Transformers Retro series (Walmart TFTM Reissues)
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Yeah. I wasn’t saying they were new. Figured most people here would know they were a re release.
If I had the extra $200 they would make great display pieces in their boxes.
Got Hot Rod from Hasbro Pulse and Starscream from Walmart.com. They are very nice. Wish Starscream didn't have the elongated missiles and launching feature. Hot Rod is a perfect figure.
Why is it impossible for Hasbro to give us disabled launchers with the original missiles? They did it for Platinum Thrust not that long ago, so we know it's not that they lost the molds for the original missiles.
I wonder if it's because even if it doesn't launch, it's still considered a projectile that needs to be more than 3" long (though I guess that doesn't explain the Platinum release)? Honestly, I don't know why they don't just mold a solid launcher without a removable missile that is the right total size.
One could always just clip the ends off the missiles.
One could always just clip the ends off the missiles.
More likely it was "this stuff is already tooled and it's just easier and cheaper to reuse the existing molds than modify them for this sort of release".
That almost explains things. Thrust never got modified Commemorative tooling, so they could both be cases of just reusing the previous tooling.
Except I don't remember Commemorative Starscream coming with a little Megatron accessory. Either it was always part of the Commemorative tooling and they just never used it for some reason, or they went out of their way to get it for these Walmart reissues, but didn't go out of their way to get the original missiles.
Except I don't remember Commemorative Starscream coming with a little Megatron accessory. Either it was always part of the Commemorative tooling and they just never used it for some reason, or they went out of their way to get it for these Walmart reissues, but didn't go out of their way to get the original missiles.
A G1 Thundercracker was my first Transformer, I'd like to see one of those remade.
How does that little Megatron fit in Starscream's hand anyway? The hand looks like a peg-hole but the gun's grip isn't a peg.
How does that little Megatron fit in Starscream's hand anyway? The hand looks like a peg-hole but the gun's grip isn't a peg.
The gun splits into two pieces with the top piece having a peg that goes into Starscream's hand and the bottom piece plugging into a tab on the underside of Starscream's hand.
The Walmart reissue Starscream from a couple of years ago uses the same tooling as the new retro release. Which is a combo of the TF Collection Starscream (Megatron gun) and old Hasbro reissues (long missiles).
I know this. But what I'm wondering is if maybe the Megatron accessory was AVAILABLE but UNUSED (gated off or discarded for unknown reasons) for the TRU reissue. I doubt it, but it would mean that this is just what they had available for the Walmart reissues.
If they really combined toolings just for these Walmart reissues, that means they worked harder to make it worse, when they could have just reissued the TFC set and left out the springs.
If they really combined toolings just for these Walmart reissues, that means they worked harder to make it worse, when they could have just reissued the TFC set and left out the springs.
I can't remember the timing of the TFC release compared to TRU's (TFC probably came after being the second Japanese Starscream reissue?), but the modified hands are tied to the Megatron gun. The TFC one had Megatron molded in blue. This one seems to be the reverse, as the holes in Starscream's hands are dark gray (not sure if these are tied to his trusters). Makes it impossible to peg the Megatron handle to the bottom of Starscream's fist on my copy.
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Got my Hot Rod, so I think I'm good.
Unless they do the same to Rodimus Prime.
Thundercracker, though.
Unless they do the same to Rodimus Prime.
Thundercracker, though.