February 12, 2023 • 37 mins
It's everyone's favorite 3-eyed creep! The guys talk Tri Klops. Did the Four Horesman improve on an already-stellar design, or did they muck it up thrice? Listen and find out!
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Welcome to Talking Toys with Taylor andJeff, where we go back in time
to discuss our favorite toys, onetoy line at a time. Hello,
and welcome to Talking Toys with Taylorand Jeff Action Figure Exclusive. I'm Taylor
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and I'm Jeff, and it's timeto talk more about the two thousand X
Masters of the Universe line. Andwe're gonna talk about Triclops tonight. Um
demand so nice. They named himthrice. I don't know, I need
a workshop that we've heard that one. Yeah, I've never heard that one.
Well, there's there's it's New York, New York, the city so
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nice. They named it twice.It's one of the one of the slogans
for New York City. Um.Yeah, so clearly I'm just more cultured
than you are, Taylor. Butno, we're here to talk about triclops.
And you have the original one ofthese, right, there's a variant,
but you have the main one,right, I do? I do?
Um. As soon as I wasable to get one, I found
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one second hand complete. He didn'tcome in package, but he did have
all his accessories and it's pretty awesome. That's cool. And there is a
there's a variant that it looks likethe only difference is or the main difference
is, well, it's a colorvariant. His armor is darker green um,
and his the thing down the middlelooks like it's a darker brown.
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He's got like a black leotard onunderneath, and he has silver pants.
Yeah, that's that's it, right, No. He there's also um an
emblem on his belt that's been coloredsilver. There's like the hoses that go
like the electronic Oh yeah, they'relike bright green, bright green. His
sword is actually done in bright green, and so is his doom Seeker,
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which is a little flying vehicle thatgoes around in this series. It's also
done in bright green. So there'slike some weird oh and he has gloves.
There's like some weird kind of strangedifferences between it. But it's there's
aspects of it, like I lovethe idea of him having like a tunic
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or like a shirt under his armor. I chuse to call it a leotard,
a leotard or a body suit unbody suit. Yeah, I could
see that, but at the sametime, it does throw off the design.
It doesn't feel like track hops,right, So why do you suppose,
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and we're gonna get ahead of ourselvesa little bit, but why do
you suppose on the main one theydidn't paint that emblem on his belt and
just let it be the same coloras arrest of the belt. Well,
so, okay, at this pointthey were, you know, redoing the
designs to the original figures, andif you look at the original figure,
his belt is just orange, andso in order not to break that up,
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I think they decided just to keepit this kind of yellow ochre,
kind of orange e color to justmake it set in as a belt.
I think when sometimes when they dorepaints, oftentimes I'll just pick like one
or two things to change paint on. I like the look of that that
buckle being silver, but it's notnecessary, you know. I think to
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keep the colorization as close as youcan to the original. I think what
they did with the original two thousandnext figure here and not the recolor,
it matches to that classic vintage figuremore because they're not aking like you've got
updates on things. But it's notdrastic. It's not too much. And
I think if they'd put silver onthe belt buckle, it have been too
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much. Okay, no, andyou're probably right, and I wouldn't necessarily.
I wasn't thinking it would necessarily haveto be silver, just you know,
like a darker maybe maybe black tomatch the leather straps or the dark
brown to match what's on his chest. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Let's let's talk about the figure.So this guy, the design is basically
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an updated version of the one wegot in the original line. He's got
the same feature I'm assuming that's thehelmet on his head turns to where he
has three different i guess viewports orthree different eyes to look through. Yes,
it does, and there's even anupdated feature just not even to it
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turning it turns. And then italso has a light gimmick with it as
well. These are like a holein the top of his head that light
shines down into to it. Yeah, so the top of his head sculptured
with a clear plastic and the clearplastic goes and points out towards his eyes.
So when the disk is turned andyou have a specific eye over that
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light source, you put them undera light source, that eye lights up
and it's kind of to emulate someof the laser of fire that he has
with certain eyes. The whole engineeringof the headpiece that turns is actually made
of a clear plastic, and thenthey've done transparent paint over the eyes and
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then painted everything else opaque, soinstead of it being in like a green
plastic, it is kind of aclear plastic. So when you get a
closure, you can start to seea little bit of that see through kind
of look in certain areas where thepaint app is not heavily put on.
But I love the fact that,you know, we've got this turnable eye
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much like the Vintage, with neweye sets that kind of reflect what's in
the show and even what's in thecomic about him. And now we get
a light feature with it as well. I feel like they were really like
trying to give, you know,fans of the original Vintage run a nice
update and a lot of really extraplay features and make this as toyetic as
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it could be. And that seemslike something that they could have included in
the first line had they thought aboutit or had the technology. It seems
like something that maybe they they wantedto do, you know, right,
And then so and he's wearing alike a he's got a he weren't basically
a hood that goes all the wayaround his chin, and the original was
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wearing that as well. Correct orNo, yes, okay, that's what
I thought. Yeah. The onething that's kind of weird is the original
the way that the chin sits outof chen sits out of the hood,
so he's got of a weird,you know, bulbous chin, whereas this
time they've taken more of a RoboCopapproach and like strapped it down where his
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chin is held on to this kindof like hood set that's all kind of
tied together to hold the electronics together, so it feels more mechanical in nature.
Right, Yeah, that's and that'skind of how how it looked to
me as well. Now what I'mhaving trouble seeing there's there's some silver down
below his chin, going down likeinto his chest. Is this are these
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like something that's connected to these silverhoses that are going up around his neck.
So the hoses around the neck andhis neck are two different pieces.
So he has silver plating that's almostlike plaiting that goes around his neck and
that's what's under his chin down andit runs to the top of his torso
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like a metal collar. Basically,yeah, pretty much, it's like a
segmented armor for his neck that okay, houses electronics. And then he has
these hoses that plug into his chestplate that run into a collar on the
back of the head, and that'sagain probably more like servos electronics things to
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help him see. In the comicbook about him for the two thousand next
run of Figures, they had runa whole comic series, and that comic
he was a blind samurai. Sohe had been like this samurai that couldn't
see and this one guy who didall this mechanical stuff through attorney and he
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was able to dig down into theattorneyan corps and had all these like robots
and stuff out, you know,looking for things for him. He needed
someone to protect what he had,so he hired the blind samurai to come
and help him, and he kindof got tricked into having eyesight and basically
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like his visor you know, allowshim to see electronically into the world,
but also see through drones and otherthings that he has. He ended up
getting betrayed and then ended up whileyou're working for skeletor down the road.
