I think I'm going to try and do something consistent for a change. If I can pull it off, each week I plan to find a toy that has been bargain-binned for less than $5, and give a short review, because sometimes you can find some cool stuff.
This one in particular I've had my eye on for a while. At Walmart a few months ago, this guy was $20. Yesterday? $3. You can always use more giant robots, so I've been waiting for this guy to drop to $2-3. I knew it would because it's based on a card game that died so fast no one ever actually played it - Redakai. The game had nice art, but the lenticular cards game me a raging headache.
So here he is - the Gold Metanoid.
Honestly, I never played the game. I just thought this dude looked awesome. Because he does. He's a big. Gold. Robot.
With a whole 16 points of articulation!
And he can do this.
The big gimmick for the figure is that you can stick the bottom right corner of these cards into a thingee that pops out of his back, and 3 little lights will project them as a mini-animation into that chest bubble for a few seconds. It's pretty lame, and I don't really care for it. But that's not why we bought this guy.
It's also worth noting that he IS pretty flexible. I could get him to balance on one foot with only a little difficulty, no small feat give how bulky he is.
I was also surprised with how durable he seemed to be. At first I was worried I'd break him since some of his joints were kinda stiff at first, but he's actually pretty tough. I wouldn't recommend wrenching his joints around like a hyperactive toddler, but I'm sure he would easily survive getting tossed across a room.
Overall? I think it was definitely a worthwhile purchase. I think I'd have been happy if I got him for $7-8. I may pick up his gold vampire counterpart later if the price drops further.
tl;dr - if you want to add a cheap gold robot to your collection, you could do a hell of a lot worse than dropping $3 on this guy.
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