![]() Everything else feels like a lateral move. And I guess it's okay that they painted the toothed disk on his dragon chest so it stands out more, but that kind of just reminds you that he's sculpted to look like he has a gimmick the original toy does while not maintaining it. The inside bottoms of the dragon mouths are painted red, as well as the lower set of teeth being painted white. There are some parts of the paintjob that I appreciate more than the Hasbro one. But Blurr was already out, and so instead of selling him again with a new Haywire, they gave that Haywire to Doublecross. (Or another Twinferno, if you want to go with his new and frankly superior name For American Trademark Purposes) I didn't really have a desire for a new Doublecross, since Hasbro's is fine, and Takara's colors are sort of different but not in an amazingly spectacular way.īut I needed his gun! TakaraTomy decided belatedly to start giving their Targetmaster characters their Targetmaster guns, meaning Hot Rod and Kup got Firebolt and Recoil. But if they did, I'd take a Blanka, please.įine, I have another Doublecross. They're probably not gonna do more of these. I guess TakaraTomy didn't want to use Titans Return Windblade or Titans Return Arcee for her. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the same Headmaster gimmick as the other three. but Chun Li gives the Generations "Thrilling 30" Arcee toy a nice blue/brown/yellow/peach ensemble that's more engaging than the others. ![]() ![]() Ken's a solid red guy and Ryu is that scheme but in white, and M Bison is red again but with silver. It's a pretty solid toy, and it has a good presence as M Bison.Īrcee as Chun Li probably has the most interesting deco of the set. His head transforms into a little robot guy who's ALSO painted to look like M Bison. (Which itself is essentially Blitzwing with a new chest and head.) M Bison transforms from tank to jet to robot and back. He's a redeco of Titans Return Megatron, who's a triple changer. He chewed scenery like it was friggin' beef jerky.Īnd so now I have a Transformer of him. That dude knew how to have fun playing an incredibly goofy fascist dictator, with, like, octopus hat racks and everything. I wanted a Raul Julia M Bison Transformer. I bought these sets because of Raul Julia. Look, I'm gonna be completely honest with you. I really only want Megatron/M Bison and Arcee/Chun Li, and not Optimus/Ryu or Hot Rod/Ken, but they matched each of the two I wanted with one I didn't, so whatcha gonna do. Unfortunately, they're packaged in a way that made me buy them both. ![]() M Bison is launching sideways, Chun Li is doing her upside-down spin kick, etc. And the toys are posed in their packaging doing their special moves. Let's paint his Headmaster's toes pink, too. Ken has bare feet? Yes, let's paint Hot Rod's toes pink. It's equally ugly and visually captivating. Megatron, Optimus, Hot Rod, and Arcee are all decoed like the human characters from Street Fighter II, down to having flesh tones where the characters have flesh tones. These two sets are nuts, and they came outta no where. (note: m bison's name over in japan - and thus on this toy's packaging - is vega, but i am going to be calling him m bison anyway) Like, for instance, if TakaraTomy were to go friggin' bonkers and redeco a set of four Transformers as Ken, Ryu, Chun Li, and M Bison? Yeah, that intersects my interests. But it was an everpresent part of kidvid growing up, so it's there in my brain just through pop culture osmosis. But I don't have the dexterity for pulling off any kind of special move, so the game was mostly lost on me. Mostly I liked playing Blanka because he could bite the other guy's head.
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