pluv wrote:
I have this guy.
http://madelman2050.com/darman_l.jpgThey remind me of a Joe scaled Starcom. I'd probably use him more if the plastic didn't feel so fragile and he had a bicep swivel.
That's one of the two I have, as well. Karsan is the other (the dude with bare arms and an orange vest). They do have a bit of a Starcom resemblance, although I've always looked at them as being similar to a lot of Japanese live-action sci-fi series from the '70s and '80s: the designs and color schemes remind me of some of the Sandy Frank stitched-together-TV-episode "movies" that used to show up on MST3K. I've been looking on and off for the Basertron playset for years. They show up from time to time, always in Europe (obviously) and always with exorbitant shipping prices (again, obviously).
My favorite part of the line is the idea that the magnet gimmick causes the disguised aliens to revert to their true form when they get close to a human figure. So, in other words, the aliens are idiots who panic at the first sign of trouble and blow their cover every time they encounter one of their enemies. I'm sure there's an in-plot explanation for that feature (hopefully along the lines of the glasses in They Live, just because that would be cool), but it's kind of funny to act it out with the figures.