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The Executive

RCM — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:56:51 +0000

Quick and dirty plastic swap: Leoshop Gator plus Zoids2 Tarantulon. This is the luxury SUV of zoids. I posted some pics on the ZoidFans Mailing List, and one Major Kong wrote for me a beautiful writeup, as he does for his own customs.

Hi, big boy. We certainly hope you’re… enjoying… tonight’s presentation of “Silicone Valley: The Swelling” starring Chester Harlton, Tunza Blart and the unforgettable Pindyul S. Bubes, here on the Playzoid Channel. And we’ll be back before the spaghetti can go al dente on you, but first a word from our favorite sponsors, the good people of Jean Splyce Motors:

long shot of bumper to bumper traffic, at a standstill; close-up of harried motorists honking horns and shaking fists. The voiceover says:

Karl Marx was wrong. The masses? Well, we won’t say the masses suck, but they certainly inhale deeply. And what’s the worst thing about the masses? Every one of them can afford a car, and every one of them is IN YOUR WAY. But we here at Jean Splyce Motors have the answer, for the discerning, for the elite, for the truly special: the Dimetrorachnizoid, or, as we like to call it… The Executive.

Tight shot of a handsome, tuxedoed man carefully putting on dark glasses as a Svelte Svedish Sveetie settles down next to him on fine leather seats. As the camera pulls back, a blindingly shiny clamshell cockpit closes over them. Cut to a scene of confusion and chaos as ordinary vehicles are literally catapulted end over end in a rolling wave of flames and smoke, and from behind them, out of the mayhem, stalks the glittering Executive, weapons blazing.

You no longer have to settle for a common conveyance. In fact, you no longer even have to sit in traffic with them. With the Executive, you do indeed own the road.

The comfort and stability of the mid-size Gator-Dimetrodon with the maneuverability and toughness of the Tarantulon. Only the Executive gives you the next generation in SUVs: Spider-based Unlikely Vehicles. The latest weapons technology, and the kind of styling folk won’t soon forget. The glistening chrome finish will pop their eyes, right before one of the eight pointy legs crushes their skull. And you?

Why, you’ll make the opera on time.

Medium shot in front of a concert hall. As traffic burns in the background against the neon lights of downtown, Our Hero tosses the keys to a startled valet who stares upward, stunned, as the Svelte Svedish Sveetie descends from the cockpit to the ground. Cue Wagner’s “Valkyries” and fade to black…

Redler

RCM — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:50:13 +0000

This Redler is another custom order. The orange eyes are from a Zoids2 Red Wingâ€¦ just because.

Berserk Führer (Zoidsfans custom edition)

RCM — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:18:38 +0000

Back when Zoidfans was THE place to shoot the breeze, a bunch of us got together and made a custom order to Leoshop. There was a run of the black chrome shown here, and also a blue chrome one, which I passed on. Black chrome is hard to photograph, so it’s taken a while to get good pics (4 years!?). The last three were done in my apartment with a long exposure, to show the weird purpleness that “black” chrome really is.

Chrome Deathpion

RCM — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:17:55 +0000

These are two chromed OJR Deathpion auctions seen on YJ.

1-3: According to the (rough) translation, the seller doesn’t know who chromed it, or when.
4-6: Another one, Sept 2009!

Command Wolf

RCM — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:04:08 +0000

This one originally came with gold underbits, but I did not want that, so I grabbed a Command Woof AC for the black parts. Much nicer.

Command Wolf HT swaps

RCM — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:59:31 +0000

1-5: I didn’t like the red bits on the Command Wolf HT, so I swapped them with parts from an NJR woof.
6-10: Lately I’ve been interested in the idea of clear bits over shiny bits (like the G1 dinobots). Then I remembered I had some leftover gold bits from my leoshop Woof. I know that your eyes are hurting right now.

Tarantulon

RCM — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:01:08 +0000

My Tarantulon was missing the fangly guns, so I used the leftover Shield Liger guns from Blade Liger BI. Phenotype sent me an extra set along with an auction I won, so I didn’t have to worry about hacking up my set. Hoo-ah! I think I like these guns better, but I’d still like to get some originals (for completeness’ sake).

Stego

RCM — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:00:09 +0000

The english version of the box (mine has every language BUT) for this one calls him a “cool customer”. I normally don’t “do” Zoids2 stickers, but the ones on the plates actually looked pretty good.

Slither

RCM — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:58:32 +0000

If you don’t count the OER, since it’s identical to the OJR, ~~and if you don’t count that hyper-limited “Dark Molga” from Wonderfest 2008,~~ I now have EVERY DAMN MOLGA VARIANT! Some Slithers came with a clear smoke colored cockpit. Mine did not :(

Red Wing

RCM — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:54:14 +0000

I’m not sure why they didn’t make the body armor chrome too, but oh well. I love the orange wings on this one. Though the box shows black under-parts, and my model has them, the standard issue was grey. I gave away my gray parts, thinking I had spares, so for these pics I raided the under-bits off an NJR Redler. (Some Redwings did have black parts, but those were factory escapees and never officially released.)