They’re not taking any of your crap. If you see them, urine trouble. They’re flush with power and pissed off. They’re Toiletbots.
We are in peak action figure times when we can get robot toilets. As a fan of robots of all shapes and sizes, I am of a mind that anything can be made about 135 percent cooler if roboticized, and apparently that includes toilets. Never has the bathroom seemed as cool as it does right now.
As soon as these were shown off, I knew I had to have them. While I am obviously a fan of traditional toys, I can’t help but be drawn to those things a little outside of the box. Robot toilets are about as outside the box as it gets, so I preordered without hesitation. It didn’t hurt that they were made by Toy Notch, who are responsible for the Astrobots, another line of robots that remain some of the most fun toys of the past decade.
In hand, they do not disappoint. Despite the somewhat cumbersome nature of a toilet and urinal, these are insanely poseable, and the sculpting if excellent. They have a pristine look to them. I know there might be an urge to dirty them up, make them either look old or gross or whatever, but I like the factory-fresh nature of them, like they both are intent on keeping themselves as clean as possible. Just because they’re toilets doesn’t mean they can’t have pride in their appearance.
The standard toilet, called Porta Botty, features shorter limbs, giving him a squat, powerhouse appearance. There are bicep and thigh swivels in addition to single-jointed elbows and double jointed knees. You can get e tremendous range of motion in the limbs. The hinged ankles allow you to keep his feet flat on the ground regardless of how wide you spread his legs. The feet resemble robot bunny slippers.
The toilet seat is poseable, which makes him look as he’s yelling. Apparently, toilets have battle cries. It adds a nice dynamicism to his posing.
The left arm has a removeable toilet roll dispenser.
The urinal, called the Duchampion 9000 (a Marcel Duchamp reference, look it up) Features the same overall articulation scheme as the toilet, with the addition of a ball-jointed waist which allows for minimal swivel, impeded by a hose that connects his upper and lower half. He has longer limbs as befitting his leaner stature, and they articulate just as well as the Porta Botty’s, with deep bends in the single-jointed elbows and double-jointed knees. I’ve had Spider-Man figures with less mobility than these toilets.
He also has the same removable three-roll toilet roll dispenser.
Both figures have pretty great balance, and the wide range of motion in the ankles allow you to find a nice sweet spot of balance regardless of what position you have them in. The urinal can be slightly top-heavy due to the design, but there’s always a workaround.
Both figures come with a plunger that can also be attached to clamps on their back. They both come with flat, neutral hands and grip hands. You can have either a single unit dual wielding the plungers or give one to each. Of all the accessories they could have come with, a plunger feels like the most appropriate.
Despite the expensive nature of the set, I feel like it was well worth the money. For the novelty alone it would be worth it, but these are both exceptionally made figures with a ton of play value. I didn’t know that my action figure collection needed robot toilets before these existed, but now I’m wondering how I’ve made it this long without them. Have I really been living?
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