He was also, until the advent of Generations Metroplex, the biggest Transformers toy ever edging out Fort Max by a merely technical, and precariously slim, margin. The Headmasters gimmick was in full swing and, as that year's large Autobot playset, he was the logical extension of that gimmick—big enough for his head to itself be a secondary Headmaster, and also allowing Spike Witwicky to make his first official debut in the toy line, three years after the character was introduced in the cartoon.
Titans Return is this amazing love serenade to the assortment I have a box full of toys who are Headmaster and former Targetmaster characters, as featured in "The Rebirth," and considering how long we've been swimming in Starscreams and Bumblebees it blows me away that this box even exists so they have retained the Headmaster gimmick in an authentic way.
Not all of Fort Max's gimmicks translate over to the new toy, alas. The box is the exact same dimensions as the box for Generations Metroplex. There is a text blurb describing Fort Max as having one transformation his city mode and that he can theoretically grow to any size after connecting to additional toys with a base mode Powermaster Optimus Prime, Blaster, probably Soundwave if you really wanted to, etc.
Fort Max comes packaged in a similar manner as Metroplex, sitting inside a cardboard tray to which he's been rigorously rattan-tied. His right arm comes detached in the box, and has the same easy clip-on assembly as the left arm on Metroplex and hopefully the same easy pop-off assembly, since I plan on storing him in his box. That's it. No handheld guns for either of the larger robots, no Titans Return versions of Gasket or Grommet.
Fort Max's robot mode has the same articulation as Metroplex, and the joints seem to be much tighter this time. One of the biggest problems I had with Metroplex was that he did not hold up well under his own weight, and his knee and hip joints were prone to buckling.
Fort Max has much tighter joints that seem to be designed to withstand the weight of the toy much better. As with the G1 toy, the dual guns on his lower legs flip up, and this seems to be his main form of offense.
Unlike the G1 toy, though, he does not have any flip-out dual-barreled guns in his forearms or hands this time. He has sculpting that suggests the large flip-out torso cannons, but there are no actual torso cannons to speak of on the G1 prototype for Fort Max they were intended to be slide-out cannons, which is how he was drawn in the comics and cartoons, but on the final toy they swung out from either side.
His two leg-guns can slide off their assembly, and there are handles that are similar in design to the handle on Metroplex's big red gun. The problem is that the grips on Fort Max's guns are much shorter, which means there's no real way for him to hold the guns without his thumbs popping off in the process. There just isn't enough clearance. This aspect of the toy isn't mentioned in the instructions, probably because it doesn't work as it was intended.
It's a disappointment, since unlike a lot of other aspects of this toy's design the weapon grips were actually intended for Fort Max, and not just a holdover from Metroplex's design.
This is an electronic toy, and Cerebros contains all the electronics. He uses two "AAA" batteries that are rather cleverly hidden inside his pelvis assembly.
He really betrays the stereotype that all electronic Transformers toys have large, blocky chunks that contain the battery pack and electronics package. You'd never know the batteries were even there. When Fort Max is in robot mode, pressing down on his head causes him to make various electronic sounds.
One is, I think, supposed to be the sound of his head connecting to his body. Another sounds like a mechanical servo sound effect. He also proclaims "Fortress Maximus! Another is the sound of blaster fire.
He also proclaims "Autobots! There may be as many as 11 sounds for this mode. The sound quality isn't quite as good as the Metroplex sounds due to the comparatively tiny speaker in Cerebros.
Fort Max's eyes light up as each sound effect plays. As with the G1 toy, you can choose whether or not to have Cerebros' head attached when he's connected to Fort Max. Either way works. Fort Max's first transformation is pretty close to his original battle station mode. You essentially lay the robot mode down on his back, with the ramps covering the robot arms and the robot feet flipped down.
It's a little less impressive without any weapons to attach, of course. Grimlock was part of a Takara Diaclone series called Dinosaur Robos. They were each piloted by a tiny figure, who could be removed for the Transformers release. Also, it is worth noting that the teeth on the Japanese version of Grimlock were filed down for the higher safety standards of the United States.
That's long been a problem with Transformers in the United States-- lots of little parts. Starscream is a strange case.
The toy was one of the most popular of all of the original figures from the original Transformers release in , but because of that popularity, Starscreams are also in higher supply on the secondary market because they kept re-releasing the figure.
By , Starscream was one of the only original Transformers toy still being produced. However, the character is so popular that he is still in high demand as a collectible. It also helps that the design of the original Starscream was such that when the toy was transformed, there were parts that were only used when it was in one mode or the other, so can you imagine how few people kept track of those excess parts?
If you're talking iconic Transformers toys, it doesn't take long before you're naturally going to think of Soundwave, the Decepticon who transformed into a Walkman-esque device.
Soundwave was even more popular than Starscream and they both were continued to be made well after their fellow figures from that original release stopped being made the little micro-figures who could be inserted into Soundwave's "player" continued to be made for a couple of years after that.
Soundwave came from a special figure Takara made for their Microman line called Cassette Man, so he was one of the easiest figures to translate into the Transformers line, as he was basically just re-painted amusingly, the Transformers release accidentally kept a couple of stickers intended for the Cassette Man version of the figure.
As noted up front, we're not looking to spotlight rare and obscure variants of Transformers toys, like, "Oh, this figure was only available in Greenland for two weeks in July " or anything like that. However, when the "variant" was an intentional part of the toy release, that's a different story.
That was the case with Bumblebee, who was part of the original Transformers release in , but as part of their "mini-figures" line again, when you're mixing in different toy franchises, the results are going to be all over the place , which put out tiny Transformers.
In an attempt to make the toy line look bigger than it was, Hasbro released red versions of Bumblebee as well as the more common yellow. Now we are getting into the tricky listings. You see, whenever Hasbro would create groups of toys that could be put together to form one larger robot, the toys were sold separately but they were also available in one giant giftset containing all of them the term "giftset" only applies to sets of five figures or more.
Perhaps one of the most controversial action figures of all-time, Megatron was adapted from the Takara Microman "Gun Robo," which came in two versions of the Walther P pistol. That's the version that was released as Megatron in the United States.
The Japanese version of the toy was spring-loaded and could shoot out tiny plastic bullets holy choking hazard, Batman! The American version eliminated the spring-loaded aspect. However, Megatron is well-known for being one of the most realistic-looking toy guns on the market, making it very controversial.
There is an even more expensive mail away variant of Megatron that came out with the Transformers movie. Computron is the combined form of the five members of the Autobot Technobots group Scattershot, Afterburner, Lightspeed, Nosecone and Strafe and, like the aforementioned Defensor, was available in a giftset. It is important to note exactly what we mean by "graded. They grade figures from but usually between on box, display window and figure.
It's unlikely that younger collectors will be able to carry, let alone transform, a figure of such heft. However, his enormous and rising price tag also means that fans have to shell out a sizeable amount for him. But the bragging rights can't be denied. And there's the undeniable sense of nostalgia at seeing a villain from one's childhood finally being realised in a form that's suitably epic for a Transformer that turns into a planet.
So if you can afford the cost and more importantly, the space , then Unicron is worth shelling out for. In years to come, Transformers collectors will probably be divided into two camps — those who have this version of Unicron, and those who don't.
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