Hasbro executives would go to the Tokyo Toy Show in 1983 on the lookout for some new toys they could import to North America.
Many of the Autobot version of the Transformers came straight from the car-robot line and a lot of future Transformers would already exist in the Takara toy line including the Dinobots, Insecticons, Decepticon planes, and the Constructicons. They would combine both of these things together to create the Transformers. Hasbro, either too lazy to come up with something or just seeing the huge potential licensed the “car-robot” toyline along with the micro man line from Takara. In 1982 they put out a line of car-robots that also was able to transform. It was a line of toys that included transforming vehicles and robots that were piloted by minature figures that came from the microman toy line. The origins of Transformers start with the Diaclone toy line made by the company Takara Toys launched in 1980. So the idea of Transformers as you know it may not have been an original idea. So let’s look back on what, in my opinion, is the greatest toy and franchise of all time.ĭiaclone: The Original Transformers Looks kind of familiar aka Optimus Convoy
#Vintage caboodle 90s movie#
Transformers shaped a whole generation and actually caused some significant heartache with Transformers: The Movie in 1986 the same way some of the pieces of crap made by Micheal Bay would decades later. The anticipation and excitement was next level until Christmas day when I realized it was a multi-pack of Life Savers.
I remember looking under the Christmas tree one year and thinking I saw the distinctive box shape of what I hoped was Soundwave. I don’t remember any other toys leaving me spellbound and in awe. G.I Joe was a VERY close second but something just captured the imagination in a different way with Transformers.
#Vintage caboodle 90s series#
The definitive toy and cartoon series to me growing up in the ‘80s. Transformers led to an animated movie in 1986, many future toy lines and a series of live action movies. Transformers were a toy line and cartoon series from 1984 produced by Hasbro and became one of the best selling toys of all time. They’ve been instrumental in most kids childhoods but did one stand above the rest? There were a lot of toys and cartoons that burst on the scene in the 1980s.
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