Have you read over my spiel on the Disney Princess Character Car boxset yet? If you haven’t you probably should. I go into a little bit of detail about the current state of the Character Car boxset and I think it’d be pointless to reiterate all of that here. And if you don’t care about any of that then lucky you!
First of all, hearing that Lightyear is totally tanking is depressing. I don’t want to pass judgement until seeing it myself but man, it was a bummer running up on all the Lightyear toys today marked down for clearance. (Not them damn LEGOs though…) However, this is good news if you want the Lightyear Boxset that I’m gettin’ ready to tell you about; instead of the standard $19.99, as of writing this it is down to $9.99! That’s pretty cool.
Interestingly enough, the boxset contains 2 exclusives instead of just 1. The drawback here is that only 3 of the 4 singles are included, so even if you grab the box before hunting for the singles you’ll still need to find the individual XL-01 Buzz Lightyear. The box will contain the other 3 (Space Ranger Alpha Buzz Lightyear (referred to as just “Buzz Lightyear” on the boxset’s packaging), Sox, and Izzy Hawthorne). The frankly awesome exclusives are Zyclops and Zurg.
I really dig how the humanoid robot forms of Zyclops & Zurg translate into their respective vehicles. The visors form the windshields and all the little details and markings you would expect ona robot are well placed. Zyclops’ arms fold up and under the sides, forming what would be the front doors. They end up looking like huge cannons just behind the front wheels.
Zurg is even more menacing. In addition to the red “eyes,” he also sports the grille that doubles as his oversized frown. His general form is a spacey, futuristic tank, complete with 6 whole wheels. I love all the little lines and panels that give it a retro, toyetic, techy look. The standout feature is probably the big triple-barreled cannon mounted at the mid-rear (I think this is analogous to Zurg’s arm cannon). All in all I think it’s a great design and I really love that purple. (I think Hot Wheels calls it “royal violet,” ha!)
Fun Fact: This is actually our second Zurg Character Car – the first one came to us back with the release of Toy Story 3!
I had hoped that with the single and the set and all the other formats in which Lightyear stuff is getting to us in that we might get to see a few continued releases of Hot Wheels stuff but now it seems pretty certain that the nails are already going into Lightear’s coffin. I thought the idea was cool but I certainly don’t put it beyond Disney to screw up a sure thing – look at how they’ve maimed Star Wars. Until next time…
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