7/23/2023 0 Comments Autobots transformers cars![]() All seven of this first batch originated as "Mini Car Robo" in TakaraTomy's Micro Change line, with engineering by Masaki Maruyama. (Rumors persist of his being available on Bumblebee cards as well, but no carded samples have been found.) Exactly how the hell this happened is still a mystery, though it is possible that there were early plans to have the toy be a full-fledged part of the line. The toy that would eventually become known as " Bumper" did not have its own name or card, but came on Cliffjumper cards. A seventh toy was also available briefly in the early releases of the line. This change was probably made because the smaller but deeper bubbles used for vehicle-mode packaging were more prone to separating from the cards by accident than the later-revised larger robot-mode bubbles.Īlthough the official catalogs and the box artwork depict Bumblebee in yellow and Cliffjumper in red, both toys were actually available in both colors. ![]() This changed to robot mode packaging with a picture of the vehicle mode added under the character art, which the assortment would retain throughout the line. ![]() The initial run of the Minicars were packaged with the toys in their alternate modes, as the rest of the line's toys were. Part of the first year of Hasbro's The Transformers product in the US, the Mini Vehicles were originally known as " Autobot Minicars", versus the larger " Autobot Cars". Even their "defining" trait, being smaller than "normal" Cybertronians, is rarely flagged up outside of one particular individual, especially since the introduction of even smaller Cybertronians like Micromasters and Mini-Cons. They will occasionally show up in group scenes in a vague form of advertisement, but they're almost never treated as more than just a group of individual bots who happen to be here at this time right now. They generally have super deformed proportions in vehicle mode, since in the Micro Change backstory they represented robots that became small toy cars (specifically, they were meant to look like Choro-Q / Penny Racers cars).įictionally, little to nothing has been made of this group as a group. Many were redecoed or retooled from the earlier Micro Change line. The Mini Vehicles (also known as Minicars, Minibots, Mini-Autobots, and Robocars) are a group of small, simple, and inexpensive toys, premiering in the original 1984 toyline. Sounds harsh? Probably, but its the truth.Messengers with meaning! Whatever that means. He’ll make promises to get us in the theater, and this shit in our popcorn once he has our money. I’m still curious to how this movie shapes up, but I’m not holding my breath for a better film than the last three movies. At least he’s still a big rig, and they gave him a more hefty and durable looking vehicle form. Still with the flames, Michael Bay? Whatever. I’m sure whatever underwear model Bay wants in his movie this time around has a sex tape floating around on the internet for that sort of thing, right?Īt least the stalwart leader of the Autobots hasn’t taken much in the way of a redesign, for better or worse. When you pay almost $10 to see a movie about giant robots who turn into cars and jets I’m guessing you want to see what you paid for. All we can hope for is that they spend more time developing the actual Transformers characters than showing shots of Megan Fox’s ass in short shorts for 2 and a half hours. But to me the words “Transformers” and “sexy” shouldn’t even be in the same sentence. The allure of the cartoon and toys was that I could always pretend my family’s van or firebird was really a robot in disguise. Volkswagen Beetles, jeeps, vans, trucks, station wagons, trains, a Ford Mustang or a Firebird even. The point of the Transformers is that they could be any old car lying around and you wouldn’t know it. Even more so than he did in the previous films. Bay went a little out of his way to pick gaudy cars this time around. The top being a C7 Corvette Stingray, and the bottom $2.4 million Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse. ![]() The cars pictured above are going to be featured as Autobots. As for the designs nothing has been shown of the Autobots or Decepticons in robot mode, but we have gotten some pics of them in car form. He has a whole new trilogy in the works (in case you haven’t heard), and he’s brought on a whole new cast and is redesigning the robots in disguise. Michael Bay is not done making sub par or worse Transformers movies.
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