Metal Joe!

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:45 pm

Add another transforming robot line no-one else has heard of to my list

http://counter-x.net/metal_joe/index.html

Insert your own "Hey, remember that **** moderator?" joke...

Aardvark · Post by **Aardvark** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:55 pm

That's actually pretty cool.

Yes, I have nothing more to add.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:01 pm

Hey, no worries, it's only about four words shorter than the whole article... Having been unable to find any actual pages covering the line on the internet, I thought I'd make one. Obviously this meant actual research material was at a slight premium. I almost had to resort to using the combination lock story (being a ****, first thing I did on getting Armor Lock was to muck up the combination without even looking at it first, leading to half an hour of FUN brute-force searching) to pad it out.

Aardvark · Post by **Aardvark** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:16 pm

Well, I've read the whole thing now.

The whole unlocking them thing is a fun gimmick, I must say. I was going to comment on how the orange chap's lock mode isn't that great, but really that doesn't matter all that much. Lovin' the key swords. I like things that are just good, silly fun -- I mean, who's going to display them in lock mode? A sick bastard, that's who.

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:18 pm

It's a lock?

... I thought it was a grenade.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:27 pm

I'm genuinely tempted to sart using the all-metal one actually as a lock for something... but yeh, they're really fun little toys. And the orange one really does look like Blaster...

Ackula · Post by **Ackula** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:00 pm

What do those guys usually go for? Just curious, never heard of or seen them before and I'm finding none on ebay so I'm assuming they are harder to find than your average Gobot?

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:09 pm

They're one of those rare-but-not-pricey dealies - because the line's so low profile they don't come up too often, but when they do no-one's really interested... The stuff only seems to come up shipped from Hong Kong or Singapore, indicating it didn't get far beyond Asia. Mind, the ones I got (which were from the UK) only cost me £2 (say, $4), so it's worth keeping an eye out.

Takara did some lockbots too for Microchange - these got a wider Western release (especially in Italy, where I think GiG put them out as part of Trasformer [sic]), but I've got no idea how good they are.

*BARRAGE* · Post by ***BARRAGE*** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:48 am

that thing is spiffy! gonna have to look those up...

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:03 am

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0261988488

Looks like these things did come out in America after all. Chuffed with that, new toys on the way and I've learnt something

Civ · Post by **Civ** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:08 pm

Well, I'll be damned. So that's what my little, yellow, lock robot is called.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:11 pm

That'd be him, yeh. You need the combination for the lock of that guy? Only need the mainly-white sixth one now.

Huge variance between sizes, and they're actually rather tricky for something of this sort... the instructions on the back of the cards only shown robot > lock, and then not always clearly, and the other way back isn't particularly simple. Had a rather flushed moment when it looked like I'd permanently locked Dial Lock (gold) in his padlock form...

Civ · Post by **Civ** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:20 am

Thanks, but I have the combination. It came with the box. When I get home tomorrow, if you want, I can take a pic of the box and post it.

Treadshot A1 · Post by **Treadshot A1** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:05 am

Off topic, but what's that white and blue robot in the pic?

Slayer-Fan123 · Post by **Slayer-Fan123** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:37 pm

Treadshot A1 wrote:Off topic, but what's that white and blue robot in the pic?

Could be this guy:
http://www.tfu.info/2001/Maximal/Tigatron/tigatron.htm

Civ · Post by **Civ** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:15 am

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:Could be this guy:
http://www.tfu.info/2001/Maximal/Tigatron/tigatron.htm

Give the man a cigar! Winnar!!

secretcode · Post by **secretcode** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:02 am

Yeah, Botcon Tigatron is one of those figures that has always amazed me, mainly how a slight reworking of a mold could make it even cooler.

Civ · Post by **Civ** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:09 am

Well, for robot mode, I can agree with that, but cat mode looks kinda stupid. Off topic, also got his main squeeze.

secretcode · Post by **secretcode** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:01 am

Civ wrote:Off topic, also got his main squeeze.

Skywarp? WTF?

Civ · Post by **Civ** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:38 am

secretcode wrote:Skywarp? WTF?

That Skywarp is a tricky fellow but I was referring to Airazor.