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Yeah, but... how do you reasonably justify that? With abortion, it's the "it's murder" argument. Again, major disagreement, but I can still see the argument. With contraceptives, what actual harm do they cause that justifies banning them? It's like banning safety belts, or making it illegal not...

I can kinda, sorta understand banning abortion and gay marriage (though I very certainly do not agree with it), but how the friggin' frizzles can you reasonably ban contraceptives? What's next, make smoking tobacco mandatory?

All right, I think I may have been able to pinpoint Hasbro's use of bilingual English/Chinese packaging to the 2011-2014 era. Here is Dark of the Moon Cyberverse Commander Optimus Prime with Chinese text on his packaging: The first ever Chinese New Year redeco, "Year of the Dragon Optimus...

Also, these are discoveries I made years ago in my big 1995 retrospective, but they warrant repeating here: The 1995 Generation 2 Go-Bots ("Gobots" in Europe) and Cyberjets ("Mini-Jets" in Europe) were some of the first assortments to feature two consecutive waves within the same assortment...

I think I finally found confirmation for when exactly Hasbro started using the term "wave" in an official capacity. It was indeed the 2001 Robots in Disguise line. Here is a 2001 Beast Machines Basic assortment shipping case: According to the Hartmans' old website, 80405.0958 is the Basic...

The Onion is on fire today. https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-rules-5-4-to-reopen-japanese-internment-c-1849106894 https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-votes-5-4-to-make-it-illegal-for-women-to-1849106914 https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-rules-5-4-to-baptize-constitution-1849106921...

Also, how is he 18 inches according to Hasbro Pulse UK, or 45.5 centimeters according to Hasbro Pulse Germany? That's about the size of the Combiner Wars figure!

They can sleep very sound at night knowing that decisions like this piss people like you off. That's the problem.

Here is a massive crackpot theory: These are the prototypes for the unreleased Generation 2 versions of what later became Takara Beast Wars Dirge/Machine Wars Thundercracker/Skywarp, Takara Beast Wars Thrust/Machine Wars Megatron/Megaplex, Machine Wars Prowl/Mirage and Machine Wars...

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Update: There appears to be an evolutionary curve. The 1960s Batman show likely inspired the Super Friends scene transition, which was then emulated by other shows such as Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends: The Transformers version was likely inspired by Super Friends, but went back to the...

Compare: And: I can never unsee this again. Even the sound effects are similar!

Early Basic Razorbeast in English/Spanish/Italian packaging without "Biocombat" branding: Running change Basic Razorbeast in English/Spanish/Italian packaging with "Biocombat" branding:

All of them.

This is insanely minor, but I discovered that the official Hasbro imports (via Hasbro Pulse, Entertainment Earth, Diamond etc.) of Takara-"exclusive" figures are separate production runs. They're not just a random batch taken from the Takara stock. They're specifically made-to-order for Hasbro...

Also, just for fun:

Another interesting oddity of the Beast Wars line was early-run European packaging, specifically the English/Spanish/Italian version. Whereas standard English/Spanish/Italian packaging features the double title "Beast Wars/Biocombat" and additional names for each character for the Italian...

Oh. My. God. As TFW2005 member payres, who had already created an overview years ago, points out, the US G2 Color Changers are even more bonkers. Since they're redecoed from the European 1993 Aquaspeeders, this is where we have to start... but we also have to take into account the European...

However, even toys that are officially marketed as the same characters as their American (and G1) counterparts weren't safe from a rewrite of their bios. Here are the "Heroics" (known as the "Autobot Cars" in the US) Jazz, Sideswipe and Inferno: The European "bios" all read like extremely...

The United States Color Changers (aka "Cars", or "Color Changing Cars") were redecos of the Aquaspeeders that had been available in Europe in 1993, complete with some name and faction juggling that also involved the 1993 European Stormtroopers, which were never released in the United States...