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I Love Transformers: Armada Toys

I’m starting with a controversial title, and I’ll continue it here. Armada has been one of the most unfairly maligned Transformer lines in recent years. It came after the Robots In Disguise line, that was low on gimmicks but big on realism and posability. Armada meanwhile was the opposite and was low on realism and posability but high on the fun factor. And fans hated it.

Yet kids loved it. Huh, toys being made for kids, go figure.

Of course, I’m an adult (or I like to think so) and yet these guys line my shelves. I personally think Armada was one of the most solid Transformer lines to date, really exciting, vibrant and fun. And so I’m going to pick out some of my favourites and hopefully pressure you into thinking the same!

 

Hot Shot

I’ll admit it. Hot Shot is probably the worst of the Armada line easily. He is very flat, his arms are truly atrocious and can only flap up and down weakly, and he is forever staring  upwards with a pained, agonizing look on his face › Continue reading

Tags: Armada, Hot Shot, Megatron, Transformers, Unicron

The ORIGINAL Odd Couple

The house in 12 Sim Road was for sale… but who were the mystery buyers? Two different owners, who had no idea of who the other was who purchased it, to live as roommates… they were Optimus Prime and Megatron! Oh, the HILARITY!

Megatron decided to put his differences aside with Prime for once. After all, a war is a bit impossible to pursue when you’re shacked up with the leader of your enemies. And anyway, he had Shockwave to sort everything out at work. Sadly Prime’s PA was Ultra Magnus, Shockwave’s opposite in only the fact that Shockwave is efficient and good at his job, and Magnus… well…

Anyhow, the twin pressures of having a delusional, pessimisic, suicidal assistant pursue the war; and living with Megatron, tyrannical leader of the Evil Decepticons caused Prime to go slightly mad.

 

Prime was forever setting fire to things in the kitchen at the dead of night, waking Megatron up in his pyjamas. If this wasn’t bad enough, Prime’s womanising came to the fore › Continue reading

Tags: Cobra Commander, Megatron, Optimus Prime, Skins, The Sims