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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 30, 2008 12:24:08 GMT
Nominate your favourite toy feature from 1984!
For example, firing missiles, Soundwave's interaction with his cassettes, hidden/transforming weapons, and so on. (Transformation's a given.)
Nominations will remain open until 7 November, after which date a poll will be set up to decide the winner!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 30, 2008 13:48:13 GMT
spring loaded missiles.
Andy
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 30, 2008 16:26:22 GMT
I, too, nominate spring-loaded missiles.
Since the robots of '84 had very limited articulation, the addition of ranged weaponry made battles more fun.
Though, sadly, only my Wheeljack seemed to have any oomph in his launchers.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2008 16:29:53 GMT
Rub signs.
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 30, 2008 16:33:19 GMT
(Psst, Ralph, they didn't have rubsigns yet in 1984.)
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 30, 2008 16:34:23 GMT
Actually that might not be true. As my Optimus Prime had one, and I got him before I got Wheeljack, who didn't have one. Maybe they were introduced partway through the year?
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2008 16:36:16 GMT
I thought the line had rubsigns from the off?
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 30, 2008 16:38:41 GMT
If all the "OMG MISB AFA PRERUBSIGN RARE111" eBay auctions are to believed then I think the first few batches from the factory were rubsignless.
I heard that only once all the competing transforming robot lines came about did Hasbro come up with the "Is yours an AUTHENTIC Transformer" ploy.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 30, 2008 17:05:52 GMT
CHROME
Martin
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Post by legios on Oct 30, 2008 22:18:14 GMT
Rubsigns were definitely not on all the toys from the get-go. They were on some of them - my Skywarp has one, whereas my Cliffjumper doesn't (both were bought at Christmas '84, approximately twenty-four hours apart).
I'm actually going to go with Chrome here. Launching missles is all very well, but the appeal of that palled quickly for me. Chrome was nice though, it was all shiny and stuff.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2008 22:25:41 GMT
Well so long as rubsigns were on some, I'll stick with them then. It was one of those features which really got my attention at the time: made them 'different' to other toys. I would actually rub them to see if the toy was a 'true transformer' and thus not an evil spy and also to confirm that they were Autobot or Decepticon!
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Nov 2, 2008 17:12:32 GMT
Primes trailer with the roller launcher
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Post by chrisl on Nov 4, 2008 13:10:52 GMT
Removable / interchangable fists / weapons
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