{"id":11232,"date":"2018-08-12T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2018-09-08T06:14:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T06:14:02","slug":"super7-robotech-reaction-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=11232","title":{"rendered":"Super7 Robotech ReAction Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Review: More tchotchke than toy<\/p>\n

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Packaging & Extras:<\/strong> (1\/5)
\nSuper7 is more of a nostalgia company than a toy company. These products are meant to harken back to the day when you\u2019d be in the Gemco with your mom and plead for her to pull a GI Joe figure off the peg and throw it in the cart. Your mom would say \u2018no\u2019 and now you\u2019re a 40 year old with a closet full of unopened action figures\u2026 yes, you really showed her didn\u2019t you. These figures come on blister cards adorned with Robotech art you\u2019ve likely already seen somewhere else and seems like the wrong look given the toy you\u2019re purchasing. A little less refined art, something more \u2018cartoony\u2019, seems like it would have worked a lot better. There are several flavors to choose from, VF-1, SDF-1, and Battlepod. The VF-1 toys come with a gun taped to the inside of the blister card, none of the other toys have any accessories. When the tape is peeled off the gun it leaves plenty of sticky residue for you to remember it by.<\/p>\n

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Charm & Collectability:<\/strong> (2\/5)
\nWhile Super7 leans hard on nostalgia, which is certainly pretty charming, these are ultimately overgrown gashapon toys so demand will never be fervent. In fact, they probably would have done better scaled-down and sold in blind box sets with a chase figure. Instead they half-hearted emulate some vinyl toys of yesteryear with a bit of articulation. It seems like vinyl collectors are the target demographic (though these toys feel like ABS and PVC) with the hope that the action figure homage will broaden appeal. Releases so far include:
\nVF-1S Roy Fokker, $14.99, July 2018
\nVF-1J Rick Hunter, $14.99, July 2018
\nVF-1A Mass Production, $14.99, July 2018
\nVF-1D Trainer, $14.99, July 2018
\nSDF-1, $14.99, July 2018
\nBattlepod, $14.99, July 2018<\/p>\n

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Sculpt, Detail, & Paint:<\/strong> (5\/10)
\nThese sculpts seem intentionally off as part of the nostalgia trip. You can imagine the guys at Super7 deciding that they wanted to do this toy but they only wanted to do it with exactly the tools and resources that would have been allotted to such a project in 1982. Though the sculpts aren\u2019t very accurate portrayals of the line art, the paint work is decent for funky little vinyl figures. It\u2019s nice that they didn\u2019t resort to a bunch of hastily applied stickers. I found the head sculpt of the VF-1A to be particularly heinous and the proportions of the SDF-1 to be shake-your-head worthy.<\/p>\n

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Design:<\/strong> (2\/10)
\nPieces rotate and stay connected\u2026 so that\u2019s cool! There\u2019s nothing to be frustrated with in handling these but they don\u2019t transform and they\u2019re not meant to be interesting, their just bobbles for the desk. One interesting gimmick I was surprised to see is that the VF-1 toys can attach their guns to their forearms.<\/p>\n