Topic: Gaming Tat (...Return of the Tat!)

@Yousef- I didn't expect them to look so strong, Glaceon I've seen in Build a Bear. It's a Toy Store that builds customized bears/plush, that blue one and a purple one comes with a cape. I recognized them straight away. Some of the others look like their Palworld counterparts like Lucario. That yellow man is holding a spoon? most of them look a lot more buff than I expected. Pangoro especially.

I too have made a team. My knowledge of Pokemon might not be vast but I know which is the best one.

@GirlVersusGame yes I know about “build a bear”, I have it in my town too but I wish it kwt to customize smaller plushies cuz I don’t have much room in my room anymore.

The spoon guy is Kadabra, he’s cool.

Yeah I like mix of cute and buff.

I bought some amiibos

My haul 😁

@Yousef- I have to ask, what game is the girl with the blue-bird from? I recognize Zelda on the far right, also at the back Tekken, and Mario? looking like Zelda, the red pointy one is a Transformer? the man with the grey stitches is Anime? does that girl have a green gag in her mouth? (sorry my mind sees one thing and I can't unsee what I think I see) or is. What does the Transformer turn into? I forgot also the name of that little yellow fox.

@GirlVersusGame the girl with the blue bird is Zelda from skyward sword.
The guy from Tekken is also Kazuya, and yes, that’s a Luigi and nabbit from Mario.

Yes, the transformer is called Elita-1 and yes, he can transform into a jet

The guy with the gray stitches is called Mahito and he’s from jujutsu Kaisen

Nope She doesn’t have a gag in her mouth. She has a scroll. Hahahaha

The yellow foxes Fennekin from Pokémon

@Yousef- I think the Zelda Skyward Sword one is my favorite, I really like the colours, the expression and the sense of movement. I think I saw those models or something really similar in that pop-up store that Nintendo briefly opened in London. You'd have loved it, plush, models and things I have no names for. The one with a scroll in their mouth and that was pretty funny because I didn't expect you to say that. Then I thought it was a sushi roll. I've watched a couple of Transformers movies but found it hard to go further than that, it wasn't a case of so much lore to catch up on. Maybe it's a robot thing, I do think it's a great design for a toy, really clever. I think like a lot of things I didn't know about them until recently and for a lot of people they find that spark of interest a lot earlier, they grow with that franchise and find it easier to appreciate it as adults. Nostalgia is the word I'm looking for, it helps shift a lot of toys unless you always had Elita-1. I had a quick look at a book about them, the toys.

It's called 'The Unofficial Guide to Transformers 1980s to 1990s'. It's one hundred and sixty pages so there's a lot of them, probably older given the years.

These I didn't expect, a Gorilla called Optimus Primal and Dinosaur Transformers.

@GirlVersusGame elita-1 is so awesome, I love her.
I also wanna get Sky-Byte, he’s a shark.

@Yousef- I found a wikipedia and saw Sky-Byte.

• An extensive redeco of the Transmetal 2 Maximal Cybershark, Sky-Byte transforms into a large monstrous bio-mechanical great white shark. His tail has a gear-system that spins the fins like a propeller when a wheel in his side is turned (this system becomes his left arm, forming a spinning claw weapon).

The people who created and designed those characters and toys really knew what they were doing. I watched a couple on Youtube yesterday, to see them transforming. The collector market seems to be huge, I think I saw them on The Toys That Made Us, the Netflix show. It's odd that they never made a PS5 game, you'd think it would do really well. Other than Legos I haven't seen many modern games based on toy lines. Or they do and they don't stand-out on the PSN. Do you like sharks in general or is it more the character themselves?

@GirlVersusGame I like transformers in general, but I also felt Sky-Byte’s main gimmick was quite unique and made him stand out.