Robot Masters Knockoffs!

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Robot Masters Knockoffs!

Post by BB Shockwave » Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:57 am

I just found the best and coolest KO's ever! Well, something like that...

It's cool since these are japanese toys and pretty expensive too, and good because they are of exceptionally good quality. And, very cheap too, even as KO's go!

I've seen so far Convoy, Ligier, Wrecker Hook, R-Blade,Air Hunter and Wing Stun. On the backer card, there are pics of two more, interestingly instead of Psycho orb and Bound Rouge, repaints of BW Rattrap and Razorbeast. I'vent seen those two yet, though.

Bought Convoy, R-Blade and Air Hunter (since I got the rest of the molds just a few days ago, thanks to Besty :D ). R-Blade is, I think, even better then a G2 Cyberjet , as the plastic is harder. The eye is painted blue, but other paintjobs are missing here and there, still, he looks even more like a G1 Jetfire now.
Air Hunter is the only one whom I'm a bit dissapointed in, as the head is not ball-jointed but one piece with the body. He's still a flip-action toy, and the gun can be taken apart and put into the legs like the original.

G1 Convoy... much coolness! The toy's just like the original, except it only comes with one set of fists, so he can't hold the G1-styled rifle. Btw, all the toys come with all the weapons, except these are all translucent orange-colored, and thus, the eyes and Prime's windows are orange as well. Prime has a great amount of paintjob considering this is a KO. He transforms well and can hold the (working) rocket launcher and the energo axe.

I'm considering buying another Prime and repainting it to Magnus colors...

Oh, the packaging is funny, the toys are called Robot Transformers. There's some DW artwork on them, plus all RM1-5 toys come with a little boxart insert. There are no instructions though.

Will post pics, sadly I'm not home for the weekend, so likely next week only.
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Post by BB Shockwave » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:07 pm

Despite the general uninterest, here are pics as promised!

R-Blade (really good KO)

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Back of card:

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Optimus Prime - Robot Master for 2$... :p Sort of.

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Air Hunter

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Post by Predabot » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:16 pm

Hmm... Robot Masters themselves have somewhat cheap plastic I've heard.

And knock-offs in perticular ussually have completely inferior plastic. This would lead me to believe these may have some plastic faults. :eyebrow:

How DO their plastic measure up against the official US/EU Transformers? (not the japan plastic)

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Post by BB Shockwave » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:54 pm

Hard to describe... this is the kind of plastic that's not cheap, I mean, it's molded perfectly, but it's kind of rigid, so I guess it can break if you let them fall from a table.

However, short of the new BW Neo KO-s I just found (yep, pics coming soon - Mach Kick, Archadis, Saberback 8) ) these KO's have the best plastic I've ever encountered. If you know the mini G1 gestalts, well around that quality, a bit better.

I'm currently painting OP - added the white stripe on his waists. Paint adheres perfectly, though I'll need lots to do Magnus.
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Post by Metal Vendetta » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:03 pm

Predabot wrote:Hmm... Robot Masters themselves have somewhat cheap plastic I've heard.
Yeah, my metallic Convoy snapped straight in half :(

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Post by Osku » Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:35 am

A little side note. Bound Rogue was actually a recolour of BW Snarl (in Japan Tasmania Kid) and Psycho Orb a recolour of Armordillo (in Japan as Bump).
BB Shockwave wrote:However, short of the new BW Neo KO-s I just found (yep, pics coming soon - Mach Kick, Archadis, Saberback 8) ) these KO's have the best plastic I've ever encountered.
Those pictures I'd be interested in to see.:)

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Post by BB Shockwave » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:07 pm

Well,I'll take pics today! I can even get you some if you like them - they cost around 7$, I think one Mach Kick and CorhaDA are still in stock.
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Post by Osku » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:38 pm

BB Shockwave wrote:Well,I'll take pics today! I can even get you some if you like them - they cost around 7$, I think one Mach Kick and CorhaDA are still in stock.
Thanks for the offer, but no need. As a main rule I nowadays try to avoid KO's.

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Post by anna » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:38 pm

hmm those look intersting id love to have that optimus fakie if i could find it.
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Post by divebomb » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:56 pm

There are various ones floating around Ebay, there is even a smaller scale version of Powermaster prime up every now and then. They're cool even just for kitbashing.

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Post by BB Shockwave » Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:14 pm

Yeah, that's what I do with them anyway. I'll repaint Air HUnter to Megatron eventually...

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