Zoids

[Shockprowl]

GAYSACK'S GONNA GET ME!!!!!

[legios]

Mar 5, 2013 22:35:35 GMT Philip Ayres said:

I hope you've stored them well. I'm seeing evidence that several of mine have not enjoyed their sojourn in the loft..... the cold does not agree with them as we well know from the Spider Man vs Zoids comic.

The only one I can attest to so far is the Deathsaurer, who seems to have survived his incarceration very well, with his appetite for destruction unquenched. One upper segment if his tail is a little loose and prone to falling out, but it was like that to begin with.

Karl

[Shockprowl]

Mar 6, 2013 19:33:57 GMT Shockprowl said:

GAYSACK'S GONNA GET ME!!!!!

I meant Guysack!  I didn't mean to type Gaysack!

[Philip Ayres]

Pictures from the old Phenotype's zoids site:

www.flickr.com/photos/94203095@N08/sets/

[Philip Ayres]

Japanese Robot Toy advert action:



Ralph your fave Zoid is in this

[The Doctor]

I love the Japanese.

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

Bounced from a year ago!

Kaptain: Some Koenig Wolf love - see hobby.dengeki.com/news/30251/ and scroll down

[legios]

By the White Wolf! As Petey would say. Do I see new Wolves and Foxes before me? In very awesome colour schemes...

Karl

[Philip Ayres]

Dec 24, 2014 10:04:01 GMT Pinwig said:

Zoidzilla I liked I think because he vaguely connected to Trypticon. He was never a stand in, but there was a kind of link that I liked. He is the one that comes to mind when I think of the Zoids I had, although I'm sure I had a large red one of equivalent size with a long neck that I can't find a picture of on the wiki. I'm confused by that.

Hmmmm....

The probability is you're thinking of Mammoth The Destroyer, a Red European recolour of a Japanese Zoid

www.flickr.com/photos/chrisgcom/1092426908/
zoids.wikia.com/wiki/Mammoth

It's *possible* you might be thinking of the near mythical Red Ultrasaurus, again a red Euro recolour of a Japanese Zoid

zoids.wikia.com/wiki/Ultrasaurus
ultrasaurus.red.pagesperso-orange.fr/ultrasaurus_red.htm

[Pinwig]

Must have been the Mammoth. My head remembers something more like the Ultrasaurus, but it can't have been that reading that write up of it.

Gosh, Zoids were cool.

[Philip Ayres]

The only other real candidates are Brachios, but he was a bit smaller, and Zatton(Zunder in the UK), who was even smaller

zoids.wikia.com/wiki/Brachios
zoids.wikia.com/wiki/Zatton

[Shockprowl]

STOP MAKING ME WANT TO BUY ZOIDS, BIG PHIL AND PINWING!!!!!

[Fortmax2020]

Ditto.

Shockprowl, buy them to save me!

[Pinwig]

I was getting myself at it, but I claim innocence! The root of the problem was Shockprowl's greatest toys ever post, so it's your own fault!

[Shockprowl]

AAAAAHHHHHHHH I'M MY OWN WORST ENEMY!!!!!!!!!

[Pinwig]

Uh-oh... Masterpiece Zoids are on the horizon...

www.kapowtoys.co.uk/zoids-masterpiece-mpz-01-shield-liger.html

A hundred squids!

[The Doctor]

Zoids lives! I thought it had died.

-Ralph

[legios]

Not dead perse. Merely...changed. The old-style motorised snap together kits are mostly gone, but there have been poseable high-detail action figure style things, and I believe some high-detail traditional model kits. This looks closer in style to the former, only with lights and sound effects.
I'm curious to know who the manufacturer is, because Tomy has mostly been licensing the Zoids stuff out rather than making it in house for a while.

I'm actually quite pleased to see this, it is the sort of thing I assumed would have eventually happened in the original Masterpiece line, if that hadn't taken a sharp right to focus only on Transformers after they did ExKaiser.

Karl

[Philip Ayres]

MP Shield Liger

[Pinwig]

That would be one awesome collection if they do a fair few of them.

[legios]

Oh, that is rather nice isn't it? Not enough to give my 00's edition Shield Ligers a complex, but that is because they are hardy souls!

Karl

[Philip Ayres]

Is this a new, non MP, Zoid?

[Andy Turnbull]

The Kaptain will know!

Andy

[legios]

I'm not entirely sure. My previous Zoids Sources have sort of dried up over the period I was mostly off the grid. (Lesson folks, cultivate your contacts or you'll end up crossing them off your character sheet. It certainly looks like it. Further investigation is mandated.

Karl

[The Doctor]

The Namer will know!

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

But will he tell Karl?

Andy

[The Doctor]

I doubt it.

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

[legios]

Irritating blue-skinned know-it-all appears loath to talk. I am not currently authorising enhanced interrogation methods. My researches as to what the target of the investigation is are still ongoing and somewhat unproductive so far.

But I've learned a lot about the upcoming Shield Liger and Sabre Tiger though, and they are looking quite spiffy display pieces. Doubt I'll be able to afford them this year, but any new Zoids is good news.

Karl

[Philip Ayres]