Now THIS is how you update Battle Beasts. Looks like the Diamond version is destined be known as the crumby American revamp version.
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I like these a lot more than the Diamond ones. However, it seems I'll be unlikely to get any of these ones.
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A god damn card game and Blind boxed figures--- Fucking Japan...
Just sell me toys the old fashioned way-- on a blister card- with a clear bubble showing me what Im getting...
Agreed. The way my luck goes with blind boxed buying, there's no way in hell I'm going to buy these new. Guess I'll have to try my luck on the secondary market.
SON OF A BITCH-- This is going to start getting expensives- especially since I have to import all of these things--
And you know unlike the original ones-- they are going to blind box these damn things and make them more expensive than Kubricks...
Dammit, I don't care who's making what figures, as long as I get my ass-kicking space walrus! Am I right, folks?
That being said, these look pretty cool as well. Might pick up a couple later. Assuming the space walrus is still in stock.
I remember nearly all my Battle Beasts paint jobs were worn off....I had a nasty habit of popping and arm or leg off and chewing on it.
Sad....I know. I loved those little guys.
FUCK. And. YES! Now those look like LEGIT battle beasts. $7 is a small price to pay for "Battles that are the Epic" Rob ... It looks like they even have the chest stickers/logos
I was told by Diamond at c2e2 that their Battle Beasts have NOTHING to do with the toys from the 80's.
By some 20 year old hipster kid wearing a wool hat who wouldn't know a Battle Beast from his his Pabst Blue Ribbon?
Actually the guy running the Diamond Toys booth and handing out the sample figures looked to be in his 40's. I have a feeling they bought the name and that was it.
Actually, if you look at the previews and announcements from last week, it does seem that Diamond's Battle Beasts have strayed from the old toys. The three main characters don't have any of the futuristic styling of the 80's line and in fact just look like characters taken from a furry-based fantasy comic.
At least TakaraTomy has given us something closer to the little feral fighters of our youth.
They seem to be trying to offer up a more fleshed out game, at least according to all of the little diagrams with the dice. I guess it's a bit more nuanced than the, "ha, my orange good aardvark with the log on his chest defeats your evil albino aardvark with the water drop on his chest!"
I don't understand why nobody just bought the molds and made more of the ORIGINAL Battle Beasts.
This is exactly what I keep wondering as well. Maybe the molds were destroyed? Sold to India?
That could be true. In which case, lead-covered Battle Beasts are now sitting inside of those little plastic bubbles in laundromats across the U.S.
Battle Beasts, are they the little figures from the 80's which had the "Reveal the Shield" gimmick of little elemental signs on their chests? Those were very awesome. Though I think this new series has it one upped, simply because it looks like they included a battle sheep. I'm now hoping they get all Biblical and release a Battle Donkey, too.
Thank you, TR Archives, I just saw the answer to my own question from an old post. And it makes me think that the card game Ele-Minis would be made a little more awesome with the inclusion of Battle Beasts.
The owl, with his cyber-eye and chest-mounted rocket packs, was the poop. I don't see him back yet either....
Wait..The octopus is...That explains a lot about battle beasts.Did you know there was a crossover between them and transformers?
It's true...the Octopus was the one that finally pushed me over into BB territory when I was a kid. I thought they were all kinda goofy...but then I saw that Octopus...snagged that pack, and the rest was downhill. I was determined to collect every one of these incredible creatures that battle for fun.
