Showing posts with label Movieverse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movieverse. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 January 2021
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
REVIEW: Toyworld TW-F09 Freedom Leader
Although it feels like a lot longer, it’s only been since about the middle of 2020 that I’ve been unboxing new toys on camera. Yet already in that time there have been a good few memorable moments, and one that definitely sticks in the ol’ brain is trying to contort Toyworld Freedom Leader into its vehicle mode, such is the rather unholy process required to do so.
Saturday, 5 December 2020
Thursday, 5 November 2020
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
Friday, 23 October 2020
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Monday, 5 March 2018
REVIEW: Alien Attack STF-01 Firage
Whilst putting this review together, I shared a couple of completed pictures of the figure with some friends of mine. "Who is that supposed to be?" came the immediate response from one of them, despite him having seen Dark of the Moon, the live action Transformers film from which the intended robot hails. Even when I pointed out that the character's name is Dino, they still had precisely zero recollection of him actually being in the movie, and it's perhaps not hard to understand why. If you check on Youtube, you'll find a video which collects all of the Autobot's scenes in that film into one handy package. It runs for a mere three minutes and fifty one seconds (by my rough approximation, that's about one hundredth of the total runtime, no? It just felt like it?), which is especially telling once you realise that most of that is spent in car mode or hanging around in the background. Still, Dino has seemingly made impression enough to be granted his own third party revision, and so here we are. Oh, and if you were wondering about the name, it's definitely not an unfortunate homage to that political pillock, Nigel Farage (puttup!), but instead a mash-up of Ferrari and Mirage, which was rather confusingly the character's name when he was originally realised in official toy form. And with all that cleared up, let's crack on with it!
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
REVIEW: Unique Toys R-01 Peru Kill
Lets be frank - some third party toys have rather bizarre names, don’t they? I mean, Unique Toys own efforts can be a bit ropey from time to time, with contributions like Allen and Sworder landing with all the elegance and charm of a handgliding rhinoceros, and that’s to say nothing of me still scratching my head over stuff like Gahz’ranka. Not that the competition have it sown up; let’s not forget that whole FansToys Willys debacle after all. Still, I was genuinely mystified by this submission in particular, until a friend reminded me that the character in question makes a notable kill in Peru as part of the movie from which he hails - hence Peru Kill. I’m not sure if I like it better now or not.