Tatakae! Yuusha Tetsujin Muscular Convoy

Got myself a KO diaclone figure last Saturday. Gats-Blocker in Japan or Multiforce-14 in US and Europe. Splits into 14 vehicles. RM15.90 (20% off, kira sendiri) at Jusco Equine Park.

Didn’t cared much about the toy itself (which really sucked). Got it for just for these guys >:)

5 Diaclone pilots. Just nice for my G1 TFs.

To the uninitiated, Transformers toys started their life as Diaclone figures. This was back in the late 70’s till 1982.

When the first TF series started, some of these Diaclone toys mad the way into TF, some slightly remolded or repainted.

Most diaclones comes with small pilot figures. They have magnetic legs (my KO doesn’t). Other than that, they also left out the pilots. Hey, if it has pilots, it won’t be TF, right. Thats more like Gundams (or Kondams, in transMy :p)

So, if you’re wondering why G1 prime’s chest opens (no its not originally intended for the matrix), roller got a seat and Ultra Magnus’s chest plate looked like something can seat in there, it’s all seats for these Diaclone men.

Here’s SideSwipe aka Lambor

Here’s Skids

*screaming*
Shut up bitch! I’m trying to talk!
Hey Slim, that’s my girlfriend screamin in the trunk
but I didn’t slit her throat, I just tied her up, see I ain’t like you
cause if she suffocates she’ll suffer more, and then she’ll die too
Well, gotta go, I’m almost at the bridge now
Oh shit, I forgot, how am I supposed to send this shit out?
*tyres screeching…*
:p

 

Here’s Richochet aka Stepper

 

Here’s Dirge

 

Here’s the whole gang

 

Not bad for a KO. Tight joints for a small thinggie. Better that buying those repro from the internet.  USD5 12.00 for a set of 4, tu tak masuk shipping lagi. Check it out here : http://www.transrepro.com/autobot1.htm

For the same amount of money, you’ll get more than 10 Diaclone pilots here (without the magnet legs lah…)

Used to have 3 original Diaclone drivers a long time ago.

Tu la, dulu ada , gatal gi patah2 kan … sob .. T_T

To any of you who owns a Zoids Death Stinger, you’ll probably know it only walks forward in one direction. Last night something happened. My Death Stinger walks in all direction and terrorized Psyduck !! :O Scary stuff ahead …

See I told you something was fishy… No Zoids could do that …

OK, lets cut the crap short. I’ve actually managed to stuff an R/C receiver into the Death Stinger (DS).

There’s a CP for DS called CP-16. It’s a wired remote control unit that plugs into a port underneath DS’s battery pack. CP-16 gives DS 4 channels of movement (forward/reverse/left/right).

Since DS’s battery pack has on 2 pins, how the heck CP-16 can have 4 channels of movement ?  At least there should be 3 pins, ie, 1 common ground and 2 positive terminals.

Then I found out that the plastic block on DS’s battery port on the body can be plugged out. There’s 4 pins underneath it. Got a battery pack and started to test the pins.

As I expected, DS uses 2 motors, each one controls one side of the legs. Kinda like tanks. Forward one motor and reverse the other motor, and DS turns. Forward both, well, it goes forward (duh)..

The DS wasn’t actually mine, so I had to design an external box that can be plugged and unplugged from it without the need to cut anything from DS.

This is the receiver board I canniballized from a cheapo Audley Race-Tin Gen-3. Armed with my horrendous soldering skill, I made a break-out board to connect to the pins on DS. Plugged out 4 pins from an unused sound card too :p Not shown here is another break-out board that connects to DS’s original battery pack.

Made a box to stuff the curcuit in. Cannibalized yet another unsed PC accessory, this time a printer cable, the parallel one. Who uses parallel printers in this USB age any way ? :p

oh, wait, my printer’s parallel .. :-O

Here’s the finished stuff. Still crude, but it works. Used plaplate for the box too. Maybe I’ll wrap the box with epoxy putty and sand it to make it look more like a CP soon. Too lazy to do it now ..

Another angle. See the protruding antenna ? And the parallel cable housing looks like a cannon (to me lah, to you I don’t know …)

Another view of the box.

