I'm an OG fan. It's hard to overstate how freaking awesome the original toys seemed in 1984. We didn't really have a lot of robot toys back...
Quintessons. I've always liked the idea of huge things having humble / mundane origins. I also like the idea of Unicron being some whacky...
Had anyone added Autobot insignias to their slingshoot, or plan to?
I had Go-Bots bed sheets that glowed in the dark. In the light you saw colorful robots, and with the lights off there were line drawings of the...
When the Matchbox Lion Voltron set came out I swore to my Grandmother that if she bought it for me I would never need another toy ever again. She...
I also followed a video, the included instructions just aren't very clear. The most challenging part for me was the kneecap disconnection thing....
I was 100% sure that Loco's name was "Die-Cast Metal" because it said that on the packaging. My mom tried to convince my otherwise but I wasn't...
Same here! I'm not entirely sure why either... for some reason transforming into an everyday object* was cooler to me as a kid. *It would have...
The Zeta aerialbots are obviously a better comparison, but I happen to have the original G1 toy so I thought it would just be fun. I plan to post...
I had one snap in and one not, and as it sat in alt mode the snapped side loosened. Probably a slight design flaw but I'd like to transform it a...
Glad you appreciated my attempt at humor!
Ordered mine from ShowZ and want to echo Mr H, it shipped very quickly. Here is Slingshoot next to G1 Slingshot. Note that G1 is on the LEFT....
Is there a release order or schedule for the rest of these guys?
My parents gave me the red ryder bb gun treatment for Christmas one year. I wanted Metroplex, which was a pretty big ask. We always have a big...
Thunderwing was a leader in the US comics IIRC, I don't know about any other continuities.
I was 9 and my mom took me and my friend Kenny to see it. We were all pretty shocked by the swearing... "shit" was taken out of the VHS version I...
Early in this thread someone posited that the more interesting question is how TF came back. I was born in 1977 so I'm kind of the perfect age...
For real? Now I'm glad I read this thread!
I picture one of those Hasbro toy executives in 1983 just putting his arms around a pile of toys in Tokyo: "We'll take these"
I just watched the G1 S3 episode about Galvatron's ultimate weapon; it's the one where they steal Metroplex's transforming cog and then the...
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