But the idea was that he's reallygood with mechanics because he was learning from
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this powerful like Eternian mechanic as well. So a lot of this stuff is
stuff that he has built and changedover time to tie into his mechanics.
On his body. Okay, he'slike a cyborg in a way, right,
Oh, kind of like robo compliche we're talking about. And so
the brown strip that's coming down hischest and connecting to I guess I don't
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know what it is. It's likea belt that's halfway up his tour.
So this is part of this silverportion that we're seeing on his neck or
is it separate. It's separate,so it'd be like the silver silver Porsche
on his neck is almost like plates. Then his green armor is like plated
green painted armor right on top ofhim. And then the brown is like
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a leather strap that runs right fromhis neck area, but it runs over
the plates into the belt that sitsaround his waist. It's weird the belt.
Yeah, yeah, he's got thebelt. They goes, but it's
it's not at his waist. It'slike it's like basically just above his belly,
but where his belly button would be. I guess it's up always um
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and he's got pockets on it,right, those are those are pouches that
I'm seeing. It's like utility belt, right, It's like it's either like
a utility belt or like a batteryset. Okay, yeah, because they're
there, they don't look specifically likepockets. I mean, they kind of
look like it from a distance,but they're square with little like rivets on
it, Okay, And so itcould be one of one of two things.
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But it's kind of a I likeit because it still breaks up the
design from the vintage toy that hadthe belt that went around the bottom,
but it still adds a little bitof gaping between it and his actual armored
waist belt. And we see thislike with certain like tactical gear. You
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actually have a belt with tactical gearthat can ride higher than your actual like
gun belt or what's called holster beltthat has you know, pockets on them
for AMMO and things, and itrides higher because you're supposed to grab more
from your mid section than you arefrom your waist. So with him,
it's I feel like it's kind ofthe same thing. Like if he if
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he had stuff in these pouches,it would be more like ninja stars that
you could throw out. Okay.And speaking of that plating up above the
green plating, I really like therivets that are running around the edge of
all of those plates. Yeah,looks really cool. Now it is a
very cool and very like mechanical almoststeampunk. Yes, very steam very industrial
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looking. Now, his muscles lookvery square. Is he wearing a suit
or are these are his muscles justsculpted to be very angular? Okay,
So he suffers a little bit fromthe same problems that human suffered with with
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the anime look. It's interesting becausethere's areas in the arm and leg and
legs on some figures where it feelsmore rounded out and a little more realistic,
and then you get some areas thatseem to be kind of hard angled.
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And this is kind of like oneof those areas where it's it's teetering
between an animated look and a realisticlook. And I'm not sure why that
was the case, because even thoughand you know, we know that the
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Mic Young productions of the two thousandshe Man was coming out around the same
time as the figure. As thefigures were out, you know, the
figures obviously having a nod and abasis on the anime. It just seems
kind of odd that there's a littlebit more of a focus on the the
anime style look of the bodies andso of a more realistic look. And
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it's it's weird because it's inconsistent throughoutthe line. Some figures look very smooth
and they're muscling, and some likehim right here, he's kind of angled
and very sharp edge like an animedrawing. Yeah, it looks it looks
like he's wearing like plating, orit looks like more playing like flesh colored
plating. So that's odd. Iwonder, I wonder why they went that
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route, especially because if you lookat his arms and his legs, they're
they're very organic looking, although hislegs are ridiculous. Um. Yeah,
his legs are a little a littlemore square enough than his arms. His
arms a little bit smoother. Yeah, his legs though heular, especially his
his left leg. It's almost likehe's got muscles bulging out of other muscles.
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Yeah, I don't know that.I'm a little confused by the sculpture
on this guy. At a glance, he looks really cool, but when
you start looking at the minutia.Everything human is wrong somehow right, although
I will say his hands, hishands are sculpted phenomenally well, they look
like real human hands. There wasa video a long time ago that I
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watched that was talking about how howmanly a manly can you get? And
all this that was talking about aIt's like, you know, are you
manly enough? Are you like,you know, an F sixteen made out
of you know, muscles And itwas like a fighter jet that had muscles
stacked on top of each other,And so you're talking about muscle stacked on
muscles. That's what I think of, is like the overtrope of the manly
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manly man man man. He's he'sripped so many muscles, he's his muscles
have rippen to new muscles. Uh. Yeah, They're just they're a little
overdefined and I'm not quite sure likeall the anatomy in this, but I
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will put it this way, ifit was done, you know, because
these were sculpted by the Four Horsemen. And if I'm going to trust anyone's
anatomy between mine and the Four Horsemen, I'm gonna trust their anatomy a lot
more, just because I know fora fact, with a lot of this
stuff, they have done their sculptingresearch as far as like everything else within
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this body type, it's spot on. So it's it's a little overdeveloped,
but you know it's we're also dealingwith people who in reality would be like
seven foot six and way about fourhundred a undred pounds. You know,
they're overly muscular um and we justdon't see this on earth. This is
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a very barbarian Eternian sort of oflook. So I could see like having
a lot of the muscles squared upand even ripped out more making sense for
these figures. Yeah, and Iget it. I just like I said,
it's just it would it's odd thatit's so inconsistent. I would be
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fine with it either way if itwas just a style that they stuck with,
but the fact that it is kindof inconsistent is weird. But like
I said, his hands, look, you have this one right are you
looking at yours? Right now?Now I'm looking at the picture. I
couldn't get him off the shell becausehe's he's up and kind of back.
Well, the palm on his righthand looks like it's got actual texturing on
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it. It does that's that's wild. The um, the the sculpt as
far as like the hands, anda lot of the sculptive faces and stuff
that they've done are amazing, includinglike feet. If we go back to
Skeletor and we look at both handsand feet on Skeletor, they are immaculate.
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You know, they have a lotof hard tooling to them in order
to create veins and ligaments and everythingelse. But you know, what they
were doing what body types might havebeen more anime inspired, but when they
got down to the small and minutiaof the realistic aspect of hands and feet
I'm sorry, hands, feet andfaces, they were really dialing in some
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expert tooling to show like what theycould do. And you know the horsemen,
if I remember correctly, it wasalso working for McFarland back in the
day. So when they were whenMcFarland was wanting, you know a lot
of the more realistic spawn statuettes andpieces like that, we're the one responsible
for it. So they have thatthat ability within their toolbox to create things
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as realistic as these hands and yeah, they are textured beautifully with palm and
even like a little bit of vainwork on the outside of the hand,
along with ligaments and realistic knuckles.The hands on these figures are amazing.
