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I want to say Supreme Cheetor was marketed as one of the largest/tallest TFs up to that point. How he compared against OG Metroplex and Fort Max (and others) I dunno, but "one of the" can do some heavy lifting.

It'd be neat if it was a triple-changer-- I really like the robot mode (though that's a lot of gray for Optimus). It just seems bigger and pricer than it needs to be, but I guess something like this needs some serious presence to justify its existence.

Yeah, this Deluxe-price fun, not Voyager-price cool. Regardless of how big it actually is.

I've long thought that that those toys (and others of that era) could be replicated with 3D printing. They're simpler and have smaller parts counts than modern toys. At least, replacement parts for the most-frequently broken pieces should be doable.

The best part of Puzzler was that if you never got the legs, you could still connect the upper torso to the lower torso in its car mode. those were the days

I assume there's some kind of loose pattern or rotation with the other IPs'ses HasLabs. The Pulse app lists the Star Wars gunship as in production and has the Tron one listed too. They only do so many a year, and Hasbro has a bunch of brands.

Sockwave and Woundshave

and they were called the Dino-Weapons (Man, I miss DinoZaurs.) WHAM BAM IT'S A DINO JAM

The reluctance of McD's employees to show any interest in their products has long fascinated me. I don't expect them to memorize the new toys every month or anything, but IMO employees (especially public-facing ones) should have some basic level of costumer service awareness. ANYWAY this thing...

Which tracks, because the American story/manual lore often had little to nothing to do with the original Japanese version.

the Dinobots got multiple gloriously hideous colorschemes, it's only logical for Shockwave to do as well

Ehhhh, the Galactic Man redeco is much more of a black repaint. I'm thinking realistic Army-type colors on an alien spacegun. Though if it says GALACTIC MAN on it (as the WfC one did), that would also be cool. Your suggestion is a *lot* more likely, though, for whatever that's worth.

He won't, but it'd be hilarious if Shockwave got a "real-type" redeco to go with Bruticus. (Or maybe an Energon Sixshot redeco to go with the hopefully inevitable G2 Bruticus.)

Pirate Scourge looks really really neat. Looks like a late-line garish redeco of an originally realistically colored toy. Again, we need more of that and Cyberworld continues to hold promise.

Wasn't talking about Scourge, who I hadn't seen, just the guys I mentioned in the previous comment. (And Shockwave, who IMO is on that core category.) It's one thing for lower-tier characters and randos to get wacky new modes and another for the easily recognizable ones. Like in another...

Right, but most of the core guys in S1 were not oddballs- Optimus (initially), Bumblebee, Starscream, Wheeljack, Grimlock. Megatron and Mirage were the only real oddballs among the most-frequently-getting-new-toys/ most recognizable characters.

Tigatron's beast head looks more like a polar bear's than a tiger, but whatevs. Hound and Shockwave look great. Big Bumblebee sure is a series of design choices. Soundwave is intriguing. Is that a helmet/mask (and if so, whhhhhhy) or does he just have a huge head? I like how he and Hound...

This is our third Astrotrain mold in what, ten years? Astrotrain. Not a core castmember or something. Yes, he's not some nobody, but triple-changing is complex, and scale-wise, he needs a larger size class (which there are relatively fewer of and lots of competition). I need to dig out TR...

yay Kranix Which means Arblus is an easy redeco. Eventually.

My hope is that we get another wave next year (or whenever the next cycle is) with updates of the ones they skipped this time. I have to think this promo is popular and successful enough because ohmygosh these are fun. I've been giggling about Cap Cap since I got him last week. (And he's not...