Detainer Astro Toilet

Everybody's out here finding awesome stuff at Ross Dress For Less discount stores this season, and I'm finding... this. click to embiggen In the Skibidi Toilet series, there are three factions: the Alliance, the Toilets, and eventually also the Astro-Toilets. The Astros are basically the empire behind the group that's invading Earth, and originally seemed to be on their side, but they turned on the Earthbound faction, forcing the Toilets and the Alliance to team up to fight them. The "toilet" part of the name is really getting pretty abstract at this point. Like, it has a tank, and a seat, but most toilets sold today do not have a massive turbine spinning around their pedestal. Or huge claws. Maybe this is a Japanese toilet? Those things have everything! Including the ability to fly, if the Detainer is any indication. While the normal Skibidi Toilets just seem to slide around somehow, the Astro Toilets can all fly. And move at supersonic speeds, and teleport, and shoot lasers from their eyes. Detainer seems to be an individual, rather than a troop type - he's a Copperhead, not a Desert Scorpion. Presumably the face is one of the standard Half-Life 2 models, just like the plain toilet is, because the toy's is slightly different than the digital version's. The helmet he's wearing has three fins running over the top, an indicator of his rank within the Astro army. There's a weird molding artifact under the chin, however: for some reason, there's a perfectly flat block under there, running all the way back to the throat; it's not obvious from the front, but from an angle it's glaring. There's also a strange something underneath the figure. Another flat block, this one shaped like it's supposed to slot into some other piece and hold tight. Technically that's present on the bottom of the digital model, too, so it must be something, but heaven only knows what. If we're judging by the model, the block under his chin may be a (failed) attempt to do the little piece of armor he has there? But that continues onto the front of his chin, up to his lower lip, but that's not true on the toy. The name "Detainer" may be because the first few times we saw him, he was using those big claws of his to grab someone and hold them still. Since the cartoon is made using Half-Life assets, the claws originate there just as much as the faces do. These, in fact, are part of the Anti-Mass Spectrometer, the thing that caused the resonance cascade, the event that kicked off the enntire Half-Life story! They plug into the toy securely, but can be removed again to simulate battle damage. Each has the same articulation, a hinge near the shoulder, another in the elbow, and then a rotating wrist with four appendages on the end: two small pincers, and two larger emitters. We could really have used some translucent electricity effects to sit in the middle of those, since that's how the arms usually look, but that would be asking a lot for a Bonkers Toys, a company new to figures like this. Then we'd expect them to put the lightning ring around the turbine blades, too. It also would have been nice to get a clear stand to make the toy "hover." (The photos in this review show him resting on a take-out condiment cup. Marinara. From mozarella sticks.) There are other characters we might have chosen to do before the Detainer Astro Toilet - G-Toilet or Isaac Kleiner Toilet, for instance - but this is a unique design and fairly toyetic, so the choice makes sense. Really could have used some more accessories and articulation, though. -- 11/14/26 What have you found at Ross recently? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.