Yeah, no, they really are, especially again especially this this one in
particular. Um So whatever I whoeverproblems I have with the torso and the
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legs of the hand sort of makeupfor it. Um Yeah. And and
so these gauntlets he's wearing are reallythick too, and I like that.
And on the variant, are theseare part of the gloves, right or
no? No, he's just wearingHe's just got black gloves on underneath them,
right. And then the other piecesare are colored. They're almost like
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leathered, call like the leathered pieceon his torso. Um, it's color
brown on his gautlets on the recolor. So his hands are black. But
then he's got brown almost like leatherbracers instead of the like orangey metal right
right exactly. Okay, So thengoing down from there we get this the
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belt that we talked about. It'sit's a metal belt and this this logo
on it is it. I guessit's supposed to look like a sort of
look a little bit like his helmetor like an eye. Yeah. Yeah,
there's a lot of imotif in thisfigure. So the belt has a
bit of an emotif where it's almostlike a squinted eye, but with a
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drop that comes down between that,and then almost like an eye sort of
design within the torso armor itself,like on the leather. He also has
it on his knees, so it'slike kind of carrying in small nods this
kind of look of a camera oran eye within all of his body.
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And I believe even on his bracersthere's a bit of it almost looks like
an eye on the tops outside ofhis bracers as well. Yeah, okay,
which makes sense. You know,he's blind, He's got this mechanical
eye that does all this stuff.It makes sense for him to have this
kind of repeat of an eye design. And I like it because it's a
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nice update to just a standard beltwhere we might not have had an eye
design with everything that was him andvintage. This time they're able to play
with those little designs, throw itin and kind of create more of an
a oh my goodness, supposed tocohesive sort of of design that has a
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lot of thematic elements in it.Right, Yeah, no, you're absolutely
right, and it's it's it's coolwhen they're able to do that. So
hanging off of the belt, he'sgot these what five leather straps in the
front, and there's some in theback as well as they're how many in
the back, oh, seven inthe back, five in the front,
seven in the back, and they'rethey're just leather strips, it looks like,
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but it looks like they do havesome rivets on them. Yeah,
they're they're like so they're they're stripsthat have basically a little square pieces that
make up the bulk of this.So they're like little plates and each plate
has a small rivet on it.Is if this were like some sort of
like leather plated armor that is tieddown to the leather, bolted down and
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works as kind of you know,crotch armor, and I dig it.
It's it's cool instead of having tohave like just a fuzzy loin cloth,
you know, you get an armoredloincloth and it's like, I dig it.
Yeah, I like it too.And then the green on each side
is that is that supposed to bethe same rigid metal that's making up his
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his shoulder pads and everything. Yeah, it would be like it'd be like
like hip pads as well, kindof like what the Mandalorian has right under
his Body's got this hip pads thesame thing. So it's like a plated
armor. Okay, And we've talkedabout his thighs already, So he's wearing
he's get kneepads on that go upabove his knees, or at least he
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has. Yeah, he's got gotthem on both knees. Um, And
it looks like it's the same sortof green metal on the on the on
the front of the pads. Isthat what I'm seeing? Yeah, so
it would be like, you know, um, a piece of cloth that
would tie around his leg. Andthen on the outside it's the metal pad
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and each one is sculpted up andthen down almost like an eye. But
they're both even though the pads matchas far as their look one another,
they are mirror images of each other, so they both turn in a different
way across the knee, right,Yeah, that makes sense. Cool.
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And then coming down from there,his boots, he's got he's got fur
lined boots. It looks like he'sgot fur up around the top. And
then is this supposed to be likea leather strip coming down the front that's
a lighter brown or it's I thinkit's like a leather shin guard. So
probably something that's just wrapped up overthe boot. Okay, So like as
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as a boot would be like cloththat's been tied down with bandages, this
is like a leather bracer that justgoes over the shin that's also tied down.
Okay, gotcha, like a likea spat, but but for his
shin instead of the top of hisfeet, right, Okay, got it
cool? All right, Well that'sthe figure. So let's talk first about
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his sword. He's got a greensword, and it's got a it's got
a finger guard on it going thelength of it, and is it looks
like it's sort of a shiny green. It is. It is a shinier
green. So it's a metallic greenwith a black candle and a black finger
guard on the outside. And it'sif I remember correctly, I'm trying to
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remember on the vintage. I'm tryingto turn to look, but I think
the vintage might. I think ithad that finger guard on it as well.
A lot of the a lot ofthe swords did, and that's because
they couldn't hold it in one oftheir hands because the way their hands were
molded, so you have that fingerguardto put fingers through. And so I
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think he kind of in that samevein, like they kept it in there
because the vintage had it, butnow they just incorporated almost as like a
part of the weapon. So likethis is something that he spins from.
Okay, and yeah, how didthey did they cast it? How did
they get the metallic that metallic plasticum in this softer, softer plastic.
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It's it could be you know,I that one. I don't know,
but okay, it is all donein the metallic plastic, and it's not
it's not super soft, but it'ssoft enough. It's a pliable enough to
fit in his hands. Um,but it is all metallic with the paint
app on it, and not viceversa, because sometimes you'll get to where
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it's like black and then they dolike some sort of paint app on to
get the metallic. This isn't thatreverse. And even even the doom Seeker
that he comes with, it's donein silver, but it's also almost a
cashy stamp material. So you know, back in the nighted s they were
able to do that where they hadthe the softer plastic that had the metallic
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senate, which is kind of adifferent scene from what we had the eighties,
when anything that we had that hadthat kind of whirling metallic plastic was
actually fairly rigid. This time we'regetting to see that that's not always the
case. I mean again, toolingand plastic pouring as you move up the
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years is going to get better,and this is just one of those things.
They got a lot better. Okay, yeah, no, absolutely obviously.
