Grahf: They either work for CraftsmanToys and don't like the fact that I called them out on being a new company and the possibility they might not actually end up releasing anything. Or they're mad about overspending on the so called legends scale figures from all these companies that don't match. It's not like I'm lying or making things up about either thing. This company as far as anybody knows, has not released anything yet. Also, there's like six to seven different so called legends scales and about six or seven different aesthetics between them. Hasbro scale, Dr. Wu scale, New Age scale, Iron Factory scale, Magic Square scale and more from slightly oversized KOs and from at least one company redoing their scale. Chibi G1, 'CHUG/neo' G1, 'MP/toon' G1, IDW G1, samurai and more,

Grahf: I can go for another TM2 Megatron lol. I have the Perfect Effect, FansHobby (although this is based on the 'Transmetal 3' Botcon figure), Jiangxing, Jinbao OSKO Iron Factory (the actual figure was too expensive even though I like the wings better), Legacy, OSKO Legacy, the original, Beast Machines Megatron, Savage/Noble and even that little drone Titanmaster Savage/Noble from Takara. Actually, the only one I don't have is that 'TM3' Botcon figure. Due to Punpub's licence having expired they didn't care and sold them all to scalpers at the convention instead of putting them up on their site. I get it, money is money but have a little respect on the way out. It was a real shit move on their part.

Grahf: I've never had to use the customer service here yet so I have no opinion on that one way or the other. I NEVER would've touched those Maketoys Seekers if not for the price reduction here. I got all six that were listed here for almost the price of two from other places. But yeah, since the 7th of this month they changed comments from being 16 points a comment, twice a day. So only 32 points a day total. Now it's 8 points a comment twice a day. So only 16 points daily. Any likes on your comments would give 10 points each. Now they give nothing. Ultimately, this is still one of the cheapest and most reliable places around. Maybe they're just trying to bank off of that now while limiting the points gimmick and comments section that made them popular to begin with. Build up a certain way of doing things then take it away and ride it out. My problem is that nobody seems to know why they did it. There's been no explanation so far that I know of. As far as being a member, you still get triple the points for purchases. Which do add up but it was nice to also get those extra points from the likes.

Grahf: So I checked and yes, they're deleting comments. So far the ones I've noticed did indeed have quite a few dislikes but had more likes overall and had the highest likes of any other comment currently in the comments section for those listings.. Yet they were still deleted due to having more than one dislike..

Grahf: So I just got the thighs extenders for Optimus in today.

As is, it breaks truck mode. But again, I'm hoping that there's somewhere in the new 'trailer' to store them. Partsforming I know but so is the whole set lol. You can kinda sorta leave them on for truck mode but the inside of the shins clash with the top of the pelvis.

Now normally this wouldn't be an issue as you could just redesign a new pelvis to go along with the set and replace it. But for some reason, Hasbro has been using flat headed pins for almost everything instead of screws. So you can't actually take the pelvis apart to change the front plate. You can take the entire pelvis apart at the waist and then take the legs off at the thighs but it would take a lot to replace these parts. You also can't take the lower legs apart to replace the lower thighs to make extending legs either as again, flat headed pins.

Man, those flat headed pins are annoying. I get that they're technically higher quality than screws, especially Hasbro screws that strip easily, but it makes it so that you can't customize the figures anymore. There's quite a few figures I wanted to do something with but I'm not going to bother as those flat headed pins are annoying to try and get out without issue.

I also got the black soles for Optimus as well. Those definitely won't work with this upgrade. But it is nice to see that they work with that ring pop looking axe holder that comes with the Superman Studio filler kit. The new soles have the exact same size ports in the same spots so that axe holder just pegs in like normal. I'll be using these parts with one of the Wingblade kits. The thighs extenders will be going with this PMOP set.

Grahf: Looks like I'm first up to rate this.

For starters, this did in fact come with the bonus blue swords.

In true DNA fashion, they failed to address the actual problems with the base set however this time around, they managed to not do anything egregiously bad.

The new parts are color matched about as good as they could do. You can notice a difference in the shades but it's not horrible.

The right elbow was holding the set up with revisions. If this is the tolerance they thought best, I'd hate to have seen earlier versions. While not overly loose or unable to hold poses, the elbow was still too loose for my liking and I tightened it up myself.

Speaking of the elbows though, they're not symmetrical. The left elbow is higher than the right one and as such, has a longer forearm. This is due to using the one leg of Skar as the base of the left arm. They could've done better with the right arm to match but this is DNA here so of course they didn't. So the lower arms are out of sync with each other but it's not horrible.

