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I remember youtube videos of Classics toys were my first contact with G1-style toys. Before that, G1 to me was just some backstory for Beast Wars. Because I never saw the toyline on shelves, I remember being a surprised when I saw pictures of the packaging for the first time many years after the...

I'd never thought about this before but now that you said it, it's obvious. Titan Master Sari that turns into her "robot mode" head, and I can't quite remember now but I'm sure she had a hoverbike or a jetpack or something on the show that they could have used as her vehicle. I suspect it didn't...

It's a shame because, if anyone wanted to produce a clean, high resolution version of those box pictures, I think you'd need the negatives, and who knows where those are. I know there's a big book dedicated to G1 box art, I have no idea if it included those pictures. There's also a thought I...

I agree that stylistically it's very unique and cool. It's just that I find it ruined by that box art, or rather, its subject. But I'm totally down for "chill" Transformers. Them giving guns and guns only to everyone, for example, has always been a pet peeve of mine. Siege Ratchet and the...

Cybertron is great. It manages to be stylish, communicate the features and story of the line clearly and showcase the toy perfectly. I love the weird polygon shapes, anything but squares please. Universe feels very much like a continuation from Robots in Disguise. I always find multilingual...

Yeah, although the style seems to have lived through that era's CHUG specifically, the other series that released during his tenure had their own unique identities. I'm also not sure about how involved he was with the packaging, besides setting certain guidelines about what has to be on it.

Couldn't agree more with this. Age of the Primes feels particularly egregious, since, in my opinion, War for Cybertron and Legacy had some of the best packaging in years. If anything, they should've gone the other way and make Studio Series packaging more like the one they used for those two...

I feel I'm in the minority when I say I honestly dislike most Japanese packaging for Transformers. Tends to feel too busy and too empty at the same time. I'd never seen the Sonokong package, I like it more than the Takara examples. Feels more synthetic and dynamic, despite the similar style.

I don't really follow G.I. Joe, as it's not a genre of toy I'm particularly interested in, so I only found out about Sigma 6 last year, and the accessory locker thing I found an excellent bit of design. Specially for a toyline so focused on accessories. I had no idea there was LED in the...

I loved the foil on the Transmetals packaging. I also remember being a bit confused and then disappointed at seeing Cheetor on every Beast Machines card as a kid. I liked the design of the packaging itself, but the lack of character art was sad. I've never thought of it before, but now that you...

Great write-up. I have a similar love for Beast Wars and 2007 packaging. I "discovered" Beast Wars when I was 3 years old. The lizard eye packaging of the original Beast Wars packaging was so cool. And the edgy box art is insane, I wish we could get an artbook with all of it like we did for the...

I think Megatron might just be better at coming up with bullshit on the spot than Rattrap. Presumably, Stasis Pod malfunctions can happen on Cybertron too, anyway, for a variety of reasons, right?

Some of the things I like most from the movie-verse are not the movies themselves, but rather, the IDW comics based on them. I think the bay continuity remains popular in part because the movies being bad but having a bunch of interesting and radically-different-from-G1 tidbits left in the...

Quickstrike is... I don't know, I'd have to see him side by side with his original version. It's a bit like with Silverbolt, where his original figure is already so accurate that the new one is going to have a hard time bringing anything of note to the table, specially since I never minded him...

This is what I would've liked from a Studio Series Astrotrain. They could do him like a reverse Tidal Wave, have a large voyager/small leader sized bot that combines with some accessories to make a sizeable shuttle. But the leader class redeco/slight retool was always the more likely scenario.

For some reason I'm LOVING the look of that deluxe Devastation Prime. Also interested on Wheeljack and AOE Prime, somehow.

I went through hodgkin's lymphoma when I was 20... I can't imagine having to go through that as an older man. I wish him all the best, fortunately, this ailment is highly treatable, so here's hoping he makes a recovery.

I see you missing these old sites and ask you, what do you think of neocities? I just recently learned about its existence.

That Wheelie accesory repaint has made me realize just how much I want an Earl Norem colors version of Studio Series Wheelie. Also, I'd love to see both a Marvel/IDW Sentinel and a Sunbow U-Haul. One could probably be a remold of the other, since U-Haul doesn't have many recognizable features...

I was surprised to see in the video that the turret on the micro trailer can spin by using a little lever! It's cool they managed to get that little gimmick there. In love with the micro Hot Rod too.