Cy-Chop has basic MOTU Classics articulation. The head is a ball joint. His shoulders and hips are swivel/hinges. His biceps, wrists, and waist are swivels and he has hinge joints on his elbows, knees, and ankles. Cy-Chop’s scissors are also articulated with a hinge joint on each blade, so you can definitely get some very wide and menacing poses from them.
Cy-Chop doesn’t come with any accessories, just his giant scissors and Horde belt. Luckily the scissors can be removed and swapped out with any of the accessories from Trap Jaw, Roboto, and the figures with changeable hands. Unfortunately he doesn’t come with any of those alternate pieces in his silver and orange color schemes. So hopefully we’ll see them in a weapons pak eventually. I’d also like to see some normal Horde Prime hands for him also, because sometimes he just wants to relax by the fire and read a good book without slashing it to pieces.
All around I think Cy-Chop is a great addition to the Masters’ Universe. I can definitely see his giant scissors as an action feature if he were an original 80’s figure, and the interesting combination of beast and machine gives him a very unique look on the shelf. I like getting updated figures of my favorite characters, but I really love the introduction of new and prototype designs. The ideas are new and interesting, and the 4H do a fantastic job of making them part of the line. Hopefully, this is an aspect of MOTU Classics that won’t disappear.
-Vault
Let me see if I can sum this figure up: FH made a figure designed with Edward Scissors arms,Strongarm face & Beast from X-Men legs with a see thru chest that still has his organs–WTF man they could have done better. The last 2 figures they design in the 30th Ann. series are a joke but since there part of my favorite toy collection I was force to buy 2 of each. Good review as always.
terry said multiple times that this figure is an homage to the 1970’s japanese toys he collects: Microman (Micronauts) and Henshin Cyborg. The color scheme, clear chest, and visible organs, are clearly a reference to the Walder villians in the Henshin Cyborg line, and the head is a clear throwback to Acroyear from Micronauts. Its very cool to see a Mattel toy reference a Takara/Hasbro product 😉
I actually really like the homage. I think it adds another unique character to MOTU that’s not just another muscle man.
i bet it’s a nightmare when that guy tries to rub one out.
Ha ha, very sir, very funny:)
Actually, his horribly disfigured penis was replaced with a small set of pruning shears. So not a big deal, really.
that’s a variant i’d suspect to find from bigmantoys.
Just a small set? His (presumably human-sized) hands get replaced by humungous scissors of death but he’s only permitted a teeny tiny cyber-dong?
No wonder he’s pissed off.
LOL
Actually, he has guts, so as Vault says, he must need to eat and excrete . . . so how the Hells does he wipe? I pity the poor Horde Trooper on TPS Report Duty.
I do like the look of him. Just wish his scissors weren’t SO big. Just like Fisto’s big sword. Too much exaggeration, even for MOTU.
This is the worst fig in the 30th line, IMO. The color scheme is pukey looking, the scissors are way too big and he should only have one, and I hate the Micronauts looking head. Since I bought the sub I need to do SOMETHING with this guy though. Been trying to think if there’s an alternate head from a previous fig that would look good on him.
The Euro Horde Prime head?
That’s what I was thinking actually. I’ll also chuck one of those hands and replace it with one of Roboto’s.
you could sell the thing?
personally, i think repainting the head would help, as would putting a complimentary wash over the fur… something either dark blue or black. and of course, a coating of clear orange or gloss wash would make the elbow/forearm armor pop better
I don’t think I trust myself to attempt any painting. 🙂 But the color suggestions seem like they’d help.
Easily among the worst figures of the whole line IMO.
Hurts my eyes to look at him. I hope he gets buried and forgotten.
I wasn’t hugely excited for Cy-chop when he was revealed but now that I have the figure in hand, I’m surprised by how much I like him. I guess he’s just such an outrageous conflagration of parts that he kind of breaks the barrier of goofiness around him. I do wish he had alternate parts besides the scissors though, or that they weren’t so big; I can see why they went with both hands being that way though, as one would make him too similar to Trap-Jaw.
A pre-op Scythor would be neat as well just because the Beast Man parts in such striking colors really looks nice. Maybe that can be the touring exclusive next year?
He should have included Roboto or Horde Prime hands to swap out.
Other than that, I’m not feeling any regret in passing on him.
You know, I wonder how his feet look on Skeletor. I’d like to get as close to a Millennium Skeletor as possible, and I would need non-monster blue feet for that. The only problem would be the molded fur…
demo-man’s in blue would fit better…
I don’t paint or dye my figures so I wouldn’t be able to do that, but you are right. Those would work a lot better.
Cy-chop ended up being much better than I expected minus those GIANT scissor hands. A pack in pair of hands would have really made this guy much better, thankfully I found someone selling cast Horde prime hands so my Cy is rocking those now.
