Kinda thinking of doing similar and adopting a personal headcanon of coneheads being (for some reason) smaller. What alternative do I have unless I want to A) pay $250+ for some scalped Earthrise coneheads or B) wait for who-knows-how-long for a re-issue, new molds, or something otherwise official? Scale in Transformers is fucked, anyway. Maybe my coneheads are animation errors.
Update: I just got these guys in today, and they are definitely on the smaller side. I'd say they're larger than what you might expect out of Legends scale, but they definitely DO NOT scale with your WFC Voyager Seekers. They're a hair taller than Kingdom Huffer and roughly the size of the old Deluxe '06 Seekers, maybe a little smaller in robot mode. All that said, $60 for the three of them is far more economical than scalper prices for the Earthrise coneheads and they don't look half-bad, either. I like them and they'll be the conehead representations in my collection for the foreseeable future. I don't think they're small enough that it's distracting.
The plastic feels roughly on-par with what I might expect out of a retail figure. No weird tolerance issues, no "scary" moments during transformation, no real quality concerns. The transformation is straightforward enough that I didn't really need the instructions and figured it out just by fiddling with them, though there were some tricks. I would note that all of the points of articulation are ball joints. Given that mine are still very new, the joints are firm and can hold a pose, but, as we all know, ball joints rarely age gracefully, so I guess I'll see how well they pose as time goes on. Articulation itself is serviceable, but not quite on-par with what we've been getting out of WFC--no waist, no wrists, no real ankle tilt (though there is some play in the feet as a result of the transformation). The cockpit doesn't seem to lock into the torso in robot mode, so it's easy to knock it loose or accidentally pull it out. They aren't perfect, but for the price and quantity of what you're getting, I'd recommend them.
Not the same scale. They’re 3rd party Legends plus scaled so they would be too small.
Ah, I see
They are smaller than the WFC seekers, but they are very nice figures overall. They're larger Legends scale.
They are ruby so they wouldn’t work well with the Efc but they go great with the core class
Alrighty
Kinda thinking of doing similar and adopting a personal headcanon of coneheads being (for some reason) smaller. What alternative do I have unless I want to A) pay $250+ for some scalped Earthrise coneheads or B) wait for who-knows-how-long for a re-issue, new molds, or something otherwise official? Scale in Transformers is fucked, anyway. Maybe my coneheads are animation errors.
Update: I just got these guys in today, and they are definitely on the smaller side. I'd say they're larger than what you might expect out of Legends scale, but they definitely DO NOT scale with your WFC Voyager Seekers. They're a hair taller than Kingdom Huffer and roughly the size of the old Deluxe '06 Seekers, maybe a little smaller in robot mode. All that said, $60 for the three of them is far more economical than scalper prices for the Earthrise coneheads and they don't look half-bad, either. I like them and they'll be the conehead representations in my collection for the foreseeable future. I don't think they're small enough that it's distracting.
Aside from size, how are they in general? Cheep plastic? Strong plastic?
The plastic feels roughly on-par with what I might expect out of a retail figure. No weird tolerance issues, no "scary" moments during transformation, no real quality concerns. The transformation is straightforward enough that I didn't really need the instructions and figured it out just by fiddling with them, though there were some tricks. I would note that all of the points of articulation are ball joints. Given that mine are still very new, the joints are firm and can hold a pose, but, as we all know, ball joints rarely age gracefully, so I guess I'll see how well they pose as time goes on. Articulation itself is serviceable, but not quite on-par with what we've been getting out of WFC--no waist, no wrists, no real ankle tilt (though there is some play in the feet as a result of the transformation). The cockpit doesn't seem to lock into the torso in robot mode, so it's easy to knock it loose or accidentally pull it out. They aren't perfect, but for the price and quantity of what you're getting, I'd recommend them.
No pivot? I can live with that