Okay, so now let's talk aboutthis little flying do hickey that he
comes with. What is this thatI'm looking at? So this is called
a doom seeker. We never hadthis in the vintage toy. We never
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had this in the vintage cartoon.However, in the cartoon and the comics
played a major role in that thisdoom seeker was essentially his eyes and ears
out in the world. He couldsend this thing out. It was quiet,
it could hide around corners that couldsee things, and that's how he
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would know like lots of extra secretsomewhere people were, or if skeletords,
you know, having him go andhunt someone. Then he could send doom
seekers out and they could help himfind where things are without him physically having
to be there. So it's likea drone got it okay, Yeah,
like a like a drone spybot,Yeah, spycan basically okay. And it's
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all silver and it comes in thisplastic stand, clear plastic stand that it
can so it looks like it's floating. Okay, interesting, and you can
you can take it off the stand. It has kind of a ball jointing
at the plastic part for this kindof snap onto. And the stands made
out of basically two different plastics.You've got the clear plastic that has a
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plate and a kind of a balljointing thing to snap. This doom seeker
too that curves back and then it'sgot a black plate underneath that can also
turn though you don't really have to, but it it turns on black plate
and that's what helps stabilize this thing. Um. The thing is is why
don't you put the doom seeker on? Because the doom seeker is a dense
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or plastic that's kind of a heavy, almost like cashy saw material. It
knocks over very easily, and it'sone of those it has it has been
the reason to trip up, youknow, figures off of my shelf,
including knocking man and arms off.And that's how he got his shoulder poultrum
brokes because of that doom Seeker.Oh no it was, and so I'd
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say it warned you with its name. So I see it on the back.
He's got a got a button onthe back. What is what does
that do? What is his actionfeature here? So on his left hand
he actually has a slashing hand.So um, if you put the sword
in his hand and then you raisehis hand up when you hit the button,
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it causes his hand to slash down, okay, and he can slash
people and does it work pretty well? Yeah? Oh yeah, it works
great. And you don't have anyproblems with yours after twenty plus years no
where I guess about twenty years old, but I no. But I also
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I don't really play with them muchanymore, just because it's like, well,
it's not that I'm afraid to it, it's more like I don't know,
like when I bring it down,if I can go back up to
fill the space up as I did. I tried getting a figure down the
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other day and I end up knockingone figure on the ground and knocking five
others over, so it's like fordusting, I usually take an air can
and just spray over it. Andthen I don't really get to play with
them very often, just because theyare so posed and set right on that
shelf it's hard to get them off. And the two thousand X run there
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are so many figures and they arekind of compacted in one dense area that
there's literally like people like on topof one not on top of one another,
but kind of like cross with themone another that I'm afraid about,
like pull him down, I'll beknocking over Merman, Roboto and who else?
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King hiss who. It looks likehe's already fallen forward and I'm sure
he probably has. Oh boy,yeah, it's it's it's a cool self.
And I love the lines, butsome of these they have an issue
standing because they are so spectacularly posed. Right, So tell me then,
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what is your favorite feature about thistoy? I love, absolutely love the
the redesign and the functionality of thatadvisor. It is such a cool piece
to have. Yeah, I likethat one too, but I think for
me, I really like the sculptingon those the armor, that green armor
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with the rabbits and everything. Ithink it looks really really nice. It
does, and it it pairs reallynicely with the rest of the look of
the figure. Two like the waythey were pulling that design together. The
it works really well with the technologyand the look. And I think that
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that's a good choice. That armoris excellent, I thought, so,
So, what is your least favoritefeature about this toy? So he does
suffer with one of this feet.He does suffer with standing as he's turned
because one of his feet are alittle too far back, And that was
one of the things that for themost part, like everything about this figure
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is amazing, and I love thedesign. I love the clarization, and
I love the look of him.But because of that one foot, and
it's his right leg as it comesback, it does have a hard time
standing in the way his left footis out. It tends to make him
want to tip board um, andI just feel like I would have personally
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much rather. I feel like heshould have just been squared up a little
bit more and not posed out theway he is. Okay, so he's
two posed, so he can't reallydo like a neutral. You can't do
a neutral pose, right Okay,I get that. For me, it's
the it's the muscles, you know, the the inconsistency with the muscles and
how there's how he's sculpted. Um. Again, I just don't get it
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because it's it's a four Horseman.They do everything so well. I just
I don't understand why that's the waythey went with it. Not sure.
And I mean the the pictures heremake it seem harsher than it is,
but it is a little more,especially on the torso, a little more
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squared up. And I don't knowif that was just to kind of catch
the anime aspect of the show andput that in there, or if the
show is just based off of whatthe Four Horsemen gave us. It's really
hard to tell, but I couldsee that being aggravating. I thought so
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as well, Yeah, so whatdo you think best exemplifies the line with
this figure? So, with thisparticular one, I really feel like that
kind of nod to the vintage witha nice technological update is it really falls
right in that perfect whole of beinga really good modern update of what we
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got vintage wise, and you know, the character and the vintage toys.
We loved him we felt he wasa part of the line because he's got
a unique gimmick, a unique namethat goes with that gimmick, and he
stands out because he's bright and colorfuland he's got this cool gimmick. And
as an update for this line,they have not disappointed at all. He's
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got an excellent update with an extrafeature, but then really nice streamlined armor
and design that makes him stand out, makes them look the part, but
even cooler than he did before.And you know, I think I would
agree with you there. I thinkthe thing that exemplifies the line is what
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they've done to update it the originalline, and I think that's that's exactly
right, and that's that's what reallyshines with this figure as well. Yep,
So is this toy cool? Yes, it's it's hard to say no
to this one, it really is. Um I'm not sure how many of
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the figures I can actually say notoo in this line, because they are
just they're they're unique, they're they'reinteresting looking, and they this is kind
of the first time where we getfigures that that from Mattel that teeter more
on that collectible sort of vibe that'sstill being processed for kids, and it's
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just the look of him, thestyling of him, like he's a great
shelf figure to have. And yeah, I think he's amazing. I think
he looks super cool and I thinkhe's well worth it. And I will
say cool as well, despite mymisgivings about the musculature and everything. Yeah,
I think I think it is areally cool figure. And I this
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is when I wouldn't I wouldn't mindhaving this one on my shelf either.
But you know Ramman first obviously,um yeah, but yeah, very cool
figures. So, folks, we'dlove to hear your thoughts on the two
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think. If you have one onyour shelf that stands up and doesn't destroy
all of your other figures, letus know that as well. Right,
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Welcome to Talking Toys with Taylor andJeff, where we go back in time
to discuss our favorite toys, onetoy line at a time. Hello,
and welcome to Talking Toys with Taylorand Jeff Action Figure Exclusive. I'm Taylor
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and I'm Jeff, and it's timeto talk more about the two thousand X
Masters of the Universe line. Andwe're gonna talk about Triclops tonight. Um
demand so nice. They named himthrice. I don't know, I need
a workshop that we've heard that one. Yeah, I've never heard that one.
