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Could be. Or it could just be the lull from Chinese New Year.

Was that a review sample, @Kuma Style? By now I've seen a lot of reviews for this guy, but I think they've all been review samples. But it looks done, with the packaging and everything ready to go... I'm wondering how much longer until he drops at retail.

I'm still passing on the condors. I think MMC did some interesting things with them, but the officials did a pretty good job of nailing those two, and unlike Ravage, Rumble, and Frenzy the smaller size works better for them. I have Rumble is Blue, Frenzy is Red on preorder; as soon as they drop I can ship them with GT's Streetwise. In the mean time, I'm still working through my last batch, and today we're looking at Zeta Toys' Air Strike, which is... a version of Air Raid, but I'm hesistant to call him a Masterpiece. For $60 I'm not going to complain about the level of paint, the tampos, or the light materials (which could be a postitive in a gestalt). I don't think a toy has to have x amount of diecast or a finish on every surface to fit in an Masterpiece collection; just look at my previous review for Big Spring. What I do expect is that the toy look like who they're supposed to be, and if I'm being honest I'm not sure Air Strike is doing it for me. I'll ignore the head for a bit, as it's fairly toy-accurate (even though I would prefer a cartoon-style head). The translucent plastic over the yellow and red details on his knees are also sort of reminiscent of the G1 toy's stickers. It's reasonable to assume that the translucent bits on his chest and hip skirts were also meant ot minic the toy's stickers, but they're really too dark and I find myself wishing they'd just painted them red. Speaking of red, it continues up and around his collar and shoulders where it really ought to be white. Pretty much all the silver you see should be white, in fact- his feet, the space on his shins above his feet, his thighs, and on his chest. That white should actually continue over the red all the way to his waist, and there's some ugly molded detail right where you'd want to stick an Autobot insignia. Note that his official robot mode folds away the nose of the jet, but at least it uses the horizontal stabilizers to give him his wings. I guess he's at least closer to Air Raid than TFC's... Oh, and apparently the logic amongst TF fandom is that since the Aerialbots turn into jets they should be the same size as Starscream; nevermind that the size of each jet in the team varies wildly, nevermind the fact that scale is based on robot modes as the Seekers are already wildly out of scale with the carbots in alt mode, and nevermind that I've yet to see an actual source indicating where the Aerialbots official fit on a scale chart. But there you go, Air Strike is as tall as Meteor. For accessories, Air Strike comes with a gun, four missiles, and two pegs with a pair of c-clips to hold the missiles. The gun ok, with a spot of blue paint to break up the black plastic, but I wish they'd molded a hole in the barrel. As for the missiles, they pop off the c-clips way too easily. His head is on a ball joint, and he can look up a little, down just a fraction, and tilt his head sideways a decent amount. His entire shoulder rotates, and it moves laterally inside the shoulder armor 90 degrees. He has bicep swivels and single-hinged elbows that can bend 90 degrees. His wrists cans swivel, although they're a little hindered by his cuffs. His hands are kind of terrible; the thumb is on a weedy little ball joint for rotation and cut to allow it to fold over the palm. Each finger individually articulated, pinned at the base knuckle with one additional hinge near each fingertip. They're basically too small, with too thin plastic, and the hinges at the fingertips aren't even pinned. I'm not against individually articulated fingers on larger figures with metal pins through the joints, but these tiny, delicate digits are exactly why the single pin, fingers molded together "flipper" hands are my preferred choice for smaller hands. I digress. He's got a waist swivel, and hips that can go foward just under 90 degrees and backwards 90 degrees (if there weren't a massive backpack in the way). His hips can move laterally slightly over 90 degrees on what is one of of the few ratchets on this figure. The other ratchets being the knees, which are good for 90 degrees. His thighs swivel around his hip joints, so they're limited to about 35 degrees, but that seems like a fairly natural limite. His feet have a hinge at the base of the leg that runs into a ball joint into the foot itself, so he's got great up/down range, foot swivels, and 45 degrees of ankle pivot. The missile clips can peg onto the wings folded up on his legs. His gun has grooves in the handle that mate with tabs on his palms, but the grip is fairly loose. Tension from his fingers does help hold it in place. Alternatively, he's got peg holes on top of his shoulders for some reason, and you can plug his stuff into those. Personally, I'm content to have him holding his gun and the missiles with their clips can go back into the box. For a more accurate G1 look, you can leave the nose unfolded. It doesn't affect anything in robot mode. If you're cool with partsforming you can also remove his wings for a cleaner look. Well, his alt mode looks pretty good, at least from higher angles. I'll let @David Hingtgen nitpick the details, but that reasonably looks like an F-15 to me. The stripes are pretty toy-accurate, just missing some black lines through the yellow on the vertical stabilizers. In this case, I'm ok with the stripes being more toy than the cartoon's simple white stripes. Of course, when viewed from lower angles the brick of a robot hiding underneath the plane becomes more apparent. While Takara and Maketoys have done a pretty good job of showing that you can make a transforming F-15 that doesn't look like a jet with a folded up robot stuck underneath, given that he's also part of a combiner I think that's just the cost of doing business with the Aerialbots. And again, for those wondering, yes, he's about the same size as Meteor. Close inspection will reveal that the finer details don't all line up exactly, but I think they look good enough together. A quick flip to the underside and we can see landing gear with rolling wheels, and ports on the wings where you can plug in his missile racks or his gun. Not shown here, but the gun actually has shallower pegs on the sides that you can use to plug the gun in. Also, I forgot to show that his canopy can open to reveal two molded seats inside. While we're looking at the underside, yes, it's a brick, but I'll give Zeta credit for making it look like a fairly seemless brick and not an obviously folded-up robot. And that circle on his crotch is a spring-loaded point that works with the ToyWorld flight stand that came with the ToyWorld Coneheads. As far as engineering goes, Air Strike isn't perfect. His knee pads don't lock in place in robot mode. His backpack comes undone fairly easily. His arms are a little too easy to pop open, and his sides collapse back in a little too easy. His front landing gear is spring-loaded so it's hard to get back in and gets stuck coming out, but you have to pull it out to make clearance for the armature it's on when transforming him between modes. Speaking of, to deploy or stow it in jet mode you actually have to untab the front of the jet. It's a really dumb design. And, again, there are all my aesthetic complaints. I'll be honest, I only decided to go in on this set because $60 is cheap for a figure this size and while we've got a plethora of Predakings, Devastators, Bruticuses, Defensors, and an impending Menasor war Uranos is still basically the only 3P option for Superion. And I'm already wondering if I should try to paint him to be a little more cartoon accurate or if I should just box him up and wait and see how FansToys' shakes out, whenever that may be. At $60 I suppose he'll do as a placeholder, and it's always possible that the combined mode will pay off, but if he were any more expensive I'd definitely say to pass on him.

