Zoids and Stuff » Distant Cousins of Zoids

ZA-03 Z-Knight (Toy’s Dream Project reissue)

RCM — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:50:08 +0000

stay tuned…

ZA-01 Marinekaizer

RCM — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:48:18 +0000

stay tuned…

Wastors: Destructors, second series

RCM — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:30:55 +0000

Bolar, Slice, Clawgut.

Wastors: Protectors, second series

RCM — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:17:42 +0000

Ripsaw, Flashfist, Twinblade.

Wastors: Destructors, first series

RCM — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:13:52 +0000

Slaughter Steelgrave, Gouge, Sawtooth

Wastors: Protectors, first series

RCM — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:09:58 +0000

Hotshot, Crank, Cut-up.

Transfer Rings

RCM — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:59:54 +0000

These figure heavily into the miniseries comic’s plot.

Comics

RCM — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:40:51 +0000

Starriors had something that the US Zoids never had: a story line. The short version: Solar flares are destroying the earth, so the humans split the scene and build these robots to take care of things until it blows over. But then something goes wrong (of course)…

This story was told via the magic of comic books! There was a four issue miniseries put out by Marvel, as well as small comic books included with each toy.

Multimac/Cosmic Builder bits

RCM — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:39:01 +0000

I think the Cosmic Builder stuff came out in the mid 90s. They “borrowed” some zoid elements, as seen above. The top half of a whitehead cockpit could be found attached to various bits, and they also remodeled the famous pilot. I like him, in a 40s space opera kind of way.

Starrior-thing???

RCM — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:27:42 +0000

This looks like an enlarged knockoff of a Starrior (Runabout), but is battery operated, and also has a weird “plane” mode. Any info on this thing would be sweet, as I know nothing.