Things you never realised about Transformers (toys etc)

[GoktimusPrime]

Hook and Mixmaster's elbows are actually double jointed! Until now, I thought that they could only swivel up and down, but they can also rotate left and right! So cool!

[Firestorm]

Hook and Mixmaster's elbows are actually double jointed! Until now, I thought that they could only swivel up and down, but they can also rotate left and right! So cool!

They stole their extra joints from Scrapper and Long Haul

[liegeprime]

Dunno if anyone's posted it before but I never knew there was Blaster has wrist articulation!!... goodness after all these years you still find something with G1 figures

I only discovered it when I was trying to transform the Encore Blaster recolour (billy) and then his fist suddenly turned when I pressed on it, I thought I broke it, but then the other one did as well, I thought then, must be an improvement to the mold so I got my original G1 Blaster and did it to his fists... they rotated, viola!!! something new, well for me that is...

[griffin]

Dunno if anyone's posted it before but I never knew there was Blaster has wrist articulation!!... goodness after all these years you still find something with G1 figures

The fists actually rotate because the arms are meant to be rotated for robot mode... which is something I didn't realise for a looooong time, because the arms looked stupid being thick, instead of thin (not rotating them to see the shoulder stickers like in that image link).

[Paulbot]

When I used to play with Blaster I gave him what I thought of as "regular mode" (on the left) and "super mode" (on the right - thicker arms / longer legs)



(I think transforming him for these photos is the first time he's been transformed in over a decade. One of those arms was really tight and in need of excessive force!)

[liegeprime]

I've always just done the regular mode Paulbot , Bossbot which is prolly why I haven't rotated those wrists and never knew of the articulation hahahah - as you can very well see in that pic I have attached, Im still doing it even to the new version. Doh!! I gotta play with these figures more often....

[Jaxius._]

You're in the same generation as our children! (T-T) Maaaan... where's my Seniors Discount Card?!

*Born in 00's grew up with G1 DVD's*

[Handsprime]

So apparently the Optimus Prime that comes with Stratosphere is small enough to fit into Combiner Wars Devastator's hands! Also I think Optimus is Micro Machine size

I would take photos, but I'm pretty buggered at the moment so I can't be bothered.

UPDATE: Actually it's not only Devastator who can hold him. I tried it on a few figures (Titan Metroplex, MP10 Optimus, Armada Tidal Wave) and they all can hold Optimus Prime. In fact Stratosphere can also hold him.
Hope you didn't lose your lil' Optimus Prime, because a lot of bots can in fact, hold him.

[Bidoofdude]

*Born in 00's grew up with G1 DVD's*

Fist bump (born in '99 but still).

[Jaxius._]

I read this whole thread i need a life xD