Eight Legs Very Good

Despite doing my best to downsize the collection, theres often something pops up that I just can't leave. A case in point were these two Multimac Ocean Discovery vehicles.

Called Octopathfinders, they owe more to crustacea than molluscs in their design, having jointed limbs rather than tentacles, but their are 8 of them, hence the 'octo' prefix. Being Multimac, all the elements are interchangeable and can be swapped between toys too, so spare elements from these two and the bag of loose parts that came with them, can fit onnthe larger toys in the range - such as the Crab Navigator and Lobster.

The figures, like most Multimac stuff, are the slightly larger poseable ones about 2" tall and lifted almost exactly from Bluebirds MANTA force range. Earlier Multimac were a scale down and borrowed Tomy Zoid pilots.

The basic saucer shape is quite pleasing and reminiscent of the heavy industrial look that Ron Cobb intended for the first Alien film. The jointed, articulated legs would not look out of place with Lego Bionicle sets.

The Ocean Discovery line makes an interesting change from space industrial styling and reaches even further into Zoids territory with the zoomorphic mech design.