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I kind of prefer the small scale figures due to the cost of the larger scale ones and the space to display them.
Here is the Transformers Animated subset of my Transformers collection in their robot modes as of March 2009.
Nombre: Grapple
Afiliación: Autobot
LÃnea: Generation 1 (Reissue)
Año: 1982
Número de adquisición: 21
Primer Reissue (reedición) de un transformer G1 que consigo. No tienen la misma calidad de los originales, pero si se quiere conseguir personajes de la G1 en excelente estado y no se tiene mucho dinero, las reediciones son una excelente opción.
"Bay is on for the third one? Count me out ladies!"
A repainted Breakaway. I was too scared to dismantle him so the paint job's a bit rough but it's only for me :)
I've been inspired by some amazing custom Trannies recently by the likes of Flickr members Frog DNA, Frenzy Rumble, Shadowformers2 and other very talented dudes.
transformer is invading my home!!
i was having mcdonald and my fires tranformed in a robot!!
made in 1987! haha
Transformers rear package and insert.
Original Image by Hasbro, 1984.
Some time around 1982 or ‘83, I picked up a die cast toy of a red Lamborghini. The blue and white package read,
"Diakron DK-1. Robot/Car of the Future. Changes from Racecar to Robot and Back!"
There was some other exotic writing on the package but at nine years old I couldn't read it. I still can't. The car came with a little robot that had magnetic feet but that wasn't why I wanted the toy car.
Before Hasbro dubbed them "Transformers", Diaclone/Diakron was a disjunctive but innovative novelty toy line from Japan. From my experience I can tell you that they gained popularity as so many other short-lived toy crazes would. The imports sprung up overnight in lunchrooms and school yards across the country. Earthly vehicles that could turn into robots!
As one of Hasbro’s developers ( It might have been Joe Bacall from Griffin/Bacall ) would observe, Transformers were something that the kids could do that their parents could not. It was special. Unlike any other activity, Transformers were unique to our generation. It was ours and ours alone. Our parents didn't show us how to do it. We showed them. However, if not for the intervention of Hasbro and Marvel, I don’t know that the niche toy line would have survived into the nineties.
Full disclosure, I love the Transformers cartoon, the comics, the characters. I love their struggles and their conflicts. I love the Autobots and the Deceptions for all of their unique personalities. Conversely, when I was young the toy line was not on the top of my list. That honor would initially go to Star Wars, then pass to GI Joe a few years later. Like Masters of the Universe the Transformers toys did not inspire me to the extent that their illustrated forms did. The articulation of the toys was severely limited and so was their play value. By the time I out grew the brand, I only had about a dozen Transformers. In 1986 I stormed out of the theater. To this day I despise that animated movie and any characters introduced in it. That day I walked away from the Transformers. Decades later later that would change.
As I recline on the couch the witching hour approaches. Under the surreal glow of the Christmas Tree a surge of nostalgia rushes through me. I can see all of the old Transformers toys that were waiting for me year after year in the predawn hours of Christmas morning. Dickens was right about many things. I suppose we all have our Christmas ghosts, don't we? Some are benevolent and kind, others are simply haunting. I shy away from neither.
You can’t go back. Even if the opportunity was somehow presented to me I don’t know that I would. Experiencing the later half of the nineteen seventies, the eighties, and then as a teenager in the nineties there were just too many growing pains. Growing up in South Brooklyn I did not have a John Hughes-esque sheltered suburban childhood. Like my surviving vintage toys, my soul has a lot of wear. That being said, just owning these toys and having a second chance at collecting them makes some of the hurt go away. For a brief moment I can forget about my adult troubles and regress back to a more innocent time for both the country and my life. I can once again feel the childish excitement and the anticipation of getting that long awaited character. I could once again imagine the adventures that we would have. The escapism is as welcomed now as it was then.
To the engineering visionaries at Takara, to everyone at Hasbro who worked on the line both past and present, to the world class story tellers at Marvel ; Jim Shooter and Budiansky, and to all of the extinct toy retailers - Slainte!
From a devoted fan since 1984.
"ROLL OUT!"
Tom Mac,
12.14.2018 2.33 A.M. EST
Transformers Animated Wasp in his robot mode.
This is the version of Wasp after he is accused of being a traitor, but before he turns into Waspinator.
He's a custom made from the deluxe-class Bumblebee toy, and he's got a custom sculpted head along with his unique paint job.
This one (the one I kept) has a bit more elongated face that I prefer.
Details about the project can be found on my blog: www.floatingcat.com/2014/06/09/transformers-animated-wasp/
We have been very spoiled this last year with all the female Transformers we've been getting. In the last year alone we got Arcee, Chromia and Windblade and now the new Robots in Disguise series has given us a new female protagonist, Strongarm.
She's a "tough chick" character and while I haven't seen much of the show to get a good idea of her character, this more bulky look fits the law enforcement look she's got going on very well. It's nice to have a female robot that is built more like a male bot what with the entire rear-quarter of her vehicle for making up her lower legs as well as bulky shoulders and her vehicle mode is basically a police truck! It's just a nice change from motorcycles and sleek cars to keep that "petite" female form. She's all blocky and squared off and I just really like it!
Only real downsides are that they didn't go too nuts on paint, which really makes this figure look more bland than it is. Additionally the figure sports folded front grill parts wrapped around her forearms much like Armada Hotshot, which is a shame because she's a nice figure for the most part. I'm also not a huge fan of the GIANT WHITE CIRCLE on her chest just to work in some lame smart phone game app...you know, for kids? I guess?
In all, I really like this. I'll be looking forward to seeing what Takara does with her paint job for their release.
After the movie was filmed, the Transformers had to get day jobs as golf course beer dispensing port-a-potties. There's no more running to the toilet between golf shots, these transpotties run to you and even refill your beer mug.
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