This started out as a flame on The 21 Greatest Medicom Kubrick Figures.
The figures are all based on the same body type, but then there is all this variation made to the torsos, heads and hands — why bother sticking to one body type at all? It’s as if they started with a rule that the toys should all look alike, but then ignored that rule to suit their needs, ending up with some half-assed Lego knockoff. For example, how is a Kubrick Alien toy any better or different than an actual Alien toy? It gains nothing from the Kubrick look. In fact, the Kubrick body is actually a drawback. They glued on so many pieces to make the Alien recognizable that the iconic(?) Kubrick body is almost an afterthought.
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From the murky depths of my childhood, I dimly recall something so unusual, something as inexplicable as a transformer that turned into a rock. It befuddled my child’s brain that something made of metal and — I assume — plastic and tubes was simultaneously also made of stone. I wracked my memory trying to think of where I’d seen it before. No, it was too stupid to be a Transformer, and it couldn’t have been just a regular action figure. So it was when reading The 8 Redeeming Qualities of Gobots at Topless Robot (the only blog I seem to read, really) that I found that misconceived Gobot I remember one of my friends (or maybe a classmate?) had: his name was Nuggit.
Incidentally, even as a kid I remember the Gobots’ designs being particularly lazy. Take Cy-Kill for example. When he’s a motorcycle, he has a chrome engine attached to his abdomen. When he’s a robot, it’s gone. Where did it go? We’re supposed to assume it just disappeared? It’s a third of his body!
