Friday, July 29, 2016

Side-Tracked: Recent Haul of KOs (184) - 战将 ( Zhan Jiang ) KO Oversized Warbotron WB-03F Rex ( a.k.a. Grimlock )

Collected this solid piece of KO last night.... Bought this from Taobao.com via a Taobao agent, and cost approximately SGD 39.10... Did not expect it to be so large... Was quite late after collecting, so I waited till the next day to check out this KO in detail...


So today I searched and found some old Autobot logo (self-made) sticker and paste it onto the chest before putting the transparent green cover...


Here's Grimlock with all his accessories!!! Nice looking bot... Generally joints are tight with exception of the left elbow ball joint, as the screws securing the 2 halves of the lower arm are loose (screw threads worn out, which can be fixed easily)... Some pegs are too tight too, and requires some sanding down... This KO comes with the typical Grimlock-ish sword and gun, and a little crown... cute...


Very posable figure!!!



He is about the same size as Titans Return Galvatron, and (just) slightly heavier too...


Dino mode looks very very good too... It needs a few times of transformation to smoothen the tabbing/pulling-out of pegs to holes...


I actually prefer the back to NOT carry any weapons, but if have to, I will prefer to put the guns to face downwards... Just personal preference...


"Me Grimlock says me King!!!"


And this pose as archeologists now say that T-rex supposedly walk with tail not touching ground... but this is so not G1... hahahaha....


There is even a mouth cannon... Overall like it very much, hahahaha...



Wah, so many new TFs with good designs are popping out with the Titans Return line... So tempted to get many,but space constraints... in the end if succumb to temptation, I might have to remove some of the TFs from the cabinets... Likely to get the Chromedome (ordered), Highbrow (ordered), Brainstorm, Gnaw and Sixshot (yes! Sixshot!!!)...

7 comments:

  1. you may have discussed this already, but stumbling on to your blog opened up a whole new world to me, so forgive the noob question but: how do you shop from taobao? do you use an agent?

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    1. no need agent watsoever...just create account and make purchase via credit card...at least this is how i make my purchase at taobao...item will ship directly to your address

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    2. For me I use a taobao agent, since from the beginning of my Taobao shopping, as in the earlier days, Taobao is still very much the localized market (unlike now it has expanded and improved). Benefits of agent will be like negotiating with seller, checking the product b4 shipping to S'pore, and after sales stuff etc (suits my lazy personality, heehee...). But the negative is having to pay agent fee. I also have a colleague who does the same method as Lexxi Chen, and he had experience a few times when he felt the shipping fee is much lower than agents' and overall time for product to arrive can be slightly shorter . So I guess it is really up to you, hope this help! (and thanks Lexxi for sharing your way of purchasing, thanks! =) )

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