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So, this image is based on some promotional artwork I'm sure I saw for the original Takara Blockman. There was a combined bot standing on a floor and in front of a wall made up of Blockman bots. Can't find the image now, of course... A couple extra angles on the floor and wall structure. Plenty...

Packaging and Instructions from some of the larger sets: The boxes used Styrofoam inserts; I know those weren't the best for the environment, but the 80s kid in me still gets nostalgic for that. Also, somehow I have boxes for Force 40 and 42, but no instructions? Also also, the hose...

The base Robolinks bots. There are 2 designs, but notice that even the arms and legs have different detailing despite having the same shape and construction. As far as I know, there was no running change, and larger sets came with examples of both designs. Colors would vary quite a bit, though...

So, this might take up a couple posts... This is the set that was my introduction to Robolinks, Force 22, aka Megalotron in my headcanon, since he was my stand-in for Megatron back in the day. Of course, this is a replacement for my original, which didn't fare so well: Megalotron's Elite...

Found this while I was digging out my Robolinks: ...I mean, Robert and Agent Knight are practically twins!

Don't the Bayverse Transformers "age" due to insufficient energon, though? I thought Jetfire's decayed nature was explicitly due to being low on energon? (Also the plane dude in RotB, Stratosphere?) Or maybe I'm conflating two different storylines?

I don't, as a general rule, collect non-transforming Transformers figures (but there are exceptions). That said, I have no issue with them existing, as long as they don't take shelf space away from transforming Transformers. On the other hand, if the non-transforming figure lines would venture...

Yeah, they definitely look cooler than their pay grade! So, aside from some of the better-known Convertors (like the Dorvack triad, Roadbuster, Whirl, and Tankor), I'm pretty close to tapped out on my more obscure vintage off-brand transforming robot stuff. (At least the stuff I can easily put...

...and one more thing...(apologies to Don Adams) missed me by that much!

For you, it was the day learning to count changed your life forever. For me it was Tuesday

And now, the piece de resistance (French for "Robots that 'transform' by disassembling and reassembling the pieces"), Marchon's Road Bots! Not to be confused with the later RoadBots from Happywell, Marchon Road Bots are from 1984 and came in 3 flavors: Cementorr the Cement Truck, Loadorr the...

Convertors cards: Trans-Action: So this belongs to the Spychanger-style Humvees, and the copyright says 2002, which means I didn't get them in the late 90s, but in the early 2000s when I was in college (and getting back into collecting Transformers), making them contemporary to RiD01, I guess?

On the other hand, the teeth can be broken off and shot through a milk straw like a little poison dart at classmates during lunch period. Not that I ever did that...

My sister sent me this link in honor of Earth Day: ...always brings a smile to my face!

The ones we've seen so far all seem to have the same transformation, with only variant heads (2 kinds between the 4?) and colors/decos. If they're looking at reusing these same molds/designs more times, there's probably a lot of cost recovery built in. Plus, there's a lot of football memorabilia...

That would also fit in well with the Monster Gobots!

They are vaguely 1:64, though they run a little bigger than a Matchbox or Hot Wheels, kinda like Pixar Cars character cars. If I recall correctly, they were stocked in the toy cars aisle and not the action figure aisle when they were sold. Each one came with an accessory, like gold chains, boom...

A couple random military bots: The jeep looks like a Dashbot, but I think it's a KO because the markings are wrong. I think this guy is a distant relation of Mixmaster: And some misc. Maisto transformers that are somewhat more modern: The Robo Rods were sold at Walmart around the same...

Last post for tonight. Zybots! This truck dude stole his face from Machine Robo Highway Robo! My sample of the fire truck doesn't have the stickers, but the one we had as kids did, and we always read the detail on the back of the head as an 'evil' face. I don't remember if we played it like...

My Dino-Trons, sadly incomplete... Okay, so these guys came out some time after G2. I distinctly remember getting the 2 Humvees (Klik and Klak in my headcanon) at a Burlington Coat Factory in Omaha some time in the 90s (and I think I still have the card they came on somewhere..) the other 2...