And Blaster didn't even have cassette minions originally. His toy's cassette door was even sealed shut during its original 1985 release before the gimmick was restored for his second release in 1986.
This is absolutely not true about the US release. I had the original 85 Blaster right when it came out. Door spring loaded popped open when you pushed his buttons fine right from the start. It's called out in his instructions that he holds the cassettes even before there were Autobot ones.
-ZacWilliam, never ever heard anyone even claim this before.
Edit: A glance at TF wiki confirms that Blaster had working springloaded buttons and opening chest right from the start, though there was an assembly error that happened sometimes that caused some of them to jam up and not work internally but that was a defect and not intentional.
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