Today was a day that could do no right, and when it was finallly over, I rewarded myself for surviving it with a trip to Toys 'R' Us. There, I picked up Pokemon Diamond, and nearly blew a blood vessel in my eye as two horrible, HORRIBLE children screamed and cried their way through a twenty-minute duel using Pirates of the Caribbean swords. I pride myself on understanding the child's mind and being tolerant of their ways, but these kids nearly had me to the point of needing to get physical. Mostly because they were six, and I knew that I could take them.
With the new Transformers movie being a rousing success, its real estate within toy stores has bloomed into two entire aisles dedicated to nothing but robots in disguise. Between Transformers, Star Wars, Ninja Turtles and Pokemon playthings, I'm going to have to mark 2007 as one of the best toy years of my lifetime. Yours, too. Even if you're 300.
I picked up a couple of the "Robot Heroes" two-packs, which is basically the Transformers' answer to Star Wars' "Galactic Heroes" line. In both cases, you get some of the most beloved characters in toon/movie history immortalized as cute little figures bordering on the super deformed.
The figures remind me of the old "Action Masters" Transformers, in a good way. They don't transform and they're not terribly posable, but when you can cram this much adorable firepower into less than three inches, you don't need too much gravy. They're the kind of figures that'll make you wish you had a thicker window pane, because they so deserve to be lined up in alphabetical order along one.
I got Megatron, Ultra Magnus, Soundwave and Bumblebee, but the other available figures are arguably even more desirable. The line has everything from a Matrix-opening Prime to a Unicron, and even a Ravage in a seated position who looks much like a family dog begging for chicken.
I feel like I should write a little more, but all I can think about doing now is lighting a Macanudo and heading into the ALF Season 2 DVD set with class.
Posted by Matt on 07/09/2007. E-mail me!
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Deep sixing the ‘Cons isn’t a really good idea. There are lava vents to be found on the ocean floor.
I’m planning of getting some movie TFs, but I’ll wait on some of the upcoming repaints in G1 colors. Starscream and Jazz, movie bodies, original paintjobs.
Using the Frenzy name was a bit of last minute juggling. The character was going to be Soundwave, but they felt it wasn’t right to relegate one of the great ones to a spastic semi-comedic role, so after some debate, a more apropos name was used.