This information brought new hope to the Autobot resistance, as it revealed that Optimus Prime and the Autobots on the Ark were still alive and well after four million years, fighting on a planet called Earth. Blaster was too late to save Scrounge's life, but he did retrieve the last bit of data the little spy had uncovered, so Scrounge didn't die in vain.Īnd you thought the 1980s cellphones were huge. Unfortunately, he found him in the Decepticons' smelting pool. Part of Perceptor's Autobot resistance cell on Cybertron, he often disagreed with his superior's orders, especially after his friend Scrounge went missing and Blaster wanted to hunt for him. And while he was one of the best kickass fighters the Autobots had he had a bit of a problem with authority. You know who you are.īlaster was a rather grim, brooding, rebellious loner who hated Decepticons with a passion. I bought the encore version of G1 Blaster who came with three cassettes (Steeljaw, Ramhorn and Eject) in a special San Diego Comic-Con 2010 exclusive that later was available at Fanexpo that year.Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.
I own quite a few versions of Soundwave but my favorite is Takara’s MC-10 Cassette Man who came with G1 Laserbeak when I found it at my local store for cheap (he was missing the shoulder gun and headphones, I did replace the shoulder gun with a G1 part and this is how I know the difference in color).
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Blaster never got the fame Soundwave did but he and his cassette minions have a special place in Transformer history and really show the 80’s culture in it’s full glory. Other cassettes also came out such as the special two creature combiner Grandslam (a tank) and Raindance (a plane), who can combine to form Slamdance (a robot). For the Autobots came the cassettes the most recognizable are Steeljaw (a loin) Ramhorn (a rhinoceros) Eject in blue and Rewind in black (both robots of the same mold but different then Rumble and Frenzy). Many other cassettes came out such as Overkill and Slugfest (both dinosaurs, different molds) and a special two creature combiner Beastbox (an ape) and Squawktalk (a bird), who can combine to form Squawkbox (a robot). The most popular Decepticons Cassettes are Ravage (a black panther or puma), Laserbeak (a bird recolored as Buzzsaw) and Ratbat (a bat), Rumble in red and Frenzy in blue (both robots of the same mold). Now both had opening tape deck doors with a space for a cassette and this meant more toys and we will now dive into the long list of cassettes that came out. He was not as popular but would suffer the same changes in alternate modes over the years as his rival, becoming a car and other vehicles, often sharing the same mold as Soundwave. If you think about it the “Boombox” or “Ghetto Blaster” was the direct opposite of a Walkman, one was loud and in your face and the other was silent and hardly knew it was there. They also did not include a functioning head phone and a working AM radio that could be put in his tape deck and could be listened to by pair of batteries in the toy’s right leg that would amplify the signal and could be controlled by buttons on his chest (Hasbro release also removed this function). But his initial success brought out a rival in 1985 named Blaster who was also from the Takara Microchange line known as MC-21 Radi-Cassette Robo, Hasbro chose only one of the two colors (red and left the blue color behind) to contrast against Soundwave. sometimes a car, truck, minivan or even a satellite or spaceship due to the decline of Walkmans. Soundwave was subsequently reissued several times over the years with some changes to his alternate form. Back in the early 80’s walkmans were big and Soundwave looked very similar so it hit with kids who may have not known what a micro cassette player was. The popularity of Soundwave and his interactive tape gimmick was evident from an early stage: his toy continued to be sold throughout 1986, after the vast majority of the other 1984 characters had been removed from toy shelves, and Mini-Cassette partners continued to be produced for him even after this, through 1988. They chose not to include a set of headphones and a microphone, both non-functioning that went with the Takara release. first off they went with a slightly lighter shade of blue, they remolded the cassette door to remove the molded “Cassette Man” name along the bottom and “MC-10” along the top. Both Hasbro and Takara versions are very similar except for a couple small variances.
He was from the Microchange line and was known as MC-10 Cassette Man.
In 1984 Hasbro released as part of Transformers: Soundwave, a Robot that transformed into a simple Micro cassette recorder, like all Transformers from that first line he was originally from the Japanese company Takara’s toy lines.
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