Warbotron WB01-D Whirlwind (Vortex) in Box Images

waflhaus91

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Is still a nice looking Bruticus

If only some could fill/re-do arms to update those elbows

SelectedLime375

You wouldn't have happened to see how much stock was left when you made your purchase would you? I just sent them an email about the issues I had, but if I click on the item from my order page it goes to a 404. I'm not sure if they ran out of stock or took down the listing while they figure things out. I'm guessing the the latter since older sold out listings can be accessed if you still have the link even though they don't show on the product page. (Fierce Attack, older set with X-Ray).

Here are some pictures of the misassemblies on mine.

Got my replacement parts in from BBTS and installed them a while back.

Duskool99

Just got mine from BBTS today, and other than sanding down the tabs on Blast-off any other common issues with this batch I should look out for? Also any advice on how to sand down the tabs would be appreciated as this thread is a little too long to dig through

If you're talking about the combiner tabs, you can also just unscrew these three screws and take the tabs out.
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CapZat

got this set after YEARS, I paid like 150$ for the whole set, just a quick opinion about this set
first of all WHAT THE HELL IS DATED? please, help this silly stupid collector WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE FK IS DATED because I've seen the same stupid dumb word being used to trash talk about great figures over AND OVER AGAIN, WHAT THE GODDAMN HELL IS DATED FOR YOU? what is modern? tell me please, what is modern? a, ER Seeker with 2005 engineering oversized is modern? tell me if you say WARBOTRON IS TRASH DATED MMC BRUTICUS IS SOOO MODERN! a literal overengineered lego brick like MMC Swindle is modern now because muh G1????? that's modern to you? details and style are dated for you? please answer, ANSWER COME ON, TELL ME WHAT IS DATED WHAT IS MODERN, if people love to trash talk about this set and Hexatron there must be a really incredible and irrefutable answer.
second, people say that this set is bad because it has QC issues, news, EVERY SINGLE TRANSFORMER FIGURE SINCE 1990 ISN'T PERFECT, your 400$ MP44 comes with issues, your 400$ FT Thomas has issues, your 900$ TW Devastator HAS ISSUES, what's new? what's the horrible sin that this set has committed? and of course, NEWS, if your loved FT/MP/TW figure has issues, you'll pay for it, and wait! even your MMC figures that have issues, you'll pay for it, and you'll wait MONTHS for replacements parts, but how cruel and horrible from Warbotron to give you FREE replacement parts! how bad! we should never support this company ever again!
final words, I hate stress marks, I sold many many figures because they had stress marks, my Onslaught has super small stress marks (the kind that I hate MOST) same with Brawl, little stress marks in some hinges, they look like natural stress marks (just like SS Blackout's stress marks, and I've bought and sold that figure 4 times, I really hate stress marks) but you know what? I don't even care! because opening every single Warbotron box was like opening a Christmas gift, you can build a giant poster with the boxes! and inside every box, you'll find replacement pieces in bags, collectible cards, even comics! and finally, a great figure with TONS of accessories, that's how I felt after opening all of them, like a kid opening a gigantic Christmas gift, not just figures, I got the whole package of everything that I love, I always said that EmGo is a little crybaby, after seeing his miserable review of Warbotron I'll say it again, imagine hating this, just imagine how sad your life must be to say "REEEE I HATE STUPID CARDS STUPID COMICS STUPID BOXES STUPID REPLACEMENT PIECES GIMME A PERFECT FIGURE DESIGNED BY GOD TO HAVE 0 FLAWS!" that, that's just sad to listen, I'll post more pics later, honestly, if the collector community hate this set so bad like most of people say in this very thread, they deserve things like ER Arcee such a modern figure!

WB Brut has a great aesthetic, I love their take on it! With that said, I love the Zeta even more. Maybe the modern is with the pantsforming?? The pants make it feel more solid. I don't know either about modern or outdated. But I like the smooth G1 aesthetic about Zeta. So I use Zeta as the Combined and the WB as the individual bot/alt mode.

