Blokees Transformers

Friend of mine really into Gunpla picked up Optimus and Arcee from the Classic Class. They were so enamored with them that they gifted me Soundwave from One so that I could get hooked.

Haven't built them yet, but I'm already looking to see if I can get Starscream, and most importantly, I learned they do EVA. So now I need those.
 
The EVA ones do look tempting. They seem to run $40+ everywhere which I feel like kind of misses the point of these being cheap, but hey, if they're good enough, yolo. I really wish I had found the $5 walmart kits, scalpers want $20+ for them on their website, good luck with that!
 
vicious said:
The EVA ones do look tempting. They seem to run $40+ everywhere which I feel like kind of misses the point of these being cheap, but hey, if they're good enough, yolo. I really wish I had found the $5 walmart kits, scalpers want $20+ for them on their website, good luck with that!
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The Eva ones are a lot bigger. More like a full action figure size and have more accessories. Box is like 4 galaxy boxes or so.
 
Walmart had one of the newer galaxy waves (still at $5 so I bought 5 and got like basically the ones I wanted from the wave with no repeats. Megatron, Optimus, Dino swoop, and one of the seekers
 
altcunningham said:
Cool, thanks for that. They'll look nice behind the figs.
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I think they are complete models, but I’m not sure exactly how much snap together there really is. It really seems to vary for these. Some of them are more or less like building a gundam, some you basically are just snapping the arms and legs on a completed body. I’m not sure where the Eva’s are in that spectrum.

I was looking at the galaxy figs I have today and one thing I’m impressed with these is that they don’t do a lot of lazy reuse. I was comparing the idw prime to one of the g1 Optimus and they have completely different head sculpts when they could really easily just have used the same one on both and I’m not sure people would even notice.
 
Mr_Saver said:
I think they are complete models, but I’m not sure exactly how much snap together there really is. It really seems to vary for these. Some of them are more or less like building a gundam, some you basically are just snapping the arms and legs on a completed body. I’m not sure where the Eva’s are in that spectrum.

I was looking at the galaxy figs I have today and one thing I’m impressed with these is that they don’t do a lot of lazy reuse. I was comparing the idw prime to one of the g1 Optimus and they have completely different head sculpts when they could really easily just have used the same one on both and I’m not sure people would even notice.
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I did some research and most of the signs are pointing to Blokees over Yolo, so I'm tossing a prototype 00 into this cart.
 
Mr_Saver said:
I think they are complete models, but I’m not sure exactly how much snap together there really is. It really seems to vary for these. Some of them are more or less like building a gundam, some you basically are just snapping the arms and legs on a completed body. I’m not sure where the Eva’s are in that spectrum.
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It's scale-dependent. The Galaxy/Defenders are pretty plug-n-play with body 'chunks' plugging into each other with intermediate joints; and the Classics and Action tiers being more parts-per-piece with assembly of each body chunk as well as jointage connections.
 
Fell off LEGO in recent years because the idea of sitting down to sort and follow instructions started to repulse me. When my friend gifted me this I felt the same sort of dread rather than enjoyment.

Cracked it open last night and was kind of overwhelmed by the piles I created, but once I locked in the first arm and leg everything just fell together. I didn't even need to snip it off the sprue, I could just tear it off and smooth the edge with a nail. Like butter.

I think he's cool, but I wasn't prepared for how small even the classic is. I might get Starscream. Problem is they're not shipping international and sourcing them in Canada is a little ridiculous with a cursory Google search. You can get them through Amazon US but that shipping charge becomes a deterrent.

If my EVA come out the same quality, I'll be happy.
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What are the chances we could get Blokees Galaxy GoBots? Aren't all of those owned by Hasbro now? Some RoboTech ones would be killer, too. L'il fully-articced 4in Invid and Bioroids and Regults and... WANT.
 
Uninteresting but I threw in a single Galaxy Defender Wave 01 box into an Aliexpress to get to $10 free choice shipping. I don't have many from wave 1, just Thundercracker and Prowl (admittedly I got really lucky bc they're two of the best in wave 1). Anyway, I pulled a Megatron, whom I didn't have! Very cool.

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altcunningham said:
Fell off LEGO in recent years because the idea of sitting down to sort and follow instructions started to repulse me. When my friend gifted me this I felt the same sort of dread rather than enjoyment.

Cracked it open last night and was kind of overwhelmed by the piles I created, but once I locked in the first arm and leg everything just fell together. I didn't even need to snip it off the sprue, I could just tear it off and smooth the edge with a nail. Like butter.

I think he's cool, but I wasn't prepared for how small even the classic is. I might get Starscream. Problem is they're not shipping international and sourcing them in Canada is a little ridiculous with a cursory Google search. You can get them through Amazon US but that shipping charge becomes a deterrent.

If my EVA come out the same quality, I'll be happy.
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I know the classic are smaller than the action series. It’s sort of analogous to HG vs MG for Gundam
 
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