Post by Hucklebubba on Feb 23, 2006 23:35:33 GMT -5
(I'm sure we had a thread related to this somewhere, but I felt like starting afresh.)
I will do a toy review now! Try to stop me!
Okay, so here's the idea that somebody had: Perform a Reese's-style cross-contamination of two popular franchises, and end up with something greater than the sum of its parts. More specifically, create Transformers action figures based on Star Wars characters.
Taken at face value, it's an idea that will make any self-respecting geek evacuate his bowels right then and there. In practice, it falls somewhat short of being the greatest thing ever, and has to settle for merely being a mostly-workable novelty.
There are four figures in the series thus far, of which I only have one, and will probably continue to only have one. Namely, the Luke Skywalker/X-Wing dude. The wafer-thin and completely unnecessary "plot" behind the figure--a plot forged in whichever circle of Hell is the most absurd--is that ol' Luke, by way of super-fantastic attunement with the Force and violation of every natural law that exists, has managed to turn himself into an X-Wing. I made no part of that up, which is good, because that means that the thought police won't be revoking my imagination on the grounds of unfathomable stupidity.
I personally would've rather seen an original Transformers character who wasn't Luke in any way but just happened to have an X-Wing as his alt-mode. And I think I already am, for two reasons:
1. Robo-Luke's Luke mode looks precious little like any sort of actual Luke, Skywalker or otherwise. The head is be-flighthelmeted, and there's a lot of orange, reminiscent of a Rebel jumpsuit, but the similarities end there.
2. The figure comes with an itty-bitty pilot Luke Skywalker that sits in the cockpit and everything, which means that if the X-Wing 'bot is supposed to be Luke, he's taken the liberty of birthing a tiny clone of himself to pilot. . .himself? Freud would have all sorts of weird crap to say about that.
Whatever the case, if you ignore the ridiculous backstory--which is so easy I'm doing it right now--it is a pretty darned cool figure. An X-Wing that turns into a robot; how did that not get made sooner?
Like I said earlier, I doubt I'll be getting any more of the figures in this series--unless Hasbro can somehow swing a Han Solo/Millenium Falcon, or, as is more likely, a Boba Fett/Slave 1--but I'll still wrap up by giving a nod to the other three, simply because typing makes my fingers feel sexy.
Star Wars Transformers figures not on my shelf, now or probably ever: A Darth Vader/Tie Advanced figure that I've pegged as the only other one I'd buy from the current series if I had a change of heart, a General Grievous/Wheelbike figure that I don't find to be even mildly interesting, and an Obi-Wan/Jedi Starfighter figure that looks even less like Obi-Wan than Luke looks like Luke.
The End!
I will do a toy review now! Try to stop me!
Okay, so here's the idea that somebody had: Perform a Reese's-style cross-contamination of two popular franchises, and end up with something greater than the sum of its parts. More specifically, create Transformers action figures based on Star Wars characters.
Taken at face value, it's an idea that will make any self-respecting geek evacuate his bowels right then and there. In practice, it falls somewhat short of being the greatest thing ever, and has to settle for merely being a mostly-workable novelty.
There are four figures in the series thus far, of which I only have one, and will probably continue to only have one. Namely, the Luke Skywalker/X-Wing dude. The wafer-thin and completely unnecessary "plot" behind the figure--a plot forged in whichever circle of Hell is the most absurd--is that ol' Luke, by way of super-fantastic attunement with the Force and violation of every natural law that exists, has managed to turn himself into an X-Wing. I made no part of that up, which is good, because that means that the thought police won't be revoking my imagination on the grounds of unfathomable stupidity.
I personally would've rather seen an original Transformers character who wasn't Luke in any way but just happened to have an X-Wing as his alt-mode. And I think I already am, for two reasons:
1. Robo-Luke's Luke mode looks precious little like any sort of actual Luke, Skywalker or otherwise. The head is be-flighthelmeted, and there's a lot of orange, reminiscent of a Rebel jumpsuit, but the similarities end there.
2. The figure comes with an itty-bitty pilot Luke Skywalker that sits in the cockpit and everything, which means that if the X-Wing 'bot is supposed to be Luke, he's taken the liberty of birthing a tiny clone of himself to pilot. . .himself? Freud would have all sorts of weird crap to say about that.
Whatever the case, if you ignore the ridiculous backstory--which is so easy I'm doing it right now--it is a pretty darned cool figure. An X-Wing that turns into a robot; how did that not get made sooner?
Like I said earlier, I doubt I'll be getting any more of the figures in this series--unless Hasbro can somehow swing a Han Solo/Millenium Falcon, or, as is more likely, a Boba Fett/Slave 1--but I'll still wrap up by giving a nod to the other three, simply because typing makes my fingers feel sexy.
Star Wars Transformers figures not on my shelf, now or probably ever: A Darth Vader/Tie Advanced figure that I've pegged as the only other one I'd buy from the current series if I had a change of heart, a General Grievous/Wheelbike figure that I don't find to be even mildly interesting, and an Obi-Wan/Jedi Starfighter figure that looks even less like Obi-Wan than Luke looks like Luke.
The End!