The hands are surprisingly fine. I don't actually have any complaints. The swords slot in well, the wrists hold the weight of the swords. The articulated hands look believable as fists. The digits go where you would want them to. Not bad.

The feet are fine as well. The ankle ball sockets are nice and tight from the start. The connectors are fine as well. The only real gripes I have is that the ankle itself should've been longer. As is, that Snarl sword actually gets in the way of the center toe spike by quite a bit. I had to trim down the peg on the sword handle to make more room. Not that there's much to even trim off of that 3mm post but I did it anyway. Without doing this, the handle ends up pushing the foot down too much causing balance issues for standing.

Speaking of balance issues while standing. The feet should've been longer. There needed to be more foot behind the combiner. Or at the very least, have another tail be able to peg in behind the second foot as a heel spur like Grimlock's tail. Both feet are identical otherwise so you can only peg on Grimlock's tail to either foot.

Speaking of tails. All the tails should've been outright replaced by new parts. Having to keep all of them alongside the new parts is such a short sided design choice.

Speaking of short sided design choices. The weapons for each figure. There's six swords and six guns so you'd think each figure gets one right? Nope. They're done in three pairs of two each and none of them replace any stock weapons the figures come with. Swoop, Grimlock and Slag each get two swords. Skar, Snarl and Sludge each get two guns. However Swoop still has his double gun fist. Grimlock still has his gun tail. Slag still has his gun tail. Skar still has his gun tail. Snarl still has his sword. Sludge still has his nothing. It would've been best if each figure got a sword and a gun...or in Swoop's case, sword and two guns. Or just give the other four G1 figures their one sword, their one gun and their one rocket launcher gun while Swoop gets his one sword and his two rocket launchers. Then make up something for Skar so that he has maybe one sword and two guns or one sword, one gun and one rocket launcher. So none of them will look right when armed as is.

The directions want you to plug Skars fist/tail/gun onto Swoop's double gun/fist and then wedge it into the back of the combiner. It has no place to actually port onto. You're just supposed to wedge it in back there. I thought I should bring this up as what a lame thing to expect us to do. This just goes right along with the lazy way DNA designs their kits.

What should've happened is that they start by replacing the tails, fists and sword outright. Just take them all and leave them in a box. Then design the new parts to completely replace these while also incorporating them into the combined mode parts.

Then they should've made sure the elbows lined up better.

Finally make each individual figure's weapons combine or at least store away properly on the combined mode. The bottom of the feet are hollow anyway so had they made the feet longer like I suggested, they could've stored six weapons under each foot. I ultimately found places for everything that ends up far better than they suggest but it just goes to prove there were much better ways to do things than what they came up with. To do this though, again, I had trim the 3mm peg on Snarl's sword. I also had to unpeg Snarls legs for foot mode and shift them up a bit so that I could peg two of the guns onto that foot. But had the ankles been longer like I suggested, it would give the clearance needed.

Ultimately though, the set looks good. It does what it sets out to do and that's to add feet and mostly better arms to the combined form along with weapons for Volcanicus. However there's several other options out there.

However I do also have the thigh extenders and shoulder wideners from Ebay. I feel they do help quite a bit.

Grahf: Just had another comment I left today be deleted due to dislikes. But again, it had more likes than dislikes by far and was yet again, the comment with the highest amount of likes on that listing. I don't every attack anyone personally. All I did was give a full review for Studio Series Bumblebee(Movie) Leader class Megatron and tore it apart as it's overrated. Several people even agreed in replies.

Grahf: I am noticing that I only got the 8 points for a like ONCE today. Yet going through a few comments I've received about 5 today with 2 dislikes.

Grahf: Seriously? That's fucked up and shouldn't happen. Do we get notified when it happens? Wait, they're not. I just put up a comment, about the BMB SSBB Megatron and got one like and one dislike. Got notified about the like but not the dislike and my points are still adding up correctly. I don't know, I'm not going to pretend that the SS BB Megatron figure is great like everyone else. It's a mediocre figure overall as only the robot mode is any good. Super overrated figure. People can dislike that comment all they want, it's still true and people need to stop kidding themselves about it. Just got a second dislike typing this out. Had to refresh the page to see it and my points still didn't go down.

Grahf: Oh yeah I never mentioned the new shoulder pads. They partsform and they don't go anywhere in truck mode that I seen. So I couldn't care less about them. You have to take the standard ones off and replace them with the new ones. Just not worth it to me. The new head and neck are cool too. However, the hinge for the upward head motion is at the base of the back of the neck. So it's in a really odd place and causes the head to look completely disjointed from the neck when the figure is looking up too much. Great for a flying pose but who's going to display their Scourge in a flying pose.