Monday & Punishment

Monday again, it was just Sunday and I was happily playing Doom and enjoying my weekend. Oh well, welcome back to another week on Zone Base. Hopefully you all had a great weekend, I did. The Mrs and I did our weekly shopping and enjoyed a fun Easter by Watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and enjoying a peaceful day at home. While out Saturday I picked up a few fun things. We stopped at Aldi because they have excellent produce and I picked up a MrBeast Labs Hybrids. I've been meaning to check these blind monster packs out regardless of the apparently famous YouTube guys name on the label. They're fun modular figures with emphasis on mix and match parts that look to use the Glyos system. I got Serpanther in mine, a red Gorgon/panther hybrid. Pretty neat, though the tail section is made of some cheap plastic.

At Walmart I got a Blokees Classic Class Soundwave from Transformers One and the new Walmart Exclusive gold Skeletor from the new MOTU Core Class line that I'm pretty excited about. It's a slightly smaller action figure range for Masters of The Universe that's seemingly movie and classis character based. I plan to cover them pretty throughly here as they're perfect Wednesday post material. I also look forward to building that Soundwave soon. 

The Mrs surprised me with a very cool Easter Basket full of candy, a MrBeast Labs Swarms blind pack, some of his candy (literally, who is this guy and why is his name on some pretty good products?) A MOTU X Transformers Scareglow Starscream (now I own the complete set), The Red Rodan Kaiju Ranger figure from Playmates new Power Rangers X Godzilla figures (must get all these), as well as some Reese's and Hershey Easter Candy. There's also a Super Mario Pez dispenser in there that I'm tempted to carry around regularly. Some people vape, I Pez. It was a great surprise and I think she liked her Easter basket from me. I got her a canvas print of our cats... it's on the wall over the TV. 

She made one excellent Sunday dinner that I enjoyed while finishing the last of my Blokees Defender Version kits that haven't been assembled yet and of course playing Doom. There's a new Defender Version series on the way that I can't wait to get my hands on as well as more Wheels. So good! Well, it may be spring, but I've got Halloween on my mind and the beginnings of this years 3 month long spooky season is cooking in my brain. Last year we broke site records, let's see how big Pumpkin Spiced Mayhem is in 2026! Well, it's time to get this week started. It's a special week here on the site as I renewed the domain for the 10th time... that's right, Zone Base turns 10 this week and it's really amazing to see how it's grown over the years. Thank you all for reading and supporting the site. Please don't forget to share with your friends and be excellent to each other.

Monday RX- Requiem

Good morning Zone Base readers, it's Monday and time again to start another week of robots, monsters, and misadventure! This weekend wasn't a very busy one. The Mrs and I did a little shopping at Five Below and Walmart, but mostly did some cleaning around the house. That included getting back to work on organizing my toy room, which is a much delayed project. The Mrs had gotten Pokopia, so I didn't play any Resident Evil Requiem so she could enjoy it on our Switch 2. That gave me a chance to get back into my campaign on Doom the Dark Ages, which I've been meaning to do. I've been on a level that I don't enjoy and making myself work through it begrudgingly. She made an excellent Chicken Alfredo dinner Sunday and I finally got started building the Zoids Command Wolf model I got a few weeks ago. These Realize Models are fairly involved, so I think it'll get finished next weekend.

For toys, I didn't get many. My birthday and Toylanta are around the corner, so I've been holding off a little on purchases for myself. I did get a bunch of Madballs at Five Below. Finding a Mutant Monster Ball I've been hunting for as well as apparently Five Below is selling mini Madballs for $1 each now. I picked up one of each they had available happily. Walmart thankfully is stocking Blokees Transformers Galaxy Version 08 in their Easter Basket toy displays. I picked up two and got the chase Optimus Prime (yay!) and Insecticon Shrapnel! Great pulls on two kits I'm very excited for. Shrapnel will join the Kickback from a prior series I got last year, now just to get Bombshell! These Galaxy Version Insecticons come with a mini insect mode Insecticon as well... I'm looking forward to Bombshell and one hell of a post here afterwards!

Well, it's time to get this week started. As usual I've got some stuff to do around the house and pictures to take for the site. We've got another fun week in store full of robots, monsters,and misadventure coming for your eyeballs. Thank you for reading and supporting the site. Please share it with your friends and be excellent to each other. 

