Transformers Retro series (Walmart TFTM Reissues)
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I had a Sixwing bootleg I got in Canada in the mid-2000s when I was a kid.
Didn't come with any of the combiner kibble so I guess calling it 'Sixwing' is wrong since I couldn't actually combine them to make Sixwing but it was still pretty neat. Plastic quality was basically the same as you'd expect from an official figure and they had completely identical decos the original 90s Operation Combination releases of the figures (as opposed to the redecoes in the contemporary Takara reissue at the time).
Also somehow I didn't realize they were Transformers KOs until years later despite the fact that one of them literally had CYBERTRON on a sticker on the side. I just thought they were generic changey robot toys lol.
Wish I could find a photo of the packaging for that KO but all the photos I can find are those Sixwing KOs that come with the kibble to make the combiner but mine didn't have those, it was just the Micromasters.
Didn't come with any of the combiner kibble so I guess calling it 'Sixwing' is wrong since I couldn't actually combine them to make Sixwing but it was still pretty neat. Plastic quality was basically the same as you'd expect from an official figure and they had completely identical decos the original 90s Operation Combination releases of the figures (as opposed to the redecoes in the contemporary Takara reissue at the time).
Also somehow I didn't realize they were Transformers KOs until years later despite the fact that one of them literally had CYBERTRON on a sticker on the side. I just thought they were generic changey robot toys lol.
Wish I could find a photo of the packaging for that KO but all the photos I can find are those Sixwing KOs that come with the kibble to make the combiner but mine didn't have those, it was just the Micromasters.
I got my Bootlegs from Shopko! And liked it.
(Also Big Lots, mayyyybe KB Toys, and once at Walmart)
Sure, they were cheap, but they were fun!
Rumour has it that the head design for Reverse Convoy was based upon a KO Optimus Prime toy...
BTW, if this topic is going to continue, might I suggest continuing it here instead?
Some of us had to wait for KMart Easter baskets to get KOs!
Once, we sent the books...
Remember the glory of Dinocrotch.
Talk about a rigid grill structure.
Pretty good dino mode though. I see the work of a designer who probably dreams of doing better things but he'll probably never get the chance, and we'll never know his name. But I appreciate his work. Guys like him made my childhood more fun.
One thing that's different about Bombshell's gray chest from Magnus's red bumper is that the chest was only gray in robot mode. In bug mode it was toy-accurate purple, meaning that particular part of Bombshell's body changed color during transformation.
In other words, to be truly show-accurate, they really needed to use the old G2 Color Changers gimmick on that particular piece of Bombshell.
Then it wouldn't be a reissue of the G1 mold.
Just include two figures. One can be a clone or something.
Just don't ask which one becomes Scourge.
Just don't ask which one becomes Scourge.
Thundercracker. Bombshell became Cyclonus.
I read it's meant to be accurate to the cartoon model's robot mode (but as the colours changed when he transformed to the insect mode, it's not fully accurate).
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I wish we'd get that magenta Hot Rod in G1 style window packaging, but i suppose that's not likely given Hot Rod in G1 packaging's already been done.
...I guess I could just swap the ones I already have...
...I guess I could just swap the ones I already have...
I guess it IS cartoon accurate, but Bombshell just looks so boring with no purple.