![]() Obviously, Twin Cast transforms into Blaster’s head, so let’s move on to the robot mode. The fact that he’s just a tiny version of Blaster is adorable. The red and black plastic just looks great on him and he actually has some paint on his tiny little face, which is nice even if they did get a little sloppy with the blue. And as long as we’re on the subject of the little guys…īlaster’s Titan Master, Twin Cast, is possibly one of my favorite of these little guys. I don’t think it compromises the robot or stereo mode at all and it’s kind of a fun little playset for the little Titan Masters. Truth be told, I’m actually surprised at how much I dig this mode. ![]() ![]() There are also a few ports to mount other weapons. You do get some positions on top for Titan Masters to operate, a gun platform in the middle, and a couple of platforms with ramps to be used as landing pads or perhaps maintenance bays for vehicles. Let’s move on to his second alt mode… the ambitiously titled “city mode!”Īs far as third mode bases go, this one isn’t terrible, although calling it a city is unfortunate. Rewind can go inside him, and eject out, and I guess it’s still better than those horrible chunky discs that they designed for Generations Blaster. The fact that Hasbro made the dumb decision to make Rewind a data slug and yet still put a cassette sticker on him makes me feel like I’m putting a micro cassette player into a larger cassette player. I guess this set up could be akin to one of those charging dock/speaker systems for your digital music player/phone. It’s really just a piece for his base mode, so let’s lay that aside for now and grab Rewind. Does anyone else find it ironic that Hasbro couldn’t bring themselves to make Blaster an actual cassette player, and yet they’re selling a Role Play Walkman for Guardians of the Galaxy in the very next aisle at Target? Anywho… Blaster comes with a piece that fits in there, but it’s not even made up to look like a data slug. Instead, it holds what are supposed to be some kind of data slugs. Granted, the back is pretty f’ugly, but then the back sides of real tape decks weren’t usually all that great looking anyway.īlaster includes a carry handle and there’s a button that causes his cassette door to spring open… only it isn’t really for cassettes. Yeah, you can see through parts of it and none of the controls are terribly convincing, but hey, you have to leave some room for improvement for when Takara gets around to Masterpiece Blaster. Duran Duran, Bowie, Tears for Fears… oh, the memories! And all in all, this is a pretty good looking alt mode. I used to use that sucker to record all my favorite hits off the radio. It reminds me a little bit of the Emerson that I had sitting on a bookshelf in my bedroom when I was a teenager. Blaster’s alt mode is indeed a fairly authentic looking portable sound system. For now, let’s check out Blaster’s alt mode. Well, once again, Hasbro went a little overboard with Blaster’s height, as this is a Leader Class toy, but I’ll address that later. On other hand, he was so damn big! You couldn’t have proper fights between him and Soundwave, because Blaster was like a giant by comparison. You could load his cassettes into him and he was a really fun toy. On the one hand, it looked great in both modes, had decent articulation for G1 standards, and his robot mode looked fairly close to his Sunbow animated counterpart. I’ve always had mixed feelings about Blaster’s G1 toy. He’s Blaster, and while I still kinda dig the Generations version as a Cybertronian mode, it was ultimately the old school “ghetto blaster” mode that finally won me over on this new Titans Return version. ![]() Today I’m checking out a figure that I originally was not going to pick up, but after a while of going back and fourth on him, I decided to give him a try. After a long drought through most of May, once again I’ve been putting the Transformers back in Transformers Thursday. ![]()
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