Now, I was waiting for Onslaught to come in before shipping my stack at one retailer that I don't often use because I wanted free shipping before mailing out this guy, who I've owned since Thanksgiving. This guy being Open and Play's Big Spring, their first product and a mostly MP take on Springer. Ignoring his face for a minute, I'm not really seeing a lot to complain about. Upper body is primarily two shades of gree, with yellow on the shoulders, his belly button, and the grill on his chest. The grill even has that small blip of green on the lip, and the right amount of vertical bars. His shoulders have those little circular pieces on the inner part. Thighs and hands are (correctly) an extremely pale green and properly rounded. His shins are gray, and have cartoon-accurate kneepads with darker gray trapezoids and similarly cartoon-accurate molded panels running down his shins. Even his head (again, ignoring the face for a minute) is properly Springer. I think the only things you could really quibble with are that the shoulder pads don't quite lay on his shoulders exactly as the cartoon, that the sweep of the yellow part of his chest could be adjusted so that the yellow starts higher on his chest, and that his waist is a tad smaller than you might like in a Springer, but those are fairly minor complaints. No two ways about it, Big Spring is a very good-looking Springer. Except for that face. Squinted eyes, flat nose, thin lips... it's like Open and Play's desginer was watching Down With Love and decided to model Big Spring's face off of Renee Zellweger. It's not as bad as it looks in photos, and it's easily removable so there's still hope that someone, maybe even O&P themselves, will release a better face for him. Size-wise, I'm not sure how the '86-'87 scale chart is supposed to look (this is around the time when the animators started drawing everyone except Wheelie as basically the same height), but here he is with MP Hot Rod and DX9's Carry. I would have been ok with him being slightly shorter, but I do think he's actually already slightly shorter than FansToys' Apache or Unique Toys' Allen, the only other MP-ish Springers available (for now). Big Spring comes with pretty much all the accessories you'd want with a Springer. He comes with a rifle. The sculpt on it is fairly interesting, but not sure how they come up with it. Would have liked some paint. He's got a sword with lovely silver and metallic blue paint... maybe the blue would have been better green, though? He's got the shell he loads into the giant crossbow thing in the movie, and that definitely needs some gold paint, but it's also kind of a toss-it-back-in-the-box sort of accessory, so I'll let it slide. And he's got a green loop. What the loop is for is pluggin into his back, then you can slide the sword down into it so Big Spring can carry the sword on his back. It's a nice little touch. While we're back there, take a look at how clean Big Spring is. There's very little kibble and almost no backpack on this guy. His articulation is pretty good, too. His head is on a hinge at the base of the neck and a ball joint at the base of the skull. Combined he can look down a good bit, up a good bit, tilt his head sideways, and even crane his neck forward and backward a little. His shoulders rotate on ratchets, and a double hinge allows him to slump his shoulders or get the clearance to extend his arms laterally just over 90 degrees (and he can rotate his shoulders and move his arms laterally AT THE SAME TIME! You don't see Apache doing that...). His biceps swivel, and he's got double-jointed elbows that can technically curl 180 degrees but your practically limited by his shoulder pads. His wrists can swivel. His thumb is fixed, and his fingers are all pinned just at the base like an MP carbot, although the index finger is separate. His waist can swivel. His hips ratchet forward 90 degrees, backward maybe 60 degrees, and laterally 90 degrees. His soft-ratcheted knees can bend 90 degrees. His entire feet can tilt up and down a little, plus he can bend the front half of his foot down 90 degrees, his heel down 90 degrees, or even bend down at just the tip toes. His ankles can also pivot about 60 degrees. His grip on his weapons is a tad loose. Basically his thumb and his palm have rounded spots that the weapons slide down into. They're a little loose, but with his hands closed they're tight enough that the weapons won't fall out. They do turn a bit in his hands sometimes, though. This would be Big Spring's car mode. It's... ok. To be totally fair, the original G1 toy didn't look much like a car, and Floro Dery's animation model wasn't much of an improvement. If I'm being totally objective, the front fenders are too long on the back side and don't taper down. The rear fenders are too small, too low, and stick out too far, leaving the rear a little short and looking a little unfinished. That said, I'm of a mind that while the back could have looked a little more cohesive that most of the rest of the departures from the animation model actually make this mode look a bit more car-ish. In any case, the general idea is still quite Springery. If weapon storage in alt mode is important to you, you can use the loop to store the sword on his roof. Meanwhile, a hexagonal port on one side allows you to mount the gun on that side. Technically, if you want to you can swap them. The round peg on the loop still fits into the hexagonal hole. Meanwhile the rifle can sit in the top like some kind of tank turret. The downside to doing it that way is that the rifle spins super easily plugged in there. To round out the car stuff, the tires are rubber. And he's got flip-out translucent blue headlights. When Springer transformed in the cartoon it was usually into his helicopter mode, and that's because Dery's copter design was pretty good. Big Spring pulls it off fairly well, too. What's more, while the transformation between car and copter isn't particularly difficult or involved there's still some interesting things going on. The geometry of the front end actually changes, and the cockpit actually shrinks. My only complaints are that the yellow fins are a just fins and not the more substantial landing skids and that the tail boom sits a little low instead of flowing from the back, but those are again two things I'm not sure the competition has really gotten right either. The headlights still work in copter mode, and the sword splits down the middle and unfolds to become his rotors. They spin freely, and the tail boom is short enough not to get in the way. The rifle can plug into the same hexagonal port used in car mode. If you're looking for a place to store the loop, I've found that the there's enough space inside the cockpit, and it's enclosed enough that it won't fall out. Big Spring doesn't have any landing gear, but he sits nicely on his car tires and can even still roll. So what's the deal with this guy? He's cheap... you can expect to pay between $60-$80 dollars for him, and that's not even a clearance price like poor Allen. When a no-name comes out with a cheap toy and they run it against a heavyweight like FansToys I feel like direct comparisons are inexcapable. So here we go... Big Spring's solidly built. I think he looks better than Allen in all three modes, and better than Apache in car mode. Although I think Apache probably looks better in robot and helicopter modes, I think it's a pretty close race between them. Spring's got a fairly clever, fairly simple transformation that makes him fun to flip between modes (in one day I've already transformed him more times than either of the Giga dinos or Onslaught), and he's got good articulation. His only real flaws are his ugly face and a tab in his abdomen that comes out a little too easy (but no worse than the Ironwill's chest). Now, Spring doesn't have a ton of paint apps, and there's no diecast in him, so he's arguably lacking some of that "premium" feel you might get from a more expensive toy like Apache. If you're the kind of collector that wants the best-looking robtot mode to display on a shelf and never touch again, then sure, maybe you go with Apache. If paint and heft are more important than price and playability, by all means, get what you like. To me, Spring is good enough and Apache flawed enough that it doesn't make sense to spend literally twice the money on Apache. While it's still possible that MMC or X-Transbots' Springers could wow me, as of this writing Big Spring is my recommened MP Springer.

