Just had a talk with my Realtor, and they agree with me that the chromed weapons don't hold well, so its fortunate that we get super tight finger joints. They may be tough to move, but it keeps those weapons in place. Now if the weapons fit perfect and the fingers weren't too tight.. i'd be left with nothing to say but I can't wait for this to show up in the mail. Love the skit!
EXCELLENT REVIEW MR.SKULLFACE.!! Wow a reviewer that actually compares both offerings,that's rare! I don't want to go in2 another rant but it's safe to say it's a win-win for either Snarls. I do like Server but I just like the size of Gutter more. I still hate that hole on the bottom of him and I know every1 will say "Your not going to display him upside down are you?" but the point is it's still there. It looks as if it's missing a battery cover,I guess you can put duct tape until FT releases Not Sludge and comes with the cover for Server. I am wondering though what is up with FT's tolerance? Tight is good but man that's sound like plastic on plastic and I worry it may snap! Well gr8 review man and 1 of my favorite reviews this whole year bc your just straight up Honest about both Figures. There both good figures IMO.
Awesome review, I loved that you kept bringing Gigapower out for comparison. I do fall in the camp of Gigapower aesthetic (not a fan of chrome) but this is a really nice looking bot as well. Your reviews are aces, looking forward to the next one.
Being a new but avid collector (50+ mp types in last year), sever has some of the tightest joints I have ever seen, like fall in love tight! But to be clear perhaps almost too tight. FT's has been impressing me. I don't care who makes what, I enjoy and will pay for quality takara/hasbro or "3rd party"... I have become a Transformers collector again, not a brand collector. It all makes me feel some kind of way and takes me back to a happy childhood. I enjoy your candor, and well done videos.
Bobby Skullface L Really wish you would jump on the G-Creations Dinobots bandwagon. Curious to see what u would say about them. I'm getting close to pulling the trigger on Thunderous.
thanks for the review, it will be playing constantly until Snarl gets to me! I do prefer some things on Gigapower but I globally prefer FT, you're right, there is no loser, both are awesome both are winners!
I just watched this an hour ago and now i hate you! cuz i had to order this piece after finished your video! really cool figure. Keep up the great work buddy, subscribed!
excellent review Bobby, really enjoyed it. looking forward to getting mine. i gotta say i do really like the Giga Power one too. can't wait to complete the set. i've got the Fans Toys Slag repaint coming some time in the future as well.
Great review, I can not wait to see how there Sludge turns out, it looks pretty cool from the photos I have seen, hopefully they will show photos of there Skyfire at TFcon Toronto this year if we are lucky.
Squeaky Squeaky. Love them FT Dinos. Another great review. I can't wait to get my sever in a couple weeks. Love the skit. My wife collects sewing machines and has a pile of shoes so big if I lit it that it would be like an oil rig fire in the middle east.
I ended up sanding the connector nubs on the legs so they stopped squeaking (or being a pain to rotate, like I was going to break them). Worked like a charm and it only took 10 minutes.
Damn dude your on fire with reviews! Awesome review. Fair comparison to Gigapower. Glad I went the Fans Toys route just looks better to me aesthetically. AHAHAHAHAH I say the same thing to my chica......how many shoes / purses do you have LOL and if you want to expand sell them on Ebay or trade them LOL! All kidding aside Fans Toys is separating from the pack.......of the track. Glad to see we will have the 3rd member of Warbotron's Computron soon.
A bit late but I just got mine. This is my first fanstoys dinobot and it is beautiful. That leg swivel is super tight, felt like i was going to twist it off. I have a long way to go though. One down four to go. Great review
Man, these guys are getting spot on with their dinobots, their doing a fantastic job! 1 thing that bothers me a lot though, is that aweful squeaking in the joints, which has me a little nervous, nerve wrecking if you will. Never really got any 3rd party dinos, honestly, beside the fact on how good these guys are, I kinda wanna go with Planet X Dinobots, just for that FOC look since I got the FOC Voyager Grimlock. :p Just never got around to getting the Planet X version, guess Life gets on the way sometimes. Lol Anywho....if I see any newer dinobots, I know Hasbro did them in the AOE line, but this year on, in the Combiner Wars line, would be interesting if Hasbro did dinobots again, & maybe combine to form Extinction, even if that don't happen & they don't combine, still...would be cool if Hasbro made some G1 inspired dinobots, for sure. ;)
Great review Bobby! Seeing them side by side I decided to go with Sever. Gutter looks cool but, Sever just looks more classy and polished to me. Those squeaks worry me though. Hopefully a little shock oil can fix that up.
