By Yan_MCX
Mar 16, 2022
1. That snapping jaw action. It’s very convincing and is achieved with such a simple mechanism. The jaw itself features 3 new pieces, including the teeth. The treads are also new and they’re molded in silicone to provide the traction that powers the jaw.
2. The color scheme. That purple and blue look so good together, I had to check if they were custom colors designed for this set. Turns out the blue is one of our most widely used colors that shows up in many of our sets. The purple is less common, but it was previously used in lines like Barbie and TMNT.
3. Roboto! This was one of my favorite MOTU figures when I was a child. My father had spray-painted mine black and added a cape that made him look like a certain popular villain from a certain sci-fi franchise. I had mixed feelings about the custom paint job, because it covered up the see-through body and gears inside. But eventually the black pain started chipping off and you could see bits of color and hints of the mechanism underneath, which gave it a unique look.
Our micro action figure of the character is faithful to the original and does not have a cape. One of the first things I noticed was the removable hand accessories, which look exactly as I remember them. These were sculpted digitally by our freeform design team based on tons of photos. (They’re also compatible with our Trap-Jaw micro action figure.)
4. Printed pieces. The gears on Roboto were achieved with printed details on top of the clear chest piece. I asked the design team if they considered making real gear pieces inside the body, and of course they did, but it was too complicated at such a small scale, so they opted for a simpler solution.
Other printed details appear on Roboto’s arms, Skeletor’s battle-damaged armor and a couple of tiles on the back of the Land Shark.
5. The buildable side guns. Each of the side guns on the Land Shark has a unique design and is made up of about 15 regular system pieces. They manage to achieve that classic MOTU look full of intricate details, without using any custom pieces.
2. The color scheme. That purple and blue look so good together, I had to check if they were custom colors designed for this set. Turns out the blue is one of our most widely used colors that shows up in many of our sets. The purple is less common, but it was previously used in lines like Barbie and TMNT.
3. Roboto! This was one of my favorite MOTU figures when I was a child. My father had spray-painted mine black and added a cape that made him look like a certain popular villain from a certain sci-fi franchise. I had mixed feelings about the custom paint job, because it covered up the see-through body and gears inside. But eventually the black pain started chipping off and you could see bits of color and hints of the mechanism underneath, which gave it a unique look.
Our micro action figure of the character is faithful to the original and does not have a cape. One of the first things I noticed was the removable hand accessories, which look exactly as I remember them. These were sculpted digitally by our freeform design team based on tons of photos. (They’re also compatible with our Trap-Jaw micro action figure.)
4. Printed pieces. The gears on Roboto were achieved with printed details on top of the clear chest piece. I asked the design team if they considered making real gear pieces inside the body, and of course they did, but it was too complicated at such a small scale, so they opted for a simpler solution.
Other printed details appear on Roboto’s arms, Skeletor’s battle-damaged armor and a couple of tiles on the back of the Land Shark.
5. The buildable side guns. Each of the side guns on the Land Shark has a unique design and is made up of about 15 regular system pieces. They manage to achieve that classic MOTU look full of intricate details, without using any custom pieces.
