[img]frown.gif[/img] I was really hoping those were gonna come out good.
They should have let Muscle Machines make them... the West Coast Choppers they made friggin' ROCK.
Chrome + lights up + 50% off = SOLD!
Looks pretty good. Got a few nitpicks - the shotgun hand doesn't lock in place and easily falls out if someone picks it up and turns it the right way (wrong way? [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img] ). Don't want to glue it, but might have to. The light kinda shows through the side of the head in a dark room (not terrible but could have been avoided). Finally, the shotgun is slightly warped, and I have to assume they are all like that.
Now for the Joyride Studios letdown. I'm a fan of American Chopper: The Series and have been looking forward to the scale Theme Bike replicas. I found the smaller ones (1:18 scale) at Hot Topic ($8.99 - ouch) and was not impressed. Some of them look OK, but not great. The Comanche one looks like crap.
The Fire Bike is probably the best, but has a bad flaw - there's a flash point on the outside of the muffler. Since the muffler is chromed it really sticks out - they all look scuffed. It was bad enough for me to pass on buying it.
Maybe my expectations were just too high for the small versions. I hope the 1:10 scale ones turn out better.
For anyone interested, the 1:18s I saw were: Fire Bike, Comanche, Black Widow, Jet Bike, T-rex Softail, and one of the custom Rigids.
[img]frown.gif[/img] I was really hoping those were gonna come out good.
They should have let Muscle Machines make them... the West Coast Choppers they made friggin' ROCK.
Yeah I saw the 1:18's at Walgreens and was not impressed. [img]frown.gif[/img]
damn, I still need the OCC and WCC ones! I'll buy any of it! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Picked up the spider bike. It was good not great - for example, the wheel hubs were solid instead of cut through like on the real bike. But for $5.99 at TRU, not bad.
That's why I'm buying the BIG ones!
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