Post by hypnotator on Feb 25, 2006 15:12:16 GMT -5
Double parcel fun yesterday – two toys at once!
Invader Z has a very yellow head, but I’ve collected a few pictures of him from the net and they all have yellowed heads, a bit like Denys Fisher Cyborg, so I’m happy with mine. Feel free to gloat if yours is superior.
I didn’t realise until I took these photos that the transparent plastic is completely colourless, the blue tint resulting solely from the blue glitter. I always asked people about how the eye thing works and it’s difficult to work out even when you have him in your hands. Mrs. Hypnotator and I agree that there appears to be a transparent red pole with a reflecting cup shape around it. When you push the button, the cup comes forward, so that the cup goes from reflecting the red of the pole to not reflecting it. The resulting effect is that the eyes go from a completely red to silver with a red pupil. Mrs. Hypnotator came up with the idea of taping the button down for the photo. What a woman!
I also hadn’t fully realised how much these figures are a hybrid of alien and robot. Whilst his alien aspects are obvious, the inner head is fairly robotic. It is transparent like the body with a little spray of silver paint on the front.
The torso has an “engine” like Cyborg’s, but mostly taken up at the front by the face business. Inside the mouth is some circuitry but it’s very hard to make out and I couldn’t get a decent photograph.
The inner ”engine” is more in evidence on his back, which also has some circuitry embossed on the inside of the transparent plastic, like Neo Henshin Cyborg. You can see the button and the backs of the red eye poles.
The hands and feet are soft vinyl like the head, and the disc shapes I’d seen in pictures are actually cut-out shapes revealing more machinery. The machinery is not visible through the transparent body but there in some trans-dimensional way. Or perhaps the machinery is only in the disc shaped areas. I suppose the face on the chest subjugates the one on the head, which has no mouth, and maybe the eyes see a different spectrum or even a parallel universe.
The other parcel was a vintage Space Sheriff Gavan figure. I should review him separately but I can’t be stuffed. There is no die cast on this figure, unlike all my other Tokusatsus, but it’s the tiny springs covering the joints that make me love this figure. He’s all chrome so I’ll have to keep my fingers off him.
The detail is very nice too, and reminds me of the Zeroids a bit with all the different coloured buttons. Check the tiny text. You can also see the sticker on his right arm that is coming off; it won’t stay down. What do you reckon, chaps, should I adulterate this beautiful vintage toy with cyanoacrilate?
Invader Z has a very yellow head, but I’ve collected a few pictures of him from the net and they all have yellowed heads, a bit like Denys Fisher Cyborg, so I’m happy with mine. Feel free to gloat if yours is superior.
I didn’t realise until I took these photos that the transparent plastic is completely colourless, the blue tint resulting solely from the blue glitter. I always asked people about how the eye thing works and it’s difficult to work out even when you have him in your hands. Mrs. Hypnotator and I agree that there appears to be a transparent red pole with a reflecting cup shape around it. When you push the button, the cup comes forward, so that the cup goes from reflecting the red of the pole to not reflecting it. The resulting effect is that the eyes go from a completely red to silver with a red pupil. Mrs. Hypnotator came up with the idea of taping the button down for the photo. What a woman!
I also hadn’t fully realised how much these figures are a hybrid of alien and robot. Whilst his alien aspects are obvious, the inner head is fairly robotic. It is transparent like the body with a little spray of silver paint on the front.
The torso has an “engine” like Cyborg’s, but mostly taken up at the front by the face business. Inside the mouth is some circuitry but it’s very hard to make out and I couldn’t get a decent photograph.
The inner ”engine” is more in evidence on his back, which also has some circuitry embossed on the inside of the transparent plastic, like Neo Henshin Cyborg. You can see the button and the backs of the red eye poles.
The hands and feet are soft vinyl like the head, and the disc shapes I’d seen in pictures are actually cut-out shapes revealing more machinery. The machinery is not visible through the transparent body but there in some trans-dimensional way. Or perhaps the machinery is only in the disc shaped areas. I suppose the face on the chest subjugates the one on the head, which has no mouth, and maybe the eyes see a different spectrum or even a parallel universe.
The other parcel was a vintage Space Sheriff Gavan figure. I should review him separately but I can’t be stuffed. There is no die cast on this figure, unlike all my other Tokusatsus, but it’s the tiny springs covering the joints that make me love this figure. He’s all chrome so I’ll have to keep my fingers off him.
The detail is very nice too, and reminds me of the Zeroids a bit with all the different coloured buttons. Check the tiny text. You can also see the sticker on his right arm that is coming off; it won’t stay down. What do you reckon, chaps, should I adulterate this beautiful vintage toy with cyanoacrilate?
