Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see firetrucks fighting with sharks!
- Thread starter Ave Destron
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Q: How is Christmas like your birthday?
A: Each marks one more set of steps on the inexorable march towards oblivion!
I knew it!!
They were likely just thinking of resealing the box after the shoot and let the next owner deal with that as they likely had a lot of items to get pictured and turned into photos and then into the catalog before going to the printers for mass production
Not toy pics, but I wanted to share some Transformers packaging I'd saved without clogging up @lastmaximal's excellent packaging retrospective thread.
The Machine Wars boxart situation always amuses me. With the effort they put into editing Laser Prime into Thunderclash, they could have just commissioned some new packaging art. Or you know, just slap some product photos there.
Honestly that box art just convinces me that MW Prime from one of the Laser Prime moulds wouldn't be half bad.
...I'm still trying to figure out the Mt. Fuji reference from a page back...
It's an old GameGrumps gag about how every haiku should end with "It's snowing on Mt. Fuji"
Wouldn't that NOT work since it's not five syllables?
The rare occasion where a ~20-year glow-up is good when it approximates the original. But I'll take it any day.
Welcome back, Excellion.
(Still not sure whether to keep the Spinister from the 2-pack in the back. Doubt I'll be able to sell it without the Targetmasters anyway. The real bummer is that Topspin came with two of the same gun.)
Welcome back, Excellion.
(Still not sure whether to keep the Spinister from the 2-pack in the back. Doubt I'll be able to sell it without the Targetmasters anyway. The real bummer is that Topspin came with two of the same gun.)
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I didn't realize until recently that the box apparently just says Laser Optimus Prime. Because I've always read it referred to online as Laser Rod Optimus Prime.
That Fire Guts God Ginrai box will always be gorgeous. It's big enough that all the stuff in the front comes together, and it's windowless so their weirdly tight windows and thick borders don't cut into the design. The choice to just have the character art be its own shape helps a lot too; the Pretenders tended to want to have both the black stripe background and the pixel explosion and it never came together. This is pleasantly cohesive even before you get into the color scheme.Not toy pics, but I wanted to share some Transformers packaging I'd saved without clogging up @lastmaximal's excellent packaging retrospective thread.
Definitely one of those grails I've long resigned myself to never getting, but always love seeing in others' pictures.
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I like how they recolored God Ginrai the robot, but not Ginrai the man, despite putting him right next to a pic of the recolored version of himself that's included.
"Forgot."
"Forgot."