Magic Square Toys G01 Peach Girl, is now up for pre-order!

Magic Square Toys G01 Peach Girl

 

 Now up for pre-order is Magic Square Toys G01 Peach Girl. This is their version of a Transforming SD Arcee. Reserve yours today. Thanks for choosing The Chosen Prime!

Zeta EX05B Arc, is now up for pre-order!

Zeta EX05B Arc

Now up for pre-order is Zeta EX05B Arc. Reserve yours today by following the links. Thanks for choosing The Chosen Prime!

Ocular Max PS-04A Azalea Alternative, is now in-stock!

Ocular Max PS-04A Azalea Alternative

Now in-stock is Ocular Max PS-04A Azalea Alternative. Order yours today by following the links. Thanks for choosing The Chosen Prime!

Takara MP-51 Arcee, is now up for pre-order!

Takara MP-51 Arcee

We now have the pre-order up for Takara MP-51 Arcee. Just use the links and reserve yours today! Thanks for choosing The Chosen Prime!

Ocular Max PS-04P Azalea Protoform, is now in-stock!

Ocular Max PS-04P Azalea Protoform

We have Ocular Max PS-04P Azalea Protoform, now in-stock! Get yours by following the links. We have limited stock. Thanks for choosing The Chosen Prime!

Ocular Max PS-04P Azalea Protoform, is now up for pre-order!

Ocular Max PS-04P Azalea Protoform

Ocular Max PS-04P Azalea Protoform, is now up for pre-order! Limited slots available. Reserve yours by following the links. We appreciate you for choosing The Chosen Prime!

Transformers Studio Series SS-49/50/51/52 figures, now in-stock!

Transformers Studio Series SS-49/50/51/52 figures

We just received Transformers Studio Series SS-49 Bumblebee, SS-50 WWII Hot Rod, SS-51 Soundwave, and SS-52 Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1 figures. Pre-orders are currently being processed. Get yours by following the links. Shop Smart with The Chosen Prime!

Transformers Studio Series SS-52 Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1 Set, is now in-stock!

Transformers Studio Series SS-52 Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1 Set

We now have the Transformers Studio Series SS-52 Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1 Set. Orders are currently being processed. Get yours by following the links. Thanks for your continued support of The Chosen Prime!

New Transformers Studio Series Deluxe Figures, now up for pre-order!

Transformers Studio Series TF1 Bumblebee

We've got some new Transformers Studio Series Deluxe figures up for pre-order! Check out TF1 Bumblebee, WWII Autobot Hot Rod, Decepticon Soundwave with Laserbeak, and the Trio of Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1 (3-Pack). Just follow the links and reserve yours! Thanks for you continued support of The Chosen Prime!

Ocular Max PS-04A Azalea Alternative, is now up for pre-order!

Ocular Max PS-04A Azalea Alternative

We have Ocular Max PS-04A Azalea Alternative, now up for pre-order! Reserve yours by following the links. Shop Smart with The Chosen Prime!

Ocular Max PS-04 Azalea Transformation Sequence

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Ocular Max PS-04 Azalea, is now in-stock!

Ocular Max PS-04 Azalea

We just got our stock of Ocular Max PS-04 Azalea. Pre-orders are currently being processed. Get yours by following the links. Shop Smart with The Chosen Prime!

FansToys FT-24 Rouge Transformation Sequence

Check out the transformation video for FansToys FT-24 Rouge. Then follow the links to order yours.

Fans Toys Rouge - Arcee

“Dad, why do you have a doll?”

“It’s not a doll. It’s an action figure.”

“Mom, why does Dad have a shelf full of girl robots?”

“Action figures!"

The Movie introduced a slew of new characters in a bid to get kids to beg their parents for new toys. Strangely, Arcee was never offered in the original run. There have been quite a few official and third party offerings in recent years, but only Toyworld Leia is Masterpiece scaled. I wasn’t completely satisfied with how Leia looked on my shelf so was looking forward to Fans Toys Rouge. After the delight of Apache and Koot, Rouge is a bit of a let down.

I usually transform these figures to alt mode and back at least once so I can comment on the process. However, when I was attempting to move one of the backpack armatures past a white panel, cracks started to appear on the white plastic. It’s not visible from the outside, but I don’t want to continue and risk actually breaking something. Fortunately, transforming these things is not so important to me so I’ll just enjoy the figure displayed in robot mode.

For the most part, I like how Rouge looks. The colors are bright and the line work is typical of Fans Toys. Her face sculpt could be little more angular, but otherwise looks great. Her metallic eyes catch the light well. While her shoulder pauldrons look fine, I’m not a fan of how they are attached. The armatures look messy and they don't sit quite right on her back. There is a visible gap in her collar bone and a hole that runs from one side of her chest through to the other. While I appreciate that she does not have high heels like Leia, Rouge could have used some heel spurs. She is very prone to falling over. I can not see displaying her without some sort of stand. Conveniently, there are a couple of ports right on her butt.

Her head is on a ball joint. She has a wide range of motion. Her shoulders are also on ball joints. She can’t quite raise her arms out and up to horizontal. Her elbows are double-jointed. She can perform full curls. Her thumbs are fixed. The rest of her fingers are single pinned and articulate as a single unit. She swivels at her biceps, forearms, thighs, and ankles. Her wrists are hinged. She has a waist waggle so she can perform side to side crunches, but she does not have a waist swivel, limiting are posability. Her hips are on universal joints. During transformation or straight out of the box, make sure to pull her legs out at the hip so she can achieve her full range of motion. She can perform full front and side splits. Her knees are single-jointed, but she can still perform full curls. Her ankles are on rockers and tilts. Her toes are on hinges.

