Sunday 1 November 2015

ThreeA x Die Antwoord - Popbot: World of Meta Popbot Da Ninja Tomorrow King.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


I'm a ninja, yo, my life is like a video game
I maintain when I'm in the zone
One player, one life on the mic, limited time
Go ninja, go, no f***in' around
I'm cutting down anyone in my path
Trying to f*** up my game
With razor sharp lyrical throwin' stars
 
Jirre my flow's hot
Hostile, wild out of control
Ninja skop befokte rof taal
Rough ryhmes for tough times
 
Met fokkol kos, skraal
Till I hit triple 7 at the ATM
Straight famine or feast
When you living on the razor edge
Stay sharp sharp
- Die Antwoord, Enter The Ninja.

A mis-interpretation:

Category type: Prototype replicant.
Model type: Metaverse Tomorrow King - GEN 1.0
Unit type: Die Antwoord TK.
ID: Da Ninja.
Rank: Shateigashira.
Affiliation: Die Antwoord - rap rave artist (former); The 32nd Battalion, United Kingdom of Afrika - Terra Anti-Mars Coalition Force (former); Neo-Zoroaster Movement / Independent Countries Group (ICG) (current).   
Manufacturer: The Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation.
Incept date: 8th June 1998.
Serial no: TKG01MAC000000MTAVRS.
Longevity: Unknown.
Function: Tactical assault.
Physical: Level A.
Mental: Level C.
Abilities: Panzer Kunst - anti-armour martial art; superhuman physiology.
Std. armaments: "The Answer" - monomolecular edge katana sword x 2; "Zef" - cacophony mic x 1; Ion-cyclotron power glove x 2.

5th November 1998. The Assault of Manchester has taken 1000 days with millions of casualties. The Civil Defence Force and EMGY TRG divisions have been defeated and so is Archduke of Albion City, Samael Bridger, which has turned into a Chaos Spawn and his essence contained in the form of a sock puppet by Lady Sham during the final attack within the Palace of Thorns. The ICG (Independent Countries Group) faction, together with the Neo-Zoroaster Movement have achieved victory much to the dismay of the Terra High Lords of the Seven Nations Council. The battle marks the beginning of revolutionaries fighting for independence throughout Albion which later spreads through Europa and eventually throughout the globe.
Da Ninja stands amongst the smoking ruins of destroyed defence bunkers and nests of pillboxes outside the Palace. He pulls down his combat trousers and shows the world his erected, tattooed genital as a personal symbol of triumph. A "f*** you to the world" sort of thing for him. Noname looks on bemused. He is the second Metaverse TK, a new series of replicants which involves the gene seeding process through implantation into a normal human host which turns them into a superhuman with a TK or TQ extraordinary abilities. As Luthor Beans Jr and the remaining TKs and TQs fight a desperate defence against the Mortis Legion during the Ten Years of Darkness, Lady Sham ensures the legacy of the superhuman replicants are maintained on Terra. She is leading the ICG to fight for independence from the authoritarian aristocratic rules of the Seven Nations as well as the Ecclesiarchy of Mars theocratic totalitarian colonised sectors while the Anti-Mars Coalition continues to battle MARSA or Mars Advocates to regain back lost territories from the Ecclesiarchy during the Great War which has since evolved into global proxy wars involving numerous factions. 
Da Ninja was formerly attached to the notorious 32nd Battalion of the Burgstown Front, United Kingdoms of Afrika. His name based on the Terra Anti-Mars Coalition ID is Tudor W. Jones. He possesses a brutal personality, often considered a borderline sociopath with anti-authoritarian attitude. He is a former rap-rave artist before being drafted. As a grunt, he has been reprimanded several times for disciplinary actions. Nevertheless, Da Ninja possesses his own set of moral codes and honour. He would not hesitate to do what is right, even at the risk of his own life.
After his transformation into a Metaverse TK, Da Ninja is ranked second to Noname, the first Metaverse TK. As one of the champions of Lady Sham, Da Ninja is without doubt deadly in battle. Apart from Panzer Kunst anti-armour martial art to smash and punch apart warbots, he yields his unique master crafted pair of monomolecular katana swords known as "The Answer" with brutal precision. At one point in a combat, he singularly cut down two divisions of warbots and grunts. A unique aspect of Da Ninja is that he also uses an experimental psycho-sonic weapon in the form of a cacophony mic. Known as "Zef", Da Ninja would use it to emits dangerous and savage sonic frequency waves which could be tuned to disorient his targets up to rending them apart physically. It is an unpredictable and unstable weapon however, and anything caught within the sonic wave path frequency would be blasted apart. Da Ninja unpredictable personality and behaviour which are carried over, sometimes causing tensions amongst his own comrades, particularly a unexplainable hatred towards the equally anarchistic TK and TQ, The Search and Destroy series.
 
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Die Antwoord (Afrikaans for "The Answer") is a South African rap-rave group formed in Cape Town in 2008. The group was formed by rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser (often stylized as Vi$$er) and DJ Hi-Tek. Die Antwoord's image is based on a counterculture movement known as zef in South Africa, and incorporated elements of the work of photographer Roger Ballen.
Die Antwoord released their debut album, $O$ (2009), online for free and attracted international attention for their music video for "Enter the Ninja". After briefly signing with Interscope Records, they founded in 2011 their own label Zef Recordz, and released their second and third studio albums, Ten$Ion (2012) and Donker Mag (2014).
This TK is a collaboration between the group and ThreeA based on Watkin Tudor Jones, best known as Ninja of Die Antwoord whom is a South African rapper, record producer, and actor. In 2015, Jones, along with Yolandi Visser, costarred in Neill Blomkamp's science-fiction film Chappie.
While I personally can't appreciate the rap-rave genre, this figure is excellent. Covered with tattoos, it is good because the figure is box fresh sturdy with tight joints, unlike certain earlier figures from ThreeA. Comes with standard two katana swords and a mic, what shocked and surprised me is the inclusion of a attachable genital, yes, genital with tattoos on it. This is not described in the preorder description, which heightened the shock value more. After the SXCLB set which comes with a strap on dildo, and the two sets Isobelle Pascha Lonely In The Night set whatever, ThreeA really raised the bar this time, pun intended. I wonder if the tattoos are really based on the real person. I shouldn't even think about it. Even the box art shown it, which I initially didn't noted. As usual, all background based on infos from Wiki about Die Antwoord, Games Workshop's WH40K universe and Battle Angel Alita. Now I wish ThreeA would release a TQ version of Yolandi Visser.

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