Psyduck’s ready to test the new & improved Death Stinger. This is when the eeiry stuff happened … >:)

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The G-Stone was handed to Sai Shishioh (formerly know as Psyduck or Saidak -> popular term at TransMy). Now it has the ability to command and combine with the Gao Machines.

FINAL FUSION !!! SHONIN !!! (psy …)

*plays final_fusion.mp3*

(Click the pix for a bigger pix.)

GAO ! SAI ! GAR !!!!

The lack of motivation to do work and boredom forced me to do this …

Stupid !$@$@!!%~!# Fingerprint SDK !!!

Last night got myself the final two components for my Armada prime.

1) Sonokong Micron Legends Ultra Magnus (that’s Overload to those who watched TF:Armada)

This is the Korean version of Overload. Released under the Sonokong brand. Sono.. WTF ?

Sonokong is kinda like Hasbro to Takara. They manufacture TF for
distribution in Korea. They also reissues some figures from the
Yuusha/Brave line.

Quality wise, it’s almost Hasbro-like. Nice packaging though ..

Yey ! No stupid wire twistie tie thingie ! Though these guys have cellotape fetish … +_+" No twistie tie means its easy tu put back into the box for storage ( or selling it MIB >:) ) . MISB ? bwueek …

This is Ultra Magnus’s Mini-con/Micron. Quite big than your standard Mini-Con.

MIni-Con robot mode. Kesian… no fists/fingers … :p Compared here with SparkPlug and Comettor.

No you know why they named it Overload … This is Ultra Magnus pulling its trailer. Can double up into JetFire’s carrier vehicle too.

Combined mode with the trailer. Shown here with JetFire.

Ultra Magnus in this mode is bulky. Not very articulated. No knee and shoulder joints. Oh, when you push the Mini-con in to the big robot to form the chest and head, you’ll get to hear the Classic TF transformation sound. Corny, but cool …

No other Mini-Con triggerable features available on this figure except for the sound thingie. Which I don’t think can count as one..

BTW, there’s two hidden missle cluster pod on the shoulders. Can also combine with Prime’s trailer in base mode to form a gigantic twin cannon.

2) Takara Micron Legends JetFire

Standard Takara JetFire. Not the Powered-up version.

Rear side of the box.

Inside …

Hmm.. after alot  of cellotape and one twistie tie on the Mini-Con later …

The shuttle mode looks nice. Very bright white. Features openable cargo compartment too…

This is Comettor, JetFire’s Mini-Con. Transforms in to Lunar Rover and front tyres for JetFire’s shuttle mode.

Push Comettor on the center booster, two side wings will pop-up..

Oh , there’s also two bombs, which you can drop/activate using the Mini-con on Jet-Fire’s wings.

There’s also another accesory included, which is supposed to be JetFire’s rear tyres for its shuttle mode. It also doubles as a chest plate for Jet Convoy (Prime + JetFire)

For JetFire’s robot mode, see the pix compared with Ultra Magnus. Too lazy to snap anymore pix :p

Robot mode’s quite articulate. Has all the essential joints. Wish could do something with the wings though.. doesn’t quite match the overall robot mode.

FINAL FUSION !!! (whoops .. :p)

You can combine Prime, Ultra Magnus and JetFire to form a super long transport mode thingie. Kinda like Star Convoy + Grandus + Sky Garry …

Very nice, no pieces need to be removed, so the risk of losing parts is minimal …

Here’s the combined robot mode.

Behold … JET MAGNA CONVOY !!! (or is it Jet Magna Prime … since the Prime is Hasbro’s :p)

Compared here with it’s KO counterpart

Compared again with RID Omega Prime (Cybertron reissue actully :P)

Compared yet again with Psyduck Super Mode (mind controlled by Unicron)

This combined mode is extremely top heavy. A bit unstable when standing.

But it looks very good. JetFire becomes Prime’s new pants. Ultra Magnus becomes the twin shoulder mount cannons and a gun. The two cannons comes with spring loaded missles.

Conclusion : I like it ! Now my new gen combining Prime collection is complete. I have now complete sets for SuperLink Grand Convoy (OP + Omega Supreme + Wing Saber ), RID Omega Prime (OP + Magnus) and Galaxy Force Galaxy Convoy (Galaxy Convoy + LeoBreaker + Sonic Bomber ).

Hmm… God Ginrai ….