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I was surprised that every figure has a new head sculpt. (Forgive the two posts in a row. The last post was just over the 20-picture limit, so I had to do a second post.) More photos behind the spoiler:

Dinoking. The simple addition of wrist swivels improve this mold so much. The feet are also a huge plus. More photos behind the spoiler:

40th Anniversary photoshoot: Energon More photos behind the spoiler:

40th Anniversary photoshoot: Universe/Time Hopping, and Post-Beast Era Beasts Unverse (2003), Transtech, Robotmasters, Cloud, TransTech, Beast Wars Uprising, The Wreckers (BotCon story). This toy bin was partially sorted by storyline, so there's some various Beast Machines/RID figures from the...

40th Anniversary photoshoot: Armada Featuring some later Mini-Cons from Universe (2008). More photos behind the spoiler:

So I missed that the new figure is actually Orion Pax (as explicitly stated by Hasbro), not Stormbringer Optimus. Which makes total sense in the context of the 2-pack. It's an extremely nitpicky distinction. I guess I never noticed that IDW Orion didn't get much of a body upgrade when he became...

40th Anniversary photoshoot: Robots in Disguise (2001) This was a very exciting toyline at the time, with its new combiners, repaints of older toys I didn't own, sub-factions, and all the different sizes. I never got around to buying a Sky-Byte (I had originally bought BW TM Cybershark as a...

40th Anniversary: The Beast Era. This is when I became a collector. My first BW figure was Inferno. I bought a lot of show characters (or repaints thereof) in the following years. Sometime around 2000, I found a kiosk in the mall selling some year-one Takara BW. I picked up Cheetor and Tigatron...

I wonder if TakaraTomy would do a premium repaint of Optimus like they did with the Kingdom beast toys. I know they just did Missing Link, but still. They could include the existing trailer and Roller. I have Missing Link and I'd still buy it!

Taking photos of all my Transformers for the 40th Anniversary: Part 2. Generation 2 and Machine Wars. I broke one figure this round. I bought the carded GoBots Megatron about 10 years ago with the intent to open it, but I never did. Now I'm wondering if I should just sell it and buy a loose one.

My husband grew up with Go-Bots instead of Transformers. I was excited about the e-Hobby toys and the FunPub stories, but my husband didn't really care. Can you imagine the reverse? Bandai owns Transformers and releases a new Bumblebee toy, but he's white and his face is a windshield? I like...

I tell you what I’m not going to do. I’m not going to “educate myself” on why it’s supposedly wrong for some some poor factory workers halfway around the world to take something insignificant from a bajillion dollar company. What an absolutely bizarre hill to die on. If this was an issue you...

So, you’re telling us that we can’t actually do anything to stop the world’s ills (a statement I wholeheartedly disagree with), and instead ask us to care about this one “wrong,” then refuse to explain why it’s wrong, choosing to refer us to your podcast. In the scope of the world and this...

Haha! Well, the hands of me and my three older brothers. Mine were Skywarp, Goldbug, Fizzle, and the Emergency Micromasters. My brothers had Soundwave, Jazz, Sideswipe, the Constructicons, Ironhide, Inferno, and Grapple. Everything else is reissue or second hand.

For the 40th anniversary, I'm taking photos of all my transformers. Here's G1. It's a small handful from childhood, a lot of second hand from collector stores or flea markers, with a few reissues as well. I only broke two of them for this photoshoot. :LOL: More photos behind the spoiler:

What's up with the comic panel choices on the back of the box?

It's up to personal taste, of course, but sometimes I prefer the uncompromised aesthetics and play features of the original versus the better articulation of the Generations update. Articulation is very fun, but so often these days I feel that updates of Beast Wars (TM) and beyond are lacking a...

After 40 years of playing with G1 Bumblebee/Cliffjumper, those wrist wheels look wrong. :ROFLMAO:

I was disappointed that they cut the spring loaded Roller release gimmick, but then I looked at the instructions and discovered that that whole chunk is removable and has wheels and I’m in love with it.