Tom Holland in Venom.

What's up with the repeated assertions that Venom will have nothing to do with Spider-Man? I was under the impression that Sony and Marvel's deal means Spidey is part of the MCU, so Spidey can turn up in the Avengers and Iron Man could be in Homecoming, but that Spider-Man is also the cornerstone of Sony's Spidey verse and can (and maybe will) appear in stuff like Venom and Silver Sable. The only catch is that the other Spideyverse movies don't acknowledge the MCU, and the MCU films don't acknowledge the Spideyverse. In fact, I believe Tom Holland is confirmed for Venom.

I was legit excited to get my Gigapower Dinobots (I will be over the moon if I can find a chrome Guttur in the near future), but a few other things released recently that allowed me to ship my stacks and stashes. This guy, Kalecgos, is one of them. He's the Unique Toys Onslaught, and since I don't care for the goofy World of Warcraft names I'm just calling him Onslaught from here on out. My first impression is that, compared to the Unique Toys Brawl and Swindle, he's a little greebly, especially on the shins. And yet, as with the other UT Combaticons, he's still the most cartoon-accurate Onslaught as pretty much every other version besides Warbotron's has gone for the toy-style chest (inlcuding Zeta's upcoming version). He's got the predominantly blue color, although perhaps they could have gone a bit darker. His head is pretty cartoon-accurate, although his mouth plate could have been a little more recessed in his helmet. Instead of the toy's window of circuits sticker Unique Toys went the cartoon route of having his chest be two large panels with a little block underneath (just waiting for a Decepticon emblem). Likewise, he's got the two faux lights on his pelvis, done in translucent plastic. Green lines on the cartoon's thight have become slightly longer light gray lines, and the green blocks on his knees are present in translucent plastic, but those are the basic cartoon details. All he's really missing are the forearm wheels, and it's not that they're missing, they're just halved in number and on the underside of his forearm instead of the top. One strange new detail Unique Toys added are some little missile launchers, in olive plastic with some gray and silver paint. I say odd because they're not on the G1 toy or cartoon, they kind of get in the way, and they don't serve any purpose in alt mode. Unless they do something for combined mode, which I'm kind of doubting, he'd actually have been better off without them. In case a size comparison with other Onslaught's isn't helpful, here he is with MP-10. And he's actually a smidgeon taller. I'm kind of ok with that, though. To be honest, I have no idea where the individual Combaticons fell on the scale chart, and I don't really care. Anyway, Onslaught comes with pratically nothing. You get toy-style chest plate for Bruticus, and some crotch armor for Bruticus. That's it. Onslaught doesn't get a gun. Even though the G1 toy came with a rifle for Onslaught, and even though he had one in the cartoon, not giving him one seems to have become something of a thing. Neither Combiner Wars nor Warbotron's Onslaught came with a gun; however, in both of their cases the cannons on his back could be removed and held in his hands as guns. Unique Toys' Onslaught can't even do that, as his cannons aren't meant to come off. I'm counting the crotch armor as an accessory since it's removable and that'll help pad the accessory count, but technically it's pegged into Onslaught's butt in the box. With the crotch armor on his butt, though, he cannons on Onslaught's back don't quite have the clearance to get around it. That limits his waist articulation. However, the problem is easily solved by simply unpegging it from his butt. The chest shield can explode apart into several pieces. There's a reason for it that we'll get into in the future, when we look at the combined Bruticus, but for those of you that hate having combiner kibble that doesn't serve a purpose outside of the gestalt UT does sort of have you covered. You can use the chest shield to combine Brawl's guns with one of the combined-mode feet. Of course, now Brawl doesn't have a gun, and we're still left with the other foot and (presumably) the combined mode hands. Plus the crotch armor, if you pulled it off. Onslaught's head is on a hinged swivel. He can rotate his head and look down, but up is mostly limited. His shoulders rotate on soft ratchets and can move laterally on a friction hinge just over 90 degrees. The missile launchers on top of his shoulders are on ball joints so you can lift them or twist them to keep them from interfering with his articulation, but like I said it would have been better if they just weren't there in the first place. He's got a tight bicep swivel. Friction elbows bend just over 90 degrees. His wrists swivel. His thumb is on a ball joint at the base so it can rotate and fold over the palm. The fingers are pinned at the base knuckle and again at the mid-knuckle, and each finger can move independently. His waist swivels. As I mentioned, removing the crotch armor from his butt will keep it from hindering his waist swivel. However, his hip skirts are on hinges, and if you lift them to their fullest extent they'll totally block his waist swivel. What this means is that his hips can move forward 90 degrees if his body is straight, but if his waist is turned you'll fall one click shy. Likewise, he can technically bend his hip backward 90 degrees, but practically you're going to have his legs start bumping his backpack. Laterally, his hips get just about 90 degrees. His hips are ratcheted all the way around, but the forward/backward ratchets are obnoxiously tight. A part of me thinks this is so he'll be stable in combined mode, which is what you want, but as a stand-alone figure his hips are ridiculous. Moving along, his thigh swivels are just above his knee, which isn't really my favorite but it might be necessary due to how his hips transform for combined mode. Knees are ratcheted and good for 90 degrees. His feet can bend down at the ankle or at the toe, plus his heel can bend down, but you don't really have anything up. As for ankle pivots Onslaught can do a full 90 degrees, so no issues there. Normally I'd talk about the fit of his weapons here. I will say I tried loaning him one of Brawl's guns, and it doesn't really work because of how big the area around his wrist is. The handle of a weapon needs to be pretty long, plus his palms and thumbs don't have that molded 5mm port built into them the way Brawl and Swindle do. There is a little groove at the base of his palm, so tab-style MP weapons might work. I managed get him holding a spare KFC MP-10 gun, but it was relying a lot on the tension of his finger joints to stay in place. Onslaught's truck mode is pretty good. In this case it is closer to the G1 toy than the weirldy-drawn vehicle of the cartoon, but that's fine with me. It's certainly an improvement from whatever the heck the Combiner Wars version was supposed to be, and it's got a certainly G1 simplicity that Warbotron's was lacking (plus the cannons actually stay on!). I'd say the biggest difference is that the fenders stick out from the trailer, but that's pretty small potatoes. The tires are rubber, and the instructions do show the crotch armor being attached in this mode. It's still totally removeable, though. You do have space on the trailer to put one of the other Combaticons, if you like. Curiously, there are even a pair of peg holes near the rear, on what would the top of his heel spurs in bot mode. Could it be used in some way to secure Vortex or Blast Off? Maybe. Or maybe something to do with the combined mode, which I haven't looked at yet but will review when the other two come in. The cannons can tilt back and the barrels can be extended, but they can't be moved independently of each other. And there's even a hinge on a sliding joint that extend from his waist that allows him to look like the truck is hitched to the trailer and can turn at the hitch. So, there are some things that definitely bug me about this Onslaught. I've already mentioned the little missile launchers on his shoulders. There's a lot of sprue marks on him. I think UT wasn't precise enough when laying out where the tabs on this thing go, and the tolerances on some of them are far too tight, resulting in some serious stress marks on a few of them. The blue armor around his shoulders just lays over his shoulders; it doesn't peg or tab in anywhere, can come undone when you're manipulating him. Out of the box I have scratches on the chest shield, and it boils down to UT not putting any kind of plastic, foam, or tape as a barrier between it and Onslaught in the box. And for as much as this toy costs it was really cheap of UT not to include any kind of gun for Onslaught. There's a lot I do like, though. I think he looks great in both robot and alt mode. He's easily the best-looking Onslaught toy I've come across (and I don't see Zeta's changing my opinion any time soon). He's solidly built with good joint tolerances (minus the hip ratchets that are actually too tight), and he's got a fair amount of articulation. Transformation, at least between robot and truck mode, is fairly intuitive and fun. Unless you're one of those people who think that every combiner must be as tall as Constructor now, I'm ultimately going to recommend him. In hand he's a definitely upgrade from the Warbotron version.

