Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!
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Those are really well done!
Loving how well T-man fits in with the older BW figures.
Found a random sticker while cleaning. I ought to use it on something...
Man, I miss my RtS Lugnut. 4th party OS release when?
Who knows, maybe never, but given that he won the fan vote resently, I say within the next year or two we'll see a brand new toy of the character, thou that is speculation on my part.
Still holding out hope that they’ll do a Legacy-style vehicon figure.
I didn’t intend for my Predacons to be 90% arthropods, but here we are.
I didn’t intend for my Predacons to be 90% arthropods, but here we are.
The 'Predacon seems to mean bug' debate was going on all the way back in Ben Yee's discussion board days, where we (when Beast Wars was new) kept wondering why we kept getting so many arthropods and so few dinosaurs. I don't know if the actual reason was ever explained. There were rumors back then that in Season 2, Megatron would die and his mind would transfer into Inferno and the faction would be the Insecticons, and all sorts of other stuff.
On the topic of things that probably can't be explained...
On the topic of things that probably can't be explained...
And here I thought that was something they made up for an episode of Earthworm Jim...
Funny, I was just wondering the other day how Dinobot came to be with the Maximals...
...not in the cartoon/story, I mean as a part of the toy line. Dinosaurs were clearly a Predacon thing, so someone at Kenner must have thought to toss a velociraptor into the Maximal side and see how that shook out, right?
And they probably picked the velociraptor because Jurassic Park had made them cool (and having a non-anthropomorphized insect/arachnid as a hero was too hard a sell right off the bat for a kids cartoon).
The first-wave 1996 toys were made before the cartoon, so Dinobot's toy was already a Maximal before the show came up with the defector idea. His original toy bio presents him as simply a heroic Maximal by default:
That's also why several of the pre-Transmetal toys looked so different form the cartoon models. Mainframe took the toy designs and made changes to them, hence why Rhinox in the cartoon doesn't look like a samurai while his toy does, or why Optimus's mouthplate has a slit cut open for a visible mouth in the cartoon while the toy has a complete mouthplate.