Warbotron WB01-C Sly Strike (Unofficial Swindle)

waiting on my copy from BBTS as well.

This legend!

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The oversized one seems to be the same price. How is the quality on it and is it the better option?

15 inches to the head

Mine shipped today. If it gets here before any one else’s, I’ll let y’all know. On the West Coast so it’ll probably be next week.

BBTS got my Warbotron set in. I'll be waiting to ship mine, but I'm curious what the box is like if anyone ships theirs sooner.

Bips

So I've just received the re-issue of this set, and whilst it's great and I'm pretty impressed with it; my air burst is stuck in the combiner port. Even pushing the tabs in doesn't help.

I've taken him and onslaught apart in an attempt to get it out, but if anyone has any ideas, please could you post them!

I have the original release and the only limb that comes out easy is Vortex. I usually take a small flathead screwdriver and push the tab in with that while pulling on the limb.

Thundercracker Blue

Yeah, I know what you mean. Voyager is a stretch for Swindle, but the Combaticons (and Protectobots) are really hard to scale individually. Thats a challenge, because to me, the individual members of a team are just as important as the combined mode. That’s why I never really considered the Jinbao OSKO version: the combined scale might be good for some folks, but as for as I’m concerned a Leader class-sized Swindle is a bridge too far.

Yeah, I've been thinking a USKO of this set would be great for Swindle and probably Onslaught as individual bots, but then the others would be too small. Personally the only Combaticons I care much about having are Swindle and Onslaught (and I'm happy to use the old Universe figure as my Onslaught), but I understand most fans would want the complete set.

Thinking about his scale more though, he looks like he'd be roughly the same size as T30 Roadbuster, and given that they turn into the same sort of vehicle, that helps me rationalize him being big a bit better. I just like the idea of him being a small, wiry kind of guy.

Thundercracker Blue

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Thanks, that scale actually doesn't look as bad as I expected. Still not sure how I feel about him being that tall in robot mode but the vehicle mode size looks fine to me.

BuddaMonk

I don't have the Computron re-release (had the original) but the original has diecast combiner feet whereas the re-release does not. Also, the re-release has the word Computron right on the box whereas the originals make no mention of Computron (3rd parties wouldn't dare use an official name). Not sure if the re-release box even has the word Warbotron WB03 anywhere. Feel free to correct me.

I had the original Warbotron Computron years ago but sold it and bought the re release last year (ironically by mistake as thought it was the Maketoys one). Plastic quality is same as the original and mine did have die-cast in the feet. It did come in a plain cardboard box like all other re releases also. My money on this would be these recent releases are genuine but sourced from two different places; old unsold stock they had sitting in a warehouse and a quick run using the old moulds with maybe a corner cut if some releases lacked die-cast as claimed. It's not unheard of for such a thing to make quick easy cash. Their probably sourcing some cash to finish their Hotspot and maybe secure some finances for a few other projects, this would also explain the recent Prime re release and how there was suddenly a KO of it.

Or, and tinfoil here, they handed the moulds to Daban and agreed to let Daban use the old Warbotron name to sell them as its technically defunct now. They did a perfect 1 to 1 on the Daban copies of their Devastator, I could see such a thing happening for a quick cash injection.