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I think it's partly a difference in style and engineering (I can point to a few things I wouldn't expect to see on a 2022+ design, like the heavy reliance on thin panels) and partly a difference in just plastic age. I recently handled this mold as well and it really is creaky, and the hip...

Funny enough, I came across a place selling a Thunderclash in a beat-up box for like $500. I used to own one, and I do miss it -- this was one of those last remnants of the original stock that I was surprised to see still for sale in the very late 90s, and I traded it away during a somewhat...

I may give that a watch later if I can talk myself into sparing a few minutes, but I am not sure it'll feel any less repetitive to see the exact same "shout at galvatron, lunge at galvatron, get caught by galvatron" sequence in even closer succession. And for the big heroic arrival of...

I have no real attachment to the original, but I love so much about how this one was done. Right down to that cool IDW headsculpt.

Swoon. He's so d r e a m y

And sounds like Goofy.

Fools and their money. I've never understood the draw. But it's very telling that the people I know of who insist on die-cast or praise it being included in new toys as some glorious gift from suddenly generous toymakers (whom they'll turn around and call greedy for something else) are the exact...

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That and the hook give a weird kind of Jack the Ripper pastiche vibe.

I like the detach/form weapons options the best, and these kind of line up with my argument (it's easier to do stuff with them if you pop them off and break them down as opposed to becoming integral body parts). 6 in particular would be nice (Dirt Boss with Landmine-style bladed spinners or...

The Boats Boats Boats pack is out here (and that is DEFINITELY a spiky spiky Riptide head on "Mirage") alongside Bumblebig and Sub Soundwave. Sadly, frustratingly, no Pirate Scourge (yet; I am hoping they didn't just SKIP him). The prices surprised me a little bit, because I thought Scourge...

Sort of a different kind of "monster" truck, that. But yeah, PCC Mudslinger/Salvage also has big tires that end up on his shoulders. My point was that options were a bit more limited than "all sorts of ways" due to those elements. Their size gives them some options but also takes away some...

The toy is very Lockdown. The hook, of course, but also: the shoulder spikes, the slots in the forearms, the lack of facial hair (that Wildwheel would have), all hew to the Cyberverse design. But at the same time it's a bit more divergent than just a color shift because of the hat and...

Maybe, but the need to spin and the way they're held onto the main body by stalks kind of limits that.

Same, it's an intriguing design. And frankly the Monster Jam stuff they've shown is not their best "simplification". I wonder what constraints, if any, they were under, because they've done way better kiddy monster trucks before.

Not pictured: 8 more Trypticons

There should be a bit of cross-pollination. Shake up the non-Studio Series line with some wackiness, and lend Cyberworld some articulation.

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