Safeguard

Transformers animated really makes a lot of breakthrough, safeguard is one of it. This is the first two combiners in this line, and I think safeguard is also the first one that offer two combined modes, the robot mode itself, and the vehicle mode.

The toy came with a comic book.
Box image:
Back view


Jetfire and Jetstorm are supposed to be twin autobots, different in ability, the yellow one has ability to control fire and the other one has ability to control storm hence the names. They're ok in the robot mode-cool looking, and quite better coloring/design, but they're quite lame in the vehicle mode.
Vehicle mode


Safeguard is nice looking, nice color blending, cool design, apart from the hands' sculpt, which also suffer as bad as the each individuals. The vehicle mode is not that grand, it's rather quite lame, in term of the combining, much much... worse compared to Safeguard.
Vehicle mode
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Wreck-Gar

I haven't updated this blog in a long time, but I also haven't bought a boxed transformers animated toy in a long time ... or might be not that long. *cough* Starting from this time I will also try to post with new 'style', hover your mouse to the highlighted text and you'll get what I mean.

Anyway the latest transformers animated toy I bought is the garbage truck Wreck-Gar. Box image:
Back view, Side view

As a voyager, I consider it's a small toy, but then again, all voyager class toys in the transformers animated line is considered small. This thing is also blocky, but somehow quite magnificent. The transformation is quite easy, simple and straight forward. Too bad, the scissor claw weapon thingy not really playable. Well, in the truck mode, the front part thing is still playable, so I think it makes up for it. Anyway, cute toy.

Side view, Vehicle mode
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TFA (3) - Swoop & Sentinel Prime

... I haven't updated my blog for long time. Well, the thing is, my starvation of toys was increasing rapidly, and things went uncontrolled... And now I am just simply confused in picking which toy I should feature first.

*Takes deep breath*. Ok, I've decided. The transformers animated toys are somehow not appearing in Singapore's shores, not even Ultra Magnus is released to the retail shop. I became inpatient, very inpatient, and then suddenly I felt the urge to buy these two when I visited a random shop that somehow had these two, and only one left each.

Come, have a carrot and meatball.

Swoop is beautiful. The posability is also very great. The transformation, however, is simple and not that complex. Full Story

Kamen Rider Kiva

I am interested to tokusatsu now, mainly the sentai and kamen rider. Doushite? Well... one of the reason is because of my Japan trip, and I happen to see those stuff there, and I decided to watch at home, and apparently they are good. (the kamen rider especially, the sentai is kinda stupid, but still good).

Anyway, I only bought this one 'thing' (and hopefully only this one) - although I'm tempted to buy the belt toy as well. Box pic:

Kamen Rider Kiva (not emperor form) has 3 forms and another mixed form. The first one is the basic form. The finishing move is the wake up fever - and then kick the fangire.



The second form is the Garuru Kiva - the weapon is Garuru Saber.



The third form is the Banshee Kiva - the weapon is Bansha Magnum.



The fourth form is the Dogga Kiva - the weapon is Dogga Hammer.



The final form is the mixed form - Dogabaki.

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Engine Oh - Engine Sentai Go-Onger

I felt disappointed with the mini size of the candy toys version of the Engines, so I decided to buy the DX version, only to make me more disappointed due to it's incapability to pose as well as the candy toys version.

It's big alright, fully added with engine souls gimmick for its sounds and light source for more playability. But... I prefer poses. Oh yea, this post at the same time revoke the engine oh posted previously and changed all the pictures to provide the DX version instead. So, I'll post the first three main engines. Anwyay, the box pictures.

The first one is Engine Speedor (炎神スピードル) who likes to say 'doru doru'. He is a hybrid of condor and racing car (speedor - speedy condor) thus he is the only engine who has the semi flying mode.



The second one is Engine Bus-on (炎神バスオン) who likes to say 'on on'. He is hybrid of lion and bus (buson - bus lion). He can launch missiles at enemies, and also act as storage for the engine oh sword.



The third one is Engine BearV (炎神ベアールＶ) who likes to say 'v v'. She is hybrid of bear and truck, she usually 'chew' the enemies. Not much about her actually.



Together, they can combine - gattai - into engine oh - king of engine.



More things to see: (DX version)
http://www.collectiondx.com/node/2474
http://herotoy.web.fc2.com/sentai/go_onger/engineoh1.html
http://herotoy.web.fc2.com/sentai/go_onger/engineoh2.html
http://ooebihara.sakura.ne.jp/toys/sentai/go-on/enjin01/enjinoh01.htm
http://ooebihara.sakura.ne.jp/toys/sentai/go-on/enjin01/enjinoh02.htm
http://ganhoo.blog47.fc2.com/blog-entry-348.html
http://ganhoo.blog47.fc2.com/blog-entry-349.html
http://ganhoo.blog47.fc2.com/blog-entry-350.html
(Candy Toys version)
http://ganhoo.blog47.fc2.com/blog-entry-364.html
http://toubanjan.mad.buttobi.net/toy/sentai/go-on/engin.htm
http://toubanjan.mad.buttobi.net/toy/sentai/go-on/engin02.htm
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Magiking - Mahou Sentai Magiranger

I felt terrible to not update this thing for few .. months? Anyway, firstly first, I wanted to brag, that at last, finally I have my very first DX sentai toy. This time is from the Magiranger series which was released in 2005 in Japan, and 'imported' by the US as Power Rangers Mystic Force in 2006.

I bought it for cheap, I even went for another set. Anyway, this is the box's picture.

Magiking (or Titan Megazord) consists of 5 humanoid - giant robot mode - called Majin. They are MagiPhoenix, MagiGaruda, MagiMermaid, MagiFairy and MagiTaurus.



And when they combine together, they become Magiking.



And they still have another alternate mode, MagiDragon, which can be rode by MagiPhoenix.

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Saint Seiya Myth Cloth

During my visit to my home, I took the opportunity to take picture of the whole collection not including the dual/triple stuff. My cousins were there to help me arrange those boxes.

48 if they didn't miscount those things. Anyway, I'll break them down by 'series'.

The main bronze & silver saints & clothes + Seiya pegasus god cloth + the appendices


The gold saint & clothes + Pope + the appendices


The incomplete god warrior & robes


The marine general & scales


The hades spectres & surplices + Hades + Pandora + Thanatos + the appendix

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