Transformers Kingdom Titan Class Autobot Ark In-Hand Images

Just transformed him into robot mode! I absolutely love Autobot Ark! Highly recommend!  

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oof that price.

TFXProtector

I can't do it. Those prices are just way, way too high. I get that they're detailed, painted, and all that but $200+ for what's roughly the size of a grain of rice… Past a certain point, I can't justify a purchase. I refuse.

Agreed the price is a bit expensive as a whole. Not sure if I would ever have a chance at it again and in person the detail is AMAZING!

Was worth the roughly $13 a piece for this:

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Just keep your 2 year olds and pets away!

@Such Heroic Nonsense @gdg104198 @Dangard Ace @Robogeek28 @Grouch @Cardion

Just listed now. He has 4 of them available.

COOL pinted high quality minimum MINI Ark 18 pcs persons cannot Transform Toy | eBay
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Also he just made these:
high quality pinted minimum MINI Decepticons 20 pcs persons cannot Transform Toy | eBay

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You have to buy his Combiners individually.

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Looks like my Ark should be landing later today…..any new 3rd party hands for him yet?  

I'm just looking forward to seeing if DNA Studio is going to swoop in an blow our socks off as to their ARK kits IF they actually make anything for it.

I'd like to see some spring loaded panels for the back exposed sections. But having some spring loaded panels the open or close depending on transformation with give it a cool premium look and feel. also, we need some fold away bridges for it that can connect to the other Titans and Modulator figures that turn to bases and such.

It most certainly needs a new Poseable Head on a Ball jointed Neck, needs new hands with fully jointed Fingers. And yeah The titan needs a weapon of some kind.

mechman22

I see what you mean. hmmm

I'm hoping now that more people are getting this in hand the 3Ps will come up with something that solves this without costing an arm and a leg and requiring me to unpin and essentially scrap entire parts.

mechman22

There are actually two such 3rd party 3D printed filler panels out there (quality will vary. check ebay), but I myself don't like either one.

I'm aware of fillers for the main gap in the leg. But to help with stability in Ark mode it may help if that piece had a panel that could fold out and latch in to the gap near the grey elbow joint. Dunno how thick it'd need to be, but that connect may be enough to help hold the legs/upper body together and help the rest latch together along the top where that grey panel panel is that forms the top of the ship.

NTPrime

Where the upper body tabs into the legs there is well and truly nothing that actually holds them together.

There's *supposed* to be stuff but I think the tolerances are a bit off so it's not solid enough to actually hold anything together. It's unfortunate, but it's "only" a problem when whooshing the Ark around and then moreso if you hold it by the thrusters rather then from below.

Looking at it, I think an upgrade kit that closed the main gap in the legs but then also hinged out to connect it to the small gap where the arm folds at the elbow could potentially solve the problem and help hold things together better.

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Dunno if anyone's tried that yet. But there's a free suggestion for anyone at Dr. Wu or Shockwave's Lab who may be listening.

GuardianMonkey

Mine just arrived from Amazon and I'm mostly disappointed.

– For some reason, I thought there would be more than just two (complete) blast effects.
– The drawn-version on the box having six thrusters is salt in the wound.
– The color is not quite right, looking like Kraft Mac-n-cheese moreso than anything else.
– The entry-scorching doesn't work at all on this figure, instead looking like strange plastic discoloration.
– Maybe it's just my copy but he simply won't stay together securely in Ark-mode. It seems like they didn't use the correct or enough pegs. The front center section is the worst by far, exacerbated by being such a different shade than the other plastics and the fact that it simply has *nowhere* to peg into in alt-mode.
– There's also no place to safely hold the thing to "zoom" around the air. You have to hold him from underneath, by the midsection, to avoid the whole thing just exploding open.
– The turrets being stationary is bad enough but, now that I've got him in hand, there doesn't seem to be any easy way that a third-party add-on could fix that problem.

+ He cuts a nice figure when in robot mode. He's a lot larger than Studio Cell Unicron and looks good next to MotUC Castle Grayskull.
+ The Teletraan rules. I really hope they find a way to re-release Mainframe on his own eventually, only for another computer unit.
+ Finally an Ark!

+/- The ratches everywhere are great but most are tight enough to scare me.

I'm glad to finally have a "proper" Ark figure and I'm glad that he's a fairly solid Last Autobot homage. However, the overall figure feels unfinished. After the polish of Scorponok and Omega Supreme, the Ark feels like a backslide to the compromises present in Fort Max. In my mind, this particular figure should've been given all the bells and whistles they could pack in. Instead, we've got a large spaceship of regret and missed opportunities.

Fallout

aw man, he falls apart in ark mode? so even if i wanted to just display it in ark mode on a stand it'd flop apart?

Super Mecha Dad

Mine isn't quite that bad. The shoulder ratchets are EXTREMELY tight so unless they're clicked in exactly the right way, the panels won't quite tab together right. If you're used to like, MP/3P stuff that's fussy about alignment though, you'll get the ratchets correct and it'll tab in pretty well.

Just got mine and I'm sadly having the exact same issue with ark mode. Where the upper body tabs into the legs there is well and truly nothing that actually holds them together. There are some rounded lips that are a few millimeters long that sort of rest in some slots but a true connection point for holding the shape is non-existent. Its own weight flops it in half again every time.

After messing with it for another hour it honestly feels like the clearances are all wrong on it and it physically pushes itself apart on its own. I'm certain I have all the limbs right…