Sure, Fortnite is fun, but what if it cost you 25¢ every time you got eliminated?
In their quest to hit every possible pricepoint with their Victory Royale Collection, Hasbro offered sets from big to small - which, weirdly, meant both ends of the bell curve were a type of vehicle. One of the lower-priced releases were the "Arcade Collection," in-scale arcade cabinets with a few loose accessories inside.
The machine is nealy 6½" tall, and is molded from ABS plastic - this isn't just a fancy cardboard package like the skate ramps were. It's got details you'd expect an arcade machine to have, like twin joysticks and four buttons for each (suggesting this is a two-player game), locked panels on the front, and vents for airflow on the back. When you open it up, you'll even see there are circuit board patterns molded on the inside. Sure, they're in very improbable places, but they're there!
According to the label at the top of the machine,
this is a "Dance Royale" cabinet. Surprisingly, Dance Royale was a real thing that appeared inside the actual game: at one point an arcade location was added to the map, and all the machines were Dance Royale. It wasn't playable, just some set dressing, but it did pre-date the creation of these toys.
There are four different releases, each with unique colors, characters dancing on the screen, and accessories inside:
| Color: |
Blue |
| Skin: |
Mancake |
| Emote: |
Freestylin' |
| Gear: |
Chiller Grenade
Suppressed Pistol
Grenade Launcher |
| Color: |
Purple |
| Skin: |
Fishstick |
| Emote: |
Dance Moves |
| Gear: |
Scoped Assault Rifle
Slurp Juice
Tactical Submachine Gun |
The purple coloration matches the in-game model best, though for real accuracy the screen should have Rex doing the Best Mates.
The accessories are all stored inside the cabinet.
The entire back panel comes off, giving you access to them, and revealing six pairs of hooks so you can display weapons. The panel is actually reversible, if you want to have them on display all the time.
These Arcade Collection releases never made it to real stores, but they did show up at discount retailer Ollie's in massive numbers, so they should be nice and cheap if you want one. Or multiples. Not only do you get some decent 6"-scale weapons that you could really hand out to any characters you like, but the machines themselves are nice diorama fodder, especially since all the details on the body are just stickers, not painted on: they'll be really easy to customize into new games!
It's just a shame all four arcade cabinets are the same game to begin with - even if Hasbro didn't want to make up something new, they could have done Fort Fight 3 from the "Imposters" mode, which featured Ravage and Renegade Raider in a 2D fighting game.
-- 02/28/25
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