(Femme-Bot Friday #80)
By and large, the very concept of TransFormers crossovers with
other properties is not one that interests me. The pair of
Street Fighter II sets won me over because I'm also a Capcom
fan, and because it used the Generations Arcee mold -
which I was quite keen on - for Chun Li. The movie crossovers -
Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Top Gun and
Universal Monsters - all looked low-effort and
poor-quality.
And, to be perfectly honest, when the Jurassic Park crossover
was revealed, I planned on skipping it. Sure, the new paint job for the
Kingdom Megatron mold and its new head sculpt looked great,
but the transforming Ford Explorer looked like the kind of knockoff toy
sold in the London Zoo gift shops. With a price tag in excess of £120, I felt it was more overpriced garbage that I could happily live without, even though the
absurdly-named Tyrannocon Rex was billed as a Femme-Bot. If
Kingdom Megatron was overpriced at £52, and the equally absurdly-named
'Autobot JP93' (whom I shall henceforth refer to as 'Dickie Attenbot', per my girlfriend's
suggestion) is very clearly not Leader class in terms of size
or engineering, this boxed set was clearly a rip off, and not worth
investing in.
But then I saw an announcement on Reddit that Zavvi had cut
over £70 from the price tag, bringing it down to about £51
for the pair... and then saw that Amazon had followed suit... meaning
that the cost of the boxed set of two figures was below Kingdom Megatron's RRP. That changed everything...