New Week 64

Another weekend has come and gone, leaving us with Monday and it's curse of another work week. Fortunately, we've got a fun week of robots, monsters, and misadventure here on Zone Base. I hope everyone had a great weekend, mine sure was! The Mrs and I took a trip to a slightly out of town Walmart just for the hell of it and while there I got some great deals on some clearance toys! The Walmart Exclusive capsule lines seemed to have ended with the pirate set, but that doesn't mean they stopped having exclusives all together. Various vintage style releases and last fall a great two figure homage to Transformers Cybertron for it's 20th anniversary. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get them then, but thankfully picked them up this weekend. Sideways and Excellion were favorites from the original line, so the updates were most welcome. I also picked up a Masterverse Terror Claws Skeletor. 

I definitely enjoyed my cheat meal for the week, Taco Bell! It's been far too long since I've had some despite practically eating it every day in college. Sunday, I intended to wash my car and put some new cool hubcaps on it, but a very rainy day delayed that until next weekend. However did take the time to do some household cleaning and spend some time with Resident Evil Requiem and building that Optimus Prime with trailer Wheels kit.  The Mrs made a great chicken dinner Sunday night with a tasty strawberry crumble cake. 

I'm admittedly a little late getting this update out. I had to take some stuff to donate to Goodwill and do an Amazon return at the UPS store... which had a Yu-Gi-Oh card stuck the the window like a bizarre curse... I've had nothing but great service at this location, so hopefully it's for defense of one. Daylight Savings Time also started this weekend, so I'm completely off schedule. What's completely on schedule is a Mega Week of posts here on the site. Thank you all for reading Zone Base. I really appreciate your support. If you could, please share the site with your friends and don't ever forget to be excellent to each other.

Take Monday with You

It's Monday, dammit. Thankfully you've found yourself on Zone Base to get you through the week. My weekend was pretty good, even if short lived. Thankfully Memorial Day weekend is approaching for a much needed break. The Mrs and I enjoyed some weekend shopping and good food. I ate plenty of Sushi on Saturday as the Mrs and I watched the newest episode of 1000lbs Sisters and rented The Minecraft Movie on Amazon. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did. While I haven't played Minecraft in a while, but I've always enjoyed it. The movie, however, was hilarious and felt more like a Tenacious D episode than a video game adaptation. 

I intended to buy the new Doom game this weekend, but decided to hold off for a little while. I'm still playing though the 2016 Doom game I recently bought on sale. I really want the new game, but think I'll get it a little later. I found Turtles of Grayskull Mechaneck and ordered ZombieTrack from Amazon. Surprisingly, ZombieTrack came in within hours. I've been wanting him since announcement, but waiting for 52toys to stock him in the US Amazon shop. I generally get my BeastBox toys there or in person and have had great success. I think there's a fun monster robot week in Zone Base's future. Speaking of fun, Cyberworld toys are starting to materialize and I can't wait to cover them here on the site. They feel like the successor to the Beast Alliance figures that I loved so much and were so fun to blog about. Please look forward to upcoming posts about them as they become available to me. I spent Sunday evening playing Doom and building Blokees. Such a fun way to spend an evening. 

Speaking of fun, that's the kind of week I've got coming your way Zone Base readers. Thank you all for coming back for another week of robots, monsters, and misadventure! I hope everyone enjoys the content and hope you all share it with your friends! 

Shoot... it's Monday

Welcome back for another week of robots, monsters, and misadventure! I had a great weekend and hope you did too! It was Easter and a pretty good time! The Mrs and I exchanged Easter Baskets and man did she pull out all the stops! Transformers, TMNT, a squishy Cody Rhodes, and some candy was much appreciated! She even put Blokees in eggs and hid them around the house! I'm now the owner of a case of Transformers One Blokees and look forward to putting them together! We had Easter fun at my Mom's house with my brother's family before enjoying a relaxing Sunday evening at home. The 2016 Doom remake was on sale on the Nintendo e-shop for just 5$, so that was an easy purchase.

