by Delicon » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:16 pm
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A lot has been said about how so many existing characters were killed in Transformers the movie but not nearly as much as how different the toys themselves were. Sure, there were a bunch of new toys that were some sort of repaint/remold from previous years such as Ultra Magnus and the new minibots.
Still, much of what came out that year had a completely different look and feel than anything we had seen before. Gone were the realistic cars and planes and instead we got things like Kup, Hot Rod, Blurr, Cyclonus and Scourge. Not only were they futuristic but they had a completely different size and aesthetic. In Metroplex and Trypticon we also got two huge Transformers with more playability than we had ever seen with that size. Sure, Omega Supreme was big but his alt mode was a bit strange and Trypticon could walk right across the floor. That's not even talking about Sky Lynx who was just so incredibly different than anything we had seen before. Predaking was also the first combiner to feature 5 individual bots that were all large in size.
What are everyone's thoughts on the 1986 line? A step forward or a step back? If you were in charge of Transformers 30 years ago, what direction would you have personally taken the toyline in?
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