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Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:45 am

i just got a yellow diaclone driver on eBay and was wondering what robot he originally came with. he doesn't fit in my skywarp but kinda fits in my tracks. were there different size drivers? anyone have pictures of the available driver with their bots

News Credits: 60 · Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:32 am

They are kind of random in colors but there are some Diaclone drivers that came with a helmet like head and one with control headphones (all molded in die-cast btw)

News Credits: 241 · Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:14 am

There were actually two sizes of Diaclone drives. The first and most common were the Inch-man, no higher than, your guessed it, an inch. The second kind was a bit larger, and only came with the Fortress Maximus of Diaclone: Fortress X.

Diaclone Fortress X on Super toy Archive

Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:57 am

ahh i see..i the skywarp i have is a reissue and has a different cockpit cover than the original, it seems as if the shape was changed specifically to prevent diaclone figures from sitting inside of him. i found out he came with a yellow sideswipe originally, and hes been sittin inside him since

Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:02 pm

slugfest200x wrote:ahh i see..i the skywarp i have is a reissue and has a different cockpit cover than the original, it seems as if the shape was changed specifically to prevent diaclone figures from sitting inside of him.

I don't know about the reissues, but I know they changed the design of the canopy back during the original g1 run at some point, probably not to thwart diaclone drivers, but rather to make them less likely to snap off.

Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:00 pm

slugfest200x wrote:ahh i see..i the skywarp i have is a reissue and has a different cockpit cover than the original, it seems as if the shape was changed specifically to prevent diaclone figures from sitting inside of him. i found out he came with a yellow sideswipe originally, and hes been sittin inside him since

Question: To my recollection Sideswipe doesn't have a place for people to sit in? Did you mean Sunstreaker?

Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:45 pm

nope sideswipe man, i didnt see it at first either when your folding his head back inside him you got rotate his head ALL the way back into his chest. its barely there but youll see it. i was never very fond of the mold on that guy either, but now hes got a driver, hes ona my favorites.

News Credits: 33 · Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:58 pm

I'd like to get some Diaclone drives to paint them into Spike, Daniel, Dr Archeville ect...

Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:03 pm

theres little spike and sparkplug on ebay that are the same size of diaclone drivers. theres multiple pictures online of them sittin around in g1 figures, check em out you can get the set of em for around 20 bux

News Credits: 33 · Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:06 pm

I've seen those, but frankly - if I'm gonna buy a figure thats already been made, I'd rather get a Diaclone driver and do the painting myself. The Impossible Toys ones just aren't [don't wanna sound like a cock] well painted enough....

Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:14 pm

yeah i wasnt very fond of them myself, but this little diaclone guy rocks he was 20 bux but well worth it

News Credits: 2 · Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:27 pm

Amelie wrote:I'd like to get some Diaclone drives to paint them into Spike, Daniel, Dr Archeville ect...

Shame Transrepro never got back to production. 4 drivers for $12 was a pretty sweet deal. Now it's like one driver for $20.

Might be easier (not to mention cheaper) to pick up scale model figures. HO scale railroad workers could be modded to look like Spike and Sparkplug pretty easy.