Ah, I remember how it started for me... "These Combiner Wars guys are pretty cool! Too bad they don't have Predaking, though. I guess I'll get Feral Rex. One 3P purchase can't hurt..." EDIT: Oh yeah, almost forgot. Be careful moving the dino head backward when you're trying to get more space for his robot head. The back of the gold parts are a little pointy near the base of his jaw, and it can (and in my case, did) scratch the red chrome/paint near his collar.

And that review would be for Gigapower Graviter, their MP-style Sludge. Graviter is part G1 toy, part G1 cartoon, and a little mix of original detail that some say breaks up some of the blandness of the cartoon, some say is too busy, but in either case makes him a nice aesthetic fit with Grassor. Graviter maybe has an advantage over Grassor (and presumably Guttur, Gigapower's Snarl) in that the dinosaur legs on the outside of his legs aren't just a toy detail, they're present on the cartoon as well. Interestingly, that also means that Graviter is more similar to his closest competition, FansToys' Stomp, than Grassor is to Scoria or Cesium. So as we take a look, we've got the same deep gold chrome on his feet, the same silver chrome in places, the same red chrome/paint on his torso, and the same silvery gray baked-on finish that Grassor has. The head and ears are suitably Sludge-shaped, with silver accents on his forehead. Out of the box he has red eyes, which I guess would be an aesthetic match if you're going with other red-eyed Dinobots but technically isn't cartoon or toy accurate. The shoulders and arms are also very Sludge-tastic, although GP eschews the cartoon and FanStoys practice of putting one toe on the front/two on the back of the wrist. I think I actually prefer it this way, as it's more cohesive with Grassor and presumably whatever they call their Grimlock. Wings that are unmistakably Sludge's hang from his back, with lots of molded and painted details on the inside. The dino neck mostly collapses into a fairly tidy backback, with the dino head tucked into a crevice along his spine. His torso has a properly Sludgey broad chest and narrow waist, and some of the detail is the sort of molded detail that was molded on the G1 toy, athough Giga chose to paint it instead of leaving it all red. The center of his torso is adorned with a panel of gold chrome covered by a piece of smoked translucent plastic. Painted detail on his hips is somewhat evocative of the G1 toys's stickers. I think the big departures here come from his torso having what I'd consider a more natural taper toward his waist and an overall less flat torso than the G1 cartoon or toy, with a pelvis shaped more like Grassor's than G1 Sludge. The overall shape of the chest even affects the shape of the translucent bit and where certain details are, namely that the space for the Autobot insignia some molded detail meant to mimic some sticker detail from the G1 toy are on the same plane and the space for the Autobot insignia a little on the smallish side. If cartoon accuracy is your thing Graviter's torso may not be Sludge enough for you, but I personally am finding that I actually like it better. It's Sludgey enough that it doesn't look wrong to my eye, but looks more like a barrel-chested bruiser of a body compared to the cartoon's T with arms, legs, and a head. Continuing down the body he's got thighs that are a little less rectangular, which is again something I actually prefer, and lower legs that are unmistakably Sludge with silver chrome kneecaps and ridges, mushed up dino legs on the sides, and gold chrome toes complete with molded vents where the G1 toy had stickers, and a stripe of molded and painted detail covered by more of that smoked translucent plastic to again replicate some sticker detail (detail that was present in the cartoon as blue-outlined black stripes). The tail collapses into the hollow space on the insides of his lower legs. Ultimately, and this is very subjective, I think Stomp looks more like the cartoon, but Graviter is an aesthetically better robot that doesn't deviate so much that it stops looking like Sludge. Graviter's accessories are similar to, but slightly fewer, than Grassor's. You've got more smoked translucent bits (that, perhaps, could have been a tad smokier. You've got a black rifle that's molded very similarly to the rifle that came with the G1 toy (it's just missing a little bit of the rear behind the handle), with a red tip like Grassor's. You've got a sword, again very G1 down to the molded circular piece where the G1 toy had a peg hole, with a translucent red blade and a black hilt. As with Grassor, both the sword and the rifle have LEDs that I don't have the batteries for (although I did order some). You've got a pair of smaller cannons that are molded fairly similarly to the G1 toy's missile launchers, which themselves seemed to be the basis for for the gun Sludge used in the cartoon. While I suppose the simple black plastic is fairly accurate to the toy, I find myself wishing they'd put some gold chrome on them to match the cartoon and the gun that Stomp comes with. Maybe I'll paint them myself. There's a second head that trades the red eyes and stoic face of the default head for blue eyes and an angry face. Unfortunately, Graviter's heads lack the mix-and-match nature of Grassor's; if you want blue eyes, you're stuck with angry face. If you want stoic face, you're stuck with red eyes. Lastly, there is an included flame accessory, but it's not for Graviter. Graviter will have a flame accessory that may be sold separately later and will come with the metallic-painted version of Graviter that will be released a few months from now, but for now this flame is actually for Guttur, Gigapower's Snarl. Graviter's head is on a ball joint that can swivel, look up a fair amount, tilt sideways a little, but is pretty limited downward. His shoulders rotate on strong, loud ratchets, and a second ratchet lets him extend his arms laterally 90 degrees. His biceps can swivel, and his elbows can ratchet 90 degrees, revealing some silver-painted detail inside. His wrists can swivel, and due to the transformation they can even tilt up and down a little. The hands themselves are something of an improvement from the KFC-style hands on Grassor. Each finger and the thumb still have two pinned hinges, but the base of the thumb is a hinge that moves it from the side of the hand to the base of the palm. As for the other fingers, they can still splay a bit but they're either hinges in the palm or ball joints covered by the palm in such a way that they allow the splay but do not allow the fingers to bend (that knuckle instead being the first pinned hinge). The result are hands that trade just a tiny bit of articulation (since the second hinge is the mid knuckle instead of the fingertip), but feet sturdier, don't have fingers spinning in their ball sockets, and have tighter tolerances than, say, my Andras. His wings open and close on ratchets, and his wings can angle upward a little on friction joints. His waist can swivel. His hip skirts are hinged the same way as Grassor's, and his hips can go forward and backward nearly 90 degrees on ratchets that are sturdy enough to keep him in standing poses but a little too weak suspend his lower leg off the ground, and laterally 90 degrees on ratchets that are actually strong enough that you can go ahead and pose Graviter doing a high kick. His