They're the Micro Change cassettes from the 80's that weren't turned into Transformers (unlike Ravage, Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Soundwave, Reflector, Megatron, Bumblebee, Brawn, Gears, Huffer, Windcharger, Cliffjumper, Bumper etc.)
See:
http://www.microforever.com/MC08&MC09.htm
Extremely cool ladder. The rockets as others have said are far too big to not look ridiculous on the TFs. Don't feel much for the tape though. Will get this without a doubt though.
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"made by fan for fans" - thats.. like so cliche
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eHobby Orion Pax and Dion
Oh... it's apparently an auto-scout cassette from the G1 cartoon episode 'A Prime Problem' (which I haven't watched since the nineties, but I'm surprised it turns out that Soundwave has another tape, since it seems like the sort of thing that would come up more often in discussions of the cassettes and thus have a higher online presence and fan-following rather than me finding out about it now). I withdraw my "why did they make it something random and non-representational". I'm not convinced that I withdraw my "instead of something... well... good" though, but I guess we'll see when it's more than a digital image.
I'd always hoped that Hasbro or Takara would do an Auto-scout, even if it was only in a short scene of one episode. I mean, surely the toy pre-existed somewhere for Sunbow to use it on the cartoon, and I'd hoped to find the pre-TF toy, or an official release of it in TFs.
It's almost tempting to get this (unofficial) one just for the heck of it...
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