#fuzors

Zoids - Liger Zero Phoenix (Takara-Tomy AZ line)

I'm so happy that they gave the Zero Phoenix a spot in the AZ line, this kit is beautiful! The wings especially, I love that the "feathers" can flair out. The sculpt and engineering to make a blox design like this work is really neat too!

That said, the quality control (or rather lack of) for this kit is incredibly disappointing, especially for its price point. My kit had a piece that was malformed on both the sprues that had it, the piece that makes up the structure of Fire Phoenix's tail. Half of the wall of where a peg would insert to connect the 2 pieces was missing, meaning that the tail could not hold itself together. Luckily its not an issue in its Liger Zero Phoenix form, but it is a major issue if building the Fire Phoenix as a standalone kit.

My AZ Blade Liger and Liger Zero had no issues, so I'm not sure what happened here. But a defect this bad should never have made it past quality control, its made me rethink getting the blue Phoenix standalone kit. Its just too expensive to be taking a chance on a kit that may or may not have similar defects =/

(Photos of the defect beneath the cut)

This is Harlequin, he's a silent type but in actuality he's very friendly!! UvU

Just ask Bantor.... He was all mandrill before I put a tiger in his tank!"

A slightly delirious Ratchet Transformers Prime S2 Episode 4 "Operation Bumblebee Pt2"

Now that's a deep cut, as Bantor was a... well, let's be polite and say "lesser known" Fuzor from the second wave of Beast Wars Fuzor subline (Where each bot had a beast mode made of two different animals, like Silverbolt and Quickstrike as seen in the TV show)

Dear Cetacean Collator,

I remember two… well, actually one. Sort of.

The Maximal Maxilodon, despite claiming to be a megalodon, was actually a whale shark. I don't know why this oceanic siege engineer felt ashamed of his alt mode, but it's not an uncommon thing to happen with some bots.

Battle of the Fuzors

Transformers Fuzors!

A couple of years ago I went through a "transformers phase", and by that I mean I made a couple of transformers fanarts which is not something I usually do.

I have always been a big fan of Beast Wars and when I was looking at some beast wars era toys I found curious there were so many bat maximals, so I wanted to try and make my version of them.

First is the original Optimus Primal toy that turned into a bat, the original color scheme was gray instead of black, but I wanted him to have the same palette as the gorilla primal, also I gave him some batman features because I like batman

Then its Nightscream from Beast Machines, when I was reading about the character I found that while in the original series he was portrayed as a bit of an emo character, in the japanese dub he was turned into a very flamboyant gay character, and when the character was adapted into the legends comic he was portraid as a crossdresser that many characters mistook as female despite being male, so I went ahead and made it a "femboi" because I felt it suited his design

Next is Sonar, a transmetal 2 bat that never showed in the cartoon but did in the comics, in her toy bio she was never given any pronouns, so when she was added to the comics they made her female to have more fembots, so I made her a cute fembot, because why not

The last one is Noctorro, a Bat/Bull fuzor that also never showed in the cartoon, but did in the comics, when I read the characters bio it said noctorro is a fighter that uses no guns, thats why his toy didnt include any, and while his whole body had the same dark blue and golden color scheme, his face was particulary red, so I decided to make it look like a it is wearing a luchador mask, this paired well with its "no guns" fighting style. I also made his beast mode because the original toy was a bit of underwhelming and I knew it could look better