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[i_amtrunks]

Seibertron's own Counterpunch has started a series of articles on how we, Transformers fans "have it good".

This series of articles will focus on what was good about certain toy lines of figures, focusing on the positive, rather than the negative.

In his first article, Counterpunch discusses all that was good and right with the Car Robots/Robots in Disguise series.


I’m going to start this conversation with RiD/Car Robots as the basis. Beast Wars was fine and good, but I think of Car Robots as the Preface to modern day Transformers both in style and substance.

When I first saw RiD, I was to put it mildly, blown away. This was everything I had hoped for in Transformers from when I was a kid. Detailed toys, great sculpting, TOYS THAT WERE ACCURATE TO THE SHOW, and a Train combiner! (how f’n cool was that? Seriously, I’m an American kid and we never got that before…)

Then, I found out that these toys were complicated. Damn…Sideburn is really hard to Transform. What’s going on here? Prime and Magnus combine? Megatron is a frickin puzzle? This was way, way more than I remembered from my G1 days of flip the legs out, pull the arms, flip the head, you’re done. These toys were engineered in a way that was asking for adult and older collectors to actually handle them. They looked great and were fun/tough to transform.

Counterpunch continues on with the article, which you can check out in full in the original thread, and please feel free to add your comments and thoughts on the topic in Counterpunch's original thread. Please remember that we are trying to keep these discussions positive, in relation to the articles.

[Sabrblade]

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[i_amtrunks]

Fixed.

[devil prime]

RiD was an awesome toy line it had both great new figures and some cool G1 reissues

[MaP_Prime]

I love RID, it was the first Transformers series on TV since G1 that I considered real Transformers. Although after the series ended my collecting was on hiatus for several years I think of it as the series that truly got me back into TF toy collecting. Some of my favorite collection pieces are RID toys, especially the Build Team, I always wanted an Autobot construction vehicle combiner set.

[JTKranix]

Fixed.

That is a negative, good buddy.

[Wheeljack35]

RID was a return for the autobots

Seeing realistic vehicles transform again afer having animals and the futuristic vehicons was a welcome change at the time

[galvason]

YEAH! RiD FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the best line ever, tied with animated and comming out on top.

[Optimist_Prime]

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