robots

[zovex]

anybodey seen these new sets from mattel and the movie robots? they are ball and socket pieces and magnets and stuff....i am not explaining this very well......point is, i want someone to buy a set, and let me know if the ball joints are the "right" size.....

by "right" i mean xevoz.

[Unit01]

What are they called zovex? If you give me a naem i will do some research on em and see what i can find.

[Quiller-Bee]

They're just called "Robots". They're toys by Mattel from the upcoming movie starring Ewan McGregor, which is also called--you guessed it--"Robots". ;D

[Promethemus]

honestly, i think they might. saw at TRU and if i knew about them earlier i would have bought 1 or 2.

[Past-Watch]

wow, he's right. I didn't understand what zovex was talking about until I saw this picture:

www.robotoys.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=1418&p_catid=

We have ball and socket joints and lots of interesting pieces. I guess what really has me interested are the magnetic parts. This should be looked into, a spare parts library for my Xevoz would be nice! However, if the theme is "robots" I don't expect much variety here.

[Heyyou]

With all these companys picking up the ball and socket tech, maybe the future is brighter than we thought.

[rupert]

[glow=red,2,300]i saw these figures at toys r us. i passed. sure, they look nice, and look like they have nice articulation, but does the market think they can slap some joints on any robot and think we'll buy it? i passed. robots are cool, but not all robots are mecha.[/glow]

[Kapusta]

yeah, I saw some robots figures at a TRU a while back, but the're mini. Maybe stand an inch and a half tall. you get two in a pack and they come with lots of gadgets.

[gurzil]

I saw the robots toys while in SF, and the thing that impressed me the most was the packaging for the 2-pack. They have interchangable parts, are 3.5 inch scale, but each figure was assembled, and in a inner plastic cradle shaped like a cog, that interlocked and would turn with the other figure, and there was an opening so you could turn them.

Hard to describe, and I still cant find a picture of the packaging...

Kinda neat. I'll watch the movie. No desire for the toys.

(Edit: they are smaller than 3.5, I realize now.)