Comments on: Nursing Ratchet, Part 5

By: Jon M

Jon M — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:58:28 +0000

The bi-pedal Hummer! Able to traverse any terrain for up to FIVE YEARS!

Satisfaction guaranteed!

(cue Junkions) “OR YOUR MONEY BACK!!!”

By: Grenadier

Grenadier — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:20:15 +0000

Thanks, Matt.

This isn’t the first of your mods I’ve done. The HA Skids mod also prompted me to buy a Transformer I normally wouldn’t (thankfully my roommate sold me his for $15!).

By: matt

matt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:41:43 +0000

Grenadier, thanks! Stick around and comment more.

Luke, what about Manfredi and Johnson? If only they’d had opposable thumbs!

John, kind of like what Jin Saotome did with Swindle? It looks cool, but I like the tires on top.

As for the Valkyrie, it’s not a knockoff or a revoltech. It’s a Macross 1/100 VF-1J from Toynami. It costs about $20 and is about the size of a deluxe figure. It’s a bit fragile compared to a transformer, but not nearly as frail as one of the transformable revoltechs (and the parts don’t fall off.)

It comes with a kick ass display stand that can be modified with different balljoints, it has several hands, missiles, missile pods, a rifle, and attachable landing gear.

The one thing that bugged me was that it’s technically a parts former. The hands don’t fold up into the forearms, but they’re pretty hidden in jet mode, and the blast shield has to be swapped for the cockpit canopy when you put it into battroid mode.

I didn’t care about the blast shield, so I just leave it in the box and shaved off the tab on the chest piece so it would sit flat against the canopy in battroid mode.

It’s also very poseable.

So, if you’re wondering about whether to get this or a transforming revoltech, don’t get the revoltech! Too many video reviews of them has ‘whoops, the wing fell off. Again.’ and the Toynami version is pretty solid.

Again, not solid by Transformer standards, but solid enough it’s not going to easily break or make you feel scared about transforming it. Especially not at $20.

If you just want the battroid mode, go with the revoltech non-transforming version. It’s probably a bit more poseable and like John said, pretty stable.

~Matt Booker

By: John

John — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:14:37 +0000

There are too Revoltech Valkyrie types:

The non transforming one which is quite stable.

The transforming one which doesn’t hold together for shit.

By: Bumblegirl

Bumblegirl — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:05:26 +0000

LOL!

By: Gobot Grimlock

Gobot Grimlock — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:08:22 +0000

That’s not a revoltech? Its about the right size. I think the revoltech ones have wings that fall off though. In all the video reviews that i have seen it does at least.

Milia from Robotech? did she even have a robotech valkyrie?

By the way this guide has been really funny!

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By: Tophat Diablo

Tophat Diablo — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:22:27 +0000

What Valkyrie is that?!??!!! I thought about getting a revoltech but I have heard they have issues with the wings falling off and just being crappy in general. More importantly, they didn’t have Milia in Revoltech.

I’ve seen that around, John. The kibble was a bit more manageable but I really like the tires on top, just not hasbros way of on top. Looked cool though you should take a picture.

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:22:45 +0000

Y’know, there’s an alternate way to transform the shoulder kibble that I think looks better, as it covers the ball joint and makes Ratchet look much more armored. All it is is flipping the doors around so they face the front. I think it works quite well, as it also keeps the kibble from bumping into his torso and adds more color.

By: Gobot Grimlock

Gobot Grimlock — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:07:10 +0000

ROFL

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By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:36:04 +0000

Ooooh, fresh meat.

Whose turn is it to haze the new guy?
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I kid. We don’t haze here. Not since that one guy.

Never did find all the pieces.