Speaking of Blokees, it looks like Walmart is making a solid effort into including them into their normal stock. I've been seeing Reels with folks not only finding Galaxy Version boxes at stores, but the larger kits as well. Hopefully they'll be able to keep them in stock as they are popular. I sure love them! Hopefully my Galaxy Defender case ships soon and didn't get back ordered (I swear I hate pre-orders). Of course there's more than just Blokees as far as new Transformers goes... but it's hard not to just focus on them.

There's other toys as well coming out that I'm loving, it's such a fun time on Zone Base! Speaking of, I've got a fun week in store for you all. It appears that an anomaly has been detected in orbit over the planet thanks to those darn quantum computers. Weirdly enough, Planet Zone has been registering as Planet Micro again on various notes around the base. Weird, wonder what's going on? I'm sure it's small. Regardless of universal streams distorting everything, thank you all for reading Zone Base. Don't forget to share with your friends!

Broccoli Monday

It's Monday yet again Zone Base readers, and boy... I'm not ready to start another work week. How was your weekend? Mine was pretty good and restful. I did a small amount of shopping and did some toy organizing. I've got a big unorganized mess to clean that's shapping up a little each weekend. I also spent some time playing Doom 1 + 2 on my Switch. I've been playing these games all my life and never get tired of them. This edition has a bunch of expansion packs included, so it never gets old. As for toys, Walmart still didn't have anything new. I did order the Mandelorian Transformers crossover toy and an Optimus Primal Blokees kit that should be here later today. I'm actually in a doctors office writing this as today is the first of the trio of medical procedures I have to drive my mother to and from over the next few weeks. My re-reading of the Transformers manga is benefiting from the waiting room time. That being said, I'm going to get back to my book. I've got a fun week of posts coming for your eyeholes. Thank you all for reading Zone Base, I really appreciate it. Please don't forget to share with your friends and Mutual High Fives everyone!

Monday is for the Birds

Monday has shown it's ugly face again signaling the end of the glorious weekend and beginning of another accused work week. Fortunately Zone Base is here to keep things fun with another week of robots, monsters, and misadventure! This was a fun weekend where I grilled out hamburgers, played Doom 1+2, and watched paranormal tv! Takara announced a new Godzilla x Transformers collaboration as part of their Synergex series! I've been bubbling over with excitement ever since reading it. There's also a Zoids x Diaclone, Monster Hunter x Diaclone, and some awesome Spider-Man Zoids! So cool!

I got some new toys as well. There was plenty of Transformers One toys finally on shelves, so I grabbed the Quintesson Judge. I also got Studio Series 86 Bumblebee, Studio Series Gamer Edition Decepticon Soldier, and Earthspark One Step Changers Elita-1 and Skullcruncher! There's toys I passed on that I'll be getting soon as I wanted to not spend a ton of money all at once. Halloween stuff is starting to appear in some Walmart and Target store meaning Code Orange is over and the full spooky season is arriving. I got some Monster Cereal Gogurt! Target has quite a bit of neon in their Halloween selections and I am extremely excited for it. You guys know how much I love vintage Halloween and being a child of the 80's, that means bright eye searing colors! It's really turning out to be a Rob flavored fall y'all! 

Well, I've got some work to do. There's household chores, daily exercises, and I've got to record this month's episode of Transform Squadron! Please look forward to it, it's August and that means ghosts! Thank you so much for reading Zone Base, the site has really been growing thanks to your support. That's lead to some fun developments that will be showing up on the site soon, I'm so excited! Please don't forget to share the site with your friends and Mutual High Fives everyone!

Birth of a New Week

It's Monday again and thank you Zone Base readers for coming back for another week! I had a pretty good weekend with a shopping trip the Mrs and I took in a neighboring town. I didn't find any of the Star Raiders collection, but did pick up some Transformers. Legacy United Hot Shot and Side Burn! I've always liked these two, so updates are always welcome. I also found Turtles of Grayskull Splinter and Teela! I also got some household stuff, but I doubt any of you care about my new pair of Hey Dudes and bathroom mat.

Sunday,  I went out to Barnes and Nobles to see if they had the asian horror section last year for ghost month. They unfortunately didn't (dangit), so I checked out Target for any new Transformers One toys. They didn't have anything for me, but I did pick up a Zuru Smashers Horror House set. This is a new variation of the Zuru Smashers that has a cool horror theme! The set came in handy as a thunderstorm took out our internet, so the Mrs and I played with it while listening to some DVDs. Hopefully the internet will be back up soon as I miss my Roku. There's another argument for physical media! I spent most of the day playing Doom 1+2 outside of that. 

