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If you’re not a Transformers fan, you’d be excused if you didn’t know exactly who Metroplex is. After some comprehensive research, we’ve figured out he’s really tall and holds Optimus in his hand a lot. Oh, also, he’s a new gigantic 24-inch transformer—the biggest ever made.
Metroplex is gigantic and turns into a freaking CITY. Or a vehicle. A big theme this year is bringing back more three-way transformers. The big guy will be around £100, and has a bunch of electronic parts and sounds and movements, but it’s still a little disappointing, given Hasbro said it considered (probably for like 30 seconds before everyone stopped bashing each other in the head with hammers) making Metroplex five feet tall.
In other news! We’ve rounded up images of all the new Transformers coming out after Toy Fair. A lot are tied in to the new Beast Hunters series, which has the Autobots chasing around “Predacons”, which is really just an excuse to make a freaking transforming robot dragon. He’s called Predacon King Dragon. And the Optimus from Beast Hunters sorta looks more like a murderous meat wagon than a Prime, but hey, they look pretty cool.
The other stuff you’ll see, the more pieced together Transformers, are called Constructobots. You can piece them together and build them from scratch. They come with anything from 35 to 135 pieces, and they’re all interchangeable. So you can mix Optimus’s parts with Megatron’s and implode the universe. They also come with red and purple drawers, so you can keep your pieces separate if you’re robot racist.
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I had the original version of that guy when I was about five years old. There’s a blast from the past…
Same here, it was great fun playing with this one.
I should still have it in a box somewhere in the attic.
That’s the one I recognise! My best mate who lived next door had it.
It also seems to be pretty much the same as Fortress Maximus, which fought Scorponok at the end of one of the Headmasters video – what a video may I add.
The thing I hate about Transformers now is that most of them don’t look solid or realistic when in vehicle form; they have guns and “bits” jutting off all over the place, as well all sorts of crazy colours. I’m sure they used to transform neatly into something that resembled a believable vehicle, and that was most of the charm.
Ahhhhh Scorponok, I used to have one of those, I remember the way the many legs moved was quite insect-like and used to freak my younger sister out. Haven’t seen any new ones in person, but from just looking at pics and noticing how boxy and naff the G1 Scorponok looks compared to the awesome robot in my imagination, I wonder how subjective the memories of their past awesomeness are. I’m sure they’re just as awesome for kids today as they were for us
I was once made to choose between the options of Scorponok and a new chemistry set. My elder sister, who always felt partly responsible for my education, persuaded me to go for the chemistry set instead…
Over twenty years later, I take every opportunity I get to remind her how much these G1 Transformers are worth these days.
Haha harsh. Big sis knows best though… am sure you had fun with the set! In fact knowing how transient kids can be with their toys it’s highly likely you got more use out of the chemistry set.
Worth a fortune you say… my mum was going to chuck out or donate all my old toys, but I couldn’t bear to let her get rid of the Transformers. Damnit it if it weren’t for the fact they’d actually been played with a lot and so probably missing all sorts of bits, I could be sitting on a small fortune!
Yeah, as always their condition makes a big difference to the collectors who pay for this stuff.
Still got mine, or at least most of it. Now where is that loft ladder!
I know someone who will go all weak at the knee’s seeing this !! (Yes Luke I mean you)