Ok, so I'm seeing/reading about how Galvatron has been sighted in TRU's all over. Well, I was out last night and saw him, so I figured yeah (why not). I opened him today and I must say that I don't think I've been more disappointed in a tf (in all my life as a collector). I will say that the pic on the back does look pretty sweet!

First, I was surprised on the size. I was expecting voyager or even ultra. I mean to finally get a Galvy for the U line, Ijust expected more (maybe my fault).

Second, I don't think I've had as much pieces/joints pop out of a tf when transforming him as I did w/ this guy. His legs have little ball joints that pop out at the knees.

Third, his arm/cannon popped off. Took me a couple of minutes to try to get the oragne hinge back in. (the list could go on but I'll stop).

Don't get me wrong! W/ all tf's I expect there to be flaws, but I was just amazed/disappointed w/ what I saw. Hopefully, it was just me. I'd love it if someone responded by saying I was crazy that their Galvy was really cool.

Standing up on my shelf, he will look cool though.

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yeah your not the first to think he is too small and to have everything pop off but it could be worse you could own the first titanium megatron... *shudders*

Basically what it comes down to, is the toy was designed to be a larger class, at least a voyager if not ultra. You can just look at it and see that. The problem of course is the money crunchers told them they had to make him a deluxe, the Hasbro panel told us as much at Botcon & SDCC. So basically what you see is a design, that while it would have been adequate or great at a larger scale, is shrunk so much that the connection pieces lack the strength/thickness to hold the toy together. Even the Hasbro guys gave the impression that they didn't like that decision and ended up not liking the end result, so it's possible (however very unlikely) that they may try to issue a different Galvatron in the near future, that isn't a tank. Logical conclusion would be the energon 2-pack Megatron repainted in full Energon Galvatron colors, and hopefully packed with a brand new mold voyager or ultra class Rodimus Prime (wishful thinking)

I'm on a fence about this guy. I THINK I would be able to fix him up, at least his ball joints, but his hinges I don't think I'd be able to, at least not easily. I'd rather wait until I see a topic about someone fixing him up so that he holds together well.

On my Galvatron only like 2 pieces popped off during the transformation. They only robot problem is the standing problem the worst problems in robot mode are the missle firing and his left arm detaching every once and a while.

I too fear opening him after all I've heard. I'm pretty sure I'll feel the same way about IronHide. They're nice, but just not right

 

They seem to fall short of what the figures should be. I'll suport them though in hopes that Has/Tak takes this as a sign to make further steps in bringing us propper representations of these characters.

I wonder when we'll see a up sized KO version of this guy coming out from China...

 

Anyways, I went to my closet TRU, and was welcomed w/ wv1 Animated stuff and various old movie shelfwarmers...

^ :rofl

 

I have the right to dream. It may be futile, but I have the right.

I can't be mad a Mr Bean, so no worries.

 

I just always heard speak if you wanna be heard, so although my forum voice may fall on def ears, I try and make it a point to speak up anyway.

 

After all you never know, a single echo may be all it takes to turn a subpar cliffside into a superior passage way to something bigger and better.

 

Even if unabated, as long as it's unoffensive, I'll speak my mind even if it may just be screaming at the sky.

 

After all, whats the worst that can happen, I'll be doubted on the internet, hell that aint even a blip on my radar. Whats the best, maybe someone will take heed and listen.

 

We are the customer, we can make them listen if we speak up and don't just say OK.

I wonder when we'll see a up sized KO version of this guy coming out from China...

 

Anyways, I went to my closet TRU, and was welcomed w/ wv1 Animated stuff and various old movie shelfwarmers...

 

DUDE I WANT YOUR CLOSET!^ You've got a TRU in your closet!?!?!?! JK Any who I don't know why everyone is still complaining about the size, and all this other stuff especially these according to some not being great representations of these G1 characters. Does anyone remember how horrid some of the G1 characters looked? Ironhide, and Ratchet didn't even have real heads let alone anything in the window "face" looking like a face add practically no posability, and you get a totally craptastic fig. Galvy wasn't much better huge hole in the top of his head no leg movement to speak of, a fricking horrid head sculpt that looked nothing like him, and the toy being no where near the color of the character in the movie, or on the show, and yes another craptastic figure. I think that both the Cl/U Ironhide, and Galvy look great, and as far as the cracking windows are concerned you could always take some really thin like .001" styrene (about as thick as a sheet of paper) and paint it a similar blue to that of the windows, and super glue them in place. Problem solved. As for Galvy I'll determin what if any improvements need to be made once I pick him up.

 

*edited after seeing Galvy in the Action Pose Thread

 

He doesn't appear to need a dag-on bit of improvement.