#toq-oh

Say hello to this rainbow boy

He is the Rainbow liner, aka Toq-oh.

I made him into Lego.

All aboard, ToQ-Oh!

Another opportunity to go back and revisit a mold I’ve already done with a more knowledgeable perspective. A perk of doing remolds, I suppose.

The Good: Having poked around with more toys and having done research on others adds a bit of perspective to certain releases. Like, how much of an interesting case ToQ-Oh is compared to the train mecha that have come before it. Train’s are usually the Q2 or Q3 releases for their respective lines, and are normally quite large in comparison to the other machines in the line. The easiest example to point out for this is Grand Liner from GoGoV since it had to be proportional to the cars the team normally used, as well as carry them. ToQ-Oh in comparison is very slender, more closely matching the proportions of an actual train rather than a suped-up one, and the fact that it manages a powerful silhouette when being formed from what is essentially five straight lines is pretty neat. It’s mostly due to Red Ressha:

It does a lot of folding in order to achieve that torso bulk that the toy really needs to stand out. It sets out to do something different and succeeds.

The Bad: It still bugs me that the backpack doesn’t lock very well. I’m honestly concerned that it’s going to catch on something and snap the neck-connection-bar-thing. Also, on a fresh one, the shoulder connections are pretty tough to pop in and out. I know this fades in time while still maintaining its toughness, but it was an unexpected issue.

The Ugly: Like with Safari GaOh before it, the transformation isn’t all that wowing. Like I said before, I give it a lot of credit for being five straight lines that become a robot, but only Red Ressha is fun to transform.