Jelze Bunnycat wrote:william-james88 wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Sabrblade wrote:The Beast Wars and Machine Wars flip-changers had instant-transformations and remain fun figures to this day.
Indeed. Not every instachanger is brick like the Battlechargers, or the later-Bayverse and Bumblebee one-steps. Override for example (granted, she's not a full instachanger) is quite nicely articulated.
Animated Bumblebee is a great example too. One step but full articulation.
I actually had to look up the name of the gimmick he had: Activators, very much like the Flipchangers discussed before.
The only one I had from those was a Thundercracker I got as a gift and it was a pleasant surprise; good to know it extended to the rest of the line instead of being one single good mold.
griftimus prime wrote:you know its funny how some of the best beast wars toys were one step flip a switch and it transforms from good looking animal to good looking figure. and i would consider those for everyone.
not sure why they do not make transformers like this anymore.
I think another good thing from those figures (and the above
Animated Activators) was that, while the one-step certainly dominated the transformation, it wasn't the end-all-be-all of the process: you could fiddle with the limbs, head and kibble a bit to get the best of both modes. Instead, most modern one-step seem to limit the transformation to just that and the figure suffers from it both in articulation and accuracy.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Different design teams 26 years apart.
I'd say it was more that the auto-changers of old were "main" toys, whereas the movie line 1-steps were mostly budget toys akin to Cyber Battalion.
Most likely. There's a reason the Deluxe class was called Deluxe, after all: the one-steps were the intended baseline size in
BW.
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