Recent content by ZacWilliam1

There's not a lot for me here. But there's Thunderwing and I'd trade all rest of the years toys for a good new Pretender Thunderwing. ZacWilliam, and from what we can see it looks like a good non-Titan Scorponok too.

So I realized that I could also be looking at vintage ads. -ZacWilliam, Yeah that tracks

I mean they always are, SRP (Suggested Retail Price) is a thing for a reason though, even in the 80s. Given all the examples here are consistent, it seems very likely the Minibots were consistently $3-ish in the US. I couldn't find as many pics of Throttlebot cards with price tags online.

Actually a quick search of the Internet strongly suggests that's wrong. It looks like the Mini Cars ran like $2.50 to $3 -ZacWilliam, Which makes sense as the big Autobot cars seem to have been around $6ish

Folks who were around during G1. 1984 to 1986 we had the classic Autobot minicar/minivehicle assortments. 1987 we had the Throttlebots which while a different style were very clearly the minicar assortment equivalent toys for the year. Then there's 1988. I think the Sparkabots are definitely...

I know what I'd do. Have all the robots be the main characters, have personalities and character arcs and tell a story about them like a regular adventure movie, just all the characters are fun transforming robots. I'm not saying it would succeed, just what I'd do. -ZacWilliam, I like when...

Ok. I'm about to super over-analyze something. You don't have to tell me. I know. I just find it fun. Sooo part of what Missing Link does is posit an alternate reality. "What if the original 1980s Transformers toys had been as fully poseable as we can make toys today?" "What if Arcee got a...

Hmmm... I'm conflicted. Yay Headmaster Arcee... but it's the wrong kind of Headmaster. She was a Headmaster in 1987 alongside the 87 Large Headmaster characters, and this toy is clearly an 1988 style small Headmaster. The head guy isn't the type it should be. ZacWilliam, But still it's a G1 HM...

I don't expect it from current Hasbro I just don't care about the new toys without it. I'll take it from takara or a video game or anything, but characters are why I care about Transformers more than any other robot toys out there. If they aren't characters, I dont need their toys...

Eh. I don't like this much. I'm just not a fan of "Good Guys gone bad" alternates at all (let good guys be good) nor am I into more versions of the same cuts (Mirage, Astrotrain) that we get all the time instead of characters from the 80s who have not had good modern figures. This mostly sounds...

Yes a fair number of Jedi survived the Purge, but "a fair number" in a "Filling a small conference room at the Holiday Inn" sense. In a Huge Galaxy run by the Empire and under constant threat from Vader and the Inquisitors it's still a very small number really and completely scattered, in...

It absolutely is. It has gorgeous cinematography on par with, sometimes surpassing, Empire easy, and it is frankly the smartest Star Wars film, purposely interrogating the franchise's tropes taking each in the opposite direction of expectations to show another side of things all while remaining...

The Prequels are neat looking, have some good ideas, and nostalgia. Phantom Menace is kinda fun, although I'm not sure how much of that fun is my nostalgia. On the whole though I think they're all not great films. Watchable. Ok. But not great. The sequels are better. The Force Awakens is a...

Mattel Transformers are a good example of why Takara matters. -ZacWilliam, experience lad, you should learn to appreciate it.

I was thinking just yesterday that if you're not careful to meet new people, get into new experiences and new things part of growing old is all the people and things you love slowly going away until one day you realize there's just nothing much left you are staying for. ZacWilliam, it's been...