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And then Optimus went and stole that from him too! 😜

Studio Series is a Generations line.

It was Brian Goldner who wanted to return the brand to vehicles, and said "We need a collectible Transformers line, and we need to get back to cars. How ever you can do that, do that." This was back in December 2000. Per this TFCon video of Aaron Archer:

He may not have been the final-boss evil entity of the movie, but Shang-Chi's father was the main focal antagonist of the movie, and he was an excellent, well-written character with depth and complexity.

I never did either, but I still knew of The Mandarin from the 90s Iron Man cartoon in which he was the series-long main antagonist. (And green-skinned, for some weird reason.)

Especially since the toy was packaged unmasked, meaning the spoiler was right there on display for all to see in the plastic bubble, before one ever even bought it and opened it up.

Correcting something I said before: I had said that it was Dreamwave who first made it so that Optimus Prime was the one chosen by the Matrix to be its destined bearer. In actuality, it was Robots in Disguise 2001 that did it first. In the original Car Robots version, it was Vector Sigma who...

So, there are still casuals out there that that kind of tactic worked for.

It never worked for me, period. I always had to transform mine manually, making those uncomfortably-loud clicking sounds along the way that always sounded like I was damaging something inside it. If your toy sounds like you're damaging it every time you play with it according to the line's...

If that's the case, they should have resurrected the Energon Cruellock mold again. Even if it's not the traditional Godzilla, at least it's designed to be *A* Godzilla.

It worked for my mother, at least, since she never read any comics, and I refrained from telling her about the Winter Soldier's true identity. She saw the first Cap movie, and then when watching the second, her jaw dropped when Cap first said "Bucky...?" during that final fight.

The original Armada Megatron toy would also never ever shut up, always shouting "Decepticons, attack!" at the slightest touch of the turret. In fact, I can't think of a single Unicron Trilogy toy that had a sound chip in it whose noises weren't super obnoxious and couldn't be silenced when just...

I mean, it happened before. DOTM's pre-release marketing led us to believe Shockwave would be the main antagonist of that movie, as a red herring to hide the fact that Sentinel was the true main antagonist for that one as well.

The upper arms on that figure being static and immovable did always bother me, too, yeah. Especially since the previous Optimus mold had way more upper arm articulation.

I think only the "-Izers" can really do that. ;)

Those static shoulder pylons, however... Well, I'm just glad I got the shoulder upgrade kit from SamMakesToys, and wish I'd gotten a second one from him in anticipation of Legacy Galvatron since he doesn't seem to be selling pre-printed kits anymore and I don't have a 3D printer of my own to...

SG Grimlock would be even closer since he's, y'know, actually colored like Trypticon, whose colors Gigastorm's are based on.

On a related note, Armada's gimmick-heaviness was inspired by the gimmick-heaviness of Kenner's Ghostbusters toyline in the 90s, which is where Aaron Archer came from before he joined Transformers during Beast Wars. Sure, but given how small the prisons in his legs were on the original figure...

Yolopark does really good work, and they're not built from a gazillion tiny little pieces like most traditional model kits are.

For me, the perfect balance of articulation, gimmick, and complexity can be found in the Cybertron Defense Scattorshot toy from the Cybertron line. That figure is incredibly basic in its transformation (about five or six steps, even), yet it has all the necessary articulation one would expect a...