Rampage Predaking Titan Class Figure (Power of the Primes)

Rampage is part of the Titan Class Predaking box set and transforms into a tiger and the left arm of Predaking.  Rather than exhausting myself with a week's worth of posts for the individual 'bots and their combined mode I'm going to spread this out over the next couple months interspersed with other posts so I don't get bored. It'll be worth the wait though...
(Beast Mode)(Robot Mode)

Ressha Gattai ToQ-Oh (Mini-pla)

We're back with another Super Sentai Minipla wave. This time it's the main mecha from Ressha Sentai ToQger: ToQ-Oh.  The fact that this robot is made up of five trains means the construction process was pretty simple compared to other minipla I'll spotlight in the future but the simplicity of their design also means the articulation is pretty good.

ToQ-Oh's transformation involves the five trains pulling up alongside each other, attaching and then basically lurching up to standing Dracula style. The way the Red Ressha folds up in front can look...a bit more adult... than was intended if you pause at the right moment. I do love the doors wooshing open to reveal the face though. Sadly that level of engineering is a bit beyond these little models.

(Red Ressha)(Pink Ressha)(Green Ressha)(Yellow Ressha)(Blue Ressha)(ToQ-Oh)

Musashi Ghost & Edison Ghost Set GC 02 (Ghost Change)

Kamen Rider Ghost was a fun show. Not my favourite plot-wise but it had some of my favourite Kamen Rider designs in a long time. Kamen Rider Ghost had to collect the "Eye-cons" containing the spirits of famous people from history in order to wish himself back to life.

I loved the ridiculous hoodie aesthetic of the various ghosts and the Ghost Change series of figures released a handful of bodies and then these two-packs of ghosts.

Here we get famous Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi and American inventor Thomas Edison. Musashi makes perfect sense and while I love the light bulb/electricity design the Edison Damashii just doesn't read "Edison" to me. But I come from a different cultural tradition and am probably a bit more familiar with Edison that the average Japanese 8-year-old who is learning for the first time that this white dude invented the light bulb. I mean a more "Edison-y" design would not have been as cool so I get it. This one is super fun.

The clear plastic stands so you can display the ghosts without bodies.

(Mushashi Ghost)(Edison Ghost)

Stripes Legends Class Figure (Titans Return)

Stripes is a legends class figure who transforms from a "spy-tablet," which is the Titans Return-era substitute for a cassette tape, to a fairly lame jet and a questionable tiger.

(Tiger Mode)(Jet Mode)(Spy Tablet Mode)

Golden Age Starman (DC Universe Classics)

Ted Knight, playboy and astronomer harnessed the power of the stars themselves to become Starman!
He joined the Justice Society of America with Dr. Mid-Nite in All-Star Comics #8 which was also notable for introducing Wonder Woman.

In 1994 writer James Robinson and artist Tony Harris launched a new Starman series focussing on Ted's son Jack reluctantly taking on the mantle. It became a critical success and Ted appeared regularly as a supporting character. 

This figure portrays Starman in his original golden age costume that somehow hid his identity via comic book logic.  It's a classic 1940's design with the cape, the trunks, and the head-fin. He also comes with his Gravity Rod which is the source of his powers and some sort of ray gun in the holster on his belt which is apparently the little used "Stellar Energy Pistol" that appeared in at least one "Times Past" issue of the 90's Starman series. I have a real soft spot for Golden Age superheroes and I'm glad they weren't forgotten in the DCUC lineup.