Well, there's there's it's New York, New York, the city so
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nice. They named it twice.It's one of the one of the slogans
for New York City. Um.Yeah, so clearly I'm just more cultured
than you are, Taylor. Butno, we're here to talk about triclops.
And you have the original one ofthese, right, there's a variant,
but you have the main one,right, I do? I do?
Um. As soon as I wasable to get one, I found
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one second hand complete. He didn'tcome in package, but he did have
all his accessories and it's pretty awesome. That's cool. And there is a
there's a variant that it looks likethe only difference is or the main difference
is, well, it's a colorvariant. His armor is darker green um,
and his the thing down the middlelooks like it's a darker brown.
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He's got like a black leotard onunderneath, and he has silver pants.
Yeah, that's that's it, right, No. He there's also um an
emblem on his belt that's been coloredsilver. There's like the hoses that go
like the electronic Oh yeah, they'relike bright green, bright green. His
sword is actually done in bright green, and so is his doom Seeker,
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which is a little flying vehicle thatgoes around in this series. It's also
done in bright green. So there'slike some weird oh and he has gloves.
There's like some weird kind of strangedifferences between it. But it's there's
aspects of it, like I lovethe idea of him having like a tunic
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or like a shirt under his armor. I chuse to call it a leotard,
a leotard or a body suit unbody suit. Yeah, I could
see that, but at the sametime, it does throw off the design.
It doesn't feel like track hops,right, So why do you suppose,
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and we're gonna get ahead of ourselvesa little bit, but why do
you suppose on the main one theydidn't paint that emblem on his belt and
just let it be the same coloras arrest of the belt. Well,
so, okay, at this pointthey were, you know, redoing the
designs to the original figures, andif you look at the original figure,
his belt is just orange, andso in order not to break that up,
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I think they decided just to keepit this kind of yellow ochre,
kind of orange e color to justmake it set in as a belt.
I think when sometimes when they dorepaints, oftentimes I'll just pick like one
or two things to change paint on. I like the look of that that
buckle being silver, but it's notnecessary, you know. I think to
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keep the colorization as close as youcan to the original. I think what
they did with the original two thousandnext figure here and not the recolor,
it matches to that classic vintage figuremore because they're not aking like you've got
updates on things. But it's notdrastic. It's not too much. And
I think if they'd put silver onthe belt buckle, it have been too
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much. Okay, no, andyou're probably right, and I wouldn't necessarily.
I wasn't thinking it would necessarily haveto be silver, just you know,
like a darker maybe maybe black tomatch the leather straps or the dark
brown to match what's on his chest. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Let's let's talk about the figure.So this guy, the design is basically
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an updated version of the one wegot in the original line. He's got
the same feature I'm assuming that's thehelmet on his head turns to where he
has three different i guess viewports orthree different eyes to look through. Yes,
it does, and there's even anupdated feature just not even to it
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turning it turns. And then italso has a light gimmick with it as
well. These are like a holein the top of his head that light
shines down into to it. Yeah, so the top of his head sculptured
with a clear plastic and the clearplastic goes and points out towards his eyes.
So when the disk is turned andyou have a specific eye over that
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light source, you put them undera light source, that eye lights up
and it's kind of to emulate someof the laser of fire that he has
with certain eyes. The whole engineeringof the headpiece that turns is actually made
of a clear plastic, and thenthey've done transparent paint over the eyes and
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then painted everything else opaque, soinstead of it being in like a green
plastic, it is kind of aclear plastic. So when you get a
closure, you can start to seea little bit of that see through kind
of look in certain areas where thepaint app is not heavily put on.
But I love the fact that,you know, we've got this turnable eye
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much like the Vintage, with neweye sets that kind of reflect what's in
the show and even what's in thecomic about him. And now we get
a light feature with it as well. I feel like they were really like
trying to give, you know,fans of the original Vintage run a nice
update and a lot of really extraplay features and make this as toyetic as
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it could be. And that seemslike something that they could have included in
the first line had they thought aboutit or had the technology. It seems
like something that maybe they they wantedto do, you know, right,
And then so and he's wearing alike a he's got a he weren't basically
a hood that goes all the wayaround his chin, and the original was
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wearing that as well. Correct orNo, yes, okay, that's what
I thought. Yeah. The onething that's kind of weird is the original
the way that the chin sits outof chen sits out of the hood,
so he's got of a weird,you know, bulbous chin, whereas this
time they've taken more of a RoboCopapproach and like strapped it down where his
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chin is held on to this kindof like hood set that's all kind of
tied together to hold the electronics together, so it feels more mechanical in nature.
Right, Yeah, that's and that'skind of how how it looked to
me as well. Now what I'mhaving trouble seeing there's there's some silver down
below his chin, going down likeinto his chest. Is this are these
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like something that's connected to these silverhoses that are going up around his neck.
So the hoses around the neck andhis neck are two different pieces.
So he has silver plating that's almostlike plaiting that goes around his neck and
that's what's under his chin down andit runs to the top of his torso
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like a metal collar. Basically,yeah, pretty much, it's like a
segmented armor for his neck that okay, houses electronics. And then he has
these hoses that plug into his chestplate that run into a collar on the
back of the head, and that'sagain probably more like servos electronics things to
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help him see. In the comicbook about him for the two thousand next
run of Figures, they had runa whole comic series, and that comic
he was a blind samurai. Sohe had been like this samurai that couldn't
see and this one guy who didall this mechanical stuff through attorney and he
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was able to dig down into theattorneyan corps and had all these like robots
and stuff out, you know,looking for things for him. He needed
someone to protect what he had,so he hired the blind samurai to come
and help him, and he kindof got tricked into having eyesight and basically
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like his visor you know, allowshim to see electronically into the world,
but also see through drones and otherthings that he has. He ended up
getting betrayed and then ended up whileyou're working for skeletor down the road.
But the idea was that he's reallygood with mechanics because he was learning from
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this powerful like Eternian mechanic as well. So a lot of this stuff is
stuff that he has built and changedover time to tie into his mechanics.
On his body. Okay, he'slike a cyborg in a way, right,
Oh, kind of like robo compliche we're talking about. And so
the brown strip that's coming down hischest and connecting to I guess I don't
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know what it is. It's likea belt that's halfway up his tour.
