Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 69 Most Wanted Tigra and Falcon

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 69 Most Wanted Tigra and Falcon

Black Knight and Enchantress  | Tigra and Falcon | Blizzard (Gill) & Mandroid | Blizzard (Shapanka) & Mandroid  | MM S69 Most Wanted Group Shots

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 69 Most Wanted Black Tigra and Falcon

Day two of Series 69 Minimates, and we get to incredibly classic, amazing characters from Marvel, Falcon and Tigra.  Falcon is presented in his perfect vintage red and white, with Redwing, Tigra is decked out in her tiger stripes.  It’s two great tastes that taste great together!

Tigra | Falcon The Rest | Availability Family Photos

Tigra

  • A tiger can’t change it’s stripes, and there is no reason you’d want Tigra to! She’s comic perfect here, stripes up and down her arms, legs, tail, they look great!
  • Someone’s gonna say it, might as well be me, kitty’s got claws here! This hand sculpt is fantastic and I hope they can re-use it a lot! The clawed / sharp fingers look awesome!
  • Her tail is really neat, looks great!
  • Simple face for Tigra, not as much “makeup” as many of the other female characters we looked at in series 64, but looks great regardless, feral, and great!
  • Her hair is outstanding, layered, textured, perfect coloring.
  • Paint beyond stripes is also character per…purrrrrect here.

 

Falcon

  • Falcon has great wings.  Cleverly affixed to the figure too!  Check out the texturing!
  • Redwing is the perfect accessory and he’s given a great amount of sculpt detail for being just an accessory.
  • The classic / vintage Falcon uniform is fantastically captured here, it’s all comic accurate.  
  • Hair sculpt is very well done, character accurate.
  • Look at the yellow on his feet! Attention to detail is hardcore here!  
  • The Minimates artists at Diamond Select Toys went for it with Falcon, and they absolutely nailed it.

 

 

The Rest

Falcon has gotten a lot of Minimate love over the years, but in this Most Wanted Series, we get our first ever Classic Falcon in his 70s deco.  This is also Diamond Select Toys first run on a Minimates Tigra.  Both characters are comic-faithful, both characters look fantastic, and both characters are must have for fans of either.  This is a pack of figures that gets an easy recommendation to pick up from me.  They look great in any collection and will bring up the classic status of your shelves for sure.

Availability

Tigra and Falcon, $12.99 at Amazon, get it done!

Family Photos!

 

 

MUReview.net net received this product for free for review purposes.

Magic Box: Force Friday II – Sphero R2-D2

Magic Box: Force Friday II – Sphero R2-D2

Magic Box: Force Friday II – Sphero R2-D2

MUReview.net and litlgeeks got to shopping on Force Friday II!  We managed to come home with a bunch of really fun things, and one of the most fun of those things, the Sphero R2-D2!  Once upon a time, the litlgeeks did a review of the Sphero BB-8.  They were so young back then!  Let’s check out how they have grown, and how much Sphero has improved on the app controlled droid formula!

Sphero App Controlled R2-D2 Droid

  • The Sphero App Controlled R2-D2 is available from Amazon today for $179.99.
  • This droid works with both iOS and Android phones and tablets.
  • There is an Apple Watch companion app  available too!
  • R2 has a ton of great fun modes!
    • Drive mode – Drive R2 around using a control stick (on screen) feature.
    • Interactive mode – R2 has a whole bunch of fun and interactive sayings and movements (technically part of drive mode).
    • Draw mode – Draw a line on your mobile device and watch R2 follow it.
    • Patrol mode – R2 will roam around, interact with his environment, and if you are lucky enough to have them, other Sphero Star Wars droids! (BB-8 and BB-9E)
    • AR mode – Pilot R2 through the Millenium Falcon on your screen, watch as he spins along with where you look in the ship. (look by moving around your mobile devices!)
    • Movie mode – R2 will watch along with your favorite Star Wars movie and react to key moments in the films.  
  • R2-D2 will get about an hour of fun out of a single charge.
  • R2 has lights and sounds.  His sounds come from an internal speaker (unlike BB-8 or BB-9E)
  • R2 does not (yet) work with the Force Band.
  • R2 currently works with Apples Swift Playgrounds app through an add on.  You can command and code R2 through adventures like escaping the Death Star or finding Obi-Wan Kenobi.
  • It is stated that R2 will work with Sphero’s own developer app, but we were unable to find the function to link him or program him at the time of this post, keep your eyes peeled though!

 

R2 is an amazing little app controlled droid.  The litlgeeks had a blast playing with him and…so did I.  He brings so many key beeps and boops from the Star Wars movies to life in an incredibly authentic way.  You can control his movement, his sounds, even his dome.  Our favorite part, will be what so many others favorite part is.  He mimics what happens in a New Hope when he gets zapped by Jawas!  He falls forward and everything!  R2-D2 is the most expensive Star Wars droid from Sphero at $179.99, but for all that he packs, it’s a value and a bargain.  So much fun and nostalgia here, and because he’s app controlled, the list of things he can do will only grow and grow!

 

 

 

This video and post is for entertainment purposes only. |  This droid is for ages 8 and up.