Yes, 3 out of 4 so far! Very happy, and certainly helping me recover from the blow of not finding them in Osaka...Originally Posted by Hursticon
Man, I spoke way too soon!
This is so awesome HD, I'm really ecstatic for you mate as you've clearly achieved what you've set out to - 3 out of 4 so far, will it be 4-4?
Noizu certainly does seem to share a hell of a lot of similarites with Overkill when it comes to the Box art, but IMO, that is where the similarities end.
I see what you mean about the colour HD, it's a deeper hue of Baby/Sky Blue that's for sure and it's quite intriguing indeed - Much more along the lines of Hot Spot.
His head/face sculpt is cool but I get a slightly more 'monster-ish' vibe off of it that a T-Rex, though that being said he's definitely a T-Rex - That's for sure.
His combined mode is cool, if not a little... what's the word... underachieved maybe?
I don't know, he looks quite cool don't get me wrong, I love the concept of combining cassettes and his silhouette looks awesome but I feel his upper torso seem to be let down a little for not having arms capable of bending at the elbow or rotating forward.
That's my only gripe really but at the end of the day it means nothing because just obtaining this guy is a true feat in itself!
Another Huge congrats HD, this one's box is in far superior condition to the last's too!
I agree, I think it's closer to the Hot Spot colour, but I do so like this particular hue of blue.
The robot mode is strange yes. I don't think that its an afterthought like many commonly says. Holding these guys in my hand, I can see the thought and complexity that went into designing and building them. I think the difficulty was trying to make them dinosaurs (a difficult form to work with) and then also make them transform into a robot. Slam dance is probably the best looking cassette combined, but then, it wouldn't be very difficult to design s nice robot mode because the jet and the tank can be worked backwards from the robot mode - these are generic vehicles that have no semblance to anything (unlike dinosaurs that at least have to look credibly dinosaurs).
Agree that the 1988 cassettes were an improvement, but could be due to the reasons I articulated above...Man that combined mode looks silly!You can clearly see that they improved on that concept with the following year's combiner cassettes (Slamdance and Squawkbox).
heroic_decepticon: that tech specs states that his transformation is.... wait for it...
cassette tape!
Naturally the cassette mode is the alt mode and the dino mode is the robot mode, so the tech specs only describes the alt mode and not the robot mode. So unfortunately there's nothing there that clarifies what kind of dinosaur it's meant to be.
Maybe one day if you or I ever get to meet Ono Koujin or Yoke Hideaki we can ask directly ourselves (although unless someone reminds me, I probably won't remember
P.S.: I like how Legout's tech specs says that his hobby is listening to rock music. Heh.I can imagine him jammin' with Twincast.
Unfortunate the the tech specs didn't shed anymore light.... Sign.
Legout and decibel did in fact jam with blaster in alex milne's version of the spotlight blaster comic!
I think these things ate my soul....
thanks Rob (in case anybody is wondering, I meant you (and 1 or 2 others) when I said there are others with incredibly powerful collections that do not say too much...)
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