Just noticing?
Think of it: most of the icons of our generation are now 50+. Many are already dead. Most of the toylines of our generation are being brought back...for the third or fourth or fifth time.
)Just noticing?
Think of it: most of the icons of our generation are now 50+. Many are already dead. Most of the toylines of our generation are being brought back...for the third or fourth or fifth time.
Still, we grew up in one of the best periods of all time. 80's may have sucked for adults, but it rocked for kids.
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Huffer was my first Transformer. Prowl was, if I recall, my second. They remain two of my favorites.
I had a ton of them I regret not keeping - the only ones left are mostly damaged. The original Optimus Prime (still have the trailer and Roller, but can't find Prime's hands most of the time), Skywarp (missing pieces), Mirage (now broken in 3 pieces by wife and son), Jazz (original design, but it was a reissue available from mailing in proofs of purchase from some cereal boxes), Sideswipe (some loose joints, but otherwise ok), and a few mini Autobots/Decepticon cassettes: Huffer still, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Powerglide, Brawn, Warpath, Ravage, Laserbeak (now broken by my son), Rumble and Frenzy. Then there's the prize of what remains of my once much larger collection, missing a few extraneous parts: Trypticon. He still walks even
Oh, and I still have Air Raid from the Aerialbots, too.
Guardian Robot was never released as a toy in the 80s. In recent years an online retailer that's specialized in some of the collector stuff for Transformers did a repaint re-release of Omega that they called Guardian Robot, but the only way you could get an Omega Supreme type toy in the TF line in the 80s was Omega himsefl.
Interestingly, licensing issues prevented Takara from releasing the Omega Supreme toy in Japan during the original series run. So Japan never got an Omega Supreme toy at the time.
As for Baby Punisher, this is where the "original" Omega Supreme toy came from:
It was made by a company called Toybox and called Super Change Robo Mechabot-1 (gotta love Japan's crazy blunt/vague naming conventions
Here's a pic of one next to a TF-branded Omega Supreme:
Frenzy and Rumble were both in the cartoon, you just saw Rumblea lot more. There's also the pesky issue of which one is which. The G1 Cartoon had Frenzy as the blue/purple one and Frenzy as the red/black one. But this was actually one of the only places that ID'd them that way. The toys, marvel comics, and pretty much everything else had Rumble as the red/black one and Frenzy as the blue/purple one. In fact, when the G1 cartoon was translated to Japanese, they switched the names up so that they would be correct to the toys.
This is actually a big "thing" in the fandom
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/FIRRIB
the cartoon also played out Sideswipe and Sunstreaker a little too. neither was "ruthless". Instead Sunstreaker was vain and overly worried about how battle would ruin his finish or scratch his paint job (basically second only to Tracks in terms of egotripping. but Tracks had the advantage of his hilarious snooty Connecticut yuppie accent). and Sideswipe was a smartass braggart jerk
Scatman Crothers was apparently an all-around awesome guy. Some of the G1 voice actors have said that during recording sessions when they could only fit a couple of actors at a time in the booth, everyone else would wait to do their lines in the office lobby and Crothers would bring his guitar and play/sing to pass the time and keep everyone entertained.
Transformers The Movie was the second-to-last role he ever had.
Frenzy only showed up in one or two episodes iirc...not going to bother googling it. And I know they made him the red/black one, I had the blue one and that was supposed to be Frenzy. Always annoyed me the cartoon had Rumble like every episode, but not the one I had.
