Metal Cardbot Tyrant Zero
Now this is how you do a villain design. A heavenly white with a few pops of red and black to break the facade. It's thematically also impressive as it plays on the Metal Card theme, with its wings being hands holding cards and it's final form also having more cards on its halo. He's also enormous and imposing, being a head taller than Bluleon and four than our last combining train, Blastrain.
A sad report, though; after I took this upcoming photo, he fell forward off my bed and part of his halo snapped. I managed to glue it back together, but I don't think it's safe to move the joint it's next to anymore, which means no more card form. Still, I can still make the dragon and final form, so I'm not too beat up about the accident.
The Good: It's ironic that this train does a truckload. With each of the train cars being very different, they all have a unique and involved transformation to them. It's definitely a level above the other toys in the line, but it accomplishes a very drastic change. That train is also several feet long.
The base robot is very posable, though does have that "my skirt is attached to my upper torso" thing a lot of them have, so you gotta lift it to get access to the waist. Also, the way the swords does those scissor wings for storage and also has two different ways of wielding it is super cool. You could sell this figure on its own.
The Dividragon is also huge, being almost 3X the size of Ignyx as a card, and bigger than Tachy when a beast. It's not super posable, but has a lot of up-and-down joints along the tail and torso and ball jointed arms, so you can do a few things with it. But like all cards, it is meant to combine with Tyrant Zero, and can do some with both Tiny Zero and G.O.D. Zero. With Tiny it's just a tail and new chest, which leaves it a bit unbalanced, but it's appreciated.
But Tiny Zero can also combine with more than just Dividragon, as it can combine with each if its train cars separately. The least visually impressive, but most interesting transformation-wise would probably be the surfboard-esque Leviathan Form, which involves a lot of unique transformation elements separate from the train car mode. The big armed Behemoth Mode and winged Wyvern Form are both based on the final combo but with a few tweaks to make them a little unique, such as Wyvern having the opposite side of the wings showing and Behemoth having a bunch of fold-out cannons.
And lastly we have God of Destruction Form. It's almost three feet tall with that halo. He retains all of Tiny Zero's below the waist articulation with slightly less mobile but more solid ankles. The shoulders are new, but are universal and have a bit more range than Bluleon. Bonus points for individually posable fingers.
The Bad: If I had any complaints, it really is just the added level of complexity. It's not hard to suss out how to do it once you know the process, but there are a few locks and orders of operation that you need to follow. And as I said, the halo has some thin plastic in places, so maybe make sure they're on the back of your shelf. Now sure why you'd put something this tall in the front, but to each their own.
Overall, a fantastic toy. Expensive as heck, though. But it has a ton of modes, some really cool transformation elements, a great design, it's honestly hard for me to find anything bad to say about it. Definitely something to save up for, but well worth it, I feel.
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