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Got my Planet X Apocalypse reissue today! I've been looking forward to him - I never owned an official Trypticon, and I missed out on the first run of this guy way back when because I didn't have the money for him at the time. I love how he looks - his WFC design was always my favorite, looking less Tyrannosaurus-like and more Godzilla-y. Plus he was awesome in the game.
Anyway, it took a bit longer than expected to actually fiddle around with him. My initial attempt to transform him out of the box ran into a bunch of issues - parts colliding with each other, things not matching up with what's being shown in the instructions, peg holes in his chestplate apparently not having the pegs they're supposed to attach to, arms flopping around, and a complete inability to get his robot head out of his chest. After about an hour of frustration, I looked up a video, where I realized the problem wasn't me (for once) - both halves of his torso had been misassembled, and both of his forearms were inverted! I had to take him apart, swap bits around, and gently reassemble him while fighting against the springs in his shoulders to get him back into his correct configuration (and ended up slashing my hands to bloody bits in the process). Fortunately, it seems he accepted my blood offering - once he was reassembled, his transformation into all three modes went off without a hitch, with all the 'missing' pegs now located where they belonged\ the ratchets in his arms now having the springs inside them to hold them secure, and his head now having the needed clearance to move around.
He's basically perfect now, and I'm enjoying him quite a bit, though he's actually quite a bit shorter than my modern Titans.
