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The 2000s, __: The Space Between, 1 The 2000s saw Transformers at arguably its most high-potential since its 80s heyday. The Beast era had given it an immense shot in the arm and cultivated a new generation of fans, and taken the brand far enough out from its roots that fans new and old...

I think the earliest ones (the first few Studio Series figures) did. Sketches, gray protos.

(continued) I remember having gotten a throwback vibe at the time from Galaxy Force's packaging, but I could never put my finger on why. Even now I'm not a hundred percent sure. Maybe it's that they're window boxes again (for Deluxes and up), or maybe it's just the way the backgrounds were...

The 2000s, 4: IT is our MISSION The final leg of the Unicron Trilogy began as early reveals of toys and show models from "Transformers Galaxy Force" trickling out in late 2004 with the show debuting in Japan not long after, and there was quite a bit of interest right off the bat. When the line...

I'm seein' double here. Four Krustys! The one thing I'd ask for is for this Megatron to maybe have bigger shoulders. It's partly seeing him next to the stockier WFCT mold and partly the width of that chest.

Yup, the Hot Wheels ones come to mind. Technically the TF logo is higher up that the Hot Wheels one for the Prime and Bee (And Track Fleet Op), but it's smaller. And it's a purely Hot Wheels format; the TFs aren't even a special single release, they're part of a wave of a relevant subseries...

I did want that earlier on, but wanted to keep the UT segments together more. And now it's too late.

That's cool, and swings it back to a toy that may interest me. I was worried it'd be another TR Mindwipe situation.

This looks great. How much soft rubbery plastic is there, if at all?

I am! Universe (2003) too. Maybe separately after the UT.

Whoops. Fixed.

Wait, where's Sideways?

(continued) Takara's approach to their packaging for Super Link appeared to be a mirror of their Legends of the Microns packaging -- somewhat literally, down to a reversed application. This time, early releases of Deluxe and up got the windowless box treatment, and redecos and later waves were...

The 2000s, 3: Literally 1984 2004 RID2001 was the turning point, Armada was the landing, and a new direction for Transformers was firmly under way. The next line, Transformers: Energon, was set to build upon what had come before -- but instead of another new direction, it was the next step in...

The behind-the-scenes reality of Machine Wars is another lore dump I'd love to have, haha. Was it a mid-BW test of returning to vehicles? If so, would it have been concurrent, or (as you say, and as makes a lot of sense) would it have been viewed as muddling the new direction? OR was it leftover...

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.