#king exkaiser

TOYR!SE Dragon Kaiser

Or "Kizer" if the box is to be believed. While I've had fun with Toyr!se so far, this is their first combining release, so I was curious how it would pan out, and as you can maybe tell, it turned out pretty well. I have to give a lot of credit to ExKaiser, as well, for having several hidden or hard to notice joints that help everything come together.

The Good: The Dragon Jet is a solid piece, and its transformation into Dragon Kaiser fun and not as hard as ExKaiser, with most of the complex movements being in the torso. It's also very posable, only lacking a waist joint and having everything else you'd want. It's also capable of storing all of its spare parts in the cockpit.

Great ExKaiser does lose the waist joint, but retains everything else ExKaiser has. Since Dragon Kaiser has to split into 5 parts, detaching the torso from the rest of the body is a little strange, but everything comes together very smoothly, and looks pretty good.

The Bad: The base mode kinda sucks. Doesn't hold together well, and there's a large amount of engineering built in to accommodate it, including several parts coming off. The two base modes don't even combine, you just sit them next to each other.

The combined skirt and mane piece falls off pretty easily. Dragon Kaiser has a few hollow parts, but the only ones that bother me are the arm cannons since they are very big and predominant pieces.

Overall, very happy with it. I'm hoping they do some more Brave Series robots in this style, especially any with 3 or more robots coming together... Wait... None of the Brave's have proper 3-robot combinations. Well Da-Garn it.

Toyr!se King Exkaiser

This one was a pleasant surprise. I wasn't sure what to expect from Takara's new foray into high end toys, but I think this one turned out pretty cool. It feels very different from The Gattai, too, so if they did a Toyr!se version of, say, Might Gaine, I'd be tempted to pick it up.

The Good: This is a very chunky boi, in the best way possible. While The Gattai feels high end in the way everything moves and transforms, this feels very DX+. It's all big, chunky, clunky movements, everything is ratcheted, it's very self-contained, etc. It makes it very easy to pick up and play with.

Exkaiser has 2 forms, King Roader has 2 forms, and combined they have 2 forms. The motions getting from one form to another are very easy as well. They're also all pretty posable. Not as much as a The Gattai release, but you can get some pretty good dynamic and stoic poses out of both Exkaiser and King Exkaiser. You can also display them separately if you just push the lion mouth out with your fingers.

The Bad: Because this is more closely related to a DX release than a high ender, there are a lot of exposed transformation and combination ports. (This does confirm we'll probably be getting a Dragon Jet, though.) This includes the backside of the sword, which has very large tabs on it for Jet Mode.

While there are a lot of good locking points throughout, there are a few that are a bit harder to get right or that just require basic posing to get right. The wrists are tricky the first few times to get right, there's a shoulder lock that isn't required but makes everything more solid if you can get it to actually lock, and the arms as King Roader you have to pose in place rather than lock.