#battle & beasts

[1980sactionfigures]

Powerhouse Mouse / Dragoon Raccoon - Battle Beasts (Hasbro)

[therobotmonster]

TyrannoMax 2" Action Figure In-Progress Sculpt

The hands cooperated for a chunk of sculpting today.

Toy Max is based largely on the cartoon design, but in keeping with the mid-to-late 80s, he's going to be a little more detailed. He's in my personal favorite, Battle-Beasts-inspired aesthetic.

[effkaytales]

What may, in fact, have been my most cursed comic set yet

SG Lyzack's Beast Body has some... interesting quirks thanks to her adventures.

[sandmandaddy69]

[dawn-arts]

Could you Monsterify HUGE?

Yes! HUGE was kinda an enigma for me to design due to the bot's design being so unusually shaped.

However I think I've settled on this.

(The black comes from the armored wheels of the modern design)

Bonus image for size comparison with Sawblaze and a person:

These doodle designs are a nice break between Inktober posts so if anyone else wants a bot to be monsterfied, lmk!

[autoacafiles]

[dayveebug]

We went op-shopping, and adopted some babies.

Beast, Trixie, Chief, Tarra, Hana, Cloud, and Stolas (a demon trapped in the body of an owl).

Thank you to whomever sent these kids into The Universe. And thank you to The Universe for sending them into my life.

[jimmyjamjemz]

Type Specialists for Battle Beasts.

Some of my favourite character designs that I've done!

[adam16bit]

Posted eight years ago today, it's Eledram Burst! It's a clear-ish blue elephant figure and it's pretty spectacular, also pretty obscure since these never really made it to the USA.

[tallus76-photography]

[askvectorprime]

Do Transformers celebrate any equivalent of Veteran's Day and Memorial Day? One where they honor soldiers who returned home and one where they honor those who gave their lives?

Dear Holiday Honored,

Sadly, war factors heavily into the Cybertronian experience, and commemorations of valor pepper our calendar like shrapnel. One such date was inspired by the sacrifice of Webslinger, who fought against the gluttonous and sedentary Builder, Rampage. Though Rampage crushed the arachnoid Protoformer with a datapad, Webslinger’s unwise sacrifice was an inspiration to many Predacons, and they hold an annual day of remembrance in his honor.

[1980sactionfigures]

Slasher Seahorse / Hunchback Camel - Battle Beasts (Hasbro)

[therobotmonster]

I've recently gotten curious what's going on in the completely-non-collector-side of toydom, and I've found another diamond in the slime, especially if you're into Battle Beasts.

As all good people should be.

A scrap of amazon gift card and a clearance sale got me the "Treasure X Skull Island Swamp Tower"

It's roundabout 9 inches tall, skosh under 4" deep and wide, and opens up into a very 8-bit-arcade-game inspired interior:

The set comes with two mini figures, a treasure, a bunch of slime with some snakes in it, a spider, and a sword that's usable by the larger Treasure X aliens and such.

This one's light on the goo, with a fruit-cup's worth of very (distressingly) thin green slime that becomes a set of ritual stairs:

Which you can stack on the snake-pit or use to build a platform leading to it. Or you can leave it in place upside down and use it like a hot tub. Your call. (I have all my snakes and worms and things in there, the kit comes with a goodly amount of small rubbery purple snakes)

The venus flytrap's tongue is a trigger that snaps it closed, and it has an articulation point on the vine. There's a hidey-hole for one of the mini-figures in the beehive, the tree turns into a slide, and the rope-bridge swings down when you turn the lever.

Also, the big purple emblem at the top fits a spider-shaped key-piece that unlocks a hidden treasure compartment.

So, no shortage of action features in a pretty small package.

But what really wins me over is the scale and the theming. I love Battle Beasts, and while some of the sections are a little cramped, the whole thing fits them quite well as a display environment.

The theming is the icing on the cake for Battle Beasts fans. Because while this is the swamp tower, there are two others:

Lava, Swamp and Ice?

More like Fire, Wood, Water!

Of course, we need to be certain about these things. The safest way would be for me to review all of them for Battle Beast Compatibility.

::eyebrow waggle::

[rjmbaboonbooks]

Daily Comic Journal: July 30, 2015: “Uncovering Money.”

Here’s just a small sample of what I found:

[sandmandaddy69]

[rainbowshark4]

Love the packaging art