Don't get me wrong, transforming into a microscope is cool. Transforming into a microscope in a way that makes sense when you're having your robots duel one another, however...
I had a couple of these. Found them again a couple of weeks back while I was helping my parents clear their attic. They were just as rubbish as I remember.
However I also found this thing, which is possibly the most bad-ass toy ever conceived:
The Action Force Roboskull.
(Tie Fighter + Skull) * Guns = ROBOSKULL
It has guns for eyes. Guns for eyes.
I had a couple of these. Found them again a couple of weeks back while I was helping my parents clear their attic. They were just as rubbish as I remember.
However I also found this thing, which is possibly the most bad-ass toy ever conceived:
The Action Force Roboskull.
(Tie Fighter + Skull) * Guns = ROBOSKULL
It has guns for eyes. Guns for eyes.
Damn those almost come to mind.Flash Force 2000!
Had to insert caps in the matchbox so it could explode on impact!
I remember just really liking the designs and the concept of these supersized military vehicles. It's the proportions I think, maybe because they didn't have to accommodate action figures so there's no oversized cockpits, etc so despite the crazy concepts they still had a feeling of realism to them. It was more like I was collecting models than toys and in retrospect it probably directly led into my interest in Warhammer 40k a couple of years down the line.
I had a couple of these. Found them again a couple of weeks back while I was helping my parents clear their attic. They were just as rubbish as I remember.
However I also found this thing, which is possibly the most bad-ass toy ever conceived:
The Action Force Roboskull.
(Tie Fighter + Skull) * Guns = ROBOSKULL
It has guns for eyes. Guns for eyes.
This was my first Transformer.Perceptor strikes me as a good one. It's a more *interesting* item than a rock, but heavily falls down when you consider about how it might be actually used in 'action figure' play:
Transform into a.... microscope?
Wasn't Gnaw supposed to be a frog/piranha hybrid? My son still plays with mine.
I had most of those. Tough little buggers and you could swap their arms!Battle Beasts, which actually was a spinoff from transformers
Damn those almost come to mind.
Anyone remember these?
Speaking of weird toys, did you have these in the US?
Weird stretchable black rubber toys with plastic armors on top. They were roughly the size of a GI Joe toy I think. The TV show was fun too.
I had a few of them and they went through hell. Hell.
That's correct, alongside Megatron himself (but not Shockwave), and, weirdly enough, the mini-vehicles like Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Gears, Huffer, etc. (even in-fiction, they're tiny robots that transform into toy cars).
Of course, that's not nearly the most weirdly mundane thing to come out of Microman, either:
I guess it was a matter of time until he became a somewhat more traditional APC. :)
(thanks Hasbro for naming the newest line "War for Cybertron" too, making it a nightmare to search for images of the older, videogame tie-in line).
I had these 2, I genuinely liked the first one. They were both second hand so no accessories or anything.
The other seemingly obscure toys I had were Mega Force. I don't run across many people who remember these. The smallest ones came i packs of 3 metal vehicles and were somewhere between Micro Machines and Hotwheels in terms of size then the bigger ones were these crazy huge military vehicles that resembled bosses from bullet hell shooters. Even today I think they're cool as hell.
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Well super ironic cause i watched the Transformers that killed off Transformers until the late 90s, Transformers Zone. Yeah the big powerup of them turning into bases, i can see why it only got one epAnd now I just remembered that the transforming egg toys I mentioned earlier in the thread were actually licensed by Mattel and released as part of the He-man line to go with their meteor men:
Meteorbs
Meteorbs were originally a Japanese toyline of transforming eggs from Bandai called Tamagoras (タマゴラス) and were released in the USA by Mattel as part of the Masters of the Universe toyline as transforming meteors. Because the Masters of the Universe had by then passed its peak, the Meteorbs...
So yeah this was definitely a trend.
The irony of Slayven bringing this up now: Transformers fans around the world are starting to receive a toy they spent hundreds of dollars preordering... one that turns into a globe.
That one at the bottom, in the purple, looks suspiciously like Metroplex but molded in different colors.Well super ironic cause i watched the Transformers that killed off Transformers until the late 90s, Transformers Zone. Yeah the big powerup of them turning into bases, i can see why it only got one ep
Yeah, it's Metrotitan, which is... Metroplex in different colors. And never came out here.
Zone did that with a lot of the big transformers, and made them ugly
Nice to know I'm not crazy.. lol. I actually had Metroplex when I was a kid, he was the only "big" Transformer I had. And, honestly, the toy wasn't actually that big. Ultra Magnus was taller. A friend of mine had Omega Supreme, I was so jealous.. lol.
Not like first gen Gobots were amazing, one thing they had on transformers was they were made of metal
