Recent content by lastmaximal

That's cool, and swings it back to a toy that may interest me. I was worried it'd be another TR Mindwipe situation.

This looks great. How much soft rubbery plastic is there, if at all?

I am! Universe (2003) too. Maybe separately after the UT.

Whoops. Fixed.

Wait, where's Sideways?

(continued) Takara's approach to their packaging for Super Link appeared to be a mirror of their Legends of the Microns packaging -- somewhat literally, down to a reversed application. This time, early releases of Deluxe and up got the windowless box treatment, and redecos and later waves were...

The 2000s, 3: Literally 1984 2004 RID2001 was the turning point, Armada was the landing, and a new direction for Transformers was firmly under way. The next line, Transformers: Energon, was set to build upon what had come before -- but instead of another new direction, it was the next step in...

The behind-the-scenes reality of Machine Wars is another lore dump I'd love to have, haha. Was it a mid-BW test of returning to vehicles? If so, would it have been concurrent, or (as you say, and as makes a lot of sense) would it have been viewed as muddling the new direction? OR was it leftover...

Thank you kindly, Dave. The one time I saw this in person at a specialty store years ago it seemed unwieldily big (as I mention above). Other pictures I've seen online since have made it seem less so... but almost all of them were just single or in-hand pictures that lacked any point of...

I think a lot of stuff had to have been digitizing back then. Photoshop was available on Windows by 93/94, and this or similar tools may have found its way into at least some of the steps. Either way, I think it's a matter of platform or mode. There's still a lot saved by just using existing BW...

This actually happened, wow. I mean sure, why not? At least it made it out. Does anyone have pics of the bigger (Cyberverse uhhh Ultra ish?) Nezha with the spear and ring, compared to comparable (Deluxe, preferable) mainline Transformers?

Yup, that was something brought up as a consolation at the time as well (not that it's anything really close, but this was always going to be the way to adapt when the multilingual writing was on the wall). At least fans could still find out about and ponder the edifying depths of Hot Shot's...

It reuses leftover tooling from the TCC days. It's called Grayskull-Fckr.

I guess it could depend on what you mean by "getting a kit", as I don't think there's any fancy "branded" DNA DK-whatever for it. But just Googling "legacy laser Optimus shoulder upgrade" turns up a few Cults3D pages for them (as well as other shoulder upgrades like lights for the "missile...

Castle Greyskull as a Transformer... who turns out to be a Titan Master for a massive transforming Eternia.