Great skit I can totally relate. I got my Sever on Saturday and I love it. Do you think that MP Grimlock is starting to look out of place among the rest of the set? I have all mine in Robot mode and he looks a bit small next to the others.
I Opened her up for the first time today and damn She is beautiful! Thanks for the vid, it helped to get the ball rolling with my transformation and now my Sever looks like yours.
Good review. Hopefully Sludge will be out by Christmas. Not holding my breath, though. Snarl just looks great except for that face. He looks kind of like Arnold from Conan the Barbarian to me. I hope a 3rd party releases a better head in the future.
Received mine today and was thrilled with it, seeing as how it's my first third party purchase. However, the right ankle joint in Stegosaurus mode is on "backwards"...Hoping to get a free replacement.
Just got mine today. Sad thing is, I broke his dino head (well one half of it). The part that swings the whole assembly for the dino head was stuck. Thought it was to tight. Took the black screw out, twist and snapped the post. Little engineering, and fixed, but has a longer silver screw now. Some people have passed on this to get the Gutter version just because of the legs(at least the dino legs on the outside in robot mode). Anybody stop to think, you can fold Sever's dino legs out for the same look, although there is the hollowness in the leg now. Just tried to flip the dino head out for a g1 toy style, and that doesn't work. Reissue Quakwave and Sludge hurry up and come out sooner.
As I mentioned, I fixed it. Although, I'm going to paint that screw black to match the other one. My masterpiece Autobot shelf is running out of room now.
Great review. I want to add to what you said. I have this guy and he's great, but there are a number of annoying design issues that really bug me: -The way the plate designs differ on each side. The inner should have been used on both sides -The way the 2 halves in dino mode don't match at all -The bot mode torso being plastic really clashes with scoria -The weird red section on his dino leg Overall, I just wish they would be consistent and follow the design cues of their earlier releases.
I have the fillers for the underside of the dino mode, and they dont hinder the transformation or the look of the robot mode either, so the gap in the underside is no longer a negative.
Yeah, I got mine with Sever as it was second hand, though the guy never transformed him so all the joints are still "squeaky" stiff. He must have sold his Stomp, or I'd have grabbed that too - seems to be a rare one to get now, annoyingly.
Waiting for mine. I need them all! Haha!! If you get these or the gigas you feel like comitting to buy them all cus they are not in scale with one another. Thats one thing to argue about. The more money you put in to it the more you want to defend the choice you made as the best! I go for FT. But gigas are awesome to!
Ha, just had that conversation with my wife last night about Computron. I have two Quantrons(one for individual bot mode and one for combined mode) and she was trying to understand why i needed the Warbotron Computron. I mean, obviously i need that warbo computron set.......come on. I mean just look at Bruticus i said.
Is it just me or does Sever remind you of the dude that goes to the gym and does only upper body workouts and NEVER attempts to use the leg press machine? Great review, however I ordered mine before seeing the video. That's the trust that Fantoys have established with me in their products!
I think I might temporarily halt my Fanstoys ban to get this guy. Thanks for the review. IMO, if you drop over $100 for a toy, it should be pretty much perfect. If you drop $200 for a toy and it it isn't perfect, you've been had. Also, good examples of cartoon scale inconsistencies, thanks.
Hmmmm giga power is ok... but honestly the ascetic and just overall feel of the FT dinobots along with the may I say close to perfect scale makes my elite strike team :)
Alright after watching the whole thing I started to think of my perspective on scale and not to be rude to you bobby but I feel when people use pictures from the cartoon its just a little distasteful ;). But on the real I think that your right about scale being how you the fan feels it should be but honestly until tak/has gives us the mp scale that feels nice for me I will still have that itch that I need scratched. Closing I want to ask a question for my favorite podcasts favorite podcast, Can u discuss your individual thought on geewun scale and how you came to embrace that thought pattern. Thx and keep reviewing for the people :) .
Bobby Skullface L yeah, fun and engaging transformations are a big factor for me. Usually I get most of my fun from posing and snapping photos, but the rest of the fun for me is the transformation.
Personally, I think adult collectors should outright dismiss stupid stuff such as Ultra Magnus holding constructicons in his hands or other obvious continuity errors.
45-seconds in and get right into what i'm wanting to hear... this is why i don't unsubscribe when you talk shit about my guy: Combiner War's Helicopter-dude.
Bobby Skullface L funny how most of us MP collectors use the G1 cartoon to get a sense of the scale, when in reality the G1 cartoon was never consistent as far as scale was concern, but hey it is still fun :).
Just had a talk with my Realtor, and they agree with me that the chromed weapons don't hold well, so its fortunate that we get super tight finger joints. They may be tough to move, but it keeps those weapons in place.
