My wife is a huge Office fan, so she LOVES this little Cliffy. Every time she walks past my collectibles, she shouts “PARKOUR!”

thanks Fanstoys.

 

Most of us have already gotten them last week.

 

Want to avoid melting, its all about the bread. Literally its all about the bread Fanstoys - IE the RP, MH, DT? etc. Also you want to freeze the chocolate first. Much like FT freezes their releases for years and holds back stock. BUT freezing is key before breading and heat.

If you freeze the snickers, bread it, melting leakage should be minimal when you smoke it. Off set cold smoking would be even better than direct heat, or are you literally going to be inhaling sticks of the thick brown streaks of choco like shiny armoured fan bois do... that noise they produce while galloping around on their my lil ponies is maddening...

Hmm, maybe I can freeze and bread me FTs to avoid chipping.

Im excited for 53 though, hopefully I dont get the nose chipped version.

 

Okay, maybe I don't want what you're smoking... 

 

I missed out on the original preorder. Also missed out on bbts for 109. It's definitely a bit much for a minibot at 139 but I had some points and was able to save a few bucks. I missed the boat on Hunk so I figured I might as well get in on this before he's costing $200 or something crazy.

 

one left and BBTS I thought about it but I’d rather import it and save a few bucks

 

MP 21 is still my favorite Bee. And dang it, I think Parkour works pretty well with him.

 

They don't look half bad together, thanks for the pic.

 

Finally arrived from ShowZ! Hes adorable and already making friends!

 

Well I have my funds ready and available for 2 FT Cliffjumpers whenever @Bombusbee or ShowzStore @AbbytheCat make their stock available for purchase.

I'm hoping for next week.

Has the box art been posted by Lo Labs for this figure?

 

Yup. Finally got mine in from ShowZ today as well. Looks great right out of the box. Don’t have any idea what the people who think this figure isn’t like the other FT minibots are looking at. It follows right along with the same materials, engineering and asthetic that we have had the past couple years. My only real complaint is that the backpack is only marginally distracting. The facescuplts look pretty great, except the stoic one, but I’m generally not a fan of those anyways so whatever. Love the alt mode. Looks great. And while the transformation itself, the engineering part anyways, was clever and I could appreciate it. All the tiny little hinges, not to mention double hinges, with way too tight joints, made it a much bigger fight than it should ever have been. When I got down to the legs I decided I’d try to just stop being careful and go all out not being afraid to apply more force than should have been necessary to get the job done. And that’s when it started to go noticeably better. But this, there’s no reason for the hinges and tabs to be that tight. It wasn’t so on either Brawn or Huffer. This is not on that level of refinement. And it’s disappointing because I don’t know why it couldn’t have been. Feels like they just maybe rushed it a bit or something to get it out. The paint looks great all the way around I didn’t have any mismatch issues at all. Going back to bot I was sure I’d break the hood trying to get it untabed. It took more force than I could apply without jabbing a spudger in there and prying much harder than I’ve ever had to on a transformer before. I was sure it would break. There’s no reason they need to tab in that hard. My finger tips are sore from one back and forth transformation. And I work with my hands all day long. Here’s the left shoulder now. After one round. Jeez
And that picture says a lot about the overall execution of this release and how I’m feeling about it. It’s not that I can’t have some paint chips on my figures. I’m not that obsessive. But, hard not to feel disappointed with this after my previous experiences with Fanstoys went so well. Win some, loose some I guess

 

DAMN!  

 

Yeah whoever put this thing together over tightened most of the screws. Backing more than a few off a quarter turn has helped considerably

 

Which areas should be addressed with regards to loosening the screws?

 

Okay I've got the comparison you've all really been waiting for!

 

3rd pic, with the placement to the background, Parkour looks very happy to see Ace Tumbler  

 

Oh jeez! That's unfortunate...
Lemme cover that up so nobody gets the wrong idea.

 

I’ve decided to pass on the figure but really like the box art. Has anyone taken clean straight-on shots of it, or have digital originals been shared anywhere?

 

May I interest you in an NFT?

For you, I make special price!