The Cyberbee stays locked in really good on mine

 

Luck of the draw. My Scorp was always pretty good, but Polar Claw’s claw was always randomly snapping open. Some had copies the other way around. You just got lucky.

 

scorponok got here today. same mailing bag issue, box game trashed. figure is tons of fun though

 

Found this today and the Cyber Bee trigger doesn't even remotely hold. I have this mold three times over and never had a problem where it won't even latch before now.

 

Yeah, same here. I see that he's showing in stock at the store about 15-20 minutes from me. But I can't justify that kind of money for him. Maybe if it was half of that.

 

maybe the exorbitant price tag is an homage to reissue astrotrain since the two were paired up in the kingdom show

 

Scorponok comparisions
US, JP (slightly lighter), New Walmart Reissue (gray)

 

Found Tigatron in large numbers the other day, and a Sweep.

I wish they'd used the colors of the original Kenner figure instead of a new, show-accurate one.

Love that the card art is still wrong.

 

Is your Japanese one broke? Mine broke like 20 years ago.  

 

I bet 10 years from now they bring us an albino scorponok. lol

Let me guess, did the mutant head snap? some reports were heard that this part is very fragile if not treated well.

I was also warned once, that's why I chose to buy the version USA.

 

Actually, as soon as I took it out and rotated the tail for robot mode....the tail snapped.  

I had the lighter JPN version 20+ yrs ago and same thing happened.

Sigh.....

I don't know what it's made out of, something akin to GPS, but it's very sensitive. Almost BWNeo Randy level....

 

has anybody tried to get a price adjustment for getting a damaged package? Mine looks like it was handled by Jim Carrey. Actually thinking of returning it, its double what its worth IMO

 

Yeah, I figured that was the case. It's a shame, as it's pretty hard to find (hard to identify in box too, I wasn't even sure when I bought mine, I saw it in person, that it was the purple version rather than the black one).

 

Did it snap at the tail joint where the pin is fired through…the joint that is at a detent and is very tight to move?

 

I'd have to look at mine, but I believe it snapped on the insertion point that is twisted when transforming between modes. I think that the housing may have cracked later too.

 

It's all good. Majority of my collection survived a bad flood, so I'll deal. I might my Frankenstein the piece from the US one and live with it.

The housing that goes over the circle just disintegrated. It can't hold the tail at all.

 

Damn, doesn’t feel like it’ll snap on the new retro release but I’ll check mine again.

 

The black USA one on mine is still fine. It's the purplish plastic used on the second Japanese release (first release is identical to the US one).

Hopefully the new one is fine because it uses a different color plastic.