So this is part of this silverportion that we're seeing on his neck or
is it separate. It's separate,so it'd be like the silver silver Porsche
on his neck is almost like plates. Then his green armor is like plated
green painted armor right on top ofhim. And then the brown is like
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a leather strap that runs right fromhis neck area, but it runs over
the plates into the belt that sitsaround his waist. It's weird the belt.
Yeah, yeah, he's got thebelt. They goes, but it's
it's not at his waist. It'slike it's like basically just above his belly,
but where his belly button would be. I guess it's up always um
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and he's got pockets on it,right, those are those are pouches that
I'm seeing. It's like utility belt, right, It's like it's either like
a utility belt or like a batteryset. Okay, yeah, because they're
there, they don't look specifically likepockets. I mean, they kind of
look like it from a distance,but they're square with little like rivets on
it, Okay, And so itcould be one of one of two things.
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But it's kind of a I likeit because it still breaks up the
design from the vintage toy that hadthe belt that went around the bottom,
but it still adds a little bitof gaping between it and his actual armored
waist belt. And we see thislike with certain like tactical gear. You
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actually have a belt with tactical gearthat can ride higher than your actual like
gun belt or what's called holster beltthat has you know, pockets on them
for AMMO and things, and itrides higher because you're supposed to grab more
from your mid section than you arefrom your waist. So with him,
it's I feel like it's kind ofthe same thing. Like if he if
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he had stuff in these pouches,it would be more like ninja stars that
you could throw out. Okay.And speaking of that plating up above the
green plating, I really like therivets that are running around the edge of
all of those plates. Yeah,looks really cool. Now it is a
very cool and very like mechanical almoststeampunk. Yes, very steam very industrial
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looking. Now, his muscles lookvery square. Is he wearing a suit
or are these are his muscles justsculpted to be very angular? Okay,
So he suffers a little bit fromthe same problems that human suffered with with
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the anime look. It's interesting becausethere's areas in the arm and leg and
legs on some figures where it feelsmore rounded out and a little more realistic,
and then you get some areas thatseem to be kind of hard angled.
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And this is kind of like oneof those areas where it's it's teetering
between an animated look and a realisticlook. And I'm not sure why that
was the case, because even thoughand you know, we know that the
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Mic Young productions of the two thousandshe Man was coming out around the same
time as the figure. As thefigures were out, you know, the
figures obviously having a nod and abasis on the anime. It just seems
kind of odd that there's a littlebit more of a focus on the the
anime style look of the bodies andso of a more realistic look. And
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it's it's weird because it's inconsistent throughoutthe line. Some figures look very smooth
and they're muscling, and some likehim right here, he's kind of angled
and very sharp edge like an animedrawing. Yeah, it looks it looks
like he's wearing like plating, orit looks like more playing like flesh colored
plating. So that's odd. Iwonder, I wonder why they went that
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route, especially because if you lookat his arms and his legs, they're
they're very organic looking, although hislegs are ridiculous. Um. Yeah,
his legs are a little a littlemore square enough than his arms. His
arms a little bit smoother. Yeah, his legs though heular, especially his
his left leg. It's almost likehe's got muscles bulging out of other muscles.
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Yeah, I don't know that.I'm a little confused by the sculpture
on this guy. At a glance, he looks really cool, but when
you start looking at the minutia.Everything human is wrong somehow right, although
I will say his hands, hishands are sculpted phenomenally well, they look
like real human hands. There wasa video a long time ago that I
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watched that was talking about how howmanly a manly can you get? And
all this that was talking about aIt's like, you know, are you
manly enough? Are you like,you know, an F sixteen made out
of you know, muscles And itwas like a fighter jet that had muscles
stacked on top of each other,And so you're talking about muscle stacked on
muscles. That's what I think of, is like the overtrope of the manly
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manly man man man. He's he'sripped so many muscles, he's his muscles
have rippen to new muscles. Uh. Yeah, They're just they're a little
overdefined and I'm not quite sure likeall the anatomy in this, but I
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will put it this way, ifit was done, you know, because
these were sculpted by the Four Horsemen. And if I'm going to trust anyone's
anatomy between mine and the Four Horsemen, I'm gonna trust their anatomy a lot
more, just because I know fora fact, with a lot of this
stuff, they have done their sculptingresearch as far as like everything else within
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this body type, it's spot on. So it's it's a little overdeveloped,
but you know it's we're also dealingwith people who in reality would be like
seven foot six and way about fourhundred a undred pounds. You know,
they're overly muscular um and we justdon't see this on earth. This is
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a very barbarian Eternian sort of oflook. So I could see like having
a lot of the muscles squared upand even ripped out more making sense for
these figures. Yeah, and Iget it. I just like I said,
it's just it would it's odd thatit's so inconsistent. I would be
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fine with it either way if itwas just a style that they stuck with,
but the fact that it is kindof inconsistent is weird. But like
I said, his hands, look, you have this one right are you
looking at yours? Right now?Now I'm looking at the picture. I
couldn't get him off the shell becausehe's he's up and kind of back.
Well, the palm on his righthand looks like it's got actual texturing on
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it. It does that's that's wild. The um, the the sculpt as
far as like the hands, anda lot of the sculptive faces and stuff
that they've done are amazing, includinglike feet. If we go back to
Skeletor and we look at both handsand feet on Skeletor, they are immaculate.
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You know, they have a lotof hard tooling to them in order
to create veins and ligaments and everythingelse. But you know, what they
were doing what body types might havebeen more anime inspired, but when they
got down to the small and minutiaof the realistic aspect of hands and feet
I'm sorry, hands, feet andfaces, they were really dialing in some
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expert tooling to show like what theycould do. And you know the horsemen,
if I remember correctly, it wasalso working for McFarland back in the
day. So when they were whenMcFarland was wanting, you know a lot
of the more realistic spawn statuettes andpieces like that, we're the one responsible
for it. So they have thatthat ability within their toolbox to create things
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as realistic as these hands and yeah, they are textured beautifully with palm and
even like a little bit of vainwork on the outside of the hand,
along with ligaments and realistic knuckles.The hands on these figures are amazing.
Yeah, no, they really are, especially again especially this this one in
particular. Um So whatever I whoeverproblems I have with the torso and the
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legs of the hand sort of makeupfor it. Um Yeah. And and
so these gauntlets he's wearing are reallythick too, and I like that.
