New Galleries: Takara Tomy Transformers Encore Hoist and Trailbreaker

Great pictures. Hoist and Trailbreaker are some of my favorite G1. I love how each Encore has small changes compared to the original like eye color. Was the future of Encores mentioned at Botcon?

Bit of trivia with the Encore Trailbreaker and Hoist galleries ... no box pics because they were ruined in the flood 3 years ago.

Great stuff.

still one of my favorites

Seibertron.com is proud to present two new galleries: e-Hobby Exclusives Crosscut and Road Rage. Crosscut is a redeco of G1 Skids with a new head and sports a new scooter accessory. Road Rage is a redeco of G1 Tracks. Both have had recent updates via Generations Crosscut and BotCon Shattered Glass Tracks. Click the images below to access the full galleries.

e-Hobby Exclusives Crosscut












e-Hobby Exclusives Road Rage

Looking at these, I'm wondering- Is there ever going to be a Skids and Screech gallery?

Today we have a set of galleries seven years in the making, due to their continuity and toyline issues in terms of categorisation: feast your eyes on Generation 1 1988 Headmasters and Masterforce Headmaster Juniors. These new additions to Seibertron.com's repository feature a number of repurposed US releases, including Cab, Wilder, Bullhorn and Cancer, along with Go-Shooter and updated Minerva with her Transtector. Why have both the US and the Japan releases all in the same group shots and comparisons, you ask? Well, they're such a small exception to the rule where the character is the same toy, and yet so radically different - this was the best way to handle them.

You may recognise this rationale from the Japanese Generations book from 2001, in which the same shots were used of toys who were different characters under Takara than they were for Hasbro, specifically the Headmaster Juniors and the Seacons. What really changes are the poses, but the figure is the same. But why not check it out for yourself by clicking on any of the images below?


Super God Masterforce Go Shooter (Transtector)










Super God Masterforce Go Shooter




Super God Masterforce Cab (Transtector)






Super God Masterforce Cab




Super God Masterforce Wilder (Transtector)






Super God Masterforce Wilder




Super God Masterforce Cancer (Transtector)






Super God Masterforce Cancer




Super God Masterforce Bullhorn (Transtector)






Super God Masterforce Bullhorn




G1 1988 Nightbeat






G1 1988 Siren






G1 1988 Hosehead






G1 1988 Fangry








G1 1988 Horri-Bull






G1 1988 Squeezeplay






G1 1988 Muzzle




G1 1988 Quig




G1 1988 Lug




G1 1988 Brisko




G1 1988 Kreb




G1 1988 Lokos

i remember these guys and the 2nd batch of targetmasters not enthralling me as a kid. You know you'd spend hours perusing the catalogues eying potential acquisitions... that year wasn't my favourite.. pretenders were sucky too for me... think the powermasters were the only subgroup from that year I drooled over.

I have squeezeplay though and he had good articulation and i think he's one of the few from my collection that is almost intact.

Monster robots who's heads pop off and turn into little robots (one of which appears to be a fly-man hybrid)... oh how I wish these would get a modern update.

Given the recent release and coverage of the latest Takara Tomy offering in the Masterpiece line - MP-22 Ultra Magnus - here at Seibertron.com we've taken the opportunity to look back on some older toys deserving of gallery treatment: the G1 Reissue Ultra Magnus, Movie Preview Version Ultra Magnus and Matrix Glow (Shining) Magnus!

All three appear in 2000/2001, sharing the same basic mold (the classic Diaclone redeco of Powered Convoy) with an Optimus Prime/Convoy basic robot-truck, and a trailer that becomes its armour. What the Reissue differed in from the original toy was mostly in the package, and included all the same accessories, from guns to missile launcher to fists. The other two, however, while coming with all the same parts, showed off very different decos (as you can see below): 'Shining' Magnus in its yellow translucent plastic, was somehow meant to show the Matrix glowing moment at the death of Optimus Prime in the 1986 movie, and the Movie Preview Magnus was a nod to promotional material of the animated feature, showing the red, black and blue deco (like its Diaclone predecessor) to the character rather than its final colours. Find out more about them in the galleries by clicking on the images below!



Generation One Movie Preview Version Ultra Magnus










Generation One Matrix Glow Magnus










Generation One Ultra Magnus