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Por si fuera suficiente con Danbo, con la pandilla de Domokuns, los Legos y algún que otro robot huérfano hoy han invadido la casa una auténtica legión de gamberretes en forma de androides... sospecho que va a ser un verano muy calentito...
These are the only four survivors from the Minibot Action Team, produced by the brand Troll in 1994. I'm desperately seeking the remainder of the team!
Man, this past years Legends figures have been really amazing. I wasn't impressed at first, I mean, that IDW-ish Optimus and that Bumblebee weren't catching my attention and larger bots like Starscream and Megatron and Optimus in that scale....ehhhhh, but then these came along and well, using this scale for toys that were already pretty small just always worked for me. It sure did in that previous, even more simple Legends run but these, slightly bigger and more articulated little guys are great. Sure, they aren't as great as some 3rd Party figures but at this price point, I can't complain.
My first foray into these new pieces was Cosmos. I always loved little Cosmos and his UFO alt-mode so I just HAD to get this version so when I got him he just blew me away. After looking at a few reviews I just HAD to get Shrapnel (or Skrapnel as he's called now) and that was even better. Same scale toy as the G1 figure but way more awesome. After that it was Swerve and Tailgate, and while people don't seem to love Tailgate's toy here, I totally fell in love. It's so CUTE! And aside from some arm articulation issues, I think he's very poseable. Swerve doesn't have the best leg design (I would have liked ball and socket jointed knees for a faux-thigh swivel) but his arms are very articulated and that face...what a handsome smile!
Their partners are a mixed bag though with Reflector and Groundbusterer being some of the weaker robot and weapon modes. Payload and Flanker however look okay in their robot modes while maintaining a very basic transformation, but Flanker and Payload have a slightly more interesting gun mode...well, Flanker does though Payload has a nice gun barrel reveal with the legs sliding up but I can see why they will be dropping the targetmaster partner thing in later releases.
I really am looking forward to the Windcharger and Gears releases as well as the new Powerglide. Apparently Huffer will be repurposing the Optimus Prime figure...which might be more fitting though I would have liked a new try for Huffer from scratch. I expect Pipes, if they decide to try him, to do the same. Hopefully we see a new Brawn/Outback release and maybe a new Beachcomber and Wheelie to help round out the minibots in 2015.
One of my favortie characters as a kid, I'm so glad Hasbro revisited him and made some sort of "ultimate" Powerglide figure.
I totally repainted him to match the animated look and I also panel lined all the details, which looks great on jets of any kind! And if you add the great sculpt, he now looks absolutely accurate.
Not too much going on in the back. The shoulders could've been finished off a little more and I meant to cover the stud on top of his head, whoops.
Nombre: Wheelie
Afiliación: Autobot
Grupo: Minibots
Línea: Generation 1
Año: 1985
Número de adquisición: 13
Aunque no era de mis favoritos, fue de los pocos Transformers que tuve en la niñez. Ganga, $2 en eBay.
Marioanella and her two plumbing-droids gifted to her by Cray the baby hybrid inventor and Tech-wiz were down the ship-sewers hunting a weed-puff a slow witted but devious sentient plant species plaguing most of the galaxy’s sewers…
The Bot’s had names consisting a lot of letters and numbers, but since she came from urban block in the undercity the Old New York sector by Etruskan Ancestors.
And in a poorest area in the sewer her only friend was some Mutant reptile-hybrids fellows named after old etruskan artists that followed some cultist rat/human…
Anyhow, that is why she preferred “real” names, so she had rechristened her bots Devil and Angel after some old Etruskan gods or something…
They followed the weed-puff through a pipe, they never had seen before, it was a bundle to keep up with Crays hilarious speed in adding new parts to the Asteroid/ship rebel base and HQ…
…every system-map of the pipes was already outdated before the ink was dry from printing it…
…also he both excavated parts of the original asteroid and added new rooms, but also bought old Space-wreck hulks at Harry's scrap yard, sometimes he attached a whole ship-hulk to the main system and then forgot it… this in turn made loads of strange episodes where old smuggled goods was found in walls and even corpses… but worst a lot of pest like this weed-puff…
…anyhow this part of the pipe bend lead to such an area, normally they would first map it in a careful modus, but now they were so close to wack this schmuck and make it go Basta forever…
…the pipe suddenly stopped and out they came in a great hall of unknown territory…
- (Marioanella)where did that annoying puffer go? Did we lose him? Hey bots, quick turn on you nightvision…
-(Angel) no need Ma’am! It is over there past the crashed spaceship at the edge to that cliff next to the bridge, shall I make a Spring-jump and wack him!
-(Devil) Spaceship, the might be loot? Forget about the weed-critter, let’s plunder, eh I mean Miss Lopezarello do I get permission to loot?
-(M.) No wait, can any of you run a bio-scan on the ship, there might be a survivor!?