Her accessories include a pistol, a rifle, an alternate chest, a pair of alternate hands, and a slew of alternate faces. Her pistol is gray, with some minimal line work and paint applications. Her rifle is pink. They each have a slot on their handles to receive the tabs on her palms. Although easy to use, the tabs are prone to splitting the handles at the seams. The weapons sit securely in her hands, but her grip looks very dainty. Her alternate chest is more angular and less curvy. Swapping out her chest requires mucking with some screws. Unfortunately, the torso tabs don’t line up properly on the alternative chest so I have to continue using the curvier chest. Her alternate hands do not have the awkward looking tabs, but are otherwise identical. They simply pop on and off their mushroom pegs. She comes with a total of six alternate faces. Two are very similar with neutral expressions, one with her red visor deployed, one with wider eyes than the others, and two with surprised expressions. The face swap mechanism is very simple to use.

Rouge will stand (using the term loosely) on my Fans Toys shelf. I will use her as my Masterpiece stand-in for now because her face sculpt reminds me the most of the source material and because her colors are so much brighter than Leia's. I didn't finish transforming her because I nearly broke a piece in trying. Despite being the second Fans Toys offering (Soveriegn was the other), that I didn’t fully transform, I would have still been excited to complete the Autobot cast of The Movie. Her limited articulation and balance issue killed that for me. Ocular Max has a chance to deliver a knock out blow with their upcoming Arcee figure. Still, I can’t wait for Fans Toys to bring on Hoodlum.

FansToys FT-24 Rouge Photo Gallery

FansToys FT-24 Rouge Photo Gallery

Check out our FansToys FT-24 Rouge Photo Gallery. Then follow the links to order yours. Thank you for your continued support of The Chosen Prime!

Zeta EX05 Arc is now up for pre-order!

Zeta EX05 Arc

Zeta EX05 Arc is now up for pre-order! ETA of May 2018 release. Reserve yours using the links. Thank you for your continued support of The Chosen Prime!

Takara LG-10 Arcee and LG-12 Windblade, has been restocked!

Takara LG-10 Arcee and LG-12 Windblade

We just receive a restock for Takara LG-10 Arcee and LG-12 Windblade. Get yours by using the links below. Shop Smart with The Chosen Prime!

Iron Factory IF-EX24 Cannon Chariot with IF-EX16H Hunter, is now in-stock!

Iron Factory IF-EX24 Cannon Chariot with IF-EX16H Hunter

We just received our stock for Iron Factory IF-EX24 Cannon Chariot with IF-EX16H Hunter. Orders are being processed. Get yours by following the links. Shop Smart with The Chosen Prime!

FansToys FT-24 Rouge is now up for pre-order!

FansToys FT-24 Rouge

We have the pre-order up for FansToys FT-24 Rouge. ETA of April 2018 release. Reserve yours today by following the links. Shop Smart with The Chosen Prime!

Wei Jiang Alcee - Arcee

This was definitely an impulse purchase born out of curiosity. As a Voyager-scaled stand-in on a CHUG display, Wei Jiang Alcee is more than adequate.

She definitely does not hold together as well in vehicle mode when compared to Generations Arcee. I think some tabs are missing when compared to her official counterpart. The console and steering wheel has some detail though. Her plastic tires don't spin very well and parts of her undercarriage touch the ground. There is storage for her weapons.

Yes, there is some parts-forming with the top portion of her car, but it's entirely optional. My biggest complaint with Generations Arcee was that her backpack makes her look like she's carrying a car around. With Alcee, it can be removed. Transforming between both modes is pretty easy and straightforward.

Alcee is basically an upscaled version of Generations Arcee. There is plenty of paint applications to break up all that pink and white. It looks pretty clean too. She has nice light-piping that works very well. I wished they had included her eye visor gimmick, but the official version didn't have that either. The pink of her face is more peach than pink and she could have used some line work in her face. My copy has some paint splotches on her thighs and flashing on her shoulder pylons.

Her head is on a ball joint. She can look up but not down. Her shoulders are also on ball joints. She can only raise her arms up and outward to about 45 degrees. She only has swivels at her biceps and lower thighs. Her hands are fixed in an open grasp. She has single-jointed elbows and knees, with ratchets in the elbows. Both joints can curl a little past 90 degrees. I'm not sure how to describe her hip joints. They are almost like universals with ratchets along the frontal axis, but you have to engage a separate hinge at her thighs to get her to do a side splits because her thigh sculpt gets in the way. Van Damme would not approve of her range of motion. Although she is capable of doing a full front splits, her abdomen gets untabbed. She has ankle tilts but no rockers.

Her accessories include her rifles and her swords. She has one pink rifle with gunmetal highlights and one smaller black rifle with silver highlights. The pair of transparent swords are identical. Gunmetal paint combined with the line work on the blade make for a visually interesting design. All her weapons use rectangular handles that fit very securely in her hands. They can also peg onto her thighs, but the guns make more sense visually.

I'm not quite sure she is suited for a Masterpiece shelf, but I think she'll look okay standing next to Masterpiece Hot Rod. I'll probably put her on my CHUG shelf next to Generations Springer, especially since there are options coming from Fans Toys and Toyworld.