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Wait a minute. WAIT A MINUTE. ... Okay, it's April 2nd. Wait's over!

This is the Optimus Prime I had as a child. Is what an all new generation will be saying.

In the spirit of the holiday... DO IT YOU COWARDS

This is welcome, but I'll probably wait for a Commander Class or something. Which will proooobably be a while because this is a thing now, and we have at least one combiner torso in the offing.

I'm happy with the blue Swoop as my only exposure to him is really the cartoon. Oddly, that doesn't apply as strongly to Slag/Slug, for whom I'm fine with a black robot mode head (although red isn't a dealbreaker). I guess blue just offers nice contrast with the silver and gold, and the red crest.

I'm more than fine with this Swoop. I've wanted a black robot mode head for Slug, and the nonnef kit seems like the best way to get that, but it's an expense I don't need right now and I'm not terribly pining for it. Be nice if a kit came with just swords for all of them. Maybe now that they've...

I'd even take a BM Tankorr style lever gimmick for it.

Just Wasp, maybe Armada Wheeljack (if in show colors), maybe G2 Grimlock (blue?), Sureshot, and Overcharge. Curious about 86 Galvatron and Megatron. Will wait to see more of the Primes to decide whether or not to get into all that. IDK how I feel about having actual toys of them outside of...

That was me, and that did cross my mind for the briefest of seconds, but 2012 is my jam, so I decided to Fellow Kids a different batch of kids. :D

It's pretty wild they went with Mindwipe. Most customs I've seen do a great job using Blot; seems like it wouldn't have been too difficult to replace the combiner peg with a compartment and Titan Master neck socket.

Definitely getting this, but I'm sad there's no Metalhead faceplate.

2013 did have Megaplex, so I can throw them that bone. But lol, what a box set. I don't even know what molds would go to these, but these seem like a match for the 2013 lineups. Box set: Megatron, Waspinator, Dinobot, G1 Razorclaw, G1 Divebomb Attendee exclusives: Tigatron/Buzz Saw...

We should talk, lol. Squeezeplay and Tarantulas are really the only things I want from this set. But that Prime Cliffjumper is TEMPTING. The Chase mold is solid and this color scheme looks great on it. Not sure I need it AS Cliffjumper though; I wonder if anyone will bother making a 3P Chase...

The Ignore function truly works wonders.

People aren't particularly strident in treasuring MW Hoist, but that's as much because people aren't particularly strident in treasuring MW in general. I think it's less about people having a particular attachment to Hubcap or Hoist and more that, again, it's yet another notch in the "we're...

It's pretty stunning that they did THREE reasonably distinct roof-chest/hood-leg bots competently (Wheeljack, Sunstreaker, Runamuck) and then decided to go in this... direction with Tracks. So much of the design didn't need to be as complicated as they made it.

While that's true, it's seemingly the only one on the horizon, and exists to catch a batch of stuff that may have been too late to cancel outright. Idk. I mean, I'd LOVE to see it continue, but we're a pretty long way from the somewhat steady stream of releases from the first 2-3 years or so...

I think that's a perfect summation actually. All the problems come in when it's time to actually handle the thing. Pictures can expose (or downplay) the awkward hollowness of the torso, but the real iffy experience is in transforming the thing back and forth and then trying to pose it.

Part of why it would've been a decent move to just line him up in the "minimal redeco and just replace clear with opaque" subline. Just run the mold again with some color/paint changes rather than spend anything on a new mold. Between the opportunity to tweak the leg panels (or just get luckier...

I'm not against these toys existing, and the characters were absolutely well-used in the narrative (which I've been consistently saying I also liked). But the tradeoff inevitably is that about half the set is now no longer on theme (not counting how these characters are retroactively placed in...