The fourth figure in Warbotron WB01 lineup will be hitting your favorite online retailers possible this week. These boxed images come from Toyzone’s Weibo page. Whirlwind (Vortex) will have some replacement parts for Warbotron Airburst (Blastoff) figure. There are some more pictures after the break, also some TFW members already have the figure in hand so check out the thread with the link below to see some more photos.
RustyScreamer
Same here. This is the set that made me wait and see what else comes along.
Trailbreaker77
One of my biggest regrets was buying this set, when the time comes I'll just go to a local show and sell it off.
tabtiurf
I'm in a similar boat. I still have mine but zeta bruty eclipses him in almost every way, except the onslaught alt mode, which is fantastic. I kind of don't want to give him up even though I need to sell the set for space concerns.
ShadowOfSilver
I'm really missing my Jinbao OS of this guy. Fierce Attack had my favorite alt mode ever.
Real tempted to buy another one, but I can't find him under 100.
shovelchop81
If you get the chance pick up the KO OS version as it's cheap but made bigger and ironically better since it solves all the original tolerance problems. I have both, KO's in combiner mode with the OEM one in individual robots around it.
Starling
Generally an exact knife and some sand paper fix many issues. If you build gundams, it will be easy.
Starling
Blast Off has an entire chest replacement and ratches, replacements for feet on Bruticus and other than that I don't know about fix stress marks, but for nubs is just an exact knife. You can see reviews on YouTube.
JoshuaL91890
So I just bought 3 members off BBTS, cause of how cheap they were. Now I've heard stories of stress marks and bad joints, but after messing with mine out the box they seem fine or not as bad as I thought, but my question is was there a revision to these guys to help fix some issues?
redrum2581
ouch i think my warbatron feels fine, i almost got the mb ver. but i got a legit one for the same price bcuz bruticus deals seem to always show up for me idk it's weird, the only knit pick i have with the combiner is the legs as elbows, beyond that i think it's a great combiner for the size, i'd pick up computron if i could find a deal on him like i got for warbatron but he doesn't go for $100-150
TM2 Dinobot
My MachineBoy Swindle has a lot of spru marks. But the plastic quality is as good as WBT, and the QC is actually superior. The OSKO version is superior in every aspect.
In short, this is the only toy I have owned that has improved with every knock off. But that's not hard; Warbotron was crap.
Starling
I have the official and is not perfect, quality is ok, some joints too tire or some marks on plastic do to fabric quality but overall is a solid combiner, just some gunpla tecnics and everything looks beautifull and feels solid, time to time transform it in all modes (even the 6 for Onslaught) and no problem. I have mine since 2 years ago and plastic keeps fine.
spark crusher
how would you peeps rate the quality of the KOs to the "official" one? i have the machine boy one, and its kinda crap (shoulder joints dont hold the arm up, hands and feet falling out etc), and the wukong onslaught has had many parts replaced with ones i printed out.
Safeguard
I don't read the IDW comics, but I think it matches up well with other Generation Toy or TransFormMission figures in style as well as size. That style and size is pretty much all I collect now, so that's why I've been missing the 'big guy'.
boomerdave
I got them originally for bot mode on my shelf but when I got UT's for that, I ended up combining them for the first time at that point. It's not straight up G1 Bruticus but it's a neat take on it and he's just got presence on my shelf. Love that big guy
Safeguard
It is a good deal. That's why I just picked a set up from BBTS as well. Looking forward to it. Used to have one but sold it a while back. I've been regretting it ever since.
ph4zed
Hmmmm… *nod* at least that one would be easy to discern prior replacement. I remember much finger pain after WB01's assembly and bit upgrades. I would not wish that on anyone lol
boomerdave
The ankles bits are the same ankle bits that were installed originally…they just gave you spares because they have a habit of snapping if you ankle tilt Bruticus too much. Brittle clear plastic and all that. If they click and are ratcheted, leave them be unless they break. You could take the new ones and sand them down a little to make them push less against the ratchets if they ever break. That helps but it's definitely a "If it's not broke, don't fix it" thing IMO.
Blast Off (Airburst?) came with a new body in some versions on their Onslaught. There was an issue with the combiner peg that it wouldn't ratchet on that guy. Not all Onslaughts came with it. Also the new Airburst peg sometimes wouldn't let go once you put it in the combiner slot. It was sorta of a double whammy. In the end I took the ratcheting part of the peg and put it the original peg to get both to work. The new V2 Airburst has little tabs too on his chest so you can pop open the landing gear compartments for shuttle mode easier. The original didn't have any tabs so it was a bitch to get it open (that's how I can tell the difference between the two).
Hope this help!
the oaf
Yes.
So there wasn't actually anything that wrong to begin with? It seems I've most of Blast Off's parts as spares… what was wrong with that figure?
boomerdave
Unless he's talking about the replacement torso for Blastoff and the new combiner ratchet?
ph4zed
You're better off leaving them alone unless something is actually broken.. Breaking parts in the process of replacing stable parts is not fun