thighs rotate over the hip joints, and his ratcheted knees bend about 60 degrees. Do to transformation, they have the same ability as Grassor to bow out at the knee. As for his feet, the gold toes can tilt upward a bit, and they can pivot about 45 degrees to give him a faux ankle pivot. Again, he holds his rifle and sword just fine using tabs on the handles that fit into slots on his palms. The handle is long enough and the tab low enough of the sword, and the rifle ends abruptly at the handle, so dino toes on his wrists don't hamper his ability to wield either. As for the cannons, they have small holes on the sides disguised as molded detail. They fit onto tiny pegs in the middle of circular depressions on the larger circles of translucent plastic covering chrome on his shoulders and hear his ankles. They can be plugged into either spot. Alternatively, they have fold down handles that let him carry them as large pistols. Between the angle of the butt of the cannon, the ability to bend the dino toes up a little, and the ability to bend the wrist down a little, there's no problem having Graviter hold them, either. As we all know, Sludge transforms into a Sauropod dinosaur (what, you think I'm going to wade into the Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus debate?), and Graviter is no exception. I think he really shines in this mode. He naturally has his gray neck that turns into translucent-covered gold before reaching his not-too-big, not-too-small head, chrome silver back, gold chrome bump (with toy-accurate molded circles), chrome silver ridges over his rump that flow into his chrome silver tail, and feet with a pair of chrome silver toes on the front and a chrome silver dewclaw on the heel. Translucent panels cover gold chrome on his rear hips to emulate the G1 toy, and also sit on his shoulders because the cartoon used dark circles for both, I guess (the G1 toy just had a stripe of a sticker). Molded detail and sometimes painted details on his body mimic and sometimes exaggerate molded details and stickers from the G1 toy. Even though the rear dino legs have to compactify onto Graviter's lower legs and the front dino legs form his arms Graviter manages to have rear legs that are significantly larger than the front legs, with little tabs on the front and back of the hip that were on the original toy. My only real complaint is that his eyes aren't just red, but they're a sort of translucent plastic that makes me wonder if LEDs or light piping was on the drawing board at one point. They look pretty dull unless you're starting head on at one eye with a light source directly behind the other. For dino articulation, Graviter's head is on a what seems to be a universal joint on a curved slider. Just at that joint the head has an up/down range of about 90 degrees and a 360 degree swivel at a slight angle. At the base of the translucent & gold part is another hinge with about 45 degrees of tilt and a 360 degree swivel. Near the base of the neck is another hinge with a much more limited range, I'd guess between 15 and 30 degrees, and a third 360 degree swivel set abotu 45 degrees from vertical. Based on what I've seen, Stomp has similar joints with slightly greater range, but Graviter's joints are less noticeable and the taper of the neck from the torso to the head is smoother. The transformation hinge at the dino collar is also much less obvious. The front legs are his robot arms and retain their retain their articulation; ratcheted rotation at the shoulders, ratcheted lateral movement at the shoulders, bicep swivels, and ratcheted elbows that bend 90 degrees. His dino feet have a little up down tilt, and each dino claw can tilt up a little and down until they fold into the feet independently of each other, but he has no ankle pivots in the front. The rear leg seems to be on a large ball joint at the hip. You don't get really any lateral movement to speak of, but they rotate fine and are well-toleranced. No thigh swivel. Ratcheted knee bends a little bit forward and backward, maybe 45 degrees of motion total. The toes are the same as the front feet, but the feet themselves can bend up a little more than the front and down nearly 45 degrees. The rear feet also have ankle pivots. The tail has a single hinge for a little swish. Graviter's jaws can open, revealing a pair independently-hinged black flamethrowers for a tongue. The smaller cannons uses the same small holes to peg onto his dino shoulders or hips that they used in robot mode. As with Grassor, I couldn't find any way to stow his larger rifle or sword. And once again, for fans of the toy look, a translucenet helmet can be fit over his head. It's fairly loose, though. It's not toy accurate, but there are also translucent bits to fit over the tail. As was the case with Grassor, they have to be removed and set aside for the transformation to robot mode. What's nice about the tail parts, though, is that they continue the taper of the tail to a finer point, and add nearly an inch of extra length. So here's the thing... in the MP Dinobot space, it's really between just Graviter and Stomp. I've already said that I think Graviter looks better in bot mode despite Stomp being more accurate. Now when it comes to dinosaur mode, neither are exactly cartoon or toy-accurate, and the thing is they tend to deviate in the same areas (the dino head, translucent plastic over gold chrome for the dino shoulder, etc). Stomp seems to have a bit better dinosaur articulation, but that articulation comes at the expense of aesthetics. Stomp has a tiny head, a prominent hinge between the chrome part of his neck and the gray, the base of the first gray segment is much smaller in diameter than the second, and there's an obcenely prominent transformation hinge at his collarbone. Graviter's neck tapers evenly from the base of his skull all the way to his chest. Stomp's dinosaur legs are fairly similar in size, Graviter's rear legs are significantly larger due in part to having larger hips and in part because Gigapower engineered the robot bicep to collapse and shorten when shifting to a dino leg. So while I'm forced to qualify my belief that Graviter's robot mode looks better with the whole, "but Stomp is definitely more accurate!" bit, I feel I can unequivocally state that Graviter's dino mode is a clear winner. What's more, I think the dinobots are one of those rare instances when the alt mode is actually more important than the robot mode. Of course, without having handled Stomp I can really only compare him with Graviter on aesthetics alone. But the paint, the diecast, the joint tolerances, the overall fit and finish of Graviter are easily on par (or dare I say better?) than any of the FansToys figures I do own. Needless to say, I think Graviter is an easy recommend. Unless you're really hardcore for about cartoon-accurate robot modes for your dinobots I think Graviter stomps Stomp, as it were. When looking at the Dinobots available I thought FansToys had a slight edge on Snarl, I thought Grassor edged out his competition but I could see the case for Cesium, but Graviter beat out Stomp so handily in my book that he single-handedly made me decide it was time to start getting MP Dinobots and that Gigapower would be the way to go. That being said, if the robot mode bothers you, or if you already have and are satisfied with Stomp or the other FT Dibots, you probably don't need to switch sides now.

