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Rattrap was no longer available, and they reverse-engineered new toolings for him.

New 3-pack featuring re-releases of Cyberverse Warrior Class Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Cheetor: https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/21/transformers-legacy-masterpiece-movie-mpm-13-blackout-new-cyberverse-deluxe-3-pack-found-at-us-retail-461172

Instead of weird international packaging variants, here's something quick and simple for a change that isn't a mystery to me, and has been reported on several times already, but I'd just like to raise awareness: The final waves of the Beast Hunters assortments saw limited distribution due to...

Team Bullet Train in European packaging. Midnight Express and Rapid Run are English/French/Dutch/German, Railspike is French/Spanish/Italian/German. Update: Basic X-Brawn/Scourge in French/Spanish/Italian/German packaging too.

Official photos for Terrorsaur and Retrax: https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/20/transformers-vintage-beast-wars-retrax-terrorsaur-reissues-official-stock-images-and-product-descriptions-460981

Aaaaaand Rollbar is not alone anymore. Here are Super Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus in the second style of European packaging, featuring texts in French, Spanish, Italian and German: For comparison: The "other" European versions featuring texts in English, French, Dutch and German...

Gnaaaaaah. The European Wave 1 Robots in Disguise Deluxes also came in restickered trilingual American packaging.

Okay, so regarding the French Canadian name for the Predacons, I think I figured out what happened in 1998. For some reason, Hasbro decided to change the name from "Prédacon" (used for all the 1996 and 1997 releases) to "Prédator", but then couldn't decide on the spelling. First it became...

Hey, packaging variant for RID Megatron! Both are American (texts in English, French and Spanish). One version has "6 Modes" in English only, the other has a multilingual "6 Modes/Modos". Version 1 also has the Spanish translation of the franchise summary on the back of the box end in...

Move on everyone, nothing to see here.

Aaand apparently Retrax: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155076386898 And before anyone asks: Yes, that looks like reissue packaging.

Yeah, I just noticed. That's actually French, Spanish, Italian and German.

Aaaaand I just discovered that there are two different European Robots in Disguise packaging variants?!? What the hell... This is the usual, totally unsurprising release of RID Rollbar in European packaging I already posted above: Texts are in English, French, Dutch and German. Just as...

Aaaaaand then there is the ever-changing Canadian French name for the Predacons. Now, European French/Dutch/German packaging always called them "Predators" for whatever reason (whereas Europen English/Spanish/Italian packaging called them "Predacons"). Canadian French, though? Initially, the...

Speaking of: The "Combiners" logo on 2001 RID packaging went through some changes. The first figures to feature the logo were the Team Bullet Train members, which were released as part of wave 2 of the "Mega" assortment. They all featured an English-only "Combiners" logo on their packaging...

This is weird: Apparently, the wave 1 2001 Robots in Disguise Basics released in Europe/the UK were just barely modidied trilingual American cardbacks (with texts in English, French and Spanish), with new European-market age labels, and stickers featuring Hasbro UK contact info on the back. The...

The markings on the Thrilling 30 Mini-Con Assault Team are all Leetspeak, though one of them is more of an oddball than the other two: On Windshear, we find "7H37A", or "Theta". On Runway, we find "VP51LN", or "Upsilon" aka "Ypsilon". And on Heavytread, we find "TVCB1D6", or... "TUCBIDG"...

Can corporate paychecks be used as a coolant?

TFw2005 user payres claims that Scourge, Bludgeon and the Dreadwind/Smokejumper two-pack were available at Toys"R"Us in the United Kingdom. Couldn't find any photos of Dreadwind in European packaging so far, but I did find this old TFormers news post: Update: Also this Toy News International...

Someone get this jackass a time machine and drop him right in the middle of the Spanish Inquisition.