Toy Review - Earthrise Micromasters

[Skyfire]

The inner arm/hand part broke off my Hyperdrive. The inner arm/hand is strongly tabbed into the roof part of the car (just below the side window) and the door panel is attached by a peg to the inner arm. So if you pull out the arm by using the panel, instead of by the hand, the inner arm/hand can be left behind still tabbed in and the peg snapped. It's the same design on Blackjack and similar moulds (Roadhandler, Swindler and I think other cars).

So a word of advice - pull the arm out using the hand not just the door.

[Autocon]

Is there a group photo of all the ones released?

[Thurmus]

Are we getting the Astro Squad and Race Track Patrol in general retail if it ever opens again?

[nalops]

Wave 1 ended up going on clearance in most places so it's looking doubtful at the moment.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I bought the fire truck and police car dudes on a whim as I heard they were improving. I don't like them because of reasons.
While I like the fire truck, his little ball jointed hips keep popping off at the slightest touch. He does have a nice transformation and I like the big white skis he has adding to his stability.
The police car is slightly better than the racing car guys I bought earlier. It least now tabs aren't locking into one another in such an infuriating way. He is still a bit floppy and back heavy though so h doesn't like standing up.
Wepaon mode - I'm going to forget this exists - it's terrible.

So I guess since I metioned things that I saw as improvements, they are getting better. BUT I truly despised the firt lot I got so, that is not really a compliment. I'm only really keeping them to have more little vehicles to populate my base-bots.

Sadly the ones I really want (space shuttle dudes) are TTmall exclusive s and order closed a while ago

[GoktimusPrime]

These "dudes" have unique names, personalities, hopes and dreams.

The "Fire truck^engine dude" is either Red Hot or Wheel Blaze. Red Hot is called "Red Heat" in Siege for trademark reasons. Red Hot's Japanese G1 counterpart is "Fire" and Wheel Blaze was called "Wheel Breeze" in Japan.
The "Police car dude" is either Stakeout or Road Police. Stakeout's Japanese G1 counterpart is "Holy" and Road Police was a Japanese-exclusive G1 toy who combined with his teammates to form Six-Turbo.


Ah, Machine Men. Back when 'bots had classy names like Police Dude, Cycle Dude and Buggy Dude. It was a simpler time.

I'm not sure which fire engine and police car Micromasters you got. I'm curious to know if TakaraTOMY have used the Anglophone names or Japanese names for these characters. Under brand unification I suspect that they'd be using the Anglophone names, which seems a bit strange as I'd imagine a lot of collectors in Japan might not be as familiar with who the hell Stakeout is, but they'd know who Holy and Fire are (as they appeared throughout the Victory and Zone series). Having said that, Hasbro have also favoured Japanese names/personae where the Anglophone ones would make more sense; e.g. they released Overair instead of Airwave. Now the G1 toys are identical, but one difference is that Overair is an Autobot and Airwave is a Decepticon, so my Siege Overair toy comes with a tampographed Autobot insignia. I've since stuck a little Decepticon logo over that tampograph and repurposed that toy as Airwave in my collection (and so he stands on my Decepticon CHUG Micromaster shelf, not with the Autobots). But technically/officially speaking, that toy is the Autobot Overair, which mildly annoys me. I miss the days when Hasbro and TakaraTOMY would market their toys for their respective markets. e.g. Titans Return Powermaster Optimus Prime and Legends Ginrai (I have both toys as they represent entirely different characters; I'm so glad that they didn't just release one or the other). Similarly I bought both Titans Return Overlord (representing Hasbro's Overlord) and Legends Overlord (representing Takara's Overlord).

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

These "dudes" have unique names, personalities, hopes and dreams.

When they are not terrible toys, I will call them their names.
Turns out they are Readheat and Stakeout, which is what Japan calls them and my apologies as they are Siege figures as well, not Earthrise. so that sucks And so do they as toys