I think Target's internal DPCI number is the same for the '84 lion limbs as it is for the Netflix ones. There's a good chance your Targets have the other lions, but they're sitting in the stock room because the pegs are full of Netflix lions. If you can find a helpful employee who's willing to actually look in the back instead of just checking on their little inventory guns I'd recommend asking.

Dive-Dive! I had one, too! I insisted on taking him in the bathtub with me. I think this might also have something to do with why I feel more strongly about the Hanna-Barbera look for Gobots vs. the Machine Robo look. I'm guessing I'm a little younger. I was four, four and a half when both Gobots and Transformers first aired on TV. I was old enough to follow the plots and learn the characters, young enough not to realize how bad they were, and just the right age for thinking the only thing cooler than robots and cars* were robots that turned into cars. *On an unrelated note, one of my earliest memories was my dad talking to my uncle about VCRs. We couldn't really afford one, but since my dad worked the second shift then he was attracted to the idea of taping all the prime time TV he was missing. I asked my dad what a VCR was, and he tried to explain that it was a box that would let you record a show so you could watch it whenever you wanted. I didn't really understand the recording part, since I was maybe three at the time, but the idea of watching a show when you wanted to struck a chord with me. "You mean I could watch K.I.T.T. whenver I want?!" In that moment, I probably wanted a VCR more than my dad did.

I'd be really curious to hear your thoughts if you actually get him. When I started to switch to Masterpiece I knew the Dinobots were going to come up (ToyWorld and GCreation's weren't going to cut it... heck, for scale, MP-08 doesn't cut it). At the time Giga only had Grassor and Guttur out, but all five FT Dinos were out and I was aware of Cesium. I think between Guttur and Sever it's really close, but I might have leaned toward Sever. Grassor was clearly a winner in my eyes over Scoria, and I think ultimately over Cesium, but Cesium looked perfectly acceptable. Grinder had sort of weird proportions in robot mode, but certainly looked great in dino mode. Aesthetically, I have no real issues with Soar or Stomp, and I'd especially heard a ton of good things about Stomp. Plus, if I'd gone with FansToys, I could have had a complete set of Dinobots. So what finally made me hop into the Giga camp and pull the trigger on MP Dinobots? Wait for my next review and see...

As a kid, I definitely preferred Transformers, but also as a kid in the '80s I was into pretty much anything with giant robots; Transformers, Gobots, Tranzor Z, Robotech, Voltron, Mighty Orbots, whatever I could get. The other thing, which I've talked about sometimes, is that we were kind of poor when I was a kid. My dad was a blue collar worker who got laid off and was out of work for nearly a year, and my mom had actually dropped out of high school to marry my dad at 15 and was a stay-at-home mom until I was much older. As much as I loved Transformers, my parents really couldn't afford more than a minibot until after the '86 movie. Most of the Transformers I had as a kid were post-movie. The only season 1 and 2 toys I had were all three Insecticons, Seaspray, Powerglide, Bumblebee, and Sideswipe, and I'd find out as an adult that of those Sideswipe probably came from my uncle. Gobots, on the other hand, were cheap enough that my parents were able to pad out one or two holidays with several of them. So not only did I watch the cartoon nearly as much as Transformers, I had a ton of Gobots. When things were better, I even had some of the bigger ones like Zod, The Command Center, Thruster, Puzzler, and a few Super Gobots. In fact, for me some Gobots were used as Transformers. I used to pretend Loco was Astrotrain and Res-Q was Ratchet. So, yeah, while licensing issues or a perceived lack of interest in Gobots (maybe they didn't have Gobots in China?) means my dreams are unlikely to come true any time soon, I'd still like larger Masterpiece-style toys of at least Leader-1, Cy-Kill, Turbo, Crasher, Scooter, and Cop-Tur with the Hanna-Barbera aesthetic (ok, maybe Zod, too).

