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I love how many ways they've explored making this overall design, with different priorities. And all with great, fun results (I can't speak for the Devastation one, but I hear good things on here mostly.)

Yes, let's add one more title to the pile! This is an interesting new element of this being a YouTube thing, from this era of YouTube. But annoying. It's been a pretty interesting ride so far, and you can kind of see the patterns. Episode has a few backstory drops, spotlights a new toy or two...

"Now where is that darned Optimist Fine?"

I think I prefer it as an entirely separate character. The use of the Megatron base is just a nice way to get it made.

The 2000s, X: The Space Between, 3 The 20th anniversary was definitely an occasion that Hasbro and Takara capitalized on, and the circumstances were ripe for them to be able to do that. The brand was riding high on a contemporary main line that the kid audience was heavily into, lapsed fans...

That Fire Guts God Ginrai box will always be gorgeous. It's big enough that all the stuff in the front comes together, and it's windowless so their weirdly tight windows and thick borders don't cut into the design. The choice to just have the character art be its own shape helps a lot too; the...

I didn't realize until recently that the box apparently just says Laser Optimus Prime. Because I've always read it referred to online as Laser Rod Optimus Prime.

The rare occasion where a ~20-year glow-up is good when it approximates the original. But I'll take it any day. Welcome back, Excellion. (Edit: tried that pose again from a better angle.) (wishing for an upgrade kit that's just the inside-the-door blaster pipe detail. Seens like they'd be a...

Thanks for that! Insane how much they packed in there.

Multilingual packaging is just always going to be tricky to balance with having a few different kinds of text (especially back then, when line story/rationale had to be part of it) and an uncluttered layout. Of those three, Hasbro's typically picked two, and sometimes even with just one type of...

It's so PRETTY. I can't believe I don't own one. MP Blurstreak is kind of tiding me over at the moment.

Aside from just being his own mold, this is the best arrangement for New Rodimus in my mind. It'd be like the POTP one except better executed (making the arms part of the trailer would help a LOT). Have the Ginrai side be a slightly flatter torso and the spoiler pack be able to flip up and...

I was also caught off guard by how expensive Robotmasters stuff got. I think it fluctuates for some pieces, but it's generally more than I'm expecting or comfortable with. I remember spotting the Victory Saber 2-pack for actually a decent price shortly before the pandemic (this has become my...

The simplest and truest answer there is: I wasn't going to really get into Botcon stuff, then I figured I'd add the small handful of Universe-adjacent ones the wiki listed, stumbled upon Cyclonus in an image search and saw "Expanded Universe" on his packaging, and shrugged and added him in...

That stupid Serpentor flying snake thingy is precisely what I want from this.

(continued) Debuting ahead of Alternators in Japan, Binaltech led with even more sophisticated (if a bit bland) packaging, which didn't change much for Binaltech proper (instead, the toyline name would change and bring new packaging with it), even after returning from different sublines...

The 2000s, X: The Space Between, 2 It's pretty interesting to read up on and unpack the conceptual and commercial roots of a subline, especially when contrasting it with the fan perspective. Alternators/Binaltech was apparently born of a number of things, from a desire to deliver on fan demand...

I want a Star Rodimus with a Micromaster Convoy. And then a two-pack of them being Star Bros.

Also realizing I still haven't gotten around to getting this version of Dinobot Striker, who -- along with Fox Kids TM Waspinator, BM Hammerstrike (SO pricey now) and a complete Armada Rhinox and Armorhide -- is among the oldest things on my backtracking list.

He did interpret that correctly. The tech specs are the numbers (I say this as someone who also always conflated them, despite reading "bio and tech specs" with my own eyes for years, heh) I don't think I've ever said they shouldn't share anything. When I say they're well within their rights...