And on the variant, are theseare part of the gloves, right or
no? No, he's just wearingHe's just got black gloves on underneath them,
right. And then the other piecesare are colored. They're almost like
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leathered, call like the leathered pieceon his torso. Um, it's color
brown on his gautlets on the recolor. So his hands are black. But
then he's got brown almost like leatherbracers instead of the like orangey metal right
right exactly. Okay, So thengoing down from there we get this the
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belt that we talked about. It'sit's a metal belt and this this logo
on it is it. I guessit's supposed to look like a sort of
look a little bit like his helmetor like an eye. Yeah. Yeah,
there's a lot of imotif in thisfigure. So the belt has a
bit of an emotif where it's almostlike a squinted eye, but with a
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drop that comes down between that,and then almost like an eye sort of
design within the torso armor itself,like on the leather. He also has
it on his knees, so it'slike kind of carrying in small nods this
kind of look of a camera oran eye within all of his body.
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And I believe even on his bracersthere's a bit of it almost looks like
an eye on the tops outside ofhis bracers as well. Yeah, okay,
which makes sense. You know,he's blind, He's got this mechanical
eye that does all this stuff.It makes sense for him to have this
kind of repeat of an eye design. And I like it because it's a
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nice update to just a standard beltwhere we might not have had an eye
design with everything that was him andvintage. This time they're able to play
with those little designs, throw itin and kind of create more of an
a oh my goodness, supposed tocohesive sort of of design that has a
(20:52):
lot of thematic elements in it.Right, Yeah, no, you're absolutely
right, and it's it's it's coolwhen they're able to do that. So
hanging off of the belt, he'sgot these what five leather straps in the
front, and there's some in theback as well as they're how many in
the back, oh, seven inthe back, five in the front,
seven in the back, and they'rethey're just leather strips, it looks like,
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but it looks like they do havesome rivets on them. Yeah,
they're they're like so they're they're stripsthat have basically a little square pieces that
make up the bulk of this.So they're like little plates and each plate
has a small rivet on it.Is if this were like some sort of
like leather plated armor that is tieddown to the leather, bolted down and
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works as kind of you know,crotch armor, and I dig it.
It's it's cool instead of having tohave like just a fuzzy loin cloth,
you know, you get an armoredloincloth and it's like, I dig it.
Yeah, I like it too.And then the green on each side
is that is that supposed to bethe same rigid metal that's making up his
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his shoulder pads and everything. Yeah, it would be like it'd be like
like hip pads as well, kindof like what the Mandalorian has right under
his Body's got this hip pads thesame thing. So it's like a plated
armor. Okay, And we've talkedabout his thighs already, So he's wearing
he's get kneepads on that go upabove his knees, or at least he
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has. Yeah, he's got gotthem on both knees. Um, And
it looks like it's the same sortof green metal on the on the on
the front of the pads. Isthat what I'm seeing? Yeah, so
it would be like, you know, um, a piece of cloth that
would tie around his leg. Andthen on the outside it's the metal pad
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and each one is sculpted up andthen down almost like an eye. But
they're both even though the pads matchas far as their look one another,
they are mirror images of each other, so they both turn in a different
way across the knee, right,Yeah, that makes sense. Cool.
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And then coming down from there,his boots, he's got he's got fur
lined boots. It looks like he'sgot fur up around the top. And
then is this supposed to be likea leather strip coming down the front that's
a lighter brown or it's I thinkit's like a leather shin guard. So
probably something that's just wrapped up overthe boot. Okay, So like as
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as a boot would be like cloththat's been tied down with bandages, this
is like a leather bracer that justgoes over the shin that's also tied down.
Okay, gotcha, like a likea spat, but but for his
shin instead of the top of hisfeet, right, Okay, got it
cool? All right, Well that'sthe figure. So let's talk first about
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his sword. He's got a greensword, and it's got a it's got
a finger guard on it going thelength of it, and is it looks
like it's sort of a shiny green. It is. It is a shinier
green. So it's a metallic greenwith a black candle and a black finger
guard on the outside. And it'sif I remember correctly, I'm trying to
(24:15):
remember on the vintage. I'm tryingto turn to look, but I think
the vintage might. I think ithad that finger guard on it as well.
A lot of the a lot ofthe swords did, and that's because
they couldn't hold it in one oftheir hands because the way their hands were
molded, so you have that fingerguardto put fingers through. And so I
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think he kind of in that samevein, like they kept it in there
because the vintage had it, butnow they just incorporated almost as like a
part of the weapon. So likethis is something that he spins from.
Okay, and yeah, how didthey did they cast it? How did
they get the metallic that metallic plasticum in this softer, softer plastic.
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It's it could be you know,I that one. I don't know,
but okay, it is all donein the metallic plastic, and it's not
it's not super soft, but it'ssoft enough. It's a pliable enough to
fit in his hands. Um,but it is all metallic with the paint
app on it, and not viceversa, because sometimes you'll get to where
(25:27):
it's like black and then they dolike some sort of paint app on to
get the metallic. This isn't thatreverse. And even even the doom Seeker
that he comes with, it's donein silver, but it's also almost a
cashy stamp material. So you know, back in the nighted s they were
able to do that where they hadthe the softer plastic that had the metallic
(25:49):
senate, which is kind of adifferent scene from what we had the eighties,
when anything that we had that hadthat kind of whirling metallic plastic was
actually fairly rigid. This time we'regetting to see that that's not always the
case. I mean again, toolingand plastic pouring as you move up the
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years is going to get better,and this is just one of those things.
They got a lot better. Okay, yeah, no, absolutely obviously.
