Dave's Animorphs Rant: Taco Bell Marco/Shark Y'know, this is about how it went with Mystic Knights too...the last new toys to be widely released were the McDonalds ones. Rather than my usual Capsule/Rant format, I'm going to start with impressions of all the toys, based on my brief examination of the display case. Then I'll cover Marco in a bit more detail. Most of the toys have human modes that are very nice but basically involve an animal hanging off the human's back. Cassie/Anteater: Not a bad looking beast mode. Human mode looks good as well, although it has this anteater pelt hanging off the back. Beast mode has reasonable proportions. Tobias/Hawk: Does not transform, or even move, apparently. It's a clear plastic hawk with a yellow "spirit body" inside it representing Tobias's true self. Not bad looking, but doesn't do much. Maybe it's the under-3 toy? Rachel/Fly: A bit more problem with human mode visible under the beast shell, and that shell is slightly "cutesy-fied". Jake/Lizard: Pretty good beast mode, complete with prehensile tail. But Jake's feet poke out the back, making it look like the lizard's, ah, excreting a human. Marco/Shark: Very cutesy-fied "superdeformed" hammerhead shark with Marco folded up underneath. Human mode has serious pelvic defect. More on Marco: The shark is light blue color-changing plastic, and turns white under hot water. The eyes are glow in the dark green. The body is 4" (10cm) long and 3" (8cm) from fintip to fintip sideways...yeah, that's pretty squatty. To transform, fold down Marco's legs and pop back the shark head. The human mode is 3.5" (9cm) tall at the head. Shoulders move, plus hips and knees. There is no beast kibble mixed in with the human body, it's all hanging off the back. From the front, if you have no depth perception Marco looks pretty good. However, because of the way his legs fold up in beast mode, his groin is nearly a centimeter forward of his belt. In a bad way. Also, his feet are so close together that it's very hard to keep him standing. The head looks like it might be movable, but it seems to be glued in place. Overall, I think they might have been better off with this sort of transformation, a human folded up and stuck inside a Pretender-like shell, than they were with the method they chose. Because this cruddy little kids meal toy beats the $10 figures on looks, even if it's not very poseable. Dave Van Domelen, will try to find the others, but there's not a lot of Taco Bells on his usual shopping routes...