Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Side-Tracked: Recent Haul of KO and Such (174) - Bootleg G1 Sixshot (金宝), Kabaya Fighbird (The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird 太陽の勇者ファイバード )

Collected my purchase from Taobao.com last night...

Bootleg G1 Sixshot
This is the newest version in China, from the company that makes 1 of the KO version of TFC Hercules, called Jin Bao (金宝). The colours tried to follow the original G1 Sixshot colours, making it a cheap alternate place filler for those who miss out on the Hasbro/Takara reissues. I bought this mainly to replace my lousier KO Sixshot. The materials used is quite good, not those brittle type, and even silver chrome on 1 side of the wing attacher. It is almost similar in quality to my other KO Sixshot in orange and red colours, except that this bootleg has no ratcheting joints. However, it makes up with quite/sufficiently tight enough joints. As with other KOs, some tightening, shaving and tweaking are needed... Costs about $19.65 $20.05 (after re-calculation) ... in SGD...


Back of the box has the instructions cramped into it!!!!!... The "Horsemen"... hahahahaha.....


1 good improvement is that the company puts back these little peg-holes (missing in both versions of my KO Sixshot) in the inside of the legs to hold the 2 big rifles....


... to allow for an alternate configuration for gun mode....



Kabaya Fighbird
Hope they come up with a Granbird to combine with this little fella!!!!! Hahahahaha.... Cost about $17.25, tentatively, as I just wrote to my agent to inform them of the oversize shipping box, to get back the excess shipping fee... Not assembled yet, will do it later or when feel like it...
Edit: Cost is approximately $13.40, after my Taobao agent acknowledge of the error...



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