I really want this, but I can't stand Chosen Prime. Downright awful customer service. Between never getting replacement parts and receiving damaged official MP boxes (they told me i shouldve paid the extra cash for collector grade when i reached out) , I swore them off.
What I love about these Fans Hobby toys is that they are reintroducing me to a whole range of transformers that just passed me by when I was a kid, because I lived in a rural area where access to the latest greatest toys was limited, and I was getting a bit older, and I didn't have the money to buy toys by myself. For various reasons, a lot of these characters (as filtered through third party Fans Hobby) were largely unknown to (or forgotten by) me. I enjoy looking up these characters when these toys come out and either being really surprised or happy to unlock an old memory.
Love my copy of this guy and the retool is really well executed. One thing that was weird that I found and you can see at the end of the review is the tail feather parts are still on the inner calves. I'm a bit surprised that they wouldn't have removed the tail pieces or simply put a flat panel there instead.
Guess you're not a fan of G1 Stalker yourself, because you've referred to him twice as an Autobot😲 I can still remember seeing the original Stalker in local stores (locally, his team was called Scopemasters, which I still consider more accurate) and if I had the money, I would've bought him back then along with several others. Likewise passed on this version, because being an exclusive it was a bit too difficult to obtain having had to work when he was available for order. So many thanks for the review. It makes clear that it definitely is a great figure and FH have definitely made an effort. So should they go for a MW Soundwave, that I now know I would very likely want.
