Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

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Originally Posted by griffin

The Gaia Unicron & Optimus 2-pack arrived today, and I was surprised to see a snake deco painted on one shoulder of Optimus.

I'd heard this 2-pack sometimes being referred to as "year of the snake", but since there is nothing on the box anywhere of YOTS, I just thought it was just some dealers using the acronym to help sell it as it came out at about the same time as YOTS Optimus and Starscream.

It's not a clear image of a snake either, as I'd have trouble working out what it is and its purpose if I wasn't remembering the YOTS label from almost two years ago now.

It's still an odd thing to slap onto the toy without anything noted on the packaging (that I could see). And I haven't seen the snake deco on Unicron to make it a matching pair.

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Come on griff, post some pictures!

This has been around for a while, and probably even posted here before... but these things are always worth re-posting, for the new and old fans.
The 1985 Sears Christmas catalogue, featuring toys... and it's a LOT of toys.
A couple pages of second year Transformers, plus MASK, MOTU, She-Ra, Voltron, GIJoe, GoBots.
The thing that always amazes me though is the GIJoe Flagg aircraft carrier... at four times the size of Fortress Maximus... it's over a foot taller/longer than me.

Now that's the sort of catalogue I'd love to shop from... I'd be so poor if I was this age back then. :p

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Originally Posted by griffin

This has been around for a while, and probably even posted here before... but these things are always worth re-posting, for the new and old fans.
The 1985 Sears Christmas catalogue, featuring toys... and it's a LOT of toys.

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Constructicons, form... um. On second thoughts, no, don't do that.

http://s1.postimg.org/5kdfdmkcf/1956...3aa22f45_o.png

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Originally Posted by griffin

The 1985 Sears Christmas catalogue, featuring toys... and it's a LOT of toys.
A couple pages of second year Transformers *snip*

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I cannot make out the prices for the TF toys. :(

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Originally Posted by Megatran

I cannot make out the prices for the TF toys. :(

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Click on the image and then "download this photo" on the far right, and then click on "view all sizes" to select the size you want to view, which includes a size large enough to read the writing and prices.

It never dawned on me before... the reason why the Exo-Suit is called an Excel-Suit in Japanese.

Excel Suit = エクセルスーツ; ekuseru'suutsu
Exo Suit = エクソスーツ; ekuso'suutsu
...and I'm sure many of you know what that means in Japanese. ;) :eek:

P.S. e-kuso could arguably translate as "to acquire ****" (得糞→糞を得る) :o

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Originally Posted by Sky Shadow

Constructicons, form... um. On second thoughts, no, don't do that.

http://s1.postimg.org/5kdfdmkcf/1956...3aa22f45_o.png

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Not the strangest Devastator I've seen today.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8563/...1ec7fd57_b.jpg

That catalogue is gorgeous. Also great to see mistransformation spans back through the decades.

Not limited to Transformers either, some of those Go-bots look like they're in pain.

Talk about leading with the crotch.

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Originally Posted by Thurmus

Talk about leading with the crotch.

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After a few drinks, we're all like that on the dance floor. ;)