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DAMN that looks good. Last Chance is my favorite of the four. It's the colors and the asymmetric racing stripe, man!

 

thats actually not a bad representation of him. wasnt planning on getting him but i may now, depending on other priorities. shits starting to get expensive.

still dont like those feet, but they seem less noticeable now.

 

nice pic review, mine coming in a couple of days can't wait to get this guy in hand.

 

Ankles only tilt like 3 degrees?    

Anyways--is it possible to have the hood on the back somehow, in robot mode? There seems to be several hinges, and FP went to the effort to seemingly mold full "chest detail", even though it's totally hidden in car mode and semi-hidden in arm mode. It'd be a shame if they were "one hinge away" from being able to do a very G1-esque chest in 'bot mode.

 

Man getting really hard to pick my favorite of these guys. Really hope I don't end up convincing myself "dood you totally need a second set cooommee onnnn" lol.

 

I reckon FP knocked Dead end and Drag strip's faces out of the park, I also like their alt modes and transformations more than the fist two. They really remind of their G1 counterparts and have easily become my 2 favs of the limbs.

 

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! Can't wait to get this guy. My next POL is gonna be epic!

 

is the marbling in the plastic as noticeable in person as it is in the pics?

 

Dead End. Grinning on his box art. Really?

 

Can't remove hood unless you like him wearing it on his head like a hat  

 

since when does Deadend Grin? He's the most EMO brooding Bi-Polar/Manic-Depressive of the bunch. all the other boxart looks great except for that stupid grin

 

I just got a hold of mine last week and the marble on the plastic is pretty noticeable. Overall the figure is ok but wasn't super impress by him. I feel Last Chance and Down Force seems to be weaker then the first two releases. I also hate how hard it is to move his head up and down on this figure.

 

The fourth and final FansProject Stunticon car bot is just as nice as the last three for the most part. These figures have all been fantastic on their own but certainly their biggest appeal for me is how good they are together.



I'm not really a "packaging" guy, I always take my figures out their boxes immediately but I guess as far as they go FP has done a great job with them.

LastChance himself is very nice once you get him out:


All the expected posability you could ask for; shoulder ball joints, hip ball joints, swiveling knees, ball jointed head, swiveling hands and even some nice double jointed elbows which are utilized for transformation.

He looks good in robot mode from all angles just like the other three:

Well except maybe for his buttless backside  

And again just like the others he has a very nice head sculpt and some great face paint. If you can manage to get some light under his brow you'll notice his purple eyes.

Not as bright a shade of color as the others have for their eyes but still nice.

His transformation to vehicle mode is much much easier than the other three and thankfully tabs together very nicely without feeling so tight you'll worry about transformation possibly breaking something if you aren't careful. Though admittedly my tolerances for this kind of thing is wider than others it seems due to my past experience with model kits and the like.

The only finicky part I found was the arms which have to be bent in several ways to compact down for car mode and the head can be a bit annoying to push down and pull up.


Like the other FPstunts his alt mode is based on a real world sports car, namely a modern ferrari from what I understand. While its not a bad vehicle design I find it to be a bit plain compared to the others. His colors are nice though and the iconic yellow/silver stripe on marone red is exactly what I expect from any DeadEnd homage.

As for rolling he does it just fine with minimal scraping. Something to note that I missed on my first transformation is the crotch has to be pressed hard under the car to click up in to it. This gives clearance for the wheels and is an easy step to miss.

I guess some people are still put off by the price tags on these guys and if you were just buying one, or just these four and not M3/Diesel later on I could see that perspective.

They definitely have their flaws and them being cheaper would have been nice but despite that I still think they are well worth it. Obviously their value will be much enhanced once we are able to combine them given they were priced to be bought as a set along with not-Motormaster.

But then I probably couldn't recommend them as stand alone figures to everyone the more I think about it. I'd personally still get them as would many people I suspect but it comes down to where your values and interests and acceptances lie.

For now these four guys look great together:




But we all know that their true brilliance is only one massive black and silver truck away  

 

Figure I'd also point out that yep they all can go anywhere you want on your not-Menasor:



Me personally though I'll be sticking to the default "official" setup. Downforce right arm, LastChance left arm, CarCrash right shin, TBone left shin. Though this has given me another reason to now want a second set eventually lol.

 

Just got last chance(dead end) in. Really diggin this fig. 1 more to go.

 

Last Chance is best FP Stunticon of the lot I think.





Easiest to get into all modes with much less hassle than the other 3, best paint job and colors, a great gun, intentional weapon storage, a lot of range of motion thanks to some deep knees and double jointed elbows, a great sense of balance, only one scenario where parts can bang into one another, and everything is relatively secure.

I think his design is simpler than the others and he owes much of his advantages to that. His feet aren't all bad since unlike the other 3 you don't have to fight with the toes to get him stable. That and without his gun stored he has a really small rear in robot mode. Only thing I would change would be to do something with the car panels on the arms so they could be moved out of the way of each other when raising both elbows up.










His box art is goofy as hell though. What's up with the art? Shame he doesn't have that grin in robot mode. All FP bots are srs bsn.

 

"yuck" at those feet

 

Thanks for this m(_ _)m

This was driving me crazy. After having T-Bone's door pop off by applying too much pressure, I'm a little timid to do so again with my new Stunticon arrivals.

Now that I have Last Chance figured out, time to move on to Down Force.

It's nice to see at least one of these guys transform with the use of little force.

 

Just wondering....I was mucking about with Last Chance, looking to see how I could make him even cooler, when I realized that the arms were misassembled. Not only that, but I think they're misassembled in the official pics as well! Shouldn't the screws be on the INSIDE of his forearms, and the racing stripe inset decorations be on the outside? Wouldn't that make more sense? I can't be the only one who's seen this, right?