[Nightwing]

I have wanted this Masterpiece Voltron for awhile now but the $100 price point was a bit too high for me. I'm very happy that they now have a plastic version at half the price. I look at it this way, most of the toys that are out right now are plastic and look great. Sure the original one was die-cast, but so were some of parts of many G1 Transformers. The new Transformers Classics line is great and they are not die-cast metal. I'm sure if they re-released some of the G1 line as encore Transformers without the metal die-cast parts they would be just as nice.

Many of you have mentioned that the die-cast metal arms of Votron make him too heavy so that he can't hold up his sword, or that he falls over. I have the same problem with my original die-cast Voltron from the 80's. A plastic version came out a few years ago and I bought that one as well. He doesn't seem to have any problems standing up or holding up his weapons.

If this new plastic Masterpiece version solves those problems then I'm all for it, even if that means he is "chrome-less".

I would love to hear more feedback on this before I go out and buy one though.