Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

[GoktimusPrime]

Unfortunately the head switch didn't work. That guy's G1 Brainstorm must have a defective spring mechanism. G1 Arcana's shoulder tabs (which activates Brainstorm's tech specs meter) makes it impossible for him to binary bond with Voyager Brainstorm.

[SMHFConvoy]

Just realised that titans return has no spring loaded missiles and that CW megatron was the only toy to have a spring loaded missle

[Jaxius._]

There is an Arcee hand variant. So I haven't opened mine... was the closed hand one rare?

[SuspectimusPrime]

There is an Arcee hand variant. So I haven't opened mine... was the closed hand one rare?

Yeah that's the first release. It looks better/more natural when she's holding her weapons.

[Krayt]

Unfortunately the head switch didn't work. That guy's G1 Brainstorm must have a defective spring mechanism. G1 Arcana's shoulder tabs (which activates Brainstorm's tech specs meter) makes it impossible for him to binary bond with Voyager Brainstorm.

It's Generations Head with G1 body..... not G1 head with Gen Body as your post says you tried....

[SMHFConvoy]

There's 5mm hole under Skullsmasher's gator head!

[GoktimusPrime]

It's Wreck-Gar, not Wreck Gar.

P.S.: Just to make things clear, this comment was aimed at myself. I got CW Wreck-Gar yesterday and noticed it had a hyphen. I then went and checked and realised that Wreck-Gar has always had a hyphenated name! Made me feel like a massive dope for not noticing all this time!

[GoktimusPrime]

I've long known that Kasper Gutman (Maltese Falcon) was the inspiration for Gutt in G1's Matrix Quest story, "Bird of Prey" (as the references to that film abound ), but I didn't know that Gutman was also the inspiration for Deceptitran and Cryotek!

[DELTAprime]

I just took a look through TFwiki's list of G1 toys. To my surprise the vast majority of 84, 85 and 86 G1 toys have CHUG representations either released or coming soon.

Here are the ones that don't.

85 Bots
Slag, Sludge Snarl, Swoop, Topspin, Twintwist, Omega Supreme, Power Dashers and Omnibots

85 Cons
Barrage, Ransack, Venom

86 Bots
Hubcap and Outback.

86 Cons
Predacons and the individual robots that make Reflector.

87 has a lot more gaps but HasTak seems to be doing a good job of plugging the gaps with the Titans Return line.

[GoktimusPrime]

I just took a look through TFwiki's list of G1 toys. To my surprise the vast majority of 84, 85 and 86 G1 toys have CHUG representations either released or coming soon.

See this thread.

P.S.: Something I never realised before... if you negative-invert Omega Supreme's colours you end up with the colours for GADEP/Guardian Robot.