The Random Transformers Thoughts Thread

[Tha_Phantom]

I was wondering just how many G1 Transformers are there. I normally only think about Anglophone G1 for obvious reasons, but I was thinking about how many G1 TFs there would be if I included those released outside the Anglosphere (i.e. Japanese and Latin American). And the answer I came up with was 600.

Whilst the term "anglophone" isn't inaccurate, I do find that it's a bit too broad as it combines different markets into one. For instance, America didn't get the later G1 figures like Europe and Australia. To them, a complete G1 collection stops at 1991.
I'd have split it into US G1 and Euro/Aus G1 like you have for Japan and Latin America.
But... as you said, it's subjective anyway. I mean we could be super nitpicky and count all the different stamps, mould/deco variations, packaging variants, etc and the list would easily go over 2000. I don't think it would even be possible for any one person to own every single variation out there, since some are so rare there's only one or two known to have survived like some of the MOSC Latin America figures - and the people who own those won't be letting go of them any time soon!
Anyway, that's my two cents.

[DELTAprime]

Whilst the term "anglophone" isn't inaccurate, I do find that it's a bit too broad as it combines different markets into one. For instance, America didn't get the later G1 figures like Europe and Australia. To them, a complete G1 collection stops at 1991.
I'd have split it into US G1 and Euro/Aus G1 like you have for Japan and Latin America.
But... as you said, it's subjective anyway. I mean we could be super nitpicky and count all the different stamps, mould/deco variations, packaging variants, etc and the list would easily go over 2000. I don't think it would even be possible for any one person to own every single variation out there, since some are so rare there's only one or two known to have survived like some of the MOSC Latin America figures - and the people who own those won't be letting go of them any time soon!
Anyway, that's my two cents.

For me, I break them up into US, JP and EU G1. But I'm also quick to recognise they are all part of the greater Pantheon of G1. With the greater Pantheon of G1, I can include characters like Windblade and Drift that are important to me, but not in the '84 to '93 run.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Twitch from Earthspark looks eerily like Kaon from the DJD

[GoktimusPrime]

Whilst the term "anglophone" isn't inaccurate, I do find that it's a bit too broad as it combines different markets into one. For instance, America didn't get the later G1 figures like Europe and Australia. To them, a complete G1 collection stops at 1991.
I'd have split it into US G1 and Euro/Aus G1 like you have for Japan and Latin America.
But... as you said, it's subjective anyway.

Whether or not you want to sub-divide Anglophone G1, the end result (total G1) works out to be the same anyway.

I mean we could be super nitpicky and count all the different stamps, mould/deco variations, packaging variants, etc and the list would easily go over 2000. I don't think it would even be possible for any one person to own every single variation out there, since some are so rare there's only one or two known to have survived like some of the MOSC Latin America figures - and the people who own those won't be letting go of them any time soon!

As Stephen Sansweet* once said, it's impossible for anyone to ever have a complete collection due to the existence of not only variants, but foreign variants.

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*person with the world's largest Star Wars collection, housed in a 828m^2 building (approx. x2.8 the size of Kirribilli House!)