[En Sabah Nerd]

The other day I was at a Walmart looking for the Loki/Corvus set but only found the "leader" class Shockwave, and by "leader" I mean voyager sized figure with accessories allegedly worth an additional $20. The toy itself is an absolutely fantastic G1 Shockwave that turns into a space-warship thing which is really his original lasergun mode flipped upside down. The ship looks really nice with the extra parts attached giving it a greater sense of size and menace but then when these parts are attached to his robot mode he just looks silly with a bunch of seemingly random extra parts. Thankfully the pieces can alternatively be made into a command/battle platform which is actually a pretty cool base for the figure. Overall I think this thing is overpriced even given how the line has gotten more expensive lately but I love Shockwave and as a toy on its own it's great.

This morning I found Ironhide. It feels like it's been a good long time since we got a (mostly) proper G1 Ironhide but this figure makes up for it. It's just a solid well done deluxe sized figure. The only complaint is that in his Cybertronic van mode his arms are not very well hidden but they aren't awfully obvious either. Other than that he's all good.


The main goal of the hunt though was this two pack. My local Walmart got these in last night and then put them on the shelves this morning so I had fresh pickings (though they were mostly all equally good). Loki is just a nice total paint upgrade over the Ragnarok figure but at least one knife would have been appreciated. Corvus Glaive is the new half of the pack and the main draw for good reasons. The sculpt is thorough in its details, the paint is sharp (especially on his cloak and sash), and his glaive is a very cool accessory. He's a big ugly goblin thing with a fancy spear and that's great.