Ginrai finally arrived, and I finally got some time with him today.
There's things I like, and things I dislike. But overall he's a cool figure.
Box, less collector friendly than I expected, but still friendly enough I did not have to destroy it to get hm out, and it still exists in one piece should I want to put him back in.
- Front of the box
Truck mode is awesome. no complaints there. The Cab is very nice looking. Very G1. The trailer comes together nicely.
- items in box
- front of truck
- comparison
Tiny ginray is very nicely painted cindering he's so very wee.
- tiny robot
Noe the Large robot mode. Elephant feet in the room.
Its a strange set of swivels and joint, and one major issue the red heels fold up, so while they offer some support, any amount of pressure backwards and they'll collapse and cause the fire to fall back. Not sure why they did it that way.
Otherwise, he stands o.k once you get the feet and heels in the proper position, but there's no tabs or clicks of indication its just by feeling. And the instructions are not useful at all. Just a couple of arrows indicating how to turn the feet, but nothing else.
- large robot
All guns attached:
- Guns
His rifles are very flat and hollow, they do look nice from one side, but the other side is a mess. The tab together horizontally into flat double barrelled weapon that can't really be held in any convincing fashion.
Looks like its more meant as a gun emplacement for Base mode though have not tried base mode yet.
Head is, well Prime. Should look fairly nice on the ConvoBat or even on the Voyager Octane-Prime.
Helmet is exactly the same as Hasbro's.
- unhelmeted
- helmeted
Their inner selves:
- Inner Selves
All in all its nice figure. I would not say its $80 nice. But for the $50 I preordered him for, its great.