Moore Than Meats The Pie

So as I wait for Yakov's Squirrel Disease (my pet name for the mumps) to work its filthy way out of my system, I thought I might do another post on my transformer collection hobby, now that I'm in a place where I no longer have to sell them off to pay the rent.

More specifically I thought I'd go into more detail about the kinds of toys I collect, which is generally known as the Classics line of transformers, even though Hasbro and Takara have labelled them under various titles including Classics, Universe and Reveal The Shield.

What I love the most about classics transformers is that they're basically reimagined figures based on the old 1985 cartoon. They're toys that look how my 5 year old imagination thought they did at the time, how they should have looked if the technology was available.

EXAMPLE THE FIRST. And this is a little extreme since the original character was a very simplified 'mini' transformer with even less articulation than standard... but meet Warpath.

This is how he looked back in the day. I had Warpath as a kid and he was one of my favourite mini transformers. I remember wishing the toy was big like how he appeared in the cartoon.

And this is how he's been redesigned for 2011. If you know the character, you can tell it's the same robot. And just look at that badass.

A better example would be Jazz. A well known Autobot from the original cartoon, and of course the guy that gets torn in half in the live action movie, Jazz in 1985 looked like this. Kinda cool, but no leg movement whatsoever and limited articulation in other places.

But then there's the remake, and just look at him! Fully posable, articulated joints and looks very faithful to the original cartoon character. More so than the above toy in fact, since you know. He has knees.