Masters of the Universe Classics Rokkon and Stonedar Video Preview
The upcoming Masters of the Universe Classics (Amazon.com search*) exclusive action figures, Rokkon and Stonedar, get some time in this new video from Matty Collector. I’m still generally excited about these two toys — I hope the purchase process isn’t too painful or annoying — but I feel the video reveals two minor issues with the toys.
- Armor Frustrations. It looks to me like keeping the armored parts in place will be difficult for many of the toys. The parts snap onto existing holes that are part of the basic action figure design and not custom ports, so getting these to fit just right — as Transformersexperience demonstrates — will not be a simple matter.
- “Partsformer” City. Again, Transformers toy experience tells us that a majority of fans are unhappy with transforming toys that have large parts leftover, and that’s exactly what happens with these two guys.
Now these problems should only come into play when transforming the toys into rock modes, so most people will never suffer through these two complaints of mine. But we’ll just have to wait and see how they are before passing judgment.
I still want these; despite the armor/transformation process they’re still neat and it’s kinda remarkable that Mattel decided to tackle these two toys. And we do need Meteorbs.
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Cost cuting measure going this route rather than having the plates molded onto the figs like the originals?
Other than that cant think of why they would not just place the parts permanantly on.
@Court – You know what? It wasn’t until your comment that I asked myself: “Why didn’t Mattel’s factory simply glue the armor parts on?” I bet you’re right and it’s all money savings.
Which is somewhat understandable, Matty Collectors is still trying to find that cost/product value ratio, but still an interesting choice since the initial figures were pretty solid on their own.
Guys, no. Not this time.
Was I the only kid who wished he could take the meteor bits off these guys to make them more not-giant-rocks?
Sure, they could screw up the fit pretty easy. But there are good intentions for this move.
@John K. – I’m still quite excited by these. I’m just worried about details that became (to me) obvious in the video. Hopefully it’s a non-issue and we can all display the toys as we wish to.