With the late Transformers movie crushing its competition at the box office like a bug under heavy golem understructure , you may be tempted to reach eBay looking to grade some dulcet merchandise . Here’re some winners you require to look for .
Optimus Prime Pepsi Thirst Convoy
Lucky Draw Convoy
This extremist - rarified – Reportedly , only 10 ever produced – Optimus Prime was the result of a competition to find a new color scheme for the Autobots ’ drawing card . amazingly , this in reality won . Can you imagine what the others must ’ve been like ? The Lucky Draw Transformers – almost all of which were prizes in contest , hence the name – were mostly repainted versions of wide - available toys , unloosen for the most part in Japan , and wide sought after by American collectors . It may facilitate if you ’re color unreasoning , of course .
Trainbot Raiden
Primus bless whoever thought that there was some dynamical potential in make a power train turning into a giant golem , moot how dull modern trains look – well , unless they’reAstrotrain – but the wonderfully - named Trainbot Raiden was six power train that combined together to make one jumbo robot , Voltron - panache . Released in Japan in 1987 , who would n’t want one of these ?
The Blue Bluestreak
No , it ’s not a particularly redundant - sounding Marvel superhero from the 1960s , but instead a version of the Bluestreak toy who is … well , blue . The in general - released toy was actually painted silver – and later releases of the miniature had the quality renamed Silverstreak – but because the original catalog featured a blue reading ( and the painting of the robot on the toy publicity , for that matter ) was colored blue , an urban myth was born . Are there real Blue Bluestreaks ? Potentially – but there are those who ’ll refuse to believe it .
The Red Slag
Much like Bluestreak , this is a differently - color version from the toy that a multiplication knew and have sex , but there ’s one significant difference : There ’s photographic proof that this one existed . Just like the Blue Bluestreak , this toy dog check his box prowess coloring , but anyone in the US looking for one would have to reckon north – This was a Canadian - only freeing , for some unknown understanding .
Fortress Maximus / Grand Maximus
Fortress Maximus – or Fort Max to his friends – was only the largest Transformer ever , but at the clock time , the most expensive . But did that matter to its intended audience?Of course not ! relinquish towards the end of the line ’s popularity in the US , and with a detachable foreland ( thanks to the still - confusingHeadmastersgimmick ) , the miniature has become hard to find in America , but not as hard as Grand Maximus , a repainted version of the miniature sell in Japan as Fortress ’ more colored comrade , kind of like Ultra Magnus in reverse .
Action Masters Elite
permit ’s get this out the way aright now : The Action Masters subset of the Transformers line ? A completely bad idea . For those of you who do n’t retrieve the Action Masters , this is their doodad : They were transformer that did n’t transform . You ’d suppose that someone , somewhere at Hasbro might have realized that that was n’t the slap-up twist for a toyline hollo “ Transformers , ” and that might have been the reason behind the Action Master Elite note … who were Action Masters who did transform … or , to put it another way , Transformers . lamentably , the Action Masters were enough of a regretful idea that they temporarily kill the franchise in the US , leading to the Elite toys never being released over here . So , if you find one of these cheap , treasure it … while also hating everything it stood for .
G1 Jetfire
To anyone who followed the Transformers comic book of account in the ’ 80s , Jetfire had a special blank space in our center because he was created by Buster after Optimus left the cosmos matrix in his head . But even for non - comic wonk , Jetfire was peculiar – For one thing , he was n’t really a Transformer , but a licenced Macross plaything added to the strain to meet need for new characters by a panic-struck Hasbro , and for another , he had three forms , not just two … but the licensing deal did n’t last , and so neither did the toy despite how nerveless it seemed . The one to look for is the initial Transformers release , complete with Macross grading as well as Autobot insignia .
The Dinobot Tapes
Yes , there were Autobot cassette Transformers . Even stranger , these Japan - only toys were alsoDinobotsandCombiners . Why did no - one ever tell me about these when I was a kid ? I would ’ve killed for these – and also forBlaster , the Autobot tape player that cursorily became my Must Have toy when I learned of its existence as a kid ( remark to Hasbro : if you have one just lie around , I can be buy . Just saying ) .
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call “ the holy grail ” for transformer obsessive – as well asone of the ugliest toys never madeby fan – this prototype for an unreleased toy dog of the villain from the 1986 animated flick tries its hardest to make a ball with limb and a head look threatening , but still fails . Maybe if he ’d in reality have been able-bodied to sound like Orson Welles , it would ’ve been good , but even then , I ’m sure that would ’ve just led to more fat joke .
Research and extra reporting by Sarah Hope Williams .
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