Windburn with Darkray

Why would anyone buy a Power Core Combiners figure if it doesn't come with the pieces that make it a combiner?

Because it's a Transformer that only cost $2.50 when Target tries to get rid of them.

Other than that, there's no reason to get one of these things. Hell, I can't even think of anything particularly interesting to say about it other than that the minicon is actually useless and annoyingly doesn't fit into any of its pegs well. Wasn't the whole pokemon minicon thing over?

Skallox/Nite Lik

So time to start army building the Rainbow Corps. We'll start with the Red Lanterns since that was an easy one to get a hold of and it features skull guy.

I dig the design and all, but I'm having trouble getting over the idea that an alien race somehow evolved to have heads that look exactly like an Earth goat skull. Which is weird because I have no trouble with the bipedal space dogs from whatever planet G'nort was from. (G'Neecham?)

The figure comes with the Right Leg of Stel, the Build A Figure for Wave 2. I think I'm going to try and build Stel, although that G'Hu figure isn't something I'm inclined to go for. We'll see.

The figure also comes with swappable head & hands for Nite-Lik, the designed for this toy line character and then adopted by Johns who gave it a silly name like he does for all his aliens, I'm not even sure I want to include him in my Rainbow Corps. His profile says he collects the bones of his foes, which sounds more like a Sinestro Corps member to me, but then all his crap is red, so I can't just put his stuff on a Sinestro Corps body.  Also his tentacle hands and head look like a pain to deal with on the toy shelf.

It's all about practicality people. PRACTICALITY!

Current Corps
Green Lanterns: 2
Sinestro Corps: 1
Red Lanterns: 2
Star Sapphires: 1

Articulated Monster Question Post

We're going to record the next episode of the Articulated Monster Podcast on Sunday. If you have any questions, about anything, not just toys, that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, then please leave it in a comment here.

Nun

Oh hey, Tuesday Morning had the Playmobil figure for cheap. Score.

Tigh & Captivity Six

So according to wikipedia these fellows are Colonel Tigh, a military man who was forced to kill his wife for betraying humanity to the android Cylons, and Captivity Six, a captured Cylon that Tigh would interrogate to alleviate his guilt and eventually impregnated during a mutually masochistic relationship. She miscarried and he got back together with his resurrected wife after both realized they were both Cylons with an independent agenda to save humanity.

Man that Battlestar Galactica show sounds weird. I bet it makes sense to someone who watches it all the way through, but to someone who has never seen the show... man. But the minimates are cheap and on clearance, so hey, why not buy them. And I watch Doctor Who, so who am I to judge.

Action Ranger Timmy, that's who.

Judge judge judge.

Koozebane Kermit

Hey, it's Reporter Kermit! Not the superior Sesame Street version, the somewhat inferior if only because he didn't have the oversized microphone and hat one from the Muppet Show. Still it's based on an iconic Muppet Show sketch... just not one I like... or am entirely certain I ever saw.

But it's Kermit in a trench coat! And for some reason I'm really preferring characters in this line be dressed up in something ridiculous. You may say, Kermit wearing a trenchcoat isn't that ridiculous. WRONG! I've never seen frogs in the wild wearing trenchcoats, have you? When you weren't high?

The alien base is neat and the Koozebanians  look pretty accurate, I think. They never really made an impression on me, so I can't really recall them in any detail. But for me it's all about the Muppet News Reporter on the scene: Kermit the frog. He goes to other planets to report the news! Screw Newscopter 5, this reporter goes to space.

Asian DCUC figure?

So I was reading this article at Comic Alliance about how DC Comics trend of restoring the status quo of superheroes to pre 1980s levels has lead to an unintentional lack of diversity in the superhero community, particularly the regression of making the Atom Ray Palmer instead of Ryan Choi and it got me wondering...

Has there been a toy made of an Asian character in the DC Universe Classics line?

A quick look says, no. There's one scheduled for Wave 18, but its Samurai, the Superfriends character creatd specifically for the cartoon and who was a walking stereotype. Seriously, he had wind powers but he was called Samurai. Oh wait, I forgot, he also had access to ancient Asian martial arts techniques that let him be invisible and crap like that.

So that means that in 17 waves, a number of exclusives, and the Green Lantern Classics line, that there have been 24 aliens (not counting the New Gods), 6 robots, and NO Asians. The other minorities groups aren't represented very well either, 1 hispanic character and 5 black characters.

And if you say it's only because there aren't a lot of minority characters in the DC Universe in general, let alone ones with enough exposure to make a toy of, well that's a whole other problem right there.

I mean, crap, I just want a DCUC figure of an Asian character that's not a sterotype. Is that so wrong/hard?