{"id":31274,"date":"2015-06-19T00:54:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=31274"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:54:24","slug":"motuclassics-com-blast-attak-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=31274","title":{"rendered":"MOTUClassics.Com
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\"\"<\/a> “”Your what!? Blast-Attak ain’t nobody’s slave!”<\/strong> \u2013 Blast-Attak, Masters of the Universe #7, “Long Live the King”. <\/p>\n

Of all the vintage figures, Blast Attak is probably the one I\u2019m least familiar with; I never had him as a kid. I might even be able to say that I didn\u2019t even really know about him as a kid. That\u2019s pretty low on the radar \u2013 I may or may not have known he existed. Even going back as an adult, I think he\u2019s probably one of the ones that just hasn\u2019t caught my attention. I care about the Snakemen least (and I\u2019m still fuzzy on how he\u2019s a Snakeman) so he\u2019s off to a bad start. And then he\u2019s a robot, but he\u2019s got a really sophisticated cybernetic face on top of a not-so-sophisticated boiler-technology body. I\u2019m very lost. <\/p>\n

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But I want to give him the respect that he\u2019s due. I have no patience for the folks who lack the imagination to love Scareglow & Rio Blast, so I\u2019m not going to do the same to Blast-Attak. He is a robot and that\u2019s cool. He is a walking boiler and that\u2019s cool. He\u2019s a suicide bomber and that\u2019s well\u2026 wow, Mattel sure isn\u2019t worried about headlines these days, huh? I guess it\u2019s not really suicide if you get up and reassemble yourself after. That\u2019s just a homicide bomber. Is that a term? Or is the homicide part just inferred? Of course, it\u2019s not really that either. He surely never actually killed anyone blowing himself up left & right. He\u2019s like the deadliest, least efficient, and most ineffective villain in all of Eternian\u2026 wait, I\u2019m not supposed to be knocking this guy. Damn it!<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the thing, with one glaring exception, this is a pretty cool figure. He\u2019s almost entirely all-new, Mattel did re-use the Roboto arms to mimic the original (which was an all-new figure). I\u2019m down with this because it means the hands both pop off and we can give Blast-Attak many of the compatible attachments we\u2019ve received over the years. Blast-Attak just went up two spots on my favorites list as a result. I only wish we had a Weapons Pak coming to get some of the cooler options in green. <\/p>\n

Other than the interior Horde Trooper torso (I\u2019ll bitch about that in a minute), everything else is all-new and exceptionally faithful to the original. His boiler torso looks fantastic. The funny thing is, that it didn\u2019t even really need any extra detail added. The original really flew under my radar! The legs are also all-new and are a great robotic alternative to those Tap Jaw legs. I know the footballesque pads on the thighs are unique, but I would\u2019ve loved to get Blasty here sooner in the line so we could reuse these on a few of the folks that went straight Trap-Jaw up til now. I love how they look! <\/p>\n

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All that is topped off by a great update to the head sculpt. It\u2019s also faithful to the original, but the vintage head was kinda murky. He kinda looked like he had two sets of eyes. His face & head were more distinguishable by color than sculpt. The new one does a much better job of being a head sculpt. It\u2019s a huge noggin but it works with the giant helmet and bulky robot look. I also love the big screw on the back of the head. I think that\u2019s probably a vintage detail, but for some reason it really jumps out. It\u2019s an awesome little bit. <\/p>\n

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So there\u2019s just one stupid thing on the figure that I want to get to before we get into all the paint and articulation whatever. Blast-Attak blows himself up and the vintage figure, to replicate that, broke in half. There was a little air hose with a plunger that plugged into his back, you\u2019d press it, and *boom* two halves of Blast-Attak hit the floor. Now, that\u2019s not going to get replicated in Classics. One, probably because it\u2019s a little questionable nowadays, and two, because action features that screw up the shared tooling are just not gonna happen. That\u2019s fine. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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To give Blasty some internal red guts, the 4H chose the Horde Trooper interior. And then he got the standard bit of soft plastic armor to get the final look right. All fine. Now, to be cool, Blast-Attak\u2019s armor could have split open up the middle. You could simulate the action feature with a little clever posing and a chest bursting setup by opening up the armor. That would be something. When the figure arrived and I saw that they did do a vertical seam, I was excited \u2013 even though it was on the back! I could at least get a good \u201cpremature explosion\u201d pic out of his back being split open. <\/p>\n

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But his armor is glued shut. Glued shut. I can\u2019t effectively convey my disappointment. Maybe they just wanted to steer completely clear of the \u201cblows himself up thing\u201d. Maybe the factory just glued it shut because it\u2019s a completely different and new setup. Who knows? But it is dumb and the one big mar on an otherwise beautiful figure. <\/p>\n

The paintwork is sharp throughout on my figure. The colors look great and everything comes together well with the paint & sculpt combo. The articulation is standard for the line. The armor bulks up a bit on the neck and block some articulation there while also interfering with the ab crunch (though there is some room and it exposes the innards near the waist). The great sculpt on the boots does unfortunately block the forward ankle movement and interfere with some poses. <\/p>\n

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The accessories are night & day. He includes two. The first mimics the original. It\u2019s an\u2026 ax with some techno-bits? It\u2019s strange, it wouldn\u2019t look out of place in MO2K for one thing. I kinda feel like it could be a combo rifle or maybe it works as a food processor? I don\u2019t know. It does look sharp and calls back to the original. All good. <\/p>\n

The other accessory is awesomer. I mentioned the original had a little air hose and a plunger? Well, it\u2019s that, but turned into a pretty snazzy whip. Even better? It\u2019s not one giant soft plastic piece that\u2019s too flimsy too hold while simultaneously being not flimsy enough to drape like a whip. It\u2019s actually three pieces, the plunger turned handles, the insert turned bladed tip, and the soft rubbery hose in between. It\u2019s one of the best accessories in the entire line and makes every other whip in the line look like garbage. <\/p>\n

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Overall, Blast-Attak almost finally got his due. He\u2019s been upgraded and included in the franchise the best way with a great Classics figure. Even his naysayers should be a little impressed. I want to blow up about his lack of action feature, but I get it. Gluing the armor shut is still immensely annoying and it does drown out a lot of the awesome, but he looks so good and the whip accessory is super awesome. And I get to switch out the arm attachments which I completely love. I still don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll place him with the Snakemen (I really need a MOTU historian to explain that one to me), but I will enjoy finally having him in my collection. <\/p>\n

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