Smashing into a Horror House

Want to play with some scary toys this Halloween? Horror House by Zuru Smashers is here just in time for the spooky season. The Mrs and I picked up one of these recently and played with it after a thunderstorm left us without internet for a few hours. As you can see in the video above, you follow an included map and work your way through the coffin's contents. You'll assemble your monster while digging through all sorts of slime, floam, and kinetic sand. There's also assorted insects, stickers, and monster keshi to be found! It was a lot of fun and I want to try one of the mini sets as soon as my local Target stocks them. Frankly, I wish they sold just packs of the keshi as I'd love to just collect all those. Zuru Smashers have done that sort of thing before, so here's hoping.

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!

Weekly Update 4/18/22

 

Its a new week here on Planet Zone and where did the weekend go? It was Easter weekend and I spent most of it with family enjoying the holiday. Between gifts and stuff I bought myself I came away with some good stuff. The wife and I bought each other new shoes. That was cool, got a sweet new pair of Puma! I've got a sneaker rule. Sporty pair for spring and summer, retro/vintage type for fall and winter. Don't ask me why, but it makes plenty of sense somehow.

The Mrs picked up the new Target exclusive Silverstreak/Bluestreak. I've been looking for him. Still no Studio Series Soundwave. Starting to wonder if all those ones I've seen online are a hallucination. Grabbed a new version of Zombot who came with a converting truck and trailer friend. From that same series is a weird Diaclone style transport. I tell you random cool stuff gets snuck into Hot Wheels. Still marveling at that futuristic helicopter that'll fit a Diaclone or Zoids pilot. 

Picked up Void Knight from Dino Fury. Aside from getting the rest of the Megazord, that might be all of that line I get unless there's a neat surprise. It's been a fun series. Speaking of Power Rangers, I got the Thunder and Galaxy Megazord from the vintage collection. Now just to wait for wave 2. Not to mention, this week pack of Million Warriors had a super rare figure! BTW, an Easter Basket is a great way to give someone Smashers toys. The wife put a mini light up dino egg one in mine!

The Mrs included a Platinum series Dragonoid in an Easter Basket. Die cast Bakugan are excellent. She also got me a storage case, so all the ones I've been getting have a new home. Wonder if those old Happy Meal ones I have would fit? Where are those anyway? With the case was also a Monster Flex Scarecrow. Monster Flex is a Stretch Armstrong style line of monsters. The Scarecrow is a pumpkin headed fellow that's impossible not to love. Every day is Halloween, even on Easter!

I 've got a fun week planned for you all. Thanks for reading Zone Base and continuing to support my nonsense. I know it's not some big site, but hey, it's honest. At least I don't drill you nonstop with ads. I recently renewed the registration for the site. Here's to another year! Please share with your friends, it's all I ask! Now it's time to enjoy this Nature's Bakery fig bar while watching Beyond Belief.

Smashing Dinosaurs From Their Icy Tombs

Blind assorted, tiny rubber keshi toys are pretty easy to get. I buy plenty (like a ton), but I've been wanting to find a new line to really get behind. Not that I'm ignoring the others ones I buy, but without Grossery Gang, there's been an empty spot. An Instagram friend has been posting quite a bit of the Zuru Smashers lately and they've been catching my interest.

The Smashers line by Zuru is a neat keshi line blind packed in collapsible plastic capsules that you 'smash' to open. Series 1 passed me right by. I don't think I ever saw it. I did buy a few from series 2. Fun, but I just didn't see them often. That brings us to series 3 which kinda snuck in under my radar. This was the 'Dino' series, which as the name implies was a dinosaur themed set. I really wish I would have gotten in on these guys earlier as the dinosaurs rang from standard, to mutants, to robots, and even skeletons. Really awesome stuff.

Fortunately I began seeing these at the same time as I discovered series 4, which is the 'Dino Ice Age' set. So there's still plenty to go around. Actually I see more series 3, so no problem there. I don't think I have to tell you, but series 4 is an ice age expansion of series 3. The toys are available in a range of prices, but I usually see the 8 pack at my local stores for around $9. 

You get 8 toys on a card, 6 in smash-able capsules (egg shaped for the dinos) with 2 visible on the card and a random slime pack. There's also larger eggs that have larger figures inside... but I'm focusing on the little rubber dudes here. Part of the reason I didn't notice them is my stores tend to just put them wherever. You might have to really look if you'd like to pick up a pack, and they could be anywhere. The figures are pleasantly rubbery with wacky sculpts. So far I've been really enjoying these little prehistoric freaks. I think Zuru just makes blind packed dinosaurs I like.