It’s really a good show and worth checking out. The heroes weren’t trained soldiers but a simple work crew in over their heads and trying to survive on Earth. It’s a sharp contrast to the Michael Bay films that started coming out around this time, but it still managed to bring about good characters while the Autobots took a more superhero role than the traditional defending army or current “police officer” approach. It’s probably the most light and cartoonish of the shows right down to the art style. Transformers Animated is rather different from other Transformers shows. First we need to give him a proper examination. I’ve kind of gone back and forth whether or not I want to keep this one but I have come to a decision. Of all the Cyber Key gimmicks the Speed Planet Autobots have the weakest.Īnd that holds true for Brakedown, the wise old racer who trains the excitable young Clocker and first befriends the Autobot envoy. Except for Hot Shot but his Cyber Key power is just two fins that help with aerodynamics or something. It also feels like all the Autobots have that annoying gimmick that Hardtop had, where the key unlocks a weapon that’s part of something they carry, but it’s worse because without the Cyber Key in use it’s just some box they’re carrying or some other bonus part rather than popping a new weapon out of their structure like the Decepticons. They love to race around all day, and the leader is chose by who wins the race. Even the monster truck is built for speed. Velocitron, the Speed Planet, is a culture that revolves around racing. This one also comes from the Transformers Cybertron line. It’s time for the last of loose ones that were in this pile, and just in time to set up my Transformers for the annual Christmas display. Megatron races Override (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Of course we know the Mini-Cons are safe but what about the other two? I’m going to limit photos to robot and alt mode and will give my thoughts individually. At least that’s the canon in my head since Universe is about dragging Transformers from across the multiverse. I get the feeling the Mini-Cons of this group are pretending to be Micromasters to not be used as power boosters in the Universe arena, like it’s their chance to just be seen as any other Transformer. Magna Stampede and Stockade are original characters based on molds from the Beast Machines line while Terradive and Prowl weren’t even on the same Mini-Con team, yet share a feature their friends are unable to use. At least Whirl’s Mini-Con pals were some kind of aircraft. I’m not sure why these four were sold together. As you’ll see it’s worse this time though. And yes, it’s another set including Mini-Cons with figures who can’t use Mini-Cons. They share an instruction sheet, which is how I know they came together. Our next set of Transformers Universe figures were sold together so that’s how I’ll be reviewing them, if only to move things along. It’s not perfect and I’d be surprised if it would have come out clean, but it’s still not a bad job. Meanwhile, one of the original molds for Buzzworthy Bumblebee is an attempt to reconcile his cartoon model’s robot and Cybertronian vehicle modes. The movie I’ve seen so many times that it was more a bucket list since some of the excitement is gone. With still no income and recent purchase needs draining my stimulus checks (at least they came at the right time for me…just wish I could replace some of those funds (he said while pointing to the Clutter For Sale section)) I’m not making an effort to get as much from that collection as I would like, but with all the medical issues this year, including the surgery and later kidney stone that caused the latest hiatus, I think I earned both a pity Transformer and finally getting to see Transformers: The Movie on the big screen after 35 years. Target stores in the US have released an exclusive line called Buzzworthy Bumblebee, a set of new and remolded/redecoed toys based on the greatest Autobot of them all! Granted, longtime readers know I’m so heavily biased that I have a shelf dedicated to Bumblebee, so your mileage may vary. Dreamwave comics and a fan convention toy did attempt to give Bumblebee a design based on his Cybertronian mode, but no toy tried to make his Cybertronian vehicle turn into his Earth robot design. However, not all of them were so rather than design new robot modes that looked like they turned into Cybertronian rather than Earth vehicles (not that the show’s designs really matched the toys that well in the first place) they just used the same old robot character models. In the first episode of the original Transformers cartoon, we get to see Cybertron, including some of the Transformers in Cybertronian mode.
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