Yeah, the bio blurbs, which were written by the Marvel Comics staff that also wrote the initial comics (Bob Budiansky primarily) were sometimes a little different than what the cartoon decided on for characterization. They even went so far for the movie characters to write up bios for characters that wouldn't spoil any of the movie plot points (the Decepticons that were reformatted by Unicron are treated like brand new characters in their toy bio. Galvatron is even treated like a sort of underling for Megatron even though Megs is never referred to directly. Rodimus Prime is called a "city commander" or something like that to not give away that he's Optimus' replacement, and he's treated distinctly from Hot Rod)
Blue minivan was Skids. Perhaps the most hilariously shafted original Autobot. He appeared like twice in the cartoon, each time with a different voice actor, had a total of about 5 lines, and teh second time he appeared it was just so he could get trashed by Blitzwing. His biggest problem was that his character was supposed to be a scientist, but the show had already filled that role with a number of other, more prominent characters, chiefly Wheeljack and Ratchet. So there was nothing to do with him. The joke is though that the Marvel comics made up for it with a spotlight issue that included this scene:
You could've done just like the kids I knew that had frenzy (the blue toy) and pretend he was really Rumble like the show did
Yeah, the bio blurbs, which were written by the Marvel Comics staff that also wrote the initial comics (Bob Budiansky primarily) were sometimes a little different than what the cartoon decided on for characterization. They even went so far for the movie characters to write up bios for characters that wouldn't spoil any of the movie plot points (the Decepticons that were reformatted by Unicron are treated like brand new characters in their toy bio. Galvatron is even treated like a sort of underling for Megatron even though Megs is never referred to directly. Rodimus Prime is called a "city commander" or something like that to not give away that he's Optimus' replacement, and he's treated distinctly from Hot Rod)
Blue minivan was Skids. Perhaps the most hilariously shafted original Autobot. He appeared like twice in the cartoon, each time with a different voice actor, had a total of about 5 lines, and teh second time he appeared it was just so he could get trashed by Blitzwing. His biggest problem was that his character was supposed to be a scientist, but the show had already filled that role with a number of other, more prominent characters, chiefly Wheeljack and Ratchet. So there was nothing to do with him. The joke is though that the Marvel comics made up for it with a spotlight issue that included this scene:
He was also a fun case of the US staff not understanding what his vehicle mode really was. His toy was apparently modelled on a Honda vehicle called the City Turbo, which was actually a boxy little hatchback. But since Honda only targeted the car for Japan, the design staff for the cartoon had no idea what the car was and naturally assumed that the squared off shape was just a sort of stylized minivan.
He was also apparently one of the rarest G1 figures. When toy stores would order Transformers Figures, they would get cases with set #s and mixes of figures in them (for example, you didn't order a case with 20 Optimus Primes in it. You got a case of TVs and it had a few Optimuses, a few Soundwaves, a few Bumblebees/Cliffjumpers, etc. Apparently in specific ratios.) Some people have claimed that Skids only got shipped at a rate of 1 figure for every 2 cases. So some stores may have ordered tons of Transformers figures and never even received a Skids figure to stock. Crazy.
And Tracks was a blue Corvette that also had wings that popped out from his undercarriage to make a sort of flying-car alternate mode.
You could've done just like the kids I knew that had frenzy (the blue toy) and pretend he was really Rumble like the show did
I was always painfully aware of continuity errors, even then. Drove me crazy.Blue minivan was Skids. Perhaps the most hilariously shafted original Autobot. He appeared like twice in the cartoon, each time with a different voice actor, had a total of about 5 lines, and teh second time he appeared it was just so he could get trashed by Blitzwing. His biggest problem was that his character was supposed to be a scientist, but the show had already filled that role with a number of other, more prominent characters, chiefly Wheeljack and Ratchet. So there was nothing to do with him. The joke is though that the Marvel comics made up for it with a spotlight issue that included this scene:
He was also a fun case of the US staff not understanding what his vehicle mode really was. His toy was apparently modelled on a Honda vehicle called the City Turbo, which was actually a boxy little hatchback. But since Honda only targeted the car for Japan, the design staff for the cartoon had no idea what the car was and naturally assumed that the squared off shape was just a sort of stylized minivan.
He was also apparently one of the rarest G1 figures. When toy stores would order Transformers Figures, they would get cases with set #s and mixes of figures in them (for example, you didn't order a case with 20 Optimus Primes in it. You got a case of TVs and it had a few Optimuses, a few Soundwaves, a few Bumblebees/Cliffjumpers, etc. Apparently in specific ratios.) Some people have claimed that Skids only got shipped at a rate of 1 figure for every 2 cases. So some stores may have ordered tons of Transformers figures and never even received a Skids figure to stock. Crazy.
I'll correct you on this note
Wheeljack was the "mad scientist" and Ratchet the medic. Perceptor was the "scientist".Always wanted Trailbreaker, never had one.
