>>6568622In my experience with sdcc fort max I found he was ok, not worth the markup however.
Mine's joints are tighter than my hasbro metroplex, but the pre-applied stickers are poorly applied, peeling, and one is even missing (thankfully they're on the back of cerebro's shoulders), the mark up isn't even worth the extra paint (forehead in gungrey, chest offwhite, gunwales on his shin cannons tips are painted to look like they've been fired) nor the sword which has the least deco out of the 3 official versions of it.
If you really want to treat yourself, get the takara one unless you have a hasbro team, nippon yassan even have him on special right now infact but shipping is an issue.
Or even get trypticon, any version, amiami's is on sale as well and doesn't have the hip issue right out of the box, but if a hasbro version is about the same then consider that.
Otherwise enjoy your fort max
>>6568628With the mp cars set a budget for each one, I imported mine using mandarake and 6000yen is my MAX for those, if using ebay search cautiously, unless you wait to see if mp lambor (sideswipe) anime+ version comes back up just remember to check headlights for blackborders on lamborgini retools as that is a good sign its the real deal if that bothers you being a bootleg (and after my bootleg redlart I can warn you if you get a bad one its a floppy piece of shit).
They have done reissues in the past, we could get more but I'm guessing the next re-release could be g2 bumblebee and mp soundblaster judging by the previous releases (mp10 to mp10B).
Just my take, but essentially keep it cheap if buying second hand but be warned if buying from mandarake the cheaper the higher the damage there might be (12kyen for mp ultra magnus has a brown scuff on his shin, while 5kyen for smokescreen had a chip on his front bumper, I'm not bothered by either though)
I'd otherwise waiting and seeing what holds next year
