It appears 2024 would be the 12 months that each ’90s toy line that hoped to capitalize on the Ninja Turtle craze comes again. Road Sharks! Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa! And naturally, Biker Mice From Mars. (Poisonous Crusaders? By no means solely went away, due to being primarily based on Troma movies’ mascot.)
With a relaunched comedian and an upcoming animated sequence produced by the likes of Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds, the Biker Mice look prone to get the next profile than they ever had earlier than. Will in addition they be the large breakout toy hit that Nacelle‘s been in search of? Let’s have a look.
Squeaky Clear
The design of the Biker Mice is an odd aesthetic, with kiddie-cartoon fashion heads that might match with the likes of Mighty Mouse and Hazard Mouse, however biker our bodies extra acceptable to a line like C.O.P.S. and Crooks. It’s somewhat incongruent, and one thing that takes getting used to.
Nacelle’s seeking to create a shared universe with all their revived toy traces, nevertheless it’s not clear they’re essentially fascinated by scaling all of the several types of figures collectively. If a Sectaur is supposed to signify a human peak, these Mice are taller; if the Mice are, then Sectaurs are brief. We’ll see within the ultimate cartoon, however evidently every particular person toy line is much less involved with matching the others than in being internally constant.
It’s notable that the three hero mice who comprise wave one are themselves completely different sizes, making it clear there’s no easy mildew reuse occurring right here. Vinnie is the smallest one, Throttle the chief is medium, and cyborg Modo is the large man. Modo can also be the one one of many three who doesn’t reproduce his classic motion function, nevertheless it’s frankly cool that any of them do.
It’s all within the weapons: Throttle has a working disc launcher with tarnished discs that appear like hubcaps. Vinnie has a lever-operated clamp. Modo used to have a spring-loaded gun, however right here it’s only a stable piece. Spring-powered projectiles most likely topic figures to extra security testing, however Nacelle absolutely might have discovered a technique to do a finger-flick or stress level missile as a substitute.
Plastic and Bludd
Just like the classic G.I. Joe Main Bludd, his gimmick, as such, is much less articulation in his robotic arm — a single hinge as a substitute of a double. At the least he’s the most important, so that you get extra bulk for the buck. All three include extra further bits than they did again within the day, and as such are packed in containers reasonably than blister playing cards.
The unique figures got here with detachable helmets that reasonably notoriously broke off the Mice’s antennae after some time. Nacelle has merely made swappable helmeted heads, with Vinnie’s visor a singular cool blue. Every Mouse additionally contains critical and happier heads, in addition to a number of swap-out palms, which, truthfully, they actually don’t want. Vinnie will get his crowbar bonus weapon, and all three include blasters and their favourite sizzling canine, as a result of with the Turtles loving pizza, and Popeye’s pal Wimpy paying Tuesday for hamburgers in the present day, someone needed to declare the opposite angle of the quick meals pyramid actual fast.
Throttle’s sun shades are detachable on all however the helmeted head. Like his teammates, he has purple eyes beneath. [Note: bikes are not available yet for these figures, but they are coming. The bike used in these shots is a LEGO Technic Batcycle from The Batman, scaled slightly larger.]
Self-Figuring out
Throttle additionally has an arm tattoo described as a “Biker Mice From Mars” tattoo, which appears bizarre, like if I have been to get a “Author Human From Earth” emblem. To every their very own.
The heads and ball-jointed tails pop off simply — these figures ought to play effectively with children, as long as they’re forewarned they’ll be popping them again on loads. With ball joints on the shoulders and hips, and double-jointed knees and elbows (besides Modo’s robotic arm), they maintain lots of poses, and really feel extraordinarily playable. If the aesthetic works for you, they’re virtually all the things they must be (Modo’s gun ought to shoot, dagnabbit)
Base value for these figures is $35.99, which is excessive by regular 7-inch determine requirements, however not out of bounds for restricted figures with particular person sculpts. (My guess is the additional palms are there so as to add perceived worth, since they’d be advantageous with simply the accessory-holding pair.) In comparison with mass retail, they’re excessive; in comparison with comparable male order 7-inch figures, not a lot. The Nacelle Sectaurs value extra, at $39.99, and include much less stuff.
See How They Run
It’s arguably powerful to guage Biker Mice with out their bikes, which look to be much more deluxe than within the unique line. However that’s what we should achieve this far, and to that finish, it’s good to see gimmicks returning in nostalgia/collector figures, even so simple as “push lever, clamp goes shut.” By the ’90s, too many toy corporations bought lazy and simply put a spring-loaded weapon with all the things — that, reasonably than the idea of play options, grew to become the issue.
I admit to a sure private bias towards the aesthetic of the Biker Mice, in that I don’t take care of the artwork fashion, nevertheless it’s inconceivable to carry that towards the toys, that are enjoyable to fiddle round with and pose. When you’ll be able to have figures tackle wrestling toys maintain for maintain, the articulation is nice. I won’t have purchased these for myself — Nacelle despatched them for evaluate — however I’d positively think about shopping for them as items. And in contrast to the Sectaurs, they’re indisputably an enchancment over their predecessors.
Besides Modo’s dang gun!
Try extra pictures under to see all of the poses they’ll do.
