With the images being released of the latest ‘not’-Dinobot to be coming out, ‘Corelock‘ from toy world.
Are dinobots becoming a large part of your collection? It certainly is the case in our collections, and we must admit we cant get enough!!!! So lets take a quick look at some of the figures that have come out, and will be coming out soon. This is not an in depth review, just a few thoughts on some awesome toys.
We have had some truly awesome offerings over the past year, from the amazing , ‘F.O.C’ styled Planet x dinos,
to massive the combining Shuraking from Gcreations
Here at Kapow we are pretty much just getting every single one that comes out, but then, we do love a dino……or 10.
But we are having a hard time deciding which ones are our favourite. (so far)
Fanstoys offering, are quite simply beautiful,well made, and transform really nicely. So as far as mp scale goes, theses are the ones for us. ( we will have to see how they fair when gutter hits the stocks)
However if its more of a classics scale you are going for, then you have a lot of choice….
Firstly we now have 3 members of the team from Planet X, Caelus, Neptune and the interestingly named, Summanus. With Quirinus following shortly.
These are really nice, well built, with some really nice sculpting on them. These are some of our favourite 3rd party figures of recent times. Definatly worth picking up.
Then we have Toyworlds combining dinos, which, aside from the fact that they COMBINE!!!!!!!! they are also really nice updates, on some g1 classics, with lots of shiny gold chrome.
So far we have Roar and Muddy, and we do like these guys, they seem to be quite underrated. We are sure once the whole team is out, there will be lots of people trying to go back and get the early releases.
Lastly we come to Fansproject. Now these are a mixed bag with the 2 releases we have so far, Columpio wasn’t a bad figure, but did suffer from some loose hips. However Fansproject have said that they will be including some replacement hips for Columpio in there latest figure, Volar.
But then there was Cubar! He was a Beast of a figure!!!! Massive and pointy and massive!!!! he looked like a dinobot should. So if they keep improving the same way with each release this should also be an awesome line of figures.
I personally havent got my hands on the gcreation figures yet. But every body tells me that i need to, as these are also some lovely figures…
So in conclusion, we think we need them all….. but we are weak. What are your favourites so far? Are you collecting all the dinos? Or have you picked a line and stuck to it???
Let us know in the comments bellow….
Many of these figures can be found at www.kapowtoys.co.uk links below:
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/gigapower-guttur-snarl.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/planet-x-px04-summanus-snarl.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/planet-x-px-05-quirinus-deposit.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/fanstoys-ft-05t-soar-red-swoop.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/fanstoys-ft-06x-scoria-metallic-colours-deposit.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/toyworld-d-03-corelock.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/toyworld-tw-d02-muddy-sludge.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/toyworld-tw-d01-roar-dino-combiner.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/gcreation-shuraking-srk-01-sludge.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/gcreation-shuraking-srk-02-snarl.html
http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/fansproject-lost-exo-realm-ler-03-volar-and-velos.html
To many Dinobots…
The war of 3rd parties is going too far this time..
Shuraking is a definite pass for myself.
Toyworld’s Not-Grinlock just doesn’t look quite right in Dinomode.
I see the above Dinobot lines as different lines, whereby you have Fanstoys, Toyworld Gigapower and GCreations definitely combating in the MP scale figures, although GCreations and Gigapower in my humble opinion are just too tall and out of scale.
In the Dinobot combiner wars you have Toyworld and GCreations. Why oh why Dinobots must combine is a riddle to me.
Planet-X is for me a must have to any Fall of Cybertron collection and is the only one competing in this space.
Then last but not least you have Fansproject with their “Targetmaster” style Dinobots. These feel more like a refresh of the G1 Dinobots with a little add-on. Although so far they are the only one to compete in a G1 alike and G1 size space, I wanna bet that sooner or later we will see Hasbro also add the Dinobots into their Combiner War line…
We thought the world went mad with 3 Predacons competing? There are now 6 different vendors doing Dinbots. And I predict Hasbro to be the 7th…
Personally, for me Fanstoys is the winner in the MP scale field. And Planet-X has no competitor in the FoC style field.
Cheers