Great review!
He would have been one of my absolute favorites when I was a kid, if he actually existed when I was a kid.
i second that notion…
Yeah, I think he would have made for a really fun 80’s toy.
You made him really fun, Vault! Good job!! LOVE the bread picture.
Thanks, Rich!
Is that red fan(?) from Hurricane Hordak?
so the original look would be Aqua-Beast-Man?
He’s the Horde’s answer to Roboto and Trap-Jaw?
Since he has no heart and has furry limbs, is he the love child of Tin Man and the cowardly Lion? from The Wiz?
even Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles are like, “Daaaaaaaaaaaaaayum, you ugly!”
feel free to cut in at any time, I could go on and on and on….
Yup, that’s a Hurricane Hordak claw thing.
Vault, love that last part, where Hordak has him cutting loaves of bread. Very cute indeed, and strangely appropriate;)
What’s the table from? It appears to have blood splattered on its legs, I’m guessing it came with the DST Frankenstein.
Good eye, Bigbot! Yup, it’s from the DST Frank.
Thanks, King!
EXCEPTIN DRAEGO MAN ALL THE NEW MOTU CHARACTERS ARE TRASH SPECIALLY THIS ONE
I’ll withhold final judgment until he’s in-hand and sporting one of my Rattlors’ Horde arm-bands, but I gotta say, I’m not holding out much hope for liking this guy much, excellent review and funny comics aside.
In the Ultimate Battleground (because there can be only ONE Ultimate Battleground, because “ultimate” means “last”), I see Cy-Chop going after Trap-Jaw for some revenge, and then Trap-Jaw bites his massive scissors off, as Cy-Chop can’t wield them very quickly. Then Trap-Jaw shoots him through the see-through torso with his Lasertron just before Spikor sneaks up behind the staggering cyborg and shatters the guts-quarium with a one-two from his trident ram and thagomizer club. Broken into several pieces tenuously held together by laser-scorched digestive tract, wires, and nerve cords, Cy-Chop expires twitching on the Eternian soil.
And then gets eaten by ants.
The imagination is truly a wondrous thing. };D
Wow, pretty descriptive, and awesome. Love the idea of Trapjaw and Spikor taking down this guy in such a brutal fashion.
Thagomizer FTW!
Eeh thinking over the idea of seeing a pre accident version would be really cool. Just gotta hunt down two trap jaws. Idea to me on the hands/scissors. If had a pair of normal would make itvas they morphed into the scissor look.
Count me as one of the apparent few who think this guy (and *most* of the 30th Anniversary line) is a WIN. I don’t find him any more absurd than the most outrageous vintage characters, and his colour scheme–while not especially Horde-coordinated–is unique among a line that boasts many vivid combinations and patterns. My top reason for loving him is probably one that a lot of folks are seeing as a drawback: the blatant reference to MicroMan/Micronauts/Henshin Cyborg. I didn’t grow up with the vintage Takara toys, but I was blowing tons of dough to acquire their modern counterparts from 2004-2007. It’s neat to have a similar figure in the larger, chunkier MOTUC scale/style, and I don’t find him any more out-of-place than any other characters who aren’t sporting a sword-and-sorcery motif.
Personally I don’t like him, but I agree with you. This guy is no more goofy than a lot of the other characters we grew up with and loved.
Great review and pics as usual, Vault. Cy-Chop looks like he could have easily fit in during the middle and later periods of the vintage line. An excellent love letter on Terry’s part to the toys he grew up with.
He could definitely fit in there with Blast-Attack, Dragstor, Extendar, Rio Blast, and Clamp Champ, etc….
Thanks, Clutch!
I really like Cy-Chop. He’s totally insane. I think the “choppers” are too big though and I only have one on his arm – I have given him one of Horde Prime’s hands.
But Mattel has already made references to Hasbro Lines before… The whole POP Horses thing was riding on the coattails of the Original My Little Pony! The Rock Warriors and Meteorbs were riding the coattails of Transformers! (I know that the orbs were the Japanese tamagoras, but they transform and junk!)
Not a fan of this guy… If he was a Giant sized enemy of the Cosmic enforcres, maybe I’d open up to this guy… (The Cosmic Enforcers would need a Giant Robot to fight him and keep the Japanese influence on him!)
That would be hilarious! Now I need to buy more figures to make the Mighty Morphin Zodac Rangers…
I have to confess… I saw him live and in person last night at a friends and I don’t hate him as much as I thought I would. If the scissorhands were just a smidge smaller and he came with swappable hands, I think this guy would be awesome.
I definitely agree. I liked him way more than I thought I would. The scissors are a bit too big, but at least they’re swappable. Hopefully we’ll get some hands for him in future Weapons Paks.