Continuing the spotlight on custom Mega Bloks GI Joe figures, today I’m posting the adversaries of the Joe team, the ruthless terrorist organization: Cobra. This group had it’s good and bad points while making them. The designs were simpler, and making repeats of the nameless/faceless troopers require less thought. However, it got a little monotonous…
Category: Custom Toys
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: The Joe Team
A few years ago when Hasbro announced that they were going to get into the brick business (presumably to get a share of that sweet Lego revenue), we all rejoiced that we might get some really cool small-scale Joe figures. Instead, we got “Kre-O”, a blatant ripoff of cute little Lego minifigures and grossly under-scaled…
Revoltech Transformers – Sideswipe
In the mid-2000’s, Japanese toy company Kaiyodo released a series of highly articulated, non-transforming 4.5″ figures based on some G1 Transformers characters. Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus (a white Prime repaint), Megatron, Starscream, and Hotrod were the only characters released before Kaiyodo moved on to different scales, movie figures, etc., and left the G1 fans wanting…