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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.

Dang. I remember when he was just a Captain. I lost track of him after he went into medicine and released "Sharing The Night Together".

I also miss the days of having these packed in altmode. I guess it makes sense as the line has not been reliant on the gimmick for a while now. Even in BW that was such a big part of the appeal -- the wonder of a mostly-Schleich-model-quality beast mode turning into an articulated robot just...

Thanks to everyone, just everyone, for reading these and sharing your thoughts! Nice note on the 2007 packaging! I do remember being a bit nonplussed about the eye motif, and somehow never connected it to Beast Wars. I always just figured it was a natural choice for an extreme close-up (they...

(continued) Over in Japan, the Legends of the Microns line (still getting used to that, having called it Micron Legend since those days) approached packaging in a way similar to Car Robots -- windowed packaging for earlier releases (except toys were now in boxes with solid hang tabs instead of...

The 2000s, 2: Les Années 2000, deuxième partie/Los Años 2000, segunda parte (blame Google Translate, sorry) The pivot from the Beast era was a very interesting time for a number of reasons. The Transformers fandom had gotten introduced to the notion of full-on rebooting and striking out on a...

Dang, finally got a closer look at the pics of the Selects colors on the Achai sculpt. They're kinda nice! Then again, I'm less attached to the toy colors than the cartoon colors, so accuracy to my memories of the movie/show facial expressions is less of an issue. And the Dark-ism head has some...

A yellow Bumblebee helmet that has Orko's hat's wide brim (in the original color) would be hilarious. The scarf thing covering Orko's face below the eyes could be modeled after Bumblebee's faceplate.

I think an Ironhide armor one would be great. Add in the yellow from the vehicle mode stripe as an accent to break things up here and there. Can turn some of his alternate hand weapons/tools into handheld weapons. And it's a pretty good helmet too.

Either way, it ends up being a very specific look that is not good. I think this is a big part of why they just avoid commenting on the stuff directly. Designers, artists, etc working with the official IP owner clearly follow and even buy some of it, or at least don't care enough to distinguish...

This is such a nice-looking updated mold. I really hope they can do it in the Energon colors I want.

I'd never really been in the target market for this weird "$55 a pop for toys that are 4 and a half compromises mishmashed together", mercifully, and I was glad to not be paying close attention to it. AND on the Allspark, where honestly it feels like we were on an entirely different continent...

So frustrating. I didn't want to open and unpack everything so I just got that panel free and tried a couple of screwdrivers. The angle must have been awkward, but it probably wasn't that different from any other angles I could've gotten it in. Miniatures were too small to move the screw much...

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