In the wild, mouse at the ready, hunting down links
Everything you heard about this figure is true. This is indeed a magnificent Transformer design worthy of effusive praise.
He won’t cure cancer or bring about world peace or anything truly important like that but he’d put a smile on any Transformers fan’s face.
That’s worth twenty bucks, surely.
Hell, I paid thirty bucks for mine and even with two QC blemishes, I still have that smile on my face.
Posted in Pix, Toys, Transformers.
Comments Off on *boom* Head shot!
– Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Iron Legion.
An update of an older photo. Impressive as that collection is, believe it or not, that’s still only a fraction of the Iron Man action figures released through the years.
M.A.R.S. Heroes.
Xevoz-ish albeit a little rougher and less stylish.
“I kick your ass.”
Mr. Literal says: Looks like a kick to the crotch, actually.
Posted in Web.
Comments Off on Elsewhere on the web
– Monday, April 9, 2007
Removing the clear vinyl head reveals a chrome silver cyborg skull. It’s a freaky look mainly because of the pinhead proportions of the skull. To be fair, it had to be thus proportioned as the head wouldn’t fit otherwise.
The figure has an electronic gimmick. Press a button on his back and his chest lights up red to simulate cyborg heartburn. Or something.
The figure’s hands, forearms, lower legs and feet can be removed in order to make it easier to put on character costumes. There are 5mm ports all over the Neo Henshin Cyborg but Takara didn’t produce any accessories to take advantage of them.
The Neo Henshin Cyborg figures were sold with different coloured innards and with different weapons. My set, Silver-A, included flamethrower and ice gun attachments for the arms as well as a Cy-Breaster chest piece in clear plastic. Takara optimistically expected Henshin Cyborg fans to pick up every variant set in order to equip a single Cyborg with a full Neo Protector Suit.
Comments Off on Off with his head
– Monday, April 9, 2007
Seen on a local blog aggregator:
Translation: I have no blog and I must scream.
Meanwhile, local authorities are going: you have blogs and I must scream.
Posted in Blogging.
Comments Off on Sign of the times
– Sunday, April 8, 2007
The original Henshin Cyborg, released in August 1972, was one of the more important action figures. It was Takara’s attempt to put a sci-fi spin on its 12-inch GI Joe license, Combat Joe, which wasn’t captivating Japanese kids. The Cyborg figure had a clear plastic body, techno-innards and had a crazy storyline. It sold like hotcakes so naturally Takara went wild.
The company went on to release Henshin sets containing costumes to transform Cyborg figures into popular characters of the day. Takara took the transformation concept even further with the release of the Cyborg Rider set which allowed kids to transform a Cyborg into a motorcycle.
As the cost of producing plastic increased in the Seventies, Takara decided to reduced the size of its action figures and this led to the creation of another influential Japanese toyline, Microman.
Takara has tried to revive the Cyborg line a few times. In 1998, it produced Neo Henshin Cyborg and in 1999, it produced Cyborg 99. Both figures were updates of the familiar concept but neither found much of an audience. In 2003, Takara released a reproduction of the original Cyborg-1 figure but this didn’t have much of an impact either.
rev="post-946" 2 comments
– Sunday, April 8, 2007
