Here's two from me:
Ok, since I just got the stuff I bought from someone on another TF forum, I figured why not make a review.
Here we go.
Hasbro Collector's Airazor.
Box: The box is about maybe 6'' by 6'' by 2.5 '' The front slides off the bottom, and the box is made of rather stiff cardboard, very nice. The front artwork depicts Airazor herself in battle, with one foot on the body of a wasted Predacon, who looks a bit like Machine Wars Starscream, but there are carparts seen on this mystery fellow. Airazor's firing her weapon at some unseen enemy, while someone ( perhaps the same unseen enemy? ) firing an energy beam at her, though missing by at least 50 feet.
The background is a cityscape.....though is it Cybertron or an Earth city, it's hard to tell. The sides of box show Airazor's toy in vehicle form, with her name in Beast Wars font and the Maximal symbol, while the other sides have the collector club info, copyrights, etc. Inside the box, Airazor is in vehicle form, and sitting nestled in a bedding of black foam....keeping her nice and safe. Vehicle form: Airazor is a retool and a recolor of Energon Slungslinger. I'll go over the changes made here. The main colors are orange and brown, with silver trim on the cockpits, noses, wing guns and dorsal platting. Clear emerald plastics make the canopies/windshields and the end of her missile. The minicon ports are intact too. Transformation to robot form is tricky.
Robot form: This is where it gets even better. Her tail fins and dorsal plates become apair of Voltron-like wings on her. She stands about the hight of a deluxe seeker, if you don't cound her wings. Her head is a retool, looking like a female wearing an ancient Valkerie warrior mask, with black wings on the top of her head, and orange fins near her cheeks. Her face is silver ( the helmet covers the top of her face ) and her eyes are emerald green. Her face looks feminen, wthout exagerated features, like big puffy lips or lipstick, etc. The body is androgenous enough to pass for a female, though her legs do look feminen, looks like she's wearing brown knee high boots I see some chicks wearing. She's rather armed...for her forearms are equipped with the wing tip guns, and her missile launcher ( which is perminently attacted to her body ) flips over and mounts on her left shoulder in a rather G1 styled manner. The missile is interesting, it has a clear green tip, looking like an amplafier for her energy cannon, which is depicted as such on the box art. The decpeticon spark is now replaced with a milky opaque orb, which can still pass for a spark to me. A tiny Maximal symbol is tampographed on the bottom of her left shoulder plate. There is some problems though. Her left hip joint, where the rivet attaches to, is a bit loose, and her left leg flops a bit.( Anyone know how to rectifiy this?
) The shoulders sometimes pop apart, but if you snap em right, it works fine. Also included in the set is a nice, large bio-card, which talks about Airazor....who it seems was named Chromia 10 at some time.
Overall: A good new take on a classic Beast Wars character. The vehicle mode looks like something Airazor could have turned into once ( though is this a prequel item or was she somehow brought back alive, or does this go with the Wreckers comic? ), and the robot form looks excellent and looks better for Airazor rather than Slugslinger. It's awesome, and to me personally, refreashing to see Maximals and Predacons again, showing things going foreward rather than backwords. If you can afford this, and want more post Autobot/Decepticon characters, femmale characters, or something out of the normal, then get it.
http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=1128&size=0&start=0
Next.....the KISS Players Casettes.
The KISS casettes:
Box: The box is about 6'' by 5'' by 2'' box. It is in white and pink, with the 3 KISS players girls huddled around a microphone, with the 3 cassette bots with them. They are looking up at you, singing or something I think. 3 sides of the box has a profile shot of one of the KISS girls kissing one of the cassette bots, with the back showing the cassette bots in casette and bot/beast forms, along with their tech specs and bios ( I dunno what they say, my Japanese is very limited ).
The set comes with a small, fold out poster, which has one bit where it's the box art, but in full colors. Another bit has the girls, in bikkinis, chilling out on some beach resort with the bots. Atari is petting Sundor, Syao is chilling next to Glit ( Kremzeek drinking out of a glass Syao is holding up for him ), and Melissa, sitting cheek to cheek with Rosanna, who's in drawn in a rather feminen style and with that hands on knees pose ( Ronanna might like the fembots, and not just Convoy
). The rest has the intructions howing how to transform the casette bots, along with real cute drawings of the KISS girls saying something. The tapes themselves are in a plastic try with a cover.....you listenening, Hasbro? Glit: Glit is the repaint of Ravage. Glit is mostly white, with deep metallic blue. There is a red cross symbol in one corner and the sticker showing the cassette film looks much better than the original Ravage had. The casette body has also pink trim, and "Glit'' in pink writing in the lower corner. The flip side has a white sticker with a very bright yellow decepticon symbol on it where the rub sign would be ( Glit is seen hanging with the girls, but Syao is seen punching Glit on the CD art , so Glit's allegence is a mystery ). Glit's beast form is Ravage in white and deep metallic blue on the diecast bits, with yellow eyes. The rocket attachments are in a light aqua metallic blue. Joint are nice and tight.
Rosanna: Casette is white on one side, pink on the other. The white has light aqua blue ( lighter than Glit's ) where the chest is in robot form, and where the crotch panel is. There are silvery stickers with red trim and "Rosanna" written in red as well. Where the rub sign would be is a white sticker with a very bright yellow Autobot sumbol. The flip side has red and silver around the film drums.
Robot form has a pink head with a dark blue visor, and 2 little red hearts adorm her shoulder. Her feet are pink as well. Her guns ( which are called microphones in what I was able to translate from the bio, she also seems to be an idol singer as well ) are the same metallic blue on her chest and crotch ( a sorta psuedo bikinni ? ) and look menacing, ready to fight if need be. Hasbro 1986 & Takara 1986 is molded on her upper back. Joint are nice and tight as well.
Sundor: Cassette is orange with red diecast. The parts that become the wings have an awesome metallic sticker that goes from yellow to red, very nice. Flipside has metallic yellow with red lines and there is also a small yellow Autobot symbol. Beastmode is pretty much the same plastic and metal colors, with yellow on the eyes. The add-on guns are metallic gold. Sundor looks like he/she could be a pheonix with these colors. Joints are nice and tight here too.
There is also a card with the box art on it, and there is also a CD the set comes with. It has the KISS girls and the tape bots on it. The 2 tracks on the CD are of the voice actresses of the KISS players series ( I think it's a radio show in Japan, correct me if I am mistaken on that
) singing what I think is the TF theme songs, and they sing quite nicely, pretty catchy tunes. Overall: The KISS players casettes are a neat little item, and I am one of those guys who thinks the KISS players concept was always a cute, harmless, adorable twist on the TF's, since I am sure not ALL TF's are bad-ass war machines, some would want a different life style. The characters are interesting and more tapes are always welcome, and Blaster could always use some more backup, and I think he and Rosanna would get along quite well. If you find the KISS players concept disturbing ( ironically, most girls are cool with this, it's the GUYS who are offended
by the images. ), you're turning into your parents ::)I myself do plan to get more KISS players TF's soon I hope.
Here's pics.
Glit
http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=1155&size=0&start=0
Rosanna
http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=1157&size=0&start=0
Sundor
http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=1156&size=0&start=0
How about yours?
