Black: check. Purple: check. Silver: check.
Hey, guys! There was a two-page mini-comic about Animated Cheetor from a few weeks back, and its artist, M Sipher, is putting up the originals on eBay. You should check them out here and here.
It occurred to me that I owned a toy of every unique character released in the various Animated toylines, save just two guys. I’m not talking about the same-character redeco stuff, no. But other than Activators Ramjet (Japan-exclusive) and Black Rodimus (Japan-exclusive), I kinda had them all. (There is an “additional Starscream clone” toy also from Japan that is sort of maybe a new character as well, but it’s kind of nebulous and he doesn’t get a bio or anything, so I don’t really care.)
Black Rodimus came out last week, so I figged, hey, why not, let’s get ‘im. What’s his story? Surprise, Megatron cloned Rodimus Prime using Starscream‘s cloning technology. How novel! Y’know, one of those experimental prototype things, to see if it’d work on a larger scale. But whoops, evil Rodimus just wants to take over the Decepticons, and he’s actually pretty good at it, so now Megatron has a problem on his hands. The end! It’s a dumb story, but it’s a story, and so it’s a hole in my collection that my brain requires me to fill.
What, never seen a giant crossbow on the roof of a car before?
Black Rodimus is exactly what you’d expect in a “black repaint’ Rodimus toy. He’s basically Shattered Glass Rodimus colors. And to that end, it would have been suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper awesome if they’d given him Shattered Glass Rodimus’s goatee. I mean, c’mon. Evil clone! But no. Black Rodimus’s purple is metallic, like most of the rest of Japan’s Animated line, which doesn’t look tacky on this toy, thankfully. And it’s a good toy all around, regardless of color, so it’s nice to have another of it. Buying an evil clone guy would have been a much tougher decision if it were of a toy I didn’t like.
I’ll of course be getting a third iteration at BotCon next month, when they give him a new head and call him Breakdown. I’ll welcome that, too. Again, good toy.
What, no DotM Ratchet review tonight?
Seriously, though, do NOT tempt me on that Black Rodimus figure. I really shouldn’t plop the money down to get that fig, no matter how awesome it looks and how desperately I need more Animated Decepticons.
DO. NOT. NEED.
(WANT so badly…)
Obviously you will have to paint the goatee on him yourself!
I was just coming here to suggest that myself. Shouldn’t be that hard for someone like you!
Seriously, what’s up with BotCon and their weird attachment to Brakedown?? =/
And I’m with CS and TPTB: get a little piece of “Green Stuff” (or JB Weld or Play-Doh with some superglue), sharpie it black, place on face and *BLAM!* SG Roddy…
Even though I’m getting burnt out on “evil clone” this and “different universe” that, this figure looks fairly cool.
- a_o_t_8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7fDcmdpOk8 For more on Black Rodimus =P