j14
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Can anyone tell me the type of batteries that go inside Vader and inside the remote please?
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They all come with the figure in a battery tray? Let me know if you need numbers and I will check the instructions later. The belt batteries are tiny..
Actually speaking of this..
I didn't have a problem setting up Vader like some others, thought it was fun. But what is crazy is that the voice function goes to sleep after 15mins and to use it you have to strip him down again?!! That's just silly. Other issue is the replaceable sabre-arm. Once you pull it off it once the other original arm is a little loose and pops off inside the suit when you pose. I found the same with Obi-wan but this is a bit more noticeable.
I set up the sabre at last and was really impressed with how bright it is. It looks very like the screen sabre (after rotoscoping), with the thin tapered end and glowing dot/point at the top. Really pretty impressive. Better than a cathode blade if you rig it to a power source. More sophisticated looking. It doesn't photograph well, it comes out yellow/orange but in hand it's a deep screen red, I heard a reviewer mentioning this and it's very true.
tremendous figure, just a few gripes..
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I know the batteries are in the box as I have the figure but my voice functions have stopped working. The seller wants me to check the batteries before I have to ship it back. The problem I have is that my figure is at home and I'm in the city now so it would be easier for me to pick up the replacement batteries now.
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It stops after 15 minutes? Did you know that? You have to turn it back on and off according to instructions.
If the light on the control is working it could only be the body batteries. Let me check I have it here.
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AG9/LR936 three of them in the body.
and three of them in the control.
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Yep I do. It's only worked once for me. I stripped the figure again last night and reinserted the batteries but it did nothing. The seller wants me to try new batteries as he reckons the batteries are dead.
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Can you post up the battery types after you check?
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If the voice/SFX is loud enough and/or the sound quality is good enough I will try to rig up a permanent switch (through the clothing/material) as I'll be keeping my Vader and not selling him on. (No eBay scalping for me,erm, lol.)
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Sorry Rory I didn't see the edit. Thank you so much. All the best, Jay.I did a couple of posts back.
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Are you saying that you've connected the arm/sabre to a power source instead of using the batteries? Could you explain how? I've been thinking about this for a while and wondering how it could be done.
'Silly' isn't quite the word I would use. What's the point of the remote if not to also 'wake' the figure up? Again, there's no way I'm stripping Vader and un-futzing him just to activate voices.
What do you think about gluing or affixing a large toggle knob on the switch, so its easier to find back there? Or cutting a slit in the suit?
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I hate voice stuff on Action Figures as much as I hated the electronic crap on Transformers, but I do agree that if you include such a function it cannot be so ridicolously hard to activate.
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No, didn't say I have. But lots of members in here have.
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Yup that would work. The way they have designed it currently the Velcro opening doesn't even line up with the Velcro opening on the undersuit. Not sure if I would cut the suit though.
Then that's the plan -- super glue a larger "knob" on the switch trigger so you can feel it under the suit.
I have such a hard time finding the switch on Obi-Wan as it is, and that's just one layer (sleeve).
I have such a hard time finding the switch on Obi-Wan as it is, and that's just one layer (sleeve).
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So you have to strip off his head, armor, cape, chest box, tunic, unzip the suit just to reactivate him to talk again? You can't feel for the switch through the costume?
That sounds ****ed. Hell, I'm a major futzer so by the time I had him all put together and looking proper it would probably exceed 15 minutes. Sounds like a bad design. I'm not big on electronics (used the feature on my Robocop once to check him), but that's pretty dumb. I'd definitely want to try out this Vader and utilize the remote on a shelf if I had it, atleast once. Sounds frustrating.
Would have been better off nixing the electronics and offering it for $219 or something.
That sounds ****ed.
Hell, I'm a major futzer so by the time I had him all put together and looking proper it would probably exceed 15 minutes. Sounds like a bad design. I'm not big on electronics (used the feature on my Robocop once to check him), but that's pretty dumb. I'd definitely want to try out this Vader and utilize the remote on a shelf if I had it, atleast once. Sounds frustrating.Would have been better off nixing the electronics and offering it for $219 or something.
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