{"id":400,"date":"2007-03-08T08:17:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/robots-of-the-80s-part-10\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T19:07:05","slug":"robots-of-the-80s-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/robots-of-the-80s-part-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots Of The 80s, Part 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the final entry in my Robots of the 80s series so it’s fitting that these are probably the crowning pieces in my soon-to-be-dispersed collection. At the very least, my enduring favorites.<\/p>\n

There was a trend in the Transformers toy line to have a team of several robots that combined to form a larger and more powerful robot. In retrospect, this was quite a brilliant marketing strategy. The first such group of robots were the Constructicons — 6 green construction vehicles that all transformed into robots and then combined into — I think — Destructor. Afterwards, there was a team of jet craft Autobots and automobile Decepticons (turning the usual Autobot\/Decepticon forms on their ear) which refined the combination model so that it now involved a larger Transformer which formed the mega-robot’s torso and 4 smaller Transformers as the limbs.<\/p>\n

My favorites were always the Technobots and the Terrorcons:<\/p>\n


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This is the Technobot crew, transformed as futuristic-looking vehicles:<\/p>\n


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The robot forms:<\/p>\n


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And their super-robot form (I couldn’t quite get the legs attached correctly; I’m missing that magic, intuitive Transformer touch that only a child has):<\/p>\n


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The Terrorcons, a number of beast-looking Transformers, including no fewer than 2 different double headed quadrupeds. I distinctly recall that the smaller yellow one was named Sinnertwin and the larger grey one — also the team leader — was named Hun-grrr.<\/p>\n


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The Terrorcons’ robot forms:<\/p>\n


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And the Terrorcons’ combined robot form:<\/p>\n


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Storytime: After I completed both collections, I played with them very intently. However, not long after the procurement, the head of the white land shark-looking creature broke off into the shoulder socket of the leader (that’s how they connected). Crushing. I bought a new arm creature, since he was relatively inexpensive. A new Hun-grrr cost significantly more, so I did without. Finally, around 2000, I got an intact, used Hun-grrr off of eBay. In 2006, I finally took the above pictures. Not a moment too soon because the second I was done and disassembled the big robot, look what happened to Sinnertwin:<\/p>\n


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