I think he's a very nice design, but the thigh gap elbows are a bit unsightly

CapZat

got this set after YEARS, I paid like 150$ for the whole set, just a quick opinion about this set
first of all WHAT THE HELL IS DATED? please, help this silly stupid collector WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE FK IS DATED because I've seen the same stupid dumb word being used to trash talk about great figures over AND OVER AGAIN, WHAT THE GODDAMN HELL IS DATED FOR YOU? what is modern? tell me please, what is modern? a, ER Seeker with 2005 engineering oversized is modern? tell me if you say WARBOTRON IS TRASH DATED MMC BRUTICUS IS SOOO MODERN! a literal overengineered lego brick like MMC Swindle is modern now because muh G1????? that's modern to you? details and style are dated for you? please answer, ANSWER COME ON, TELL ME WHAT IS DATED WHAT IS MODERN, if people love to trash talk about this set and Hexatron there must be a really incredible and irrefutable answer.
second, people say that this set is bad because it has QC issues, news, EVERY SINGLE TRANSFORMER FIGURE SINCE 1990 ISN'T PERFECT, your 400$ MP44 comes with issues, your 400$ FT Thomas has issues, your 900$ TW Devastator HAS ISSUES, what's new? what's the horrible sin that this set has committed? and of course, NEWS, if your loved FT/MP/TW figure has issues, you'll pay for it, and wait! even your MMC figures that have issues, you'll pay for it, and you'll wait MONTHS for replacements parts, but how cruel and horrible from Warbotron to give you FREE replacement parts! how bad! we should never support this company ever again!
final words, I hate stress marks, I sold many many figures because they had stress marks, my Onslaught has super small stress marks (the kind that I hate MOST) same with Brawl, little stress marks in some hinges, they look like natural stress marks (just like SS Blackout's stress marks, and I've bought and sold that figure 4 times, I really hate stress marks) but you know what? I don't even care! because opening every single Warbotron box was like opening a Christmas gift, you can build a giant poster with the boxes! and inside every box, you'll find replacement pieces in bags, collectible cards, even comics! and finally, a great figure with TONS of accessories, that's how I felt after opening all of them, like a kid opening a gigantic Christmas gift, not just figures, I got the whole package of everything that I love, I always said that EmGo is a little crybaby, after seeing his miserable review of Warbotron I'll say it again, imagine hating this, just imagine how sad your life must be to say "REEEE I HATE STUPID CARDS STUPID COMICS STUPID BOXES STUPID REPLACEMENT PIECES GIMME A PERFECT FIGURE DESIGNED BY GOD TO HAVE 0 FLAWS!" that, that's just sad to listen, I'll post more pics later, honestly, if the collector community hate this set so bad like most of people say in this very thread, they deserve things like ER Arcee such a modern figure!

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So the saga of the Warbotron WB-01 fix is finally over. I was one of those who ordered the clearance set off of BBTS. I had the two most common issues: missing the accessory of missile pods on fierce attack aka onslaught and missing pegs under the chest on the same figure, which help hold the chest in place in robot mode(it still holds pretty well without them via strong friction). I emailed them on 4/23rd. Their first solution was to send me an entire second set free of charge, which they did. I didn't have to pay shipping or anything. They offered this solution; I did not ask for it. 2nd set had the same two issues as the first set.

They eventually sent me the missing missile pods. Yesterday, July 14th, they confirmed that the missing pegs underneath the chest were purposefully left off by the manufacturer due to a high degree of breakage in earlier production runs.

