Beast Saga: Boosters - Series 1

When people discovered the blind packaged Boosters in TakaraTomy's Beast Saga line would consist of translucent figures, a lot of fans weren't happy.  I think part of the reason is there wasn't any solid information solicited about the Boosters and some people bought a case...only to end up with a lot of duplicates and (in some cases) figures they just didn't care about.

I was on the fence.  If I'm going to drop $6-8 on a single figure I'd rather have a new unique character...at least that's what I thought.  Once I had Moriku in my hands I fell in love with that little bat.  I knew I wanted his Booster figure.  I sought one out for just about the same price I paid for the regular figure.  Then I stumbled across two others from the same seller.

Thankfully I wasn't thrilled by all of the Beast Saga figures.  Some of them I just decided to skip over all together.  Dorufan & Bamed were two of those.  However the same guy that had Moriku had them and I got them for super cheap.

  

In hindsight I'm glad I got 'em.  The Booster versions of each look so much better in my opinion than their regular painted counterparts.  Both animals seem so passive to be in a series called Beast Saga so who knew a armored parakeet would be so cool?! 

I do have one small complaint about Dorufan - his weapons.  His shield is a new piece which is OK, but his sword - the plastic is so soft that it is horribly warped.  I'll have to try some boiling water or the hair dryer trick and see if I can resolve this problem.  Bamed comes with a new shield as well, but re-uses the lance type weapon that Eredoramu came with.

All of these figures look stellar with a proper light source is shown through the figure.  I doubt I'll seek many other Booster figures out because let's face it - both money and display space are at a premium these days!  However if you want to roll the dice (figuratively) and take a chance they aren't that bad looking.

Beast Saga: Moriku BS-10

With this being the 3rd Beast Saga highlighted here I'll fore go some of the commentary and just focus on the sheer awesomeness of the figure itself.

Moriku BS-10 is a close second to my favorite figure.  There was no way he wasn't going to be a part of my collection!

Moriku is part of the Sky Kingdom and comes with a green colored die as opposed to Raioga's red.

Oops!  I installed the dice upside down.

I failed to show that on the back of the figure the character's "logo" printed on top of the plunger.

Moriku comes with the exact same sword and shield that the individually packaged Raioga comes with.  Lame.  Come on Takara Tomy.  As cool as Moriku is surely he deserves his own unique set of weapons!

When I first saw the solicited pictures and saw there was a bat in the first wave I immediately thought of Devil Bat / Blitzkrieg Bat.  While not an exact homage it's still pretty cool to see these guys together.

Speaking of homages I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but since there are ties with Transformers I'm guessing this was planned.

A match made in heaven!  I've got to find a Decepticon symbol sticker to place on Moriku now.