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Can you still buy old-school Transformers?
PirateJon
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Specifically I want the original VW bug bumblebee. is there anywhere outside of ebay you can find these? If so, where?
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If nothing else, I'd recommend finding the Classics Deluxe Bumblebee
There's a comparison of Original G1 Bumblebee and Classics Bumblebee
He retails for $10, but you can't find him in stores much now but since he was in stores about a year ago he's not at all that hard to find.
Classics Bumblebee is a much better representation of G1 Bumblebee (aside from the race stripe) if that's what you're looking for.
The ones from the movie are all over the place, and some of the ones from the more recent re-hashes of the original cartoon should be too. Those just aren't the originals is all.
That brings bad news to my wallet, thanks!
As for where you can find an old BB toy, well, there's a lot of online toy stores that sell old transformers, some rebuilt, some used, some with the box, and rarely (and usually expensively priced) sealed in the box. You'll pay a premium to deal with these sites as they need to cover additional costs that ebay sellers usually don't. My recommendation would be ebay or see if you can find a trades list that you might be able to work something out with someone.
As for the other TF's, Takara and Hasbro have released re-issues of G1 toys which can be relatively easy to find online (and occasionally at Toys R Us). There's also the toys that are based on the current cartoon which rotate through your Targets and Wal-Marts. Also just remembered that about a year or two ago Tak/Has released smaller plastic versions of some G1 characters that had more posability than the originals. They were quite nice, but I've heard that they've become somewhat expensive as they were a somewhat short run, although they may be renewing the line after the movie hype dies down as it was extremely popular.
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Brawn was the one who Megs shot on the shuttle in the beginning of TFtM.
He comes in that Minibot reissue pack I mentioned. TF Collection #12, if you want help looking on eBay for it. :P
I found a picture of the set, though I haven't located a store with it in-stock yet.
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/dragonballzcentral_1964_392727607
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I know that my Optimus Prime cab was, in fact, metal. My details are fuzzy on the rest, but I do remember the toys being fairly signifigant... and i did buy a replacement for a lost transformer all those long years ago, and the replacement was much shittier.
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RoundBoy: No, the G1 cab was plastic. It will also feel lighter to you now then it did back then.
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I'm reasonably certain as well that part of the G1 cab was metal.
I have the Takara reissue, which is a perfect replica of the original Japanese release, and all the major parts of the trailer are plastic.
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Also, one time at Hot Topic I saw they had an official Transformers keychain that was just a re-release of the original G1 Bumblebee with a keychain attached. There's also another guy in that line... I forgot who, though.
I agree... Optimus took many hard knocks while battling on rocks in my youth, and much paint was scraped. I can't honestly speak for the rest of it, but the cab was metal.
Even if the toys weren't 100% metal then (unlike Voltron.. god damn he was heavy) they were very solidly built.
My previous story of returning transformers happened 4 times for the same one, simply because by the time i replaced him, i was on the next batch after manufacturing cuts... I remember the left arm having a few rotations in it before you could spin it like a propeller with a small flick.
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Because I know the trailer was all plastic, but I would swear on a pile of bibles that I remember the most of the actual truck part being metal.
This image in particular looks metal to me.
http://www.unicron.us/tf1984/toypix/optimusprime1b.jpg
As far as I know, the TF Collection reissues by Takara have not been bootlegged.
And yes, I was confusing cab with trailer. My bad. Yes, Optimus' window section was metal.
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Optimus's chest (which forms the front of the cab) and part of his legs were diecast metal. The rest was plastic.
Every Transformers line has had changes to it, some more drastic than others. People threw a fit about Beast Wars, people threw a fit about Beast Machines, people threw a fit about Armada and the Minicons... and hey, people are throwing a fit about Transformers Animated that is slated for next year.
Transformers fans love to bitch that change is killing their beloved toyline.
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This thread has made me want to go look for my OG toys. I'll see if I can find them and report on the metal content.
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