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Post by artspraken on Oct 7, 2004 10:25:02 GMT -5
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ptjoe
Rusty Robot
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Post by ptjoe on Oct 7, 2004 15:17:13 GMT -5
Great Writeup. I'm going to get one soon now (I hope). Funds are a little tight.
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Post by jwm on Oct 7, 2004 19:50:20 GMT -5
artspraken: Excellent write-up, and great pictures. But dang it all anyway- this review gave me the gottahavits before my new Mechabot has even had a chance to get dusty. If my wife yells at me it's all your fault.  JWM Oh- the eye switch question. Bandai includes a similar gimick with the HY2M Rick Dom model. It's a solid black chip slightly less than 1/2 inch square, and it is activated when it gets near the positive pole of a magnet. On the Dom it lights up the gun sight when you put the handle in the left hand. On mine it no longer works, but I don't know if the switch is faulty or if a wire came loose. |
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Post by JB on Oct 7, 2004 21:19:11 GMT -5
It's on.
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Post by GC8 Monkey on Oct 8, 2004 0:07:43 GMT -5
Great review of Tetsujin. All these pictures are making the anticipation unbearable. Ah!! I just drooled on my keyboard ;D |
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Post by andrewdsz on Oct 8, 2004 1:11:19 GMT -5
u noe wut? U just made me order 3 more of these iron ball.. ...
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Post by Chen on Oct 8, 2004 16:14:26 GMT -5
Excellent review!!!
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Post by rx79msg on Oct 11, 2004 5:45:11 GMT -5
AWESOME REVIEW!!! ;D
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Post by ronin777 on Oct 11, 2004 15:38:15 GMT -5
Very good review man, keep up the good work. We definitely appreciate it.
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Post by admin1 aka Ed on Oct 13, 2004 9:30:41 GMT -5
EXCELLENT review. I have to admit that you caused me to order one immediately. Feel free to send your reviews to me at admin@robot-japan. com . It would be a pleasure to host your review on robot-japan.com and a permanent site. Regards, Ed |
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Post by zetaking on Oct 16, 2004 2:58:18 GMT -5
I just received my t28 and the problem with the eyes lies in the fact that they do switch from yellow to red. However, the red light is situated in back of the yellow light, which is shown through a slightly yellow clear plastic eyes. Therefore, some of you who get it might think it doesnt work or have very little difference in color change. The mechanism is actually a spring switch that upon touching a tube conducter turns on the red light and turns off the yellow light. The magnet actually "pulls" the spring to contact the tube. I did some modifications on my t-28 to make the red stand out a bit. I merely swap turned around the board that houses the lights so that the red light is front and yellow light is in the back. Then when the switch is on, the light is still yellow, but when the magnet swaps the light, the red is more vivid as the picture shows. The joints are a little too loos for my taste. But all in all a very nice piece. Solid feeling and the small boy figure is also of good quality that expect of the better socs.
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Post by Chen on Oct 19, 2004 10:39:35 GMT -5
I bought and paid for a Testujin and Aphlodai last week of Ebay and only now is the guy shipping it out. Now he may be busy, but it shouldn't take a week to mail somthing out plus he said I have to wait 10-20 days for it to arrive. I hope at least he packages them well or I'm never buying from him again.
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Post by ronin777 on Oct 19, 2004 10:43:01 GMT -5
Who did you buy from Chen?
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Post by Chen on Oct 19, 2004 13:17:30 GMT -5
I bought from a seller called toysonline2002, he has 2312 feedbacks with a 99.6% positive so he should be very reliable that's why I'm surprised by his tardy service. I'll give him the benifit of being busy with Christmas coming soon, but that's still no excuse.
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Post by mpchi on Oct 20, 2004 2:05:57 GMT -5
Man! I am really starting to question Bandai's SOC quality control these days. As if I am getting a dud everytime I order one.  Just received mine today. Though I am not a big fan of Tetsujin 28, this toy is just simply too gorgious to not have one. While I am excited & all when I open it, I quickly found some flaws on mine that is not supposed to be there. Couple paint chip on the red toe tip, and one on the back of the diecast leg. Then the right eye is painted off centered, as if T-28 is always staring a bit to the right. The left elbow bends 90 degree, while the right elbow bends 110 degree.  Also, the magnet clip that holds the green belt was not assembled right, causing the tiny plastic tab almost broke off & with stress mark. I needed to unscrew it & reassemble it to make sure its not stressing the tab no more. Hip joints for both legs swings forward & backward loosely, which could hinder posing greatly....and I remember hearing someone actually said the hip joints were too tight.  This was supposed to be a great simple toy, but somehow I just have to get a dud again, after the sour taste from my problematic Zambot 3. Man, just don't know what to say... The eye really bothers me, but it seems too risky to even try re-painting it. It just wouldn't look as clean & sharp, & with the light gimmick & all. Oh well... |
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Post by zetaking on Oct 20, 2004 2:37:50 GMT -5
read the box... made in china. Believe me, this is worlds better than some of the other made in china stuff. i've been to those assembly lines and when you are dealing with people who have no sense about quality, that is what happens. Management can put all kinds of criteria on quality, but the simple chinese worker just does not get it sometimes...  |
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Post by hypnotator on Oct 20, 2004 6:52:42 GMT -5
Maybe the "simple Chinese worker" was distracted by his belly rumbling.
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Post by Chen on Oct 20, 2004 9:21:15 GMT -5
No offence but every SOC has been made in China along with other high quality items like the Maxfactory Gaogaigar, Aoshima Getter's and Mazinkaiser's, and Transformer's Binaltech line. If the Chinese worker couldn't make high quality items, then companies would go someplace else even if there only paying workers well below minimum wage.
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Post by mpchi on Oct 20, 2004 14:29:57 GMT -5
I do know that SOCs are made in China, so as a lot of high quality chogokin stuff like Chen said. In fact, I am Chinese too!
I think its more of the slacking on the quality control. I am sure that a good number of parts weren't painted as nice, got chipped, smudged, oversprayed...etc. during the process. But I found that they still choose to use these sub-par parts and let them slip by to the final assembly line. The staring eye for instance, could be spotted so easily, yet who ever in charge of the QC didn't even try to take out the 'bad' eye plastic pieces out of the bucket. Otherwise, there won't be all these QC issues in my late SOC items.
My Getter Dragon has a much weaker ratchet knee on one leg. Then my Zambot 3 disaster. Now my T-28. I have most of the major SOC releases, but never had issues like these in the earlier ones. Not in these great numbers at least. The most is a paint chip or two. Even the complicated big Dan doesn't have one single flaw out of the box. But they let so many slip by on my simple T-28. Thats all.
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Post by Chen on Oct 20, 2004 15:30:51 GMT -5
Where did you buy it from? Maybe you can exchange it for a different one. I also notice that quality is much better when there is some time between releases. When Bandai has a whole slew of them coming out at once like the Eva's, Getter G, or like now which see's seven new SOC's within a 2-3 month period, quality suffers a little bit.
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