-(A.) Ma’am there is a survivor, and according to his biometrics it is the inglorious disgraced ship-wrecker and notorious speeder known as “the speeding Brat”
-(D.) hey he disappeared ages ago, his father DJT put up a reward on anyone who could find him, we should collect it or even better demand a ransom… we cut of his pinky and send it to his father…
-(A.) Stoppit!!! He is in suspended animation, he had taken a lot of damage since even before the crash, but he must have managed to push the canning button before he passed out, lucky for him, he would be dead by now if didn’t, we should get him to med-bay and repair and revive him, his interior is more like an amoeba than a vertebrae, also he has prematurely aging syndrome, he probably flew too close to a black hole…
-(D.) Booooring! You are such a booring Prat Angelino! You suck cloaca feses…
-(M.) no Devil he is right, lets abort mission and take him to medbay!!! Then Miss or Irena should decide his faith, abort the Weed-puff mission for now!!! We can whack him another day…
Nombre: Wheelie
Afiliación: Autobot
Grupo: Minibots
Línea: Generation 1
Año: 1985
Número de adquisición: 13
Aunque no era de mis favoritos, fue de los pocos Transformers que tuve en la niñez. Ganga, $2 en eBay.
Continuing yesterday's look at that sweet box of loose G2 Transformers we have a look at a (mildly beat-up) Cliffjumper. I know that in Transformers Prime Cliffjumper had his time to shine for 1/2 an episode while being voiced by the Rock. So good for him. -JD
This is the latest Minibot my son Sandro did in MLCad.
Find instructions for this one (and 14 others) on Brickshelf.
Enjoy
Marco and Sandro
Please comment and fav in his photostream.
Be back in 23 min. The story is getting written!
“Down the suers” built on board the asteroid rebel HQ-spacecraft built by the tech-wiz wonder-kid Cray the Space-plumber Morrianella is “maintaining” the pipes with her newly built robot Septic-3 also one of Cray’s creations…
- Mistress plumber!! Why do you seem so sad? Or is that bored I am programmed for over five million human emotions as well as plumbing, I am also here to help and aid you and even if I am only a few days old I am certified and approved to help and handle human emotions!
- ok butt-bot or whatever you name is, I will spill my content of my intestines in to you like a overgrown mutant Tri-phone spills his waste products down the suers of a crap-cruiser on orbit around a brown turd-star!!!
- oh Great Master Mistress!!!
- For a starter, Mr. turd-bot, don’t call me mister, master or mistress just call me Morry like me friends do…
Oh then we have number two: don’t speak so much you mouth-circuit has the same flow and consistency as a zoophone chef when he pukes his seven mouths down a porcelain-throne…
Then turd, eh Meant third: this ain’t no real suer, not even this turtle is real, that is another of Cray’s bots, it behaves nothing like a real suer-turtle… these pipes make no sense either, why would a y-junction be placed next to a 3” copper-pipe, ey tell me smart butt-droid???
…I mean I know Cray did these phone suers just to keep me occupied, he means well and this ships small crew and even smaller suer-system that has been optimized by cray in to a completely smooth 109% recycling system…
…but hey circuit-brain this is all fake, I cannot stand it… give me a giant federation emperor class cruiser to maintain that would be something wort working on, they have suers and piping that is so old and ancient that some of them was probably even in use during roman timed!!! You should see some of the creatures that live in those ancient pipes…
Some as huge as a bus and you can smack them over the nose with the monkey-wrench and not even their pore-mites would notice the force if the blow…
Now give me a dirty old cruiser with a crew that has got the flue and ancient piping, that would be something, this is just fake, fake and fake… failed therapy for a novice!!!
I am a master, a professional, a finely seasoned artisan, I won the crappy-galaxy plumbing competition 10 times in a row… take notes of that in your circuit-notepad!!!
The bot makes a look on his uni-eyed faceless face that looked like he was computing and processing the info and then uttered the following sentence from his voice-vocoder b+ model artificial voice:
- Yes Madam master, I understand I will do my best to work faster…
Later on at the evening Cray wondered how Morry could have broken another suer-bot, the third in a week???
4 critters from my "Mini Mascots" pattern set.
These are part of my ongoing quest to find a good way to use up really, really small balls of stash yarns-- each mascot takes under 8 yards of yarn :)
Here is the completed Minibot team! These are all fully transformable custom LEGO transformers. Videos with more details are on my YouTube channel (LoganFilmStudios).
The Transformers Generations Swerve and Flanker set is a tale of two approaches to neo-G1. Swerve is a fantastic little basic figure and a terrific update of a nondescript minibot. It pays homage to the blocky G1 robot aesthetic (without the Choro-Q vehicle deformation of the original), has a satisfying transformation and is decently articulated.
Flanker, on the other hand, is G1 at its worst: a disappointing cross between a Micromaster and a Targetmaster partner. Hasbro is obviously trying to add value to justify a higher price point but I'd prefer it if the pedestrian accessory was removed and the price point reduced. Swerve on his own would make a brilliant My First Transformer for a kid.