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They come with weapons and masks to help you be a lean green Halloween candy eating machine.
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By Robert “Rob Base” Greenwood
Hey, I’m Rob Base and today, thanks to the good folks at Mega Bloks, we are given a review of the Mega Bloks Halo UNSC Night Ops Gausshog 97134
This is a large package. It includes two mini Halo figures and one larger alien creature.
As always, it includes easy to follow step-by-step instructions, which have all been color coded.
I will admit, I am not that good at building toys like Mega Bloks and usually leave that up to my wife, but I was inclined to attempt this feat and I took flight.
Every step you do must be carefully calculated.
I find the easiest thing to do is organize all the pieces to make sure you have all parts needed. This vehicle has lights and sounds, which will add new dimensions to this toy. After about 20 minutes, I came to this level of completion. It really started to take shape and I was in the home stretch. Once completed, the toy looks amazing, but nothing is as cool as playing with it.
I handed the toy off to one of my colleagues, whose 7 year old daughter and 3 year old son had a blast taking it apart and building it again.
Toys like these are what stirs the imagination and will lead to future leaders and/or, at the very least, more sales for Mega Bloks.
I give the toy a solid 4/5 and with the holidays around the corner, this set should be under all Christmas trees.
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And remember they’re your toys… play with them the way you want.
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Figure stands about 10″ tall to be in scale with the 7″ Neca Robocop figure.
The Enforcement Droid 209 is an ultimately abortive attempt by OCP Senior President to generate automated replacements for the uncooperative Detroit police force. Jones’ would-be rival, junior executive Bob Morton, is tasked with creating a backup plan, the Robocop program. Morton watches sullenly as Jones’ team wheels out the massive ED-209 for a demonstration in the boardroom. In order to simulate a criminal encounter, Jones recruits one of Morton’s cronies to aim a pistol at the ED-209; in its rumbling animalistic voice the ED-209 orders the crony to drop the pistol, but when the ED fails to detect the pistol’s impact against the floor it tears the crony to pieces with a protracted barrage of machinegun fire. Dick attempts unsuccessfully to placate the Old Man, enabling Morton to weasel his way in and volunteer the Robocop plan as a substitute. Later, when Robocop discovers Dick Jones’ connection to Old Detroit crime boss Clarence Boddicker, he (Robocop) attempts to apprehend Jones, although he is prevented from doing so by Director 4. Jones attempts to use the ED-209 to destroy Robocop, although Robocop escapes. Successfully vilifying Robocop, Jones eventually reinstates the ED-209 program, placing one at the forefront of OCP headquarters, which Robocop destroys via the Cobra Assault Cannon.
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Welcome to Plastic Paper Realm, a series talking about great comics that never had a truly great, or if any, toy franchise.
Today, I want to talk about a comic book that has been in my top 50 best comics of all-time list. I have sung its praise since I started reading comics.
The Saga of Crystar from Marvel comics.
Here’s a brief history:
The Saga of Crystar: Crystal Warrior was a 1983 11-issue fantasy-based Marvel comic book with an associated toy line from Remco. The toy line mainly consisted of seven figures, some vehicles and accessories.
The toys were first sold in late 1982 with the Marvel Comics series being first published in the spring of 1983.
Since they released the toys first, many assumed the comic had been a licensed adaptation of the toy line. However, Crystar and all the characters in the toy line and comic book were actually created and owned by Marvel Comics itself. They had created the concept with the sole purpose of selling the license to a toy company.
Check out Crystar, knocking some sense into his arch nemesis, Moltar!
Remco toys released Crystar in the scale of the then current crop of action figures, 3-3/4 scale. In 1982, Hasbro found huge success with the return of GI Joe, but in this scale which has become a standard.
However, Takara were the first ones to utilize this scale, with their creation of the Microman line (Micronauts in the States).
This was soon followed by Kenner with the super popular Star Wars license.
Crystar’s toys are quite well made and over the years, even with the translucent plastic, these toys hardly are found cracked or broken.
So why is Crystar on my list? Simple enough answer. The toy line was popular (to diehards) and Marvel did try real hard to push this line. Unfortunately, Crystar’s obscurity and lack of a cartoon series made it a line that never fully materialized.
Remco, as an action figure toy company, always seemed to fall short and we only ever got one wave of the toys. At the same time Mattel had a billion dollar success with their titular hero He-Man.
Crystar, if handled right, could very well have competed against He-Man.
Crystar had a profile featured in the Marvel Comics 1980’s Handbook as well as the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z hardcover series.
He has appeared in Marvel Age and the character also appeared in the variant cover of Marvel Zombies 4 #1, which featured a number of 1980’s Marvel Comics characters in a parody of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video.
So who would I task at a return for the Crystal warrior? Mattel “Matty Collector.” Their current line of Masters of the Universe Classics toys design by the Four Horsemen has taken the toy collecting community by storm.
The only issue with tasking Matty is they have not had success with translucent plastic which would be a big sell for this line.
Marvel set the series parallel to the Marvel Universe and featured guest appearances by Doctor Strange, Nightcrawler and Alpha Flight.
The cover of issue #8 of The Saga of Crystar, drawn by Michael Golden, features a skull logo that was later used by the bands Samhain and Danzig.
Crystar is a Marvel license and the likelihood of Mattel doing these figures now is more than dead in the water with Mattel having the DC license. This would leave the license in the hands of Hasbro, which isn’t a bad thing, but not having this warrior in a proper scale with other 7 inch scale fantasy style figures would be doing him a disservice.
One last note:
Working Class Villains/Backyard Legends has been working on a third-party Crystar in the Masters of the Universe Classics scale. Unfortunately, setbacks and being an independent company has made the release of this figure an almost impossibility.
But I still cross my fingers!
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