The overall process took about 2 1/2 months, but BBTS was great and responsive to any questions I had. If someone had told me about the issues before ordering, I would have passed on it – but now that I have it – I'm REALLY glad I got it whether there were any fixes or not. I've seen other issues mentioned in this thread other than the two I had, but neither set I received had any other issues.

got this set after YEARS, I paid like 150$ for the whole set, just a quick opinion about this set
first of all WHAT THE HELL IS DATED? please, help this silly stupid collector WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE FK IS DATED because I've seen the same stupid dumb word being used to trash talk about great figures over AND OVER AGAIN, WHAT THE GODDAMN HELL IS DATED FOR YOU? what is modern? tell me please, what is modern? a, ER Seeker with 2005 engineering oversized is modern? tell me if you say WARBOTRON IS TRASH DATED MMC BRUTICUS IS SOOO MODERN! a literal overengineered lego brick like MMC Swindle is modern now because muh G1????? that's modern to you? details and style are dated for you? please answer, ANSWER COME ON, TELL ME WHAT IS DATED WHAT IS MODERN, if people love to trash talk about this set and Hexatron there must be a really incredible and irrefutable answer.
second, people say that this set is bad because it has QC issues, news, EVERY SINGLE TRANSFORMER FIGURE SINCE 1990 ISN'T PERFECT, your 400$ MP44 comes with issues, your 400$ FT Thomas has issues, your 900$ TW Devastator HAS ISSUES, what's new? what's the horrible sin that this set has committed? and of course, NEWS, if your loved FT/MP/TW figure has issues, you'll pay for it, and wait! even your MMC figures that have issues, you'll pay for it, and you'll wait MONTHS for replacements parts, but how cruel and horrible from Warbotron to give you FREE replacement parts! how bad! we should never support this company ever again!
final words, I hate stress marks, I sold many many figures because they had stress marks, my Onslaught has super small stress marks (the kind that I hate MOST) same with Brawl, little stress marks in some hinges, they look like natural stress marks (just like SS Blackout's stress marks, and I've bought and sold that figure 4 times, I really hate stress marks) but you know what? I don't even care! because opening every single Warbotron box was like opening a Christmas gift, you can build a giant poster with the boxes! and inside every box, you'll find replacement pieces in bags, collectible cards, even comics! and finally, a great figure with TONS of accessories, that's how I felt after opening all of them, like a kid opening a gigantic Christmas gift, not just figures, I got the whole package of everything that I love, I always said that EmGo is a little crybaby, after seeing his miserable review of Warbotron I'll say it again, imagine hating this, just imagine how sad your life must be to say "REEEE I HATE STUPID CARDS STUPID COMICS STUPID BOXES STUPID REPLACEMENT PIECES GIMME A PERFECT FIGURE DESIGNED BY GOD TO HAVE 0 FLAWS!" that, that's just sad to listen, I'll post more pics later, honestly, if the collector community hate this set so bad like most of people say in this very thread, they deserve things like ER Arcee such a modern figure!

Just got an email from BBTS that they got replacement missile pods.

I have one of the discounted the sets from
BBTS sitting in my pile of loot. Should I keep it?

Taureanstar

So I purchased one of the discounted Warbotron Bruticus box sets from bbts and had the two common issues of missing chest posts and missing missile pods; both issues on fierce attack.

BBTS's latest update is that they are trying to work out a resolution with Warbotron and that I will receive notice about what the resolution is from a BBTS product specialist.

This update is as of 16 days ago which was May the 4th. I've checked in once since then, but BBTS is still waiting on Warbotron.

Is everyone else still waiting on Warbotron/BBTS like I am?

You wouldn't have happened to see how much stock was left when you made your purchase would you? I just sent them an email about the issues I had, but if I click on the item from my order page it goes to a 404. I'm not sure if they ran out of stock or took down the listing while they figure things out. I'm guessing the the latter since older sold out listings can be accessed if you still have the link even though they don't show on the product page. (Fierce Attack, older set with X-Ray).

mondo

Sorry but this thread needs more pics of each issue and how to fix it. Thanks.

I appreciate the info but it is sometimes hard to picture it precisely.

Here are some pictures of the misassemblies on mine.