Now if the weapons fit perfect and the fingers weren't too tight.. i'd be left with nothing to say but I can't wait for this to show up in the mail.
Love the skit!
Hahaha I should have edited that out lol
I watched this review about 10 times. Finally broke, and bought both. Thanks for the great review.
Lol many thanks. Enjoy. Use caution with the excessively tight thighs and you'll be fine
EXCELLENT REVIEW MR.SKULLFACE.!! Wow a reviewer that actually compares both offerings,that's rare! I don't want to go in2 another rant but it's safe to say it's a win-win for either Snarls. I do like Server but I just like the size of Gutter more. I still hate that hole on the bottom of him and I know every1 will say "Your not going to display him upside down are you?" but the point is it's still there. It looks as if it's missing a battery cover,I guess you can put duct tape until FT releases Not Sludge and comes with the cover for Server. I am wondering though what is up with FT's tolerance? Tight is good but man that's sound like plastic on plastic and I worry it may snap! Well gr8 review man and 1 of my favorite reviews this whole year bc your just straight up Honest about both Figures. There both good figures IMO.
Many thx. And lol at battery cover
Awesome review, I loved that you kept bringing Gigapower out for comparison. I do fall in the camp of Gigapower aesthetic (not a fan of chrome) but this is a really nice looking bot as well. Your reviews are aces, looking forward to the next one.
David S many thanks for the kind words
Being a new but avid collector (50+ mp types in last year), sever has some of the tightest joints I have ever seen, like fall in love tight! But to be clear perhaps almost too tight.
FT's has been impressing me. I don't care who makes what, I enjoy and will pay for quality takara/hasbro or "3rd party"... I have become a Transformers collector again, not a brand collector. It all makes me feel some kind of way and takes me back to a happy childhood. I enjoy your candor, and well done videos.
I appreciate the kind words and we're definitely parking our cars in the same garage in terms of collecting
Great review!! Love the skit. You should get all 3rd party Dion bots lol
Lol I think 2500 in dinobots will have to be enough for now lol
Bobby Skullface L Really wish you would jump on the G-Creations Dinobots bandwagon. Curious to see what u would say about them. I'm getting close to pulling the trigger on Thunderous.
I'll be looking at thunderous VERY soon ;)
I like about Sever is how they hide the legs on the robot foot
Me too
Another great review, I should get mine in the mail next week. Snarl is my favorite dinobot so I've been waiting on this one for awhile.
Nice! Enjoy!
thanks for the review, it will be playing constantly until Snarl gets to me! I do prefer some things on Gigapower but I globally prefer FT, you're right, there is no loser, both are awesome both are winners!
My pleasure thanks for watching
I just got the FT Sever the LE silver version. So I wanted to go back and watch your video for the original. I love it.
I just watched this an hour ago and now i hate you! cuz i had to order this piece after finished your video! really cool figure. Keep up the great work buddy, subscribed!
HAHAHAHA many thanks. And enjoy
Love how you brought the wife in and her purses...hahaha. I agree Fan Toys is almost in their own league as far as MP style figures
Haha just trying to help my fellow collectors prepare for arguments.
Great review.
Added to the Masterpiece Dinobots (FANSTOYS, BULLSFIRE, GIGAPOWER...) thread at robot-japan board.
Thanks.
Thank you sir.
excellent review Bobby, really enjoyed it. looking forward to getting mine. i gotta say i do really like the Giga Power one too. can't wait to complete the set. i've got the Fans Toys Slag repaint coming some time in the future as well.
MrCable75 wow, nice and enjoy!
Great review, I can not wait to see how there Sludge turns out, it looks pretty cool from the photos I have seen, hopefully they will show photos of there Skyfire at TFcon Toronto this year if we are lucky.
shockwave514 ive never needed a sludge so bad lol
I hope you can get one, he looks cool!
Wouldn't miss it
Squeaky Squeaky. Love them FT Dinos. Another great review. I can't wait to get my sever in a couple weeks. Love the skit. My wife collects sewing machines and has a pile of shoes so big if I lit it that it would be like an oil rig fire in the middle east.
Hahahaha
good review and nice act of balance in comforting those fragile heart from both camp.
Lol I actually sympathize because I know where they're coming from on this one.
I ended up sanding the connector nubs on the legs so they stopped squeaking (or being a pain to rotate, like I was going to break them). Worked like a charm and it only took 10 minutes.
Outstanding!!!