Okay, so now let's talk aboutthis little flying do hickey that he
comes with. What is this thatI'm looking at? So this is called
a doom seeker. We never hadthis in the vintage toy. We never
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had this in the vintage cartoon.However, in the cartoon and the comics
played a major role in that thisdoom seeker was essentially his eyes and ears
out in the world. He couldsend this thing out. It was quiet,
it could hide around corners that couldsee things, and that's how he
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would know like lots of extra secretsomewhere people were, or if skeletords,
you know, having him go andhunt someone. Then he could send doom
seekers out and they could help himfind where things are without him physically having
to be there. So it's likea drone got it okay, Yeah,
like a like a drone spybot,Yeah, spycan basically okay. And it's
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all silver and it comes in thisplastic stand, clear plastic stand that it
can so it looks like it's floating. Okay, interesting, and you can
you can take it off the stand. It has kind of a ball jointing
at the plastic part for this kindof snap onto. And the stands made
out of basically two different plastics.You've got the clear plastic that has a
(27:44):
plate and a kind of a balljointing thing to snap. This doom seeker
too that curves back and then it'sgot a black plate underneath that can also
turn though you don't really have to, but it it turns on black plate
and that's what helps stabilize this thing. Um. The thing is is why
don't you put the doom seeker on? Because the doom seeker is a dense
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or plastic that's kind of a heavy, almost like cashy saw material. It
knocks over very easily, and it'sone of those it has it has been
the reason to trip up, youknow, figures off of my shelf,
including knocking man and arms off.And that's how he got his shoulder poultrum
brokes because of that doom Seeker.Oh no it was, and so I'd
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say it warned you with its name. So I see it on the back.
He's got a got a button onthe back. What is what does
that do? What is his actionfeature here? So on his left hand
he actually has a slashing hand.So um, if you put the sword
in his hand and then you raisehis hand up when you hit the button,
(28:55):
it causes his hand to slash down, okay, and he can slash
people and does it work pretty well? Yeah? Oh yeah, it works
great. And you don't have anyproblems with yours after twenty plus years no
where I guess about twenty years old, but I no. But I also
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I don't really play with them muchanymore, just because it's like, well,
it's not that I'm afraid to it, it's more like I don't know,
like when I bring it down,if I can go back up to
fill the space up as I did. I tried getting a figure down the
(29:36):
other day and I end up knockingone figure on the ground and knocking five
others over, so it's like fordusting, I usually take an air can
and just spray over it. Andthen I don't really get to play with
them very often, just because theyare so posed and set right on that
shelf it's hard to get them off. And the two thousand X run there
(30:00):
are so many figures and they arekind of compacted in one dense area that
there's literally like people like on topof one not on top of one another,
but kind of like cross with themone another that I'm afraid about,
like pull him down, I'll beknocking over Merman, Roboto and who else?
(30:22):
King hiss who. It looks likehe's already fallen forward and I'm sure
he probably has. Oh boy,yeah, it's it's it's a cool self.
And I love the lines, butsome of these they have an issue
standing because they are so spectacularly posed. Right, So tell me then,
(30:44):
what is your favorite feature about thistoy? I love, absolutely love the
the redesign and the functionality of thatadvisor. It is such a cool piece
to have. Yeah, I likethat one too, but I think for
me, I really like the sculptingon those the armor, that green armor
(31:11):
with the rabbits and everything. Ithink it looks really really nice. It
does, and it it pairs reallynicely with the rest of the look of
the figure. Two like the waythey were pulling that design together. The
it works really well with the technologyand the look. And I think that
(31:32):
that's a good choice. That armoris excellent, I thought, so,
So, what is your least favoritefeature about this toy? So he does
suffer with one of this feet.He does suffer with standing as he's turned
because one of his feet are alittle too far back, And that was
one of the things that for themost part, like everything about this figure
(31:56):
is amazing, and I love thedesign. I love the clarization, and
I love the look of him.But because of that one foot, and
it's his right leg as it comesback, it does have a hard time
standing in the way his left footis out. It tends to make him
want to tip board um, andI just feel like I would have personally
(32:19):
much rather. I feel like heshould have just been squared up a little
bit more and not posed out theway he is. Okay, so he's
two posed, so he can't reallydo like a neutral. You can't do
a neutral pose, right Okay,I get that. For me, it's
the it's the muscles, you know, the the inconsistency with the muscles and
how there's how he's sculpted. Um. Again, I just don't get it
(32:43):
because it's it's a four Horseman.They do everything so well. I just
I don't understand why that's the waythey went with it. Not sure.
And I mean the the pictures heremake it seem harsher than it is,
but it is a little more,especially on the torso, a little more
(33:06):
squared up. And I don't knowif that was just to kind of catch
the anime aspect of the show andput that in there, or if the
show is just based off of whatthe Four Horsemen gave us. It's really
hard to tell, but I couldsee that being aggravating. I thought so
(33:27):
as well, Yeah, so whatdo you think best exemplifies the line with
this figure? So, with thisparticular one, I really feel like that
kind of nod to the vintage witha nice technological update is it really falls
right in that perfect whole of beinga really good modern update of what we
(33:57):
got vintage wise, and you know, the character and the vintage toys.
We loved him we felt he wasa part of the line because he's got
a unique gimmick, a unique namethat goes with that gimmick, and he
stands out because he's bright and colorfuland he's got this cool gimmick. And
as an update for this line,they have not disappointed at all. He's
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got an excellent update with an extrafeature, but then really nice streamlined armor
and design that makes him stand out, makes them look the part, but
even cooler than he did before.And you know, I think I would
agree with you there. I thinkthe thing that exemplifies the line is what
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they've done to update it the originalline, and I think that's that's exactly
right, and that's that's what reallyshines with this figure as well. Yep,
So is this toy cool? Yes, it's it's hard to say no
to this one, it really is. Um I'm not sure how many of
(35:07):
the figures I can actually say notoo in this line, because they are
just they're they're unique, they're they'reinteresting looking, and they this is kind
of the first time where we getfigures that that from Mattel that teeter more
on that collectible sort of vibe that'sstill being processed for kids, and it's
(35:28):
just the look of him, thestyling of him, like he's a great
shelf figure to have. And yeah, I think he's amazing. I think
he looks super cool and I thinkhe's well worth it. And I will
say cool as well, despite mymisgivings about the musculature and everything. Yeah,
I think I think it is areally cool figure. And I this
(35:49):
is when I wouldn't I wouldn't mindhaving this one on my shelf either.
But you know Ramman first obviously,um yeah, but yeah, very cool
figures. So, folks, we'dlove to hear your thoughts on the two
thousand X triclops, So head toFacebook page and let us know what you
think. If you have one onyour shelf that stands up and doesn't destroy
all of your other figures, letus know that as well. Right,
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So that will do it for thisedition. Until next time for Talking Toys
or Taylor and Jeff Action Figure Exclusive. I'm Taylor and I'm Jeff. Remember
they're not dolls, they're action figures, action figures that can tainly see behind
them. In the back of hishead. He has an eye in the
back of his head. Just oneWell, contain two They're not back to
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the side. NYE, folks.Thank you for listening. For more episodes
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