Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

[Sky Shadow]

The instructions call it "Rocket Launcher." The TF Generations book refers to it as "Mobile Battery" (移動砲台).

Not Scattershot's, Hun-Gurrr's.

[GoktimusPrime]

Not Scattershot's, Hun-Gurrr's.

Oops. Generations just calls it "Hun-Gurrr Base" (ハングルー基地) <shrugs>

[Bidoofdude]

Oops. Generations just calls it "Hun-Gurrr Base" (ハングルー基地) <shrugs>

The Spectre Deflector...

[griffin]

Bit worried to read this from you bossman.... Makes it sound like you didn't know all the 86 combiner leaders attach to metroplex, and trypticons "L" pieces were only included to get the same sort of thing happening with him...

I was referring to the two toys in the photo, not Combiners in general.

[aduthie1980]

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/65...13_500X500.jpg

I've had ROTF voyager Ratchet for 5 years and never realized that his right hand transformed into a weapon. Doh!!

[GoktimusPrime]

Learnt something new tonight:
http://www.allspark.com/content/2014...carousel-24149

Evidently the cartoon model for G1 Orion Pax was originally going to be Ultra Magnus. Although the Diaclone Powered Convoy toy would've already existed at the time that Transformers The Movie was being conceived, I guess that at the time, Hasbro hadn't decided on which toy was going to become which character -- in this case, Powered Convoy becoming Ultra Magnus -- and so Sunbow came up with this design for a character who hadn't been assigned to a toy yet!

[Sky Shadow]

Evidently the cartoon model for G1 Orion Pax was originally going to be Ultra Magnus.

Awesome. And yet sadly this still doesn't settle the did-Dion-become-Ironhide-or-Magnus debate.

[MayzaPrime]

Awesome. And yet sadly this still doesn't settle the did-Dion-become-Ironhide-or-Magnus debate.

Well I have learnt something new as well. I know about the is Dion Magnus or Sentinel from the TFCC comic, but I never knew that Dion was also being considered to be Ironhide.

Mind blown

[GoktimusPrime]

Awesome. And yet sadly this still doesn't settle the did-Dion-become-Ironhide-or-Magnus debate.

If anything, it fuels it.

[DELTAprime]

A couple of things I noticed with todays Transformers haul.

1) Lost Age Lockdown has painted brake callipers.

2) Foil stickers are horrible to try an apply because they are magnetic

3) Star Convoy might have the best Optimus/Convoy base mode of all.


And something I noted with Wednesday's haul: Rescue Bot's Electronic Optimus Primal is really fun.