Luckily, KO's have the faction symbols tampo'd already. Do you leave third-party figures (if you get them) blank?
I actually do leave them blank. It affect each character differently, some look naked, some you don't notice
Every day I think more and more that it is an orchestrated plan of Takara: those who have money to spare, or the official ones, buy "the exclusive" of having the first figures, at the price of paying the first failures or production defects for having them first (just like the consoles, let's go). Then in an "unofficial" way, the KO comes out...which is identical, with improvements (it makes feel good to those who do not spend a lot of money in the official one, because it brings IMPROVEMENTS), and the official ones do not feel bad because "IT IS NOT OFFICIAL"...the perfect plan to sell to everybody, whatever your pocket is. ...and on the way you "complain" to make it look like they eat your cake, when everything goes to the same place...with this I'm not saying that there are not 3P or 4P that make KOs that have nothing to do with Takara, but don't tell me that it doesn't make sense.
Lucky for you this is a knockoff, then, and not a "premium" figure, whatever that means. I don't mind the lack of symbols - that's just how the game is played and I like the game so I'll deal with putting on my own symbols.
Possible. I am reminded of House of Gucci (for those who saw it) where they were making their own knock offs in the 70s and 80s.
I don't want to say it's real, but it would be the perfect plan to have the money of all customers: those who want official and those who don't care and want to pay less, but everything would go to the same pockets in the back
So my original point was about the chest fix and how the the official has a major flaw with the chest and if the KO doesn't have the faction symbol it would still have a flaw on the chest. I understand that the KO is technically not a "premium" figure but it would replace what is supposedly a premium figure. I'm not trying to down grade or trade one issue for another. I think it will come with the symbol but concern is based on the fact that the symbol is located on the new piece unlike other KO fixes.
This would not surprise me in the least. Weren't there even rumours that Maketoys did this with their Headmasters? Made their own KOs under the YesModel brand?
It could go either way. Most KOs keep the symbol, but upgraded KOs often drop it. The THF KOs of Magnus and Soundwave lack a symbol, as does the IT version of Megatron. So you'll just have to wait and see.
Looks like we'll all be waiting... for a while (April). But the price seems good at $69 though I expect it to be higher elsewhere.
Realize this topic was made before this one: MP-51 Arcee KO? But that one seems to be more up to date, etc. Maybe a mod can merge these topics @Megatron118 @boomerdave
There was---That post was originally in a different thread, so the link to this thread was at the time pointing to a different thread than the post was in.
I’m going to need to see the fixed chest on the figure. The cad is promising but I’m not sold on it yet
They merged the threads but used the worse topic title. I hate when they do that. Don't people realize that a more informative topic title is better?