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Beautiful pics!!! My Green Zone, the last of my set, will be in tomorrow!!

 

Am I the only one without the arms? Tfsource normally has come in clutch with the other guys, yet no news on the arms

 

Nope, you are not alone  

I'm waiting on ShowZ to send these guys out.

 

Buddy, you along with me and whoever else PO'd this set through TFSource are most likely gonna be waiting about another couple weeks or so for them. Both arm bots are already out and last I talked to them, I was told "July 2022." With that, I got tired of waiting and got them through TCP. Already have Cool Peak and will be expecting Green Zone some time today. Whenever I get my copies from TFSource, my days of dealing with them are officially done. If it was possible to have my account with them permanently shut down, I would have it done. Now I see why anyone doesn't shop at such places. I regret ever creating an account with them to begin with. Ridiculous..

 

And just a few months ago, you were practically their representative with how much you advertised them

 

That is true, but I've been hearing things from members on here in this forum about them that made me start questioning things. Like you said not too long ago, they used to be in clutch when it came to the other figures of this set, but it wasn't just that. They used to be on their A game and now, they're really slipping. Before I even knew about other places like TCP, Captured Prey (which is now long gone) and others down the line, TFSource was my point of start when it came to collecting 3P & MP figures from them. I understand things are changing, however, the question remains, are they changing for the better or the much worse? Anyways, I was a top loyal customer of theirs when I first started shopping for certain figures. Up until this point, they've been doing really well. I've had problems of my own with them, come to think of it. And around that time, it made me start trusting them less than I did before. I had a few orders screwed up through them in the past and it was at some point I found out about TCP & BBTS. I rarely shop at BBTS, but it's still there. TCP is every once in a blue moon. It was thanks to you guys that I found ShowZ, BBB, ToyDojo and a couple other stores as well. Honestly, my circle of where I shop is pretty small and TFSource for me is at the bottom of the barrel..

 

Out of curiosity, are there any other combiners out there that use the arms of their limb bots to make the forearms like Radiatron does? From what I've seen, combiners tend to use the legs.

 

Only ones I can think of are Zeta's Bruticus & Superion. They hide really well when it comes to the arm joints in vehicle mode..

 

But those also use the legs of the limb bots to make the forearms. Raiden is the only one I know who switches it up.

 

...and with that, Raiden is completed (and on my Birthday as well  ).
Honestly as soon as I got Seizan/Cool Peak and Suiken/Green Zone inhand, I transformed them into train mode, and almost immediately transformed into arm mode (Both Suiken and Seizan more or less transform the same way.). Base on the little time I handled the arm bots, they're my favorite of the six. The transformation for them is pretty simple (I didn't look at the instructions apart from glancing at them.).

Raiden is amazing to look at in-person, and is one heavy boy once fully assembled. I'm not one to pose big figures, so can't comment on stability in poses, but he seems pretty stable just standing still. The shoulders did droop with the arms attached, but I put some non-Lego bricks I had to support the joint, and it helps out.

 

Monday  

 

Exactly like what I fear about the shoulder connector will not be able to support the heavy arms! You can see from the below picture that it does give way.

 

Don’t see what you are seeing

 

Either I'm blind as a bat or I've missed something entirely here because I'm not seeing at all the so-called problem you brought up. All I see is a fully combined Raiden with steady arms attached to him, a Lego connector in a hand and a close up of the peg in combined mode that looks fine..

 

I believe it's this line from @The Bucket Kitten


"The shoulders did droop with the arms attached, but I put some non-Lego bricks I had to support the joint, and it helps out."

 

Same here   Can't wait to have him

 

Can anyone recommend lego or off-brand type building blocks to have around for fixes like this? The cheaper the better lol.