Fans Toys FT-55 Recorder (Masterpiece Blaster)

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by Scaleface, Jul 2, 2014.

  1. M Alex

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    Also, does anybody else think the sides of his head are too wide at the bottom? In the animation they often were wider towards the bottom, but not always. Here its a bit too much. I hope you can use the g1 faces with the toy head.
     
  2. BIOMEC

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    My only criticism of the figure is that it looks bland overall... Like really BLAND...
     
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    honestly don't see the issue with the gold I like it
     
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    on a moving spring loaded part? Highly doubtful.
     
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    The headsculpt is miles ahead of both KFC and DS. It really captures Blaster imo.
     
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    Blaster himself looks good overall but the gold chrome looks horrible.
     
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    I believe they did it intentionally so they can sell different shades of him.
    It's just too easy these days, to do slightly different shades and call them exclusives !!

    IMHO, they could've just gone with the red translucent on his thighs and that would've been enough, but the gold is just an eyesore !!!

    The figure itself looks great, but man, right now.. YUK !!
     
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    Yeah because Fans Toys is known for releasing repaints out the wazoo?

    Not saying it won't happen, but we had to wait years and years for a single repaint on some of their figures. Heck, I'm still waiting on Soundblaster! :) 
     
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    Soundwave/Acoustic Wave having a gold chrome cassette door makes sense: the G1 toy had it and although the cartoon coloured it yellow, it was supposed to be gold.

    But Blaster never had a chrome gold door. The toy was yellow, the cartoon was yellow, the comic was yellow.

    Same with the black for the elbows and upper legs. Elbows kind of make sense since the toy had black, but the upper legs should be grey.
     
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    It's obvious FT is channeling Louis Vutton here.
     
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    That's my main problem with reflective chrome in general, I hate all the messy looking reflections (and inevitable fingerprints). And god forbid I try taking a picture of my figure when I'm not wearing pants...I actually did that once with one of my chrome figures way back and almost gave everyone here a secret glimpse of my tighty-whities.
     
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    My problem with some FT gold chrome is that it's not really attached to the figure very strongly. This is my Grinder.

    grinder_chrome.jpg
     
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    Yeah the poor durability of chrome is definitely another problem. I'm not sure if it's better or worse when it's applied to die-cast, though.
     
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    Fans Toys...if this isn't a sign that the silly gold chromed door sucks donkey's wang I don't know what is? You have to change it before this figure becomes the next Spindrift 2.0 and Tesla 2.0.
     
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    Very shiny, I like it.....
     
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    Good grief, that gold chrome looks bloody awful. Still, anything to justify the high price point, right?
     
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    just wanted to say that im loving the chrome, looks beautiful, dont change a thing
     
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    For what it’s worth I sent a very polite note to [email protected] giving them feedback that while the overall figure looks great, I think the gold looks really bad and should be yellow instead.
    If enough of us do it, maybe they’ll at least include a swappable yellow part?
     
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    Wow, that's a strange oversight. Funnily enough it's been that way ever since the initial reveal. I wonder if Fanstoys just left it out to mess with us. They're probably checking in on this topic from time to time, frustratedly thinking "Dang it, I thought for sure there would be pages of complaining about that missing rectangle by now!"
     
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    I'm liking the tapes, but Blaster himself, not so much. Happy to let DS keep the slot, despite how much I like FT's build quality generally. Maybe one for a sale.