Toybox & Games Room

Autobot – Smokescreen
(Movie-Fast Action Battlers); Warrior/Deluxe Scale
2008
(January)
GMC Solstice (2007)/Robot - Red, Blue, White
Amazon.com Widgets

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Autobot – Smokescreen
(Cybertron); Warrior/Deluxe Scale
2005
(September)
Bugatti Veyron (2006)/Robot - Earth Planet Key #d4v6 - Red, Blue, White
Amazon.com Widgets

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Autobot – Smokescreen (& Liftor)

(Armada/Micron Legend); Supercon/Deluxe Scale
2002
Cybertronian Utility Crane/Robot - Orange, Grey, Blue
Forklift Truck/Robot
Collector’s Sticker
Amazon.com Widgets
MC-04 Cybertron - Grap & Lift (Japanese Release)
Cybertronian Utility Crane/Robot - Orange, Grey, Blue
Forklift Truck/Robot
MC-04 Collector’s Card
(McDonalds Exclusive)
Cybertronian Utility Crane/Robot/Gestalt Leg - Orange, Grey, Blue
2003
Built-To-Rule
Cybertronian Utility Crane/Robot/Block-Set - Orange, Grey, Blue
Forklift Truck/Robot/Block-Set
2004
Smokescreen & Liftor vs. Ransack & [...]

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The Transformers Classics series are up-dated version of popular characters from the 1980’s series. Until this run of toys came along, Bumblebee had been missing off the roster of characters for quite a while. The original toy was very simple in construction and therefore I think it is nice to see newly constructed [...]

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Originally I was going to pass Longarm by as I had inspected the package in the shops form afar and it just looked like a flat white tow truck. One day though, I went up close and had a good peer through the bubble in which Longarm was encased and saw two words, “Orson’s Towing.” [...]

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1985-6
(Wave 2 January-June 1986)
‘Movie/2010′
(1984-5 Wave 1 reissued - except short release variants)
Mini-Bots (Microman Recolours/Remoulds)
(Deformed Car Modes) - Note: Wheelie was the last unique Minibot Mold created until the 2001 ‘Key Chains’ which merely added a chain and a loop to the bumpers (Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Windcharger, Brawn).
The Throttlebots and Sparkabots replaced the Minibots sub-group and in [...]

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1985-6
(Wave 1 July-December 1985)
‘Scramble-City’
(1984-5 Wave 2 reissued - except short release variants)
Mini-Bots (Microman Recolours/Remoulds)
(Deformed Car Modes)

Bumblebee - C-56 Espionage

Yellow & Black Volkswagen Beetle (Short Release Reissue)

Hubcap - C-57 Communications
Yellow & Black Toyota
Outback - C-59 Gunner
Tan & Brown Jeep Wrangler with Gun Turret
Pipes - C-60 Warrior
Blue, White & Chrome Silver Semi-Truck Cab
Swerve - C-58 Metalurgist
Red & [...]

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1984-5
(Wave 2 January-June 1985)
‘Fight! Super Robot Lifeform’
(Wave 1 reissued with Rub-Signs - except short release variants)
Mini-Bots (Microman Recolours/Remoulds)
(Deformed Car Modes) - Note: Sedan had been planned to be released this year (making it up to 6 Mini-Vehicles like 1984 & 1985-6 wave 2), but for some reason Sedan was scrapped from the line-up. Wave [...]

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The Popular Toy Series ‘Transformers’ fist hit the toy shelves in 1984, no-one seems to be able to confirm exactly which month, or which Country or which if any lines came out first, but at that time Hasbro US was in the habit of releasing new toy lines each quarter and it is generally agreed [...]

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Autobot – Smokescreen
(Titanium 3″); Scout/Basic Scale
2006
Robot (Diecast/Plastic)/No Alternate Mode (Subaru Impreza WRC (2003); #8 Painted on Doors

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