REALLY trivial Leopardon SOC comments...
As you had probably guessed, dear readers, I succumbed and ordered the SOC Leopardon about 0.00000001 milliseconds after posting this.
Some really nitpicky comments on the toy from an insane fan of the show (or at least the robot):
1. Very poseable arms (although they have to be removed and replaced with "Arm Rocket" arms to transform the toy), not so poseable legs although they do a decent job. The TV show suit looked to be very difficult to move in, which is why I suppose the producers just had it fire weapons even before the suit was supposedly stolen in #10.
2. There's a nice "garage" for a mini-GP7 in the leopard head, but you can't store the thing in reverse without it getting stuck. The GP-7 was dispatched from the head in #1. Much of the rest of the time it resided in a garage somewhere, which just looked like a metal box.
3. The door for the leopard head garage is weirdly angled - it looks straight, but it's not. The show door wasn't on a hinge IIRC - it just opened like a garage. Can't these people get anything right? Worst Toy Design Ever. :) /COMIC BOOK GUY
4. It's nice to have the firing Arc Turn, but the thing is REALLY hair-trigger - I've already lost the head crest in the couch at least 5 times.
Even more amazing to me was the booklet that came with the toy, featuring design sketches (unfortunately, they didn't have any sketches that were substantially different from the final product), a toy gallery, and promo pictures - one featuring Leopardon menacing Machine BEM Double Headed Demon (#2) with the Vicker Sword and the shield included with the toy! That scene was never in the show itself.*
The toy gallery is awesome. Lots of stuff I hadn't known about or had only seen box pictures of in there. But no Spider Bracelet toy was made?
My Holy Grail, the Leopardon Jumbo Machinder, is pictured, of course. The fist in the picture looks like a hole was imposed on the toy's fist graphically at the last minute. There were two versions according to a Cool Japanese Toys article by Tom Franck - one which came with no holes in the fist (not good when the toy comes with a ginormous sword) and a later run that had fist holes. I'm assuming the booklet artists got hold of one of the first versions and had to do a last minute graphic fix, although maybe the second version fist hole actually looked that messy.
[I just know that that last paragraph will be attracting some unsavory readers. Sorry, perverted Googlers, nothing to see here.]
* - The original ending sequence featured Leopardon picking up and throwing Double Headed Demon, a sequence not in the battle in episode #2. There's also a scene of Despot Dragon (#1) enlarging that is different from the one in episode #1.
As you had probably guessed, dear readers, I succumbed and ordered the SOC Leopardon about 0.00000001 milliseconds after posting this.
Some really nitpicky comments on the toy from an insane fan of the show (or at least the robot):
1. Very poseable arms (although they have to be removed and replaced with "Arm Rocket" arms to transform the toy), not so poseable legs although they do a decent job. The TV show suit looked to be very difficult to move in, which is why I suppose the producers just had it fire weapons even before the suit was supposedly stolen in #10.
2. There's a nice "garage" for a mini-GP7 in the leopard head, but you can't store the thing in reverse without it getting stuck. The GP-7 was dispatched from the head in #1. Much of the rest of the time it resided in a garage somewhere, which just looked like a metal box.
3. The door for the leopard head garage is weirdly angled - it looks straight, but it's not. The show door wasn't on a hinge IIRC - it just opened like a garage. Can't these people get anything right? Worst Toy Design Ever. :) /COMIC BOOK GUY
4. It's nice to have the firing Arc Turn, but the thing is REALLY hair-trigger - I've already lost the head crest in the couch at least 5 times.
Even more amazing to me was the booklet that came with the toy, featuring design sketches (unfortunately, they didn't have any sketches that were substantially different from the final product), a toy gallery, and promo pictures - one featuring Leopardon menacing Machine BEM Double Headed Demon (#2) with the Vicker Sword and the shield included with the toy! That scene was never in the show itself.*
The toy gallery is awesome. Lots of stuff I hadn't known about or had only seen box pictures of in there. But no Spider Bracelet toy was made?
My Holy Grail, the Leopardon Jumbo Machinder, is pictured, of course. The fist in the picture looks like a hole was imposed on the toy's fist graphically at the last minute. There were two versions according to a Cool Japanese Toys article by Tom Franck - one which came with no holes in the fist (not good when the toy comes with a ginormous sword) and a later run that had fist holes. I'm assuming the booklet artists got hold of one of the first versions and had to do a last minute graphic fix, although maybe the second version fist hole actually looked that messy.
[I just know that that last paragraph will be attracting some unsavory readers. Sorry, perverted Googlers, nothing to see here.]
* - The original ending sequence featured Leopardon picking up and throwing Double Headed Demon, a sequence not in the battle in episode #2. There's also a scene of Despot Dragon (#1) enlarging that is different from the one in episode #1.
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