Anyone else get some of these Jipuroto Beast Saga stuff?
#1
Posted 11 January 2013 - 06:05 PM
The first 2 'Bikuru' (which I think has something to do with the works Surprise in Japanese) came in yesterday, along with the latest gift set (panda one), and the single carded 'BunnyKiss' character.
The Bikuru look like little Cubes which come with 3 LRG beast saga figures which average around 8-10mm tall. Each cube has a button trigger, which 'auto' transforms them. One is some sort of plane, and the other is a tank of sorts. Both of these sets seem to be the Earth/ground type beasts, and all are bright red plastic.
Not really much to say in the design of the vehicles, the transforming is pretty cool though. And I like the little beasts, I really hope they end up making stand alone packs for them. I noticed also that some of them are animals we hadn't seen yet in the regular sized line. There's a Mandrill Baboon, what looks to be a pig, and I think a goat as well, along with the lion, Giraffe, and I think some sort of cat/bear thing.
I'm assuming of the 6 Bikuru's they have up on BBTS, there are 2 each for Ground/water/sky. They show a picture on one of the boxes of one of the vehicles 'capturing' a blue figure which looks like the shark.
There are also Jipuroto Bases, which I assume are the same scale as the Bikurus, and hopefully contain more figures.
So, all in all, I'm pretty pleased with them. Has anyone else gotten these? And what do you think?
#2
Posted 11 January 2013 - 09:02 PM
#3
Posted 12 January 2013 - 02:15 PM
#4
Posted 12 January 2013 - 09:18 PM
#5
Posted 13 January 2013 - 05:50 PM
#6
Posted 13 January 2013 - 05:53 PM
#7
Posted 13 January 2013 - 08:32 PM
the small figures would be cool to cast up in rubber as keshi figures.
They're not rubbery? That's a bit of a missed opportunity there.
#8
Posted 14 January 2013 - 04:09 PM
the small figures would be cool to cast up in rubber as keshi figures.
They actually are pretty rubbery. I'd say about MUSCLE consistency, so, not as squishy as the weapons the reg beasts have, but more like the beasts themselves.
#9
Posted 18 January 2013 - 10:40 AM
#10
Posted 26 January 2013 - 10:24 PM
http://www.takaratom...a/sp/index.html
#11
Posted 27 January 2013 - 10:32 AM
Originally I was planning only to get the figures, no mini-vehicles, no vinyl. But then I saw there was a video of these first 2 mini-vehicles on the offical Takara-Tomy Beast Saga website. These things totally reminded me of StarCom. All compressed compact and then you press a button and then slowly spring open into a vehicle. Does anyone actually have these in-hand to confirm that they are similar to the 80's StarCom vehicles?
Similar to StarCom but a lot smaller... if you collect Glyos, the dimensions are similar to the vinyl Core Block piece. If this were sold in American toy stores for $12 I think people might be disappointed.
There's not a lot you can do with them though. There are little grooves in there to hold the bases of the mini-figures in place, and I would TOTALLY suggest anyone who loves Beasts, Micro toys, and Starcom grab at least one to look at up close, but it's not super-impressive. I'm going to be posting a review on 16bit.com on Wednesday of the BS-28 one.
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#12
Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:29 AM
Similar to StarCom but a lot smaller... if you collect Glyos, the dimensions are similar to the vinyl Core Block piece. If this were sold in American toy stores for $12 I think people might be disappointed.
There's not a lot you can do with them though. There are little grooves in there to hold the bases of the mini-figures in place, and I would TOTALLY suggest anyone who loves Beasts, Micro toys, and Starcom grab at least one to look at up close, but it's not super-impressive. I'm going to be posting a review on 16bit.com on Wednesday of the BS-28 one.
Thanks, I'll be sure to check out your review. I also saw that Pixel-Dan reviewed BS-27 (the tank). They are even smaller than I thought. I still might get them, just because of the similarity to StarCom.
#13
Posted 27 January 2013 - 01:10 PM
#14
Posted 27 January 2013 - 01:33 PM
#15
Posted 27 January 2013 - 03:52 PM
I would be into these if they were like 2 or 3 times larger. I mean they're cool, nicely designed, but they're too small. If they were large enough to fit with the normal size figures, I'd buy them.
Or at least the size of a LEGO minifig or classic BBs.
#16
Posted 01 February 2013 - 04:18 PM
#17
Posted 06 February 2013 - 10:22 AM
Agreed; minifigs and minifig one-person vehicles would make excellent gashapon fodder! And I have to admit, the new base jipuroto that was released for presale recently looks a little more tempting with it's smaller vehicle and very familiar looking jail cell.Once all six vehicles are out, and the bases, I'm hoping they'll have a lot more appeal. I would love it if they released army packs, and even smaller vehicles, something like bikes & jeeps. Then you could have little beast wars with all your different factions. They could also release new figures and smaller vehicles via gumball machine/gashapon too.