Unfortunately thanks to the outage I won't have the newest episode of Transform Squadron ready until next week. I'm updating from my phone and don't get the best connection from home. Well, I've got some household chores to do while listening to Godzilla movies. Man, I have a lot of those and robot cartoons on video. Thanks everyone for returning for another week. We've got a fun week of content coming and the Halloween party is in full swing! Please don't forget to share the site with your friends and Mutual High Fives everyone!

Mechanical Violator Monday

Another Monday has risen it's evil head signaling the end of our beloved weekend and the start of another work week. Fortunately Zone Base is here to keep you entertained with robots, monsters, and misadventure! Thanks for coming back and supporting Zone Base! I had a pretty good weekend and hope you did too. Saturday was spent buying some new tires for my car and getting some rest. On Sunday I downloaded the new Doom 1+2 collection. It's both games with some expansion packs ugraded and fun as always to play. I spent quite a bit of time finding colored key cards and shooting demons! 

Halloween has officially started on the site and judging by the attendance everyone needed something spooky to beat the summer heat! It'll be going on now until the end of October. I spend all year looking forward to this, thank you all for celebrating Halloween with me. As for toys, I got a few good finds. Transformers One toys are slowly seeping into my local Target and I picked up Prime Changers Optimus Prime and Alpha Trion. They'll be making a showing on the site soon. I also picked up an extra Beast Battle Master Optimus Primal on clearance for $2. My local store was clearing out some older stuff and I couldn't resist another for that price. They only had him and Rhinox and I already have 2 Rhinox from various releases. I wish Battle Masters were available all the time. The Mrs also surprised me with a preorder for the Thundertron Star Raider gift set. I'm really looking forward to the newest Walmart exclusive collection to start showing up soon! Yo ho ho!

Well, I've got a busy week ahead of me and lots to do today. Thank you all for reading Zone Base. I really appreciate your support. Please don't forget to share the site with your friends and Mutual High Fives everyone!

Weekly Update 4/22/24

Welcome to another week on Zone Base! I had a pretty good weekend for the most part. My Origins Wheeljack came in Friday. I ordered one mid week and a later stop by Target proved that to be a good idea. They still haven't gotten one! Hopefully the upcoming Legacy United 4 pack will be easier to get. I need that Squeezeplay! Also Friday, the Mrs picked up a Legacy Silverbolt for me! Woo! Beast Wars is life! Saturday while out shopping with the Mrs I picked up Studio Series Sunstreaker and Gnaw! I just realized I already had the figure from the 2021 release, but I guess I got another. You can never have too many Sharkticons! I also picked up some Star Wars Doorables... because I'm hooked. Also stopped by Michaels to look at the Nevermore Collection. Halfway to Halloween is is coming up and this little aisle of gothy decor is just the thing to help ring it in! My local store didn't have it all up, but I enjoyed looking at what they had. Sunday was spent at home and enjoying some homemade pizza for dinner and lots of playing Mighty Doom. Well, I've got a busy day full of chores and recording the newest episode of Transform Squadron in score for me. Hopefully I'll have it up this week. Speaking of things in score, there's a fun week of content planned for you! Thank you for reading Zone Base. If you like what I'm doing, thanks! Please share the site with your friends and Mutual High Fives all around! Our next Zone Base Special Event starts next week, get ready for Halfway 2 Halloween!

Hive Class Brute

The Kharn Brute Class specializes in power and destruction. They have very low intelligence and are controlled by a commander. Their skin is nearly impenetrable and it’s hard to take them down.

The Brute is a Kharn troop that resembles a demon straight from hell. These are the big bruisers that are usually carrying some heavy firepower into the battle and are twice as hard to kill the regular soldier. You know the type.

The figure comes with a big alien gun that looks like it would be more than enough in a fight. However the Quake Arms and Shock Arms accessory packs provide extra firepower to do some serious damage. It's really surprising to get such a cool figure for just a dollar. Let alone a completely cool line for a dollar each.