Side-Tracked: Recent Haul of KOs (208) - Transformers KO Combiner Wars Combaticons ( Part 1 ) - Packaging and Individual Transformation

Finally gotten my KO Combiner Wars Combaticons in a recent Taobao haul!!!! I had long wanted to buy them but was not able to somehow over the 2 years. Hence I was extremely delighted to know that this set is to be KO-ed and in original size. Costs about SGD43.60 ...

This company 孩之星 used to make KO G1 combiners, and they make very solid KOs initially. Subsequently their KO G1 combiners gets more and more simplified, so much that the individual limbs TFs look more like bricks. I believe this company also made other lines of TFs but cannot confirm.

Back to this set of KOs, the plastic quality feels a bit light, but from some online pictures seen, they seem to be roughly the same weight as their legal counterpart. I don't own the original CW set, so I don't know if there is any simplifications, and I can only believe in the words of the forum-ers that there isn't any. Generally the joints are not super loose, most are tight enough to move and stay in place, but don't expect the same tightness you get from the MFT ones. And to my surprise, there are spring ratcheting joints too!!! I check out the online pictures and find the colours are very very close for almost all the parts. In fact, some painted parts (e.g. front bumper of Swindle's vehicle mode, Bruticus's head, etc ) in the legal counterpart are now replaced by plastic of the correct colour, i.e. not painted. All the 4 hand-foot parts are also different in design.

1 thing to note is that the main part of Onslaught's robot arms are actually from Hot Spot's mold, and hence are missing the 2 slot-holes to fit in the tabs on Bruticus's chestplate. Also, for each knee joint, 1 piece is assembled wrongly ( the side with a little knurb should be facing behind, not front ), and this causes Onslaught not able to form the knees properly in robot mode.





Hilarious and entertaining as usual...