Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

[Seraphim Prime]

This is not so much a thing I never noticed as much as a thing I have new appreciation of.

I just wanted to point out that the designing of the Transformers figures since Combiner Wars has been amazing - providing figures that fit well with the line before and the line after.

Combiner War really is a great bridge between the old CHUG line and the newer lines and could really fit either way.

[Jetfire in the sky]

TFTM (Cartoon) used Fist of the North Star animation. How good were the 80's!

This has probably been posted already

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, when I visited the Toei Movie Village in Kyoto, there was an anime timeline on a wall showing all the anime series that they made, which included Fist of the North Star. More importantly, it also included Transformers but the timeline only showed the Transformers series made exclusively by Toei and did not include stuff made in collaboration with Sunbow. So it only showed stuff from The☆Headmasters to Zone. I guess they only wanted to display things produced by Toei. <shrugs>

[GoktimusPrime]

Not only "Scrapper" and "Mixmaster," but the card art of all of the Late G1 Constructicons are entirely different works of art from the Early G1 Constructicons - many of them being emulations but not exact duplicates of their Early G1 art. Whereas the G2 Constructicons' card art are all just recolours of their Early G1 art.
Big Horn

Desmond

Evicerater

Heavy Lode

Hooks

Ventus Lamina

[Seraphim Prime]

Not only "Scrapper" and "Mixmaster," but the card art of all of the Late G1 Constructicons are entirely different works of art from the Early G1 Constructicons - many of them being emulations but not exact duplicates of their Early G1 art. Whereas the G2 Constructicons' card art are all just recolours of their Early G1 art.

That's extraordinary that they'd go to that effort.
I got the late G1 figures as a kid, and recall that they all had the same standard packaging, like the Rescue Force figures, so looking up the backing on Captured Prey (http://www.capturedprey.com/store/g1...constructicons) it looks as if it was something that would have been done for reproducibility and image balance, which is a really interesting visual design choice.

[GoktimusPrime]

That's extraordinary that they'd go to that effort.

And yet they put zero effort in giving them names!

[Tha_Phantom]

And yet they put zero effort in giving them names!

How dare you speak that way about Desmond!