So without any further ado iiiiiiit's:
10 of the Weirdest Transformers Toys of All Time
Before I begin there are three conditions that I'm using to dictate eligibility for this list:
1.) Once again if anyone wants to write up any Honourable Mentions I'm sure everyone will want to see them, though this time around I'd like to hear your suggestions before you write them so we don't double up on any figures.
2.) The weirdness of the figures is neutralised depending on how much context has been produced to fit them in. For example the Dinobots are bloody weird, being as how they're robot dinosaurs on modern day Earth among cars and jets but because writers have worked so hard to explain them they would not be eligible for this list.
3.) Break is not eligible, simple because I already said enough about him on the last list.
Okay, let's go. Part 1
#10. Pepsi Convoy/Pepsi Prime
Who?
Let me set the scene. The year was 1985 and the only war fiercer than that between the Autobots and Decepticon was Pepsi vs. Coca Cola. For those of you who were fortunate enough to be born after perms went out of fashion I am being absolutely serious. The Coca Cola company, which was not satisfied with producing roughly 99.8% of all the world's teeth dissolver decided to undergo a massive rebranding project with a huge advertising budget to try to introduce New Coke to the world, while Pepsi threw their support behind the Autobot cause.
![Image](http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/7/72/G1-toy_OptimusPepsi.jpg)
Fighting Decepticons, injustice, thirst.
For a brief period there was a special mail-away offer where the regular Optimus Prime figure came with some extra stickers that demonstrated which side Prime had chosen in the Cola Wars. Sadly while the stickers did add a certain amount of verisimilitude to that whole "Robots in Disguise" thing, unless you got the Canadian version with the larger stickers the Autobot logo was still in plain sight. Prime's meant to be such a smart leader, you think he'd think of covering that up.
![Image](http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/40/r_dropkick011.jpg)
Pictured: the perfect disguise.
So what's so weird about it anyway?
Enter Japan (you'll be hearing that a lot on this list).
Takara have never been shy of taking a good idea and running with it, to the moon. Come up with the tiniest hint of quirkiness and Japanese society will welcome it with open tentacles. And so Pepsi Convoy was born.
![Image](http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/39/r_pepsiconvoy120.jpg)
Insane marketing ploys are the right of all sentient beings.
![Image](http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/39/r_pepsiconvoy084.jpg)
All those Masterpiece Convoy repaints and this golden opportunity was missed.
That's right, it's Pepsi Convoy. A repaint of the G1 Optimus Prime robot with a brand new trailer designed to carry one Pepsi bottle, three cans or eight bottle caps and a new CO2 gun. Seriously, a CO2 gun. As in "One shall stand, one shall be carbonated" type CO2. In a profound example of attention to detail the Firepower stat on his Tech Specs was even reduced to reflect this fact.
Note-worthily, if Kiss Players is to be believed (and if any part of Transformers canon should be believed it's that) this figure isn't the actual real Convoy; he is in fact some random Autobot who uses the fine reputations of both Pepsi and Convoy to help the public perceptions of Autobots. Which just raises the question of who this random Autobot is who has all the strength, intelligence and leadership skills of regular Convoy but none of the marbles.
Thankfully Hasbro knew that American purchasers would never put up with that kind of oh wait no.
The new Pepsi bottle as designed by Punch and Doubledealer
Yes, Pepsi Convoy was rererereleased in the States as Pepsi Optimus Prime, a release identical but for the updated Pepsi logo because when you're making a figure of a lorry pulling a drink bottle the size of a houseboat realism is paramount.
Oddly, unlike his Japanese counterpart, Pepsi Prime is the real actual Optimus Prime after having seemingly taken a few too many fusion blasts to the cpu. According to his on-box bio he is using a new disguise to keep the Autobot presence on Earth a secret (as you can see from the image above it's his best idea since agreeing to play sudden death video games with Megatron) with the added bonus that it supposedly, and I quote, "lets him hook up his fellow Autobots with some free Earth delicacies they rarely get to enjoy." So...wait, is he picking up deliveries from the Pepsi brewery using his disguise then pilfering them? Because that's amazing.
Well I hope that for you, like for me, the word Pepsi has now lost all meaning.
#10: Honourable Weirdness
iPrime
![Image](http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/0/00/ExileTransformersSpeakers.jpg)
MacPrime
So wait, he's white but he's not Ultra Magnus? Is he pulling a giant iPod, or is he a tiny truck?
Well that's the end for this entry, but next time we'll be taking a closer look at someone else...
So for now, let the battle be here, on this strange primitive world. And let it be called...the 10 Weirdest Toys list!