Zoids Blox promo

The other day I was wondering what all crazy knock off toys will be at discount stores for the Christmas season. Last year M.A.R.S. Converters had a VERY Zoids looking batch of robot dinosaurs haunting my local Family Dollar next to their better looking robots. Of course Zoids Wild started up in June this year and Hasbro is planning to bring that to the US sometime soon-ish (there's not much info other than Hasbro is licensing it at the moment). I'm really looking forward to that. I love Zoids, but they can be prohibitively expensive making the US versions the best option in most cases. I think the last version of Zoids available here was the Hasbro version of Zoids Blox which I thought was very neat. There was some small remote control Zoids Tomy released here under another banner to avoid legalities shortly after it was dying here. But that was around 2004-2005? So it's been awhile. I guess a little longer for Zoids Wild toys to debut here isn't much of a hassle. Just I wish it was now instead of later.

If I see those fake ones at Family Dollar again, I might just grab some.

Zoids Wild looks...wild

Man alive, I cannot stress enough just how excited for Zoids Wild I am. Zoids is always one of those things that happen as the perfect storm. It shows up with a big roar, causes a big commotion, then blows away for whatever time it takes to occur again. I've been antsy for a new line in the past few years, with a few *ahem* higher cost options available, but not a real outright Zoids line. You know how you have muscle memory? Like you can remember exactly how something feels like no matter how much time has past? That's how I am about those little rubber bolts you use to fasten together Zoids kits. I've been mentally squeezing one in my fingers ever since the announcement earlier this week.

Wild Blue Yonder

Heck Yeah!

The newest Zoids series, Zoids Wild, is slated to start up in June with a new anime, mange, toys, and games. I'm hoping the series get's a world wide release as man I've been hankering new Zoids stuff. What I've seen so far looks great and man it's hard not to get excited for more Zoids. The prospect of a new Switch game is most exciting, I could see that being the perfect synergy of game and console.

Credit: Japan Times

Robo Strux commercial

When I was a kid, Zoids were called Robo Strux. At least they were here in the U.S. I loved putting the cool robot dinosaurs together, winding up the little engines, and watching them walking around. Later they came back as Techno Zoids, and then just Zoids. It was around the Techno Zoids era that I learned that they were from a Japanese toy line called Zoids and there was more to these neat robot animals than just what I knew.