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So what's cooler? Takara's TRANSFOREMERS or Pixar's CARS? Line em up Maxim-style and vote! Here are mine: Lightning McQueen vs. Sideswipe (Red Sports Cars) Oh Sidesipe definitely. 8) Cooler personality, and not as high-maintaince as McQueen. Mack vs. Optimus Prime (Big Red Trucks) Yeah. No contest h...

Warpath was the first one I had as a kid. That was quickly followed by Grimlock, Sludge and Snarl. That Xmas I got the two Triple Changers and Ransack and a little later the six Contructicons. (Then I sent away for Downshift - without a doubt, by far the coolest of the mail-away omnibots.) But that ...

The lame cartoon went a long way to killing them off. And that BASE thing that looked like a really lame AT-AT rip-off... yeah, just plain goofy. But so as to not focus on the negative... I think one HUGE advantage the TF's had in marketing was the idea of the TECH SPEC's. It was cool to have a back...

Kind of off topic, but what's the deal with the Astrotrain they showed in the big fold out / checklist thing the sent back in '85? I bought my back when he was new, and he didn't look anyuthing like that! The colors are all wrong (even his head's wrong!) and he's shown holding Blitzwing's gun and sw...

I've bought all of my recent G1's off of eBay and, in general, I've had pretty good experiences. Nothing like what you've described anyway. My Bluestreak had the glass/roof broken off from the head, but that ended up being in the ad/description, I just missed it. (Of course, it wasn't in the photos ...

My first post And a funny story... (Love this thread BTW...) I was going to post something relatively simple - how I used to store the Dinobot's extra missiles in the "cockpit's" or whatever you'd call those "flaps" that hide compartments where (in another life) a pilot would go....