst wanna see a pic and not a video
     
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  9. Jaguaratron

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    Looks much better but that back kibble makes the character a hard pass for me.
     
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  10. TaurusOxford

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    It's literally in the first 10 seconds of the video...
     
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  11. Snaku

    Snaku Primes Don't Party

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  12. Girl Pants

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    I really would have thought that the way she came out was a result of transformation necessity, but I guess not.

    For me, the issue was never really the chest but was the white collar area seeming way too big and the pink area between the white collar and her shoulders seemed to sunken and set back. This basically fixes that. Likewise Nightbird's chin hides the collar pretty well and I think that's part of why I like her over Arcee.

    Shame that it's so involved to swap on.
     
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  13. deaculpa

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    This thread is not what I thought it was gonna be :D 
     
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    Same. Alt mode pics would be cool as well, just in case

    Nice, yup, that's how she's supposed to look.
     
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    Yeah, this looks tons better. But it also proves to me my other issue with this figure, and yes it is the white collar being too tall. Even with the the upgrade, it still feels like the collar and neck are too high up. But this is still a huge improvement. I'd love to see this included in some form on a future KO, but usually things more involved like this don't make the KO cut.
     
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  16. DoubleClouder

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    Anyone have a link on where to buy one?
     
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  17. Jaguaratron

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    Right? This was a crazy design choice
     
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    Funnily I made a post about the very same chest piece a couple of days ago, it looks good but too risky to install so I'm gonna pass, I heard he's making a new batch or something where there is more clearance in the cavity where the pin goes or something, I'll wait until those are out. I'm in no hurry, the figure is still shelfwarming in Omegalock as we speak, says a lot about what people think about it.
     
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  19. Bakarina

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    Thus proving once again that Hasbro screwed the pooch. They couldn't even be bothered to solve the cat ears on MPM Bumblebee Prime that the KO solved by simply putting them on hinges. It's like they just don't care anymore.
     
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  20. Hicks_Royel

    Hicks_Royel Hurts feelings being honest.

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    Looks good. Wonder if it will work with the Nightbird head sculpt.
     
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