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(continued) Multipacks and exclusives of various stripes were commonplace. Many just took on modified sizes or lengths of the standard boxed packaging (Battle for the Cyber Planet Keys, which packed toys in a mix of modes), down to clustering artwork together on the box front where applicable...

The 2000s, 8: Across The... When Classics was launched, it was a stopgap that came two years too late for the 20th anniversary and had a modest scope. (To be fair, prior to this the brand had gotten a lot of nostalgic love that also gave longtime collectors some toy features they appreciated...

And it only took 20 years, huh? (About 10-15 of those years were living real life and eventually learning to paint, then spray paint, then apply that to Transformers, then 1-2 for finding a fodder Roadbuster, and the remaining years were finding where I'd stored that godsdamn dagger thing)...

It was a simpler time, where people were generally raw, unvarnished, and authentic, sometimes in less-appealing or conflict-sparking ways. Despite that, there was a tendency to embrace the mess anyway as it was nice to have a consistent, growing community, wacky warts and all.

I... Huh

They've been around since the beginning, they know. (Knew, in the case of Skyflight, iirc. RIP.) It's just one of those early internet "made this aspect of fandom my whole (online, at minimum) brand/identity" things. This was back in the much simpler times of pre-message-board-even internet with...

Aw yiss. Non-combining, Generations level redo of that please. The Skyquake mold can be a neat base.

I meant more in the sense of remakes, perhaps, although I suppose there's some semantic overlap there too. I was aware of the new articulation and use of effect pieces at least. I can't recall offhand which Takara reissue was reverse-tooled from an old mold or whatever, but these are more akin...

I had a whole response typed out about the frustration of economic factors dooming my chances of getting these (some "again", i.e., having a new and non-Velveteen Rabbitted to death condition copy; some for the first time). But that was a downer the thread didn't need, so I'll cheer you lot on...

I'm not so psyched about the open mouth. That one other upgrade head with the smaller smile works better I think, maybe it'll look better in person rather than large on screen. Either way, an improvement over the neutral expression.

This is currently where I'm at with AOTP as just one venue. I'm still wavering on the fence for a few things, but my wallet may decide for me. It's frustrating, but it's small beer compared to the rest of the expenses that have also relentlessly been creeping upward in price.

That seems substantially different in key ways from G1/Skybound or even Animated, which all used it as the inciting incident for Transformers on Earth. That distinction is to Cyberverse's credit for doing a lot of interesting things with the Ark, er, arc (he said, having had to skim the wiki a...

I forget a LOT about Cyberverse. The show deserves better, but I feel justified in forgetting a lot about it. (From what little I remember, this was told in flashback rather than being a chronologically told event where narrative time and story time are roughly similar, right? That may also be...

It's kind of surreal seeing these very real and concerning price spikes for toys and such, moments... after getting home from doing the groceries and for the nth week in a row wondering how I broke a certain amount ceiling having bought so (comparatively) little. The many sides of our worlds...

I mean, of course. What's the saying, the pen is mightier as a sword? Hmm. You're right, and it does look it, but... Something about it still makes the left (our left) side seem a bit more spacious than the right, even in that head-on shot. Something may be wrong with me, but the designer is...

I was never going to get it for the SIX, at most the main three (mostly because I don't care enough about the coneheads to multi-dip). But I continue to go back and forth on it, and now I can't unsee how chunky and clunky the diaper waist and the boots are (and generally the leg proportions)...

I don't know how that works, specifically, but this is also why one really shouldn't even give them an excuse. Pricing problems happened for more believable reasons as the pandemic caused its initial (and, to be fair, lasting) waves of disruption, but they never really left because gouging...

Sounds about right. Matt McMuscles covers both as part of his The Worst Fighting Game series (the verdict is that they're decent/average). Man, the gaming landscape was so, SO different. Everything was.

That toy is iconic. So much so that when it was proposed, the ripple effect of iconicness traveled back in time to create this scene that has now always been there. This may have happened before.

I'm always down for a take that revisits lesser-lights of the past. Not so much to "fix" things or "do them right", because that way is also fraught with possible self-indulgence and blind spots (but it's nice when it works), but just to keep things fresh and to make use of stuff that's just...