But I'm thankful I got him, because 1) Fangry is rad.  There is no 2).  Just 1).  That's all we need.  He's a pissy winged dragon wolf who violently reacts to being given orders and, wow, actually got some play in the Marvel Comics I read slightly later as a child.  In 1988 terms, he was important! 

Titans Return gave us a tiny Head Only Fangry that sort of plugged into a tiny winged wolf that also became a dragon, but no Normal Sized Proper Fangry.  So I made my own!  I got a second Titans Return Grotusque, who was 90% the way to Fangry already.  He was a purple winged gopher instead of a purple winged wolf.  All he needed was a bit more purple, some wolf ears to fudge the animal head closer to wolf, and the existing Titans Return Fangry head.  A pretty simple and effective Fangry custom!  I was proud of it.

And I'm even prouder now that Hasbro's done the exact same thing.  Okay, they did some retooling, because they can, but it's effectively the same thing I did.  Because I'm smart!  Kingdom Fangry is a slightly pinker Titans Returns Grotusque, using the same TR Fangry head, a new wolf head, new shoulders, some new wolf hands (instead of the three claws), and a new chest and crotchplate.  But yeah, glad to see both Hasbro and I were super geniuses.  Watch me preen.

Fangry is part of a $85 Target-exclusive "Worlds Collide" four-pack that, so far, has shown up in like five Targets.  That was a month ago.  No hint of them in Columbus yet.  But I found my unicorn on eBay, a person selling the four-pack minus the Bumblebee, who's the only guy I have no use for.  (I didn't want to pay double for the whole set to some scalper if I could help it.)  So I now have my Fangry, who's essentially the completed version of my Proof Of Concept.

I love the new wolf head, which is based directly on the original character model, down to its toothy expression.  The jaw is hinged, so you can close that mouth up, if you want.  Grotusque's beast mode head transformed the jaw out of the chest, but Fangry has the entire head and jaw as a separate apparatus, while the new chest piece merely hangs around down there like window dressing.  Brisko, the name of Fangry's head, has some different plastic layouts and paint choices as well, giving him a more vivid treatment.  (The face itself seems identical.)  The new chest shows Fangry's tech-spec readout, same as the original toy.  And Brisko can hide inside the stomach compartment when Fangry's in wolf mode, same as originally.  

The Grotusque mold has seen some better days, though.  Many folks have reported weak knee joints, and mine had a little of that, but nothing I couldn't fix with some brushed-in clear floor polish.  The robot feet chunks have trouble staying on their hinges, also, and I might try using floor polish on those as well. This mold's just been used too much.  Doublecross/Twinferno, the original use of the mold, was also retooled into the other two Monsterbots before we got to Fangry, so this tooling's been around the block a few times.  

But it's Fangry, and so I'm pleased.  

and i can keep him in beast mode without thinking dang that's a gopher with wolf ears