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Most of them are arriving in the UK today. The Facebook groups are lighting up with QC issues. Oh dear. Missing brainmasters, scratches and badly applied chrome, very lose joints, ears not able to support their own weight etc etc.

But ultimately... that is what Galvatron looked like. He looks a bit better from other angles and posed, but he is exactly as stocky as those early images showed, and the vast majority of shipped units had the misassembled shoulders exactly as shown. If Hasbro fixes something on Victory Saber...

Also when was the last time Hasbro fixed a production issue before shipping the toy that showed up in an early review? The only thing close I can think of is that some of the samples of Ironhide only had one gun, and I'm not sure anyone thought that made a material difference to him. If...

Yup. There's some semblance of a cockpit too.

With Wave 3 of the deluxes in-hand, wow, these are... not great tbh. The tolerances are pretty awful on all of them, and bad material choices abound. It is very hard to understand how the factory samples of these got sent back and they were like "cool, ship this." Dead End's tabbing engineering...

I don't disagree with this, but that's why I didn't name them. Sadly, the truth is that budget cuts have rendered anything as good as Trypticon impossible at this point.

They keep showing factory test shots off in the reveal streams, so they definitely are. It's not a clear plastic issue, it's an issue that the factory pulls the sprue out of the mold tooling too quickly so it warps as it cools, and no QC is being done. Siege Astrotrain was the same, indeed, it...

I've never really understood this. Ark turns into a pretty convincing spaceship. That's literally one more thing than Fortress Maximus or Metroplex achieved with their phoned in transformations.

Yeah, Battletrap looks great. He's got the vibe of the HFTD stuff which really fitted into a G1 collection just as well for the most part than a movie one, and he's a nice original design. I'd maybe replace the feet but those are only mushroom pegged on so there might well be a 3d printed...

NGL, I am waiting until the last minute ish just in case this happens. Not so much due to price, just that I am very disinclined to give Amazon any money for comics after the CMX disaster.

Internationally all the collectors lines ship as solid cases now, at least to specialist retailers.

If you want to misrepresent it, sure.

I think launching this during an economic crisis and just before Christmas is a mistake tbh. Especially when Hasbro have shipped a lot of product early recently because their street dates mean nothing. I feel like this would have easily hit a thousand extra units in February. Or who knows...

Yeah, that's quite nice, and the transformation is neat. Bit of a shame that the robot head is so obvious in bird mode but otherwise very nice. Edit: that transformation would work really well for a non-awful Beast Machines Silverbolt toy.

Hasbro put out a transformation video quite a while back.

That looks like a paint spillage so a q-tip with a very gentle application of rubbing alcohol might he able to remove it without taking off the pink underneath?

Supposedly the tooling for this toy included a few boxes that were supposed to be little Amazon parcels. I'm amazed they didn't paint them as gift boxes and include them tbh.

Goshooter transforms into something that vaguely resembles a car.

Having a headmaster would have been nice, but honestly if there was budget available I'd rather it have been spent on making the alt mode less risible.

I guess that's what happened to that Amazon Prime crossover tooling.