Ok, my wife is back, it's my birthday, and I could finally get some pics! This, finally, is Gigapower Grassor (chrome version), their take on a Masterpiece Slag. So... I own four Slags, and all of them have toy-style black heads and thighs. Grassor's silver face is more G1 box-art than G1 toy, but silver is also what ToyWorld, GCreation, and (AFAIK) Perfect Fusion went with, so I guess silver is fine. We also have a very G1 toy-style red visor. Some lighter silver paint with some blue painted marks, little bits of greenish paint on his knees, and some molded and painted details behind translucent panels on his shins all call to mind some of the toy's sticker details. And, at least for this picture, we also have the toy-style dino legs on the outsides of his lower legs. While some of the molded detail, like his elbows, are definitely G1 toy, you'll note that Giga came up with some of the greebles on his torso on their own, and picked them out with black and silver in a way that's neither cartoon nor toy. So while it's tempting to generalize Grassor as being a more G1 toy-based figure and FT's Scoria or PF's Cesium as more G1 cartoon-based I don't think that's entirely accurate. He definitely could have used a little more black on his abs to be more accurate to both toy and toon. Regardless of the overall degree of accuracy Grassor is unmistakably Slag, though, with his dino paw wrists, wings, little gold feet, silvery gray arms and shins, red torso with his silver bib, and squarish robot head wearing his dino head like a hoodie. He's got a properly broad chest that gets round near his shoulders that tapers to a narrow waist. Plus, as this is the chrome version, his dino toes and bib are silver chrome, his feet and dino head are a deep gold chrome that's much richer in color than GCreation or ToyWorld's, and the red is either a red chrome or a very metallic, very shiny red paint. All-in-all, I think he looks quite good. Grassor comes with a ton of accessories. You've got some stickers (not pictured) that I'll talk about later, some rubbery plastic flame parts (that maybe aren't supposed to come with the chrome version; it looks like the seller wrapped it separately and added it to the box), two (non-firing) misile launchers that are very similar to the G1 toy, a rifle that is G1 toy in shape but dumps the silver chrome for black with a red tip, a sword with a G1 toy-style red blade but a black hilt that's a little different in design, an alternate red head with a blue visor and silver angry face, alternate red stoic and angry faces, some translucent parts, and some leg fillers. Leg fillers, you say? Yep, if you go for the toy-style dino legs on the outside look you can fill the inside of his legs with these nicely molded and painted leg fillers. And the reason the inside of his legs would need filler is because, by design, the dino legs can fold around to the inside nestle up in there, giving him a more cartoonish smooth side to his legs. It's almost a shame that Giga made those fillers look so nice, because I'm betting most people are going to fold the dino legs in and keep the filler in a box somewhere. Some people have complained that the dino tail is basically just hanging off of his calves. I'll agree that it's not the best, but it seems like the alternatives have been to fold the tail inside of the leg, forcing you to leave the dino legs on the outside (Hasbro, GCreation), have the tail haning off the sides of the legs (ToyWorld), or turn it into a ugly backpack (Fansproject, FansToys, GT toy). Even Perfect Fusion, who did manage to integrate the tail into the leg a bit more neatly, did so at the expense of a thinner tail and thicker legs. On the whole, I don't really mind how Giga handled the tail. What I would have liked is a little more cartoon-accurate options. You can mix-and-match heads, faces, and visors to get yourself a cartoon-accurate red head, red face, blue visor, but that doesn't quite look right with black thighs. I'm not really into black head/red visor Slag, though, so for now I'm going to go with red head, blue visor, and silver face. It's worth noting here, though, that Gigapower also released a metallic version that swaps the chrome for metallic paint. That version definitely comes with flame accessories, and it also comes with both black thighs and silver replacement thighs. For what it's worth, I contacted Gigapower to inquire about buying a set of those silver-painted thighs. What they told me is that they're planning to release and sell a set of silver chrome thighs (and horns, more on that in a bit) at a later date. When they do, I'll probably buy them, swap the black thighs for chrome, and then swap the silver face for a red one. Oh, and since comparing Grassor to the Slags I have probably isn't totally useful for size I put him next to MP-10. He's quite a bit bigger! In fact, he's only a head shorter than Power Baser. I don't have the FansToys Dibots, but I can tell you that Grassor is over a head taller than Scoria, and roughly half a head taller than Cesium. Which size you think works best for an MP Dinobot will probably depend how how you feel about scale charts or which episode of the cartoon you watched last, but suffice to say I think Grassor is on the bigger end of just fine. Grassor's head is on a ball-joint that can look up a little, not much down, and can tilt sideways a bit. The swivel is slightly hindered by the dinosaur head. His shoulders rotate on ratchets, and a seperate ratchet that gives him a little under 90 degrees of lateral movement. His biceps swivel, and his elbows are ratcheted affairs that bend almost 90 degrees. His wrists swivel, and his hands are very KFC/X-Transbots-esque affairs with each finger connected to the palm via a ball joint (with an extra cut to allow the thumb to move from the side of the hand over the palm), and two additional pin hinge knuckles per finger. All of his hip skirts have hinges. His hips themselves ratchet forward and backward a little under 90 degrees and laterally a full 90 degrees. Interestingly, the lateral ratchets click louder than the forward/backwards ones but they're less able to handle the massive weight of his lower legs. That's not to say he's loose; you're not going to find him suddenly doing the splits like an old TFC combiner, but he probably won't manage a to hold a high kick, either. He has thigh swivels, and his knees bend maybe 60-70 degrees on ratchets. As for feet, his toes can bend down and turn in to give him a bit of faux ankle tilt, but for the most part he's going to perch on the inner edge of his massive legs. That said, due to his transformation his lower leg can bend toward each other at the knee. If you don't put him in too wide of an A-stance you can use that joint to keep the bottom of his legs flat and it doesn't look too bad. As far as holding his weapons go, they go for the usual MP-style gig of having tabs on the handles that fit into slots on his palms. His rifle is a little loose, but the tension from his fingers seems adequate to keep in place. The trigger guard is a little too high for his finger, though. The sword is much more secure in his palms. You can peg it in and have him hold his hand out, fingers open and palm down, and the sword will stay in place. Both the gun and the sword (as well as the eyes in both heads) have LED light up gimmicks, but I don't have the right button cells. As for the missile launchers, there's no peg holes on his shoulders. There's peg holes on the outside of his elbows, but I'm not sure I like that look. If you like (and have) the flame accessory, you can open it up and you'll find a space inside for the blade of his sword. The effect is pretty cool, but it adds a ton of weight to the sword. It'll stay pegged into his palm, and the ratchets in his shoulders and elbows seem up to the task, but his wrist swivel gives out here, limiting your poses to pretty much holding the sworld straight up. Grassor turns into a Triceratops, as Slags are wont to do. The details on the neck frill are basically what you got on the G1 toy, just blown up. He's also got toy-colored red chrome horns. Strangely enough, while I find myself wanting my Slags to have cartoon colors for robot mode I think I actually prefer red horns to silver. I do prefer blue eyes, though, but the sticker set I mentioned way back at the beginning of this review are a pair of blue eyes and a pair of red ones. Peeking around the side, we see he's also got a gold tail (what was up with GCreation and the new Hasbro ones using silver?) and silver chrome dino toes and some other silver chrome molded parts on his back. Molded and painted wiring on his sides is copied from the G1 toy's stickers, and the chrome protusions beside them and the vents above them are similarly pulled from the toy. He has either gold paint or gold chrome underneath translucent discs on his shoulders and hips, a toy detail basically everyone that makes a Slag uses, and the ones on the hips have a peg hole in the middle that you can mount the missile launchers on. Alternatively, you can use the ones on his elbows. There doesn't seem to be any way to stow his rifle or sword in dinosaur mode. His lower jaw is the same gold chrome that his head is covered with, because it's not made from the silver chrome bib. I think his dino head is perhaps a touch too big, but his body has a pretty good shape overall that makes me feel like this is possibly the best-looking Slag in dino mode. Now, normally I'd say it's better to make concessions in alt mode to have a better robot mode, but the Dinobots are some of the rare few characters I prefer to display in alt mode, so Giga scores big points from me here. As far as dino articulation goes, the hinges at the base of the dino head give him the ability to look up an down a taste, and he can turn his head but he can't look to either side. His dino mouth can open and close. His front legs are his arms, so he has the same shoulder articulation and bicep swivels. In addition to being able to bend his elbow-knees just under 90 degrees forward they can also bend backward, and his dino toes can ben up and down a bit. His rear hips are ball joints so they can rotate and he can get a little spread out of them. No thigh swivels, and his knees can bend about 90 degrees, with his rear dino does also being able to bend up and down. His tail has a hinge so it can swing side to side a little. If you open his mouth you'll find a flame thrower on a hinge in the roof of his mouth. While you can just open his mouth and pose it like it's about to fire and have a pretty nice display just like that, if you have the flame accessories you can attach them to the flame thrower. Now, instead of looking like he's about to breath fire, you can display him mid scorch. One last thing for the G1 toy fans; those translucent bits. There's basically two halves that wrap around the base of the tail, two halves that wrap around the rest of the tail, and a helmet that fits down over his head to recreate the toy's translucent plastic over gold chrome look. As an added bonus, if you find yourself waffling between blue or red dino eyes you can always put the blue eyes on the helmet, or put blue eyes on the head and red on the helmet, and essentially get the best of both words. The only downside is that the tail pieces have to come off for transformation. That might bother me more if I weren't going to put them in a box with the extra head, faces, missiles launchers, and leg fillers. At this point, I think the question a lot of people have is whether to buy Grassor, Scoria, or Cesium. Now, I can't really answer that as I haven't handled Scoria or Cesium. All I can tell you is that, based on looks, I personally prefer Grassor (although, again, I would prefer silver thighs and a red face), although I will readily admit that Cesium looks the most cartoon-accurate. I can tell you that Grassor is a hefty figure with a build quality and overall finish that is on par with or better than the FansToys figures I have handled. I don't think this is one of those cases where one is clearly better than the others, or even which one has the flaws you can live with the best. I think this is one of those rare cases where whichever way you go you're going to wind up with an excellent toy. To that end, would I recommend Grassor? Absolutely. I think he's easily one of the best toys I've bought (and regular readers will know I've bought a lot of toys). That doesn't mean I'm telling you to sell your Scorias to buy him, or if you were shopping for a Masterpiece Slag and you kind of had your eye on Cesium it doesn't mean I'm telling you that you should change your mind. What I am saying is that if you've been looking at Grassor and thinking, "Y'know, this might be the Slag for me" that you won't be disappointed when you have him in hand.

