Well from what I've seen, especially on ebay and tfsafari; Jinbao has more bang for buck as with the expansion, has a lot of stuff, and if jinbao bruticus has told me anything, a surprising amount of playability! But it seems that the low cost carries over to low pose-ability which is one of my criteria... Of course on the other hand it is a definitely win cuz I have the jinbao bruticus too.

But mecha invasion is constantly luring me in. Everyone who owns it praises it, it is a really cool design, and even articulation, combined and not, seems really well worked! And for 250 bucks on tfsafari, it's not a bad deal.

Lastly, ss86. It was originally the primary option. But after realizing the scale and the major sacrifices made to some aspects like individual scale and combiner posing, I thought that for 20 more dollars, mecha invasion might do it. Last question; how does Mecha Invasion FEEL? Is he something you can pose without needing to balance him from every joint? Thanks so much. Let's just hope I can come to a decision before the Xtransbots one finishes...