Rubik's Toy Box

Thirty-something playing with Transformers and other toys

[rubikstoybox]

30 Minutes Oji-San

"From the mountain abyss, I come, and only death do I bring." Author's Notes:

So, I recently bought a couple of Plamo kits, one of which being Necrosknight from the 30 Minutes Fantasy toyline. And, as a Fate/Grand Order player, I can't help but feel like this particular figure  rings a few bells...

BTW, I don't show it off here, but Necrosknight also comes with a scythe, and the sword is designed to clip onto the bracers on his arms.

Bonus image:

[dailyhatsune]

pokopia after you find the readable lore

[rubikstoybox]

New Daughter Get!

Let's ignore the fact that she ate all of my Summer Golshi funds....

[britta-perry]

[freedominwickedness]

In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.

Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.

Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.

And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.

[fuckyeahwomenprotesting]

How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies

[catsbrew-blogs]

That is none of your business is it sir

[rubikstoybox]

You ate something at the Summer Court's banquet, didn’t you

[rubikstoybox]

Armada Sideways Wants A Quiet Life

Diamond is Unbreakable... faceplates, not so much. Author's Notes:

Yes, another Jojo reference. I was going to hold off on doing another one this soon, but I'm working on a couple longer scripts, and I didn't have a better idea for what I'd post this week.

The original idea was to use Mori Calliope as "Kira" monologuing to Sideways; it would have had the same joke but a slightly different payoff. I switched to a full Transformers comic since I felt like I've used a bunch of anime figures in the last few comics already. Besides, the Patrick Bateman speech fits Sideways better IMO (particularly the last few lines).

I also wanted to show Sideways using Google AI (because let's face it, the minion/avatar/independent fragment of a world-devouring god of evil and darkness would abso-f*cking-lutely use AI), but I couldn't get AI Mode to give me a transcript of the Kira monologue. So, I just took the text from a fan wiki.

[rubikstoybox]

OH~HOHOHOHO! ROSES ARE RED, THE FIRE OF MY HEART IS BLUE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE SCARLET QUEEN, THE HARBINGER OF ORDER, LEADER OF JUSTICE! I AM ELIZABETH ROSE BLOODFL-

Oh wait, wrong franchise. Sorry.

[rubikstoybox]

Ah, you must be a friend of Waai Fu.

[sternerstufftoys]

The full set: Famine, Pestilence, War and Death.

For those not in the know, these are four Beast Wars moulds that got redecos in the last days of Armada, c. 2003. Then writer Simon Furman decided to make them the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

In the comics they even had fire-breathing robot horses, which seems a little much considering they turn into animals and three of them can fly anyway.

[rubikstoybox]

And I'm looking forward to the day the game lets Rover finally rip that script apart.

[rubikstoybox]

Yeah, blah blah blah, We Live In A Society where you had One Bad Day and decided to make it the rest of the world's problem. Also, something something Social Darwinism and the world will be better one the Undesireables are killed off, and you totally aren't one of them and it's not genocide if its "eVeLuTiOn."

[rubikstoybox]

Gee, I wonder if this is going to be related to a certain bombshell Leviathan dropped regarding a certain mascot?

[rubikstoybox]

...Ding, roll credits...?

[rubikstoybox]

Wait, I thought we weren't supposed to acknowledge the whole "Savior Protagonist" thing. Can he just do that?

[rubikstoybox]

A Rage In Heaven

<==To Be Continued... in an unofficial, psuedo-canonical epilogue novel. Ah well, at least Furman wrote it.

Author's Notes:

So, Liege Maximo is finally part of my collection, in all his Dark Age Of Comic Books glory. I got tired of constantly driving to different Targets in the hopes that one of them had him in stock (I have a Red Card as well as an employee discount), and I really didn't want another Earthrise Quintesson or Siege Greenlight situation, so I ended up just ordering him off the Walmart app. Free shipping, and only $55 instead of the usual $60.

Nexus Prime was a travesty of a figure, that I ended up kind of liking in spite of that travesty. In contrast, Maximo is a great figure, that I genuinely like because of that greatness. Sure, the horns aren't connected to his head, and he doesn't quite look like a Cyberdemon anymore (good for him, because Doomguy is part of my collection), but this is very much the toy that I wanted Maximo to get. They only thing I don't quite like is the chunky blaster; I'm sure collectors who missed when Transformers had the big missile launchers will be tickled pink by this accessory, but I could honestly take it or leave it. It's not really a deal-breaker or a "this figure would be perfect except for X" thing, it's just that I wouldn't mind if they left it out, and had another way to store his Darts.

So, this comic was made in my room, using black backgrounds that came with one of my lightboxes. I just shut off the lights and drew the curtains almost all the way to get the darker lighting (also, I fiddled with the exposure in GIMP)

BTW, I've seen the new Sentinel Prime set. He's okay, I'm not as bothered about the alt mode, but I'm not interested in the figure and I don't particularly care for the Conduit. Frankly, if I want a display base for the Artifacts, I'll try my luck on Etsy (also, I don't have the AOTP versions of Vector or the Fallen, so I wouldn't be able to complete it anyway).

So, in two weeks from Saturday, on June 13th, I'll be going to a huge Toy Show at Farpoint Toys and Collectibles. If I get something cool there, expect another ALO review at some point (although, there are three things I'm already working on reviews for already...)

This is a reference to Maximo's first appearance on the final page of the Transformers Generation 2 comic series, though done in my own multi-page style. I've also included a one-page version attached below - it's not a one-to-one recreation but it's closer to how the comic did the scene.

[rubikstoybox]

Hey look, it's the team comp I wanted to make but couldn't because I never got Klee. :p

[rubikstoybox]

I, uh, think you need to find better sources.

[wishem]

i used to think sheep was exclusively plural, and the singular form was a shep because of the word shepherd.