I just received Omega Supreme after months of waiting and I'm (was) so excited!
His bot form is great. Solid and very detailed. It was a joy to just look at him and pose him. Then I tried transforming him into the command center...
The instructions were very clear, but the parts were difficult to move into their positions. When I got to the legs, they would turn up to 45 degrees, then stop. I had to apply great force to get them to move beyond that as instructed, of which I was very reluctant to do! The price of this Transformer made me very careful to do anything with it, and I carefully reviewed the instructions to see if I missed a step in all my excitement... but I hadn't!
I slowly tried putting more and more force into it and, BAM, as soon as it got past that initial stopping force it quickly moved all the way into position. Same with the other leg.
Thinking that the hard part was done, I began work on attaching the beige tracks. These little joints did NOT want to go in, and it seemed like they were both soft plastic. Even when I thought I had joined them together, they would quickly fall apart. Again, after much force I was able to get all 4 track joints put together. I really feel like this part will break when I try to transform back... luckily it looks like Hasbro thought so, too, as the joints on the beige tracks look to be modular making it easy to replace with a small part, rather than having to send out a full track.
Moving on, the tower was very interesting to put together and I enjoyed that bit... only the top and bottom parts of the tower meant to cover up inner workings do not join together well. The join mechanism for them is weak and even a little bit of a touch will cause them to pop off. While the track joints above were tough to put together, they do hold. These rocket joints just do not hold at all, while they are easy to initially bring together. It's like the designers just can't win here... :(
Once all put together, the tower would not stay upright and would lean... maybe due to the rocket walls popping off and causing the weight distribution to be off? The "legs" of the tower meant to hold it up will frequently buckle under their own weight causing the rocket to rest on it's jet... maybe it's supposed to be like that? Possibly?
Finally, the tank! It looks very good and was easy to transform with only minor concerns with the amount of force needed to open a part of it. This did not require as much force as the tracks or legs but it was a bit difficult. My only concern with the tank is that it will not remain on the track, especially when it reaches the part of the track that is made by the legs mentioned earlier.
All in all, it's an okay fig that I'm a little disappointed with because it costs $170. I'd really hoped for better quality as I had planned to display it as a big centerpiece in Command Center form with my collection. After all this I think I'll just have to keep it in bot form as that seems to be the form it was meant to be in.