Damn dude your on fire with reviews! Awesome review. Fair comparison to Gigapower. Glad I went the Fans Toys route just looks better to me aesthetically. AHAHAHAHAH I say the same thing to my chica......how many shoes / purses do you have LOL and if you want to expand sell them on Ebay or trade them LOL! All kidding aside Fans Toys is separating from the pack.......of the track. Glad to see we will have the 3rd member of Warbotron's Computron soon.
David Lenshyn lol, back on your warbotron kick already i see lol
yeah can't get away from that damn Warbotron. I mean the bots look great and the paint apps ohhhh the paint apps lol
Lol
A bit late but I just got mine. This is my first fanstoys dinobot and it is beautiful. That leg swivel is super tight, felt like i was going to twist it off. I have a long way to go though. One down four to go. Great review
Man, these guys are getting spot on with their dinobots, their doing a fantastic job! 1 thing that bothers me a lot though, is that aweful squeaking in the joints, which has me a little nervous, nerve wrecking if you will.
Never really got any 3rd party dinos, honestly, beside the fact on how good these guys are, I kinda wanna go with Planet X Dinobots, just for that FOC look since I got the FOC Voyager Grimlock. :p Just never got around to getting the Planet X version, guess Life gets on the way sometimes. Lol
Anywho....if I see any newer dinobots, I know Hasbro did them in the AOE line, but this year on, in the Combiner Wars line, would be interesting if Hasbro did dinobots again, & maybe combine to form Extinction, even if that don't happen & they don't combine, still...would be cool if Hasbro made some G1 inspired dinobots, for sure. ;)
I would definitely be up for a leader class scale Dinobot set from hasbro
Me too, would be cool to see what they could do with them at least.
Great review Bobby! Seeing them side by side I decided to go with Sever. Gutter looks cool but, Sever just looks more classy and polished to me. Those squeaks worry me though. Hopefully a little shock oil can fix that up.
The good news is there's not a bad choice
Great review as always, I cant wait for my Sever to land, its in the post yo!
Awesome, enjoy!
Me Grimlock say good review Bobby. Oh yeah Skull face for president!!!
Hahaha many thanks
Great skit I can totally relate. I got my Sever on Saturday and I love it. Do you think that MP Grimlock is starting to look out of place among the rest of the set? I have all mine in Robot mode and he looks a bit small next to the others.
Sov Tech yea bot mode he looks waaaay out of place, dino mode still kinda works i think
I Opened her up for the first time today and damn She is beautiful!
Thanks for the vid, it helped to get the ball rolling with my transformation and now my Sever looks like yours.
Awesome man, enjoy!
Good review. Hopefully Sludge will be out by Christmas. Not holding my breath, though. Snarl just looks great except for that face. He looks kind of like Arnold from Conan the Barbarian to me. I hope a 3rd party releases a better head in the future.
Lol I totally see the Conan
Received mine today and was thrilled with it, seeing as how it's my first third party purchase. However, the right ankle joint in Stegosaurus mode is on "backwards"...Hoping to get a free replacement.
+Christian Montgomery fingers crossed for you, and congrats!
DOOOOD!!!!!!! alternate face was not included in mine too!!!! is it hard to get a response from FT?
I've always had good luck in the past
Great review Bobby
Thank you kindly.
Just got mine today. Sad thing is, I broke his dino head (well one half of it). The part that swings the whole assembly for the dino head was stuck. Thought it was to tight. Took the black screw out, twist and snapped the post. Little engineering, and fixed, but has a longer silver screw now. Some people have passed on this to get the Gutter version just because of the legs(at least the dino legs on the outside in robot mode). Anybody stop to think, you can fold Sever's dino legs out for the same look, although there is the hollowness in the leg now. Just tried to flip the dino head out for a g1 toy style, and that doesn't work. Reissue Quakwave and Sludge hurry up and come out sooner.
Ugh I hope you have luck with the customer service folks of your chosen retailer.
As I mentioned, I fixed it. Although, I'm going to paint that screw black to match the other one. My masterpiece Autobot shelf is running out of room now.
Great review. I want to add to what you said. I have this guy and he's great, but there are a number of annoying design issues that really bug me:
-The way the plate designs differ on each side. The inner should have been used on both sides
-The way the 2 halves in dino mode don't match at all
-The bot mode torso being plastic really clashes with scoria
-The weird red section on his dino leg
Overall, I just wish they would be consistent and follow the design cues of their earlier releases.
Hmmm interesting take.
Bobby Skullface L
I'm picky about my dinobots heh
No harm in that
I have the fillers for the underside of the dino mode, and they dont hinder the transformation or the look of the robot mode either, so the gap in the underside is no longer a negative.
