Are there any transformation videos out there for this guy? Thanks in advance.

 

Yes there are, JinBao KO Gravity Builder (Devastator) - YouTube .

 

Not that I noticed, but I use silver backed reprolabels for all of my 3rd party figures anyways.

 

The grey combiner knee joint flips right around with only 2 or 3 screws to remove. No springs or other fiddly bits to worry about. Took me under 5 minutes to perform the operation.

 

I found Ben's collectibles ko youtube videos the easiest to follow as I like his voice, camera/editing work, and personality. FWIW.

 

Whaaaaat??!! Looks like I got another project later today!! Thank you so very much!!

 

Sacrilege! EmGo is a gem! Plus he has his Just Transform it! series for those who don't enjoy his wit or humor. Although he never went back and did a Just Transform it! for the set A bots, which is a bummer. But I find his videos incredibly easy to follow unlike some other reviewers who tend to hold the bots too high and partially out of frame when they're trying to transform something extra fiddly.

 

i'm trying to figure out how people say his knees are weak. All leg joints on mine (just got set c in) are so stiff that I basically need a pry tool to move them. I haven't combined them because i'm waiting to finish painting them

 

Same, I literally had to wedge stuff in the joints to get leverage to get them to move. But I guess that's the kind of variance you get at this price point. I combined mine once and I doubt I'll be doing much more with it, because I'm pretty sure something will eventually snap if I keep moving those joints. Still worth it for the price.

 

Once I pried mine out to combine them, I found that there was a very slight bit of play between teeth in the knee ratchets. That along with his weight made for a near nightmare scenario when getting him settled on my shelf the first night. He ended up falling backwards while I was trying to get his gun in his hand. Luckily I caught him in time. However, since then he's been standing straight with no issues. I've even picked him up and repositioned him a time or two without incident, even let my friend who I sold my old NBK set to hold him. Still solid, just takes a few extra seconds to make sure he's balanced before I walk away. Of course, I do have him backed near a wall, you know, just incase...  

 

So how do you tighten the ratchet joints on this guy? On mine, his knees in particular are weak.

 

I’m starting to think everyone with weak knees in combined mode received a Longhaul with both combiner ports installed backwards. When backwards, there is only friction to hold a pose, not the blood drawing ratchet teeth of terror that could not possibly be weak from what I saw when I opened mine up.

I do wish the shoulder rachets were about 50% tighter to hold other figures at arms length without having to be sneaky with balancing the weight.

 

So I'm confused now. Can anyone post a pic showing what's the proper combiner port direction for the knees?

 

I'm debating buying another set C,

1. To tinker with "Dumptruck", fixing tolerances on him fixes 80% of the problem.
2. The big gun needs a different handle, But;

I don't want to ruin a complete set.

Not on mine, those are more than fine (to tight), but the other(sides; bottom) leg connectors have allot of wiggle room on the knees. The hips are the biggest problem, they wiggle to all sides (hench, leaning him into the ratchets makes him allot more stable).

 

If an upgrade set is ever made for this set I would like them to do a set of rubberized shoes that cup the bottom of the feet and add some stability to the connections down there. All of these combiners with low surface contact on the soles of their feet, or Devistator that doesn't have parts forming feet make me very worried they will slip and fall one day.

 

Very true on the wiggle room between the ratchets.

 

Yup, that's the case with mine as well.

 

Set B came in yesterday an in the shipping box was some faction stickers. Maybe it's individual sellers that add the stickers in the boxes?
Now I'm waiting for set A

 

Has anybody taken a photo of this big boy next to Hercules?

 

Are you saying there will be a new KO Superion by Jinbao? Also which Superion are they going to base the KO? Also how tall will it be? I would like to see a Undersize Zeta Superion which is the same height as their OS GB Devy and UT Bruticus. Let me know what your instincts tell you if you were to speculate. Thanks.