So I got a bunch of toys in a giant lot that I bought from facebook marketplace. I went through and picked out what I wanted and inventoried the rest to sell at TFCon. I saw a white polar bear that I thought was Polar Claw from Beast Wars. I never had that toy, but it always interested me. So I kept it. Fast forward to last night as I'm organizing my toy room and I'm opening all the Beast Wars toys and putting them on the shelves. I open "Polar Claw" and begin trying to figure out his transformation. As I'm unfolding all the obvious hinges, I'm seeing a lot of owl parts... At first I say to myself "Oh, I didn't realize he was a triple changer". Then the lack of robot parts aside from a head really confused me. So off to TFU I went to identify this guy who clearly isn't Polar Claw and I find out I now own Icebird.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Grab a toy thinking it's one character only to find out it's not, they just have a similar mode that threw you off?

 

I thought Animated Blurr was Jazz...for 8 years

 

Not quite the same thing as what you described, but I always have to double check TFP figures at toy shops in order to determine whether or not they are the FE versions vs. the simpler designs that came afterward.

 

I gave up on trying to comprehend this one years ago.

 

I bought a regular voyager Prime at a collectibles shop thinking I had just gotten an AMAZING deal in the FE fig. It wasn’t mislabeled or anything; I just made the mistake myself.

 

I always have to pull out my phone and Google it! I did find FE Cliffjumper and FE Vehicon for $10 each, though (loose, of course). I'm thinking the guy stocking and pricing them must not have known the difference either. Now I just need to get lucky and find that FE Arcee at a reasonable price...

 

I thought bluestreak was smokescreen and smokescreen was bluestreak

 

I could understand that given the colours.

The first time I saw G1 Hubcap, I thought he was Bumblebee. Until I read his name on the packaging.

Before I got him, I thought Runamuck was the black Battlecharger simply because I related muck to dark colour.

When I read Beachcomber's tech specs as a child, it said the other Autobots called him Laidback which I assumed was a nickname because of his transformation. That he'd start off leaning back to fold his thighs into the lower legs.

Child logic.

I still struggle with Mini-con and Micromaster Combiner names. The Duocon type Micromaster Combiners.

 

I've never understood it.

 

He was my first Transformer and I didn't know his name until I got curious and checked TFU 10 years on.

 

What's his name?

 

Excellion. For a while I called him Hot Rod until I decided to see what his name actually was.