SuperAp0calypse correct but it comes with the purchase of stomp. So that's still kind of a bummer for this purchase, but I hear you
Yeah, I got mine with Sever as it was second hand, though the guy never transformed him so all the joints are still "squeaky" stiff. He must have sold his Stomp, or I'd have grabbed that too - seems to be a rare one to get now, annoyingly.
Fans toys is definitely knocking it out of the park. Now I just need more money. Haha.
Lol you and me both
Hi.what do u think of the new devastator from generation toy? will u make a comment review ?thanks
Preordered and absolutely. :)
Waiting for mine. I need them all! Haha!!
If you get these or the gigas you feel like comitting to buy them all cus they are not in scale with one another. Thats one thing to argue about. The more money you put in to it the more you want to defend the choice you made as the best! I go for FT. But gigas are awesome to!
Very cool man. Enjoy!
finally a good review, subscribed.
Many thanks
Ha, just had that conversation with my wife last night about Computron. I have two Quantrons(one for individual bot mode and one for combined mode) and she was trying to understand why i needed the Warbotron Computron. I mean, obviously i need that warbo computron set.......come on. I mean just look at Bruticus i said.
joseph h lol, im always here for you
Is it just me or does Sever remind you of the dude that goes to the gym and does only upper body workouts and NEVER attempts to use the leg press machine? Great review, however I ordered mine before seeing the video. That's the trust that Fantoys have established with me in their products!
Absolutely. Smart man.
I can't wait to get this guy!! Taking a little longer to get to the UK :(
Ugh. The waiting game
Pucker up to the fandom, Fanstoys...
Lol
I think I might temporarily halt my Fanstoys ban to get this guy. Thanks for the review. IMO, if you drop over $100 for a toy, it should be pretty much perfect. If you drop $200 for a toy and it it isn't perfect, you've been had. Also, good examples of cartoon scale inconsistencies, thanks.
My pleasure thanks for watching
excellent review! Mine's didn't come with an instruction manual, this vid will help a whole lot! Thanks!
+Sibling Duel my pleasure, thanks for watching
The transformation looks insanely fun
Adrale4gotten it's a good one
So which do u like btr bobby?
I personally prefer fanstoys. But they're both great
+Bobby “Skullface” Skullface L i bought guttur in the end thanks for the review bobby!
That's the good news though, they're both great
Hmmmm giga power is ok... but honestly the ascetic and just overall feel of the FT dinobots along with the may I say close to perfect scale makes my elite strike team :)
Alright after watching the whole thing I started to think of my perspective on scale and not to be rude to you bobby but I feel when people use pictures from the cartoon its just a little distasteful ;). But on the real I think that your right about scale being how you the fan feels it should be but honestly until tak/has gives us the mp scale that feels nice for me I will still have that itch that I need scratched. Closing I want to ask a question for my favorite podcasts favorite podcast, Can u discuss your individual thought on geewun scale and how you came to embrace that thought pattern. Thx and keep reviewing for the people :) .
Sever's figure with Guttur's height would be my ideal.
+Renaissance Man i hear you
Bobby Skullface L yeah, fun and engaging transformations are a big factor for me. Usually I get most of my fun from posing and snapping photos, but the rest of the fun for me is the transformation.
It is such a difficult choice to make, but gigapower not finishing their set kinda sealed it for me.
Luv ft but had to go giga on this one
The beauty of options.
I prefer FT Sever in my opinion it seems like G1 cartoon. But they both gorgeous!
Yeah definitely comes down to personal tastes
If only you could combine the best features of both together into one figure!
Agreed! At first I thought you wanted them to combine lol. Need to slow down when I read
Bobby Skullface L LOL, wouldn't that be something!!!!
I love having options but this is killing me.
Lots of the word "Tight". Missed the "Like a Tiger".
Damn it! You're right
23:35, touché
Giga is more g1 toy accurate with translucent pieces and dino legs outside. Fanstoys is more g1 show accurate.
Personally, I think adult collectors should outright dismiss stupid stuff such as Ultra Magnus holding constructicons in his hands or other obvious continuity errors.
Your getting old man these are the 2015s its obvious that fanstoys transformers are doing the kyle jenner lip challenge.
godbott hahaha
Oops dinobots
Or... duck mouth?
Hahahaha
45-seconds in and get right into what i'm wanting to hear... this is why i don't unsubscribe when you talk shit about my guy: Combiner War's Helicopter-dude.
Lol many thanks
Bobby Skullface L funny how most of us MP collectors use the G1 cartoon to get a sense of the scale, when in reality the G1 cartoon was never consistent as far as scale was concern, but hey it is still fun :).
Exactly.