Welcome back to another week of robots, monsters, and misadventure, Zone Base readers!
We're halfway through October, meaning the red moon is almost gone, but until then we're still carving those pumpkins like there's no tomorrow. That's the problem with a holiday season: the actual holiday is the end of it. As much as I'm looking forward to handing out candy on Halloween night, like all of you, I'll be putting those decorations away the next day with a heavy heart. Until then, though, I'm lighting enough jack-o'-lanterns to burn the world down!
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Transformers-Apparently, the lack of Cyberworld coverage from NYCC was made up for this past week, as a big Cyberworld leak hit the usual sources.
My quest to get and blog about all the Cyberworld toys continues! I still need the standard Energon Surge Cyber Changer Optimus Prime, Energon Surge Armored Cyber Changer Airachnid, the two pirate ships, Shockwave, Hound, and that giant Bumblebee. I hope to get them all before the new toys come out.
Fortunately, Cyberworld doesn't vanish as quickly as other toy lines do, so I can take my time acquiring them. But I am starting to chomp at the bit a little. The leak shows some really cool things that I can't wait to cover here. The quest continues!
I'm not sure if these figures will be part of whatever sub-branding and gimmick follows Energon Surge or not. There are a lot of toys that are possibly repaints, which is to be expected in what's essentially a budget line for children. Hasbro has also been doing a lot of cost-saving measures with multiple rereleases. Straight rereleases I'll likely skip, but I'm definitely down for fun new colors.
TRA CYBERWORLD CC SCORPONOK– I'm super excited for this one, literally salivating for a Cyber Changer version of this Scorponok.
TRA CYBERWORLD CC BUMBLEBEE, TRA CYBERWORLD CC CHEETOR, TRA CYBERWORLD CC OPTIMUS PRIME, TRA CYBERWORLD CC ELITA-1, TRA CYBERWORLD CC MEGATRON– Not surprising. Hopefully, we'll get a fun new mold or at least some interesting repaints.
TRA CYBERWORLD ULTIMATE GRIMLOCK 2 – The “2” leads me to think this is another fun repaint, but I'm still hoping for a new toy.
TRA CYBERWORLD CYBER ATTACK BUMBLEBEE – I'm pretty interested in what fun new form a Cyber Attack Bumblebee could take after the cool dinosaurs and pirate ships from Energon Surge.
TRA CYBERWORLD CYBER ATTACK GRIMLOCK – This one has me very interested, as so far the Cyber Attack toys have featured some fun alt modes. Will we get a new beast mode for Grimlock?
TRA CYBERWORLD COMBINER BUMBLEBEE, TRA CYBERWORLD COMBINER VOLCANIUS – Part of me wonders if these will be retools of the combiner toys from Robots in Disguise (2015) and Cyberverse, but I'm interested in Cyberworld combiners altogether. If they are retools, I guess it's a good thing I didn't get the originals. However, fingers crossed for something really neat!
The Weekend (
As reported from my phone Monday morning)-
I had a pretty great weekend. I had actually taken Friday off leading to a trip to Spirit and Full Circle Toys. The Mrs and I completed our weekend shopping leading to a weekend at home where we got some things around the house done and a great dinner at Outback Steakhouse Saturday night. It was a pretty relaxing weekend, which is just what I needed. As for toys, I picked up a few items of interest. At Full Circle Toys, I picked up the clear Blokees Unicron planet mode kit, the Blokees Ark kit, a blind MTMTE Galaxy Version and Batman Defender Version. The MTMTE kit turned out to be Brainstorm and the Batman was the 2022 version. A later stop by Ross resulted in the Diaclone colors ReAction Devastator. As we're getting closer to Christmas, my toy pick ups each weekend will naturally slow down, but that doesn't mean posting here won't!