Not just graphics cards, there's a RAM shortage or something. It's like double what it should cost. I do have a GTX 970, and I'd sell it to you, but I didn't figure the GTX 10-series to be enough of an upgrade. I'm waiting for a new Nvidia chipset before I upgrade.

Been awhile since I played on a Wii U, so I can't say if it's better or worse. I think I got around 3 hours on a charge while playing Zelda. That's not ideal in a portable, I suppose, but it charges pretty fast and there are USB-C battery packs (there's an Anker one that's pretty well-reviewed) that'll help. Personally, I just bought a second dock. One in the living room, one in my bedroom. I like that I can use it as a portable for an hour or two here and there when I know I need some portable gaming, but I play docked more than not.

I've mostly passed on Action Toys' Machine Robo line. I just couldn't get behind $40+ for tiny toys full of ball joints, especially when they were leaning hard on the Revenge of Cronos designs (so they don't look like Gobots), and simultaneously being limited by the Revenge of Cronos license (Eagle Robo and Bike Robo were fine, and we'd seen a prototype of Supercar Robo, but no Scooter Robo, Porsche Robo, or Gyro Robo meant half the Gobots main cast is missing). With the optional and very obviously Hanna-Barbera Cy-Kill faces, though, the new Bike Robo DX is probably as close to a Masterpiece Cy-Kill as I'm ever going to get, so I have him pre-ordered. I'll grab a similarly-sized Eagle Robo DX if they do one, especially if he also comes with optional Leader-1 parts. Doubt I'd pick up any others, though, and my dream of having MP-style figures of the main six Gobots will likely remain unfulfilled.

It looks like crap, but I thought the first pictures of Transformers Animated looked like crap, too, and it turned out to be pretty great.

Did you get it? I just looked and saw they're out of stock. I looked for a chrome Guttur, too, but they're all gone. I hear Giga is doing a reissue in April, though.

I thought I'd seen a US retailer that still had some Metallic Grassors. If I see one I'll pm you.

Look who showed up today. Unfortunately, with a two year old underfoot I could barely take them out of the box, so reviews will have to wait until the weekend when my wife gets back from her trip and I can get a little time to myself.

That's pretty cool. I've seen some people paint their translucent eyes red, but it looks like you actually made new translucent eyes. 3D printed?

Should we be excited? I was under the impression that the first two were pretty bad free-to-play games.

Yeah, that's reason to hate them if you're following the various Dragon Ball animes or mangas. But going only off DBZ abridged, Vegeta is hilarious.

How can you watch DBZ Abridged and not have Vegeta in your top 3?