Actually NECA wa sthe only one to accept the license because nobody wanted to gamble on an original property, and NECA intentionally produced waves one and two to lower standards because tehy didn't want to invest if the movie and line wasn't popular.

Of course they were. So hopefully we get a redo of Gypsy and maybe even Striker later.

My 18 inch Gipsy arrived today. It's REALLY sweet, especially after I touched up the paint here and there, like painting the visor edge and collar.

You went ahead and bought an 18 inch Gypsy in the end?

In the end?

I've been after that thing forever, it's just been hard to find. But then it came up on TRU.com and I found they ship to Canada.

God damn, Knifehead is gonna be huge.

Oh yeah, but last we spoke of this we were too busy trying not to vomit at the price tag.

That's because I actually managed to snag one for retail price + shipping, not at NECA's $20 ebay markup plus $70 in import and shipping.

Man I wish I could find one like that, the cheapest one I found was like 150 Canadian dollars before shipping.

Yeah, AFAIK the line is absent from Canda save for a few, and far between, comic shops. TRU? Nah. Target? Nah.

Speaking of Yipsy Yanger, I'm actually articulating her right hand as we speak. Using spare Halo Megabloks microfig arms and hip pieces, I'm ball-jointing each digit. While the thumb was a cake walk, and the pinky and ring finger pretty simple, my eyes were bigger than my stomach as I tried to FULLY articulate it, wheras the others I just left the entire digit alone. As such, tehy've been diced to peices with just the visible back of each remaining, so I'm now having to RESCULPT those two, so no Gipsy until tomorrow, which bumbs me out majorly.

Needless to say, I won't be articulating the left hand anytime soon. I'm honestly considering giving up and just resculpting the hand back closed. But it'll be worth it for that little extra bit of dynamic posing, like grabbing the eventual 18 inch Knifehead. :D

I lack of articulated hands is what kills me the most on the 18in Gipsy. Something that big, you want it to have more than just sculpted fists.

Can you give examples of other figures whose hands would be in proportion to it? For example, I've got a spare pair of Armada Unicron hands that I've really been wanting to use.

Those are close, but don't look a damn thing like it's actually hands. They may also be a bit big.

Cybertron Primus would be a nice match I think.