Hot Wheels; Gearonimo

Not to interrupt the most thorough Autobot Blaster review ever, but what is this thing??!


With all the spiffy coolant tubes and Mr Fusion device?


Its like totally awesome whatever it is!


I'm trading my car in for one today!

2010 SDCC Hasbro's Autobot Blaster Review Day 3

Well apparently yesterday's box, was just a sleeve for the real box that holds Autobot Blaster!


Now we are talking! This box is huge, and with the giant Blaster illustrated on the front, you know you're getting something special. Thats right, a Tape Deck and its 1985 all over again.


I am a big fan of this style box, as you can open the toy, play with it, and return it to the box for storage or display, without destroying the box. I wish more Transformers were sold this way. Some of the new fangled boxes they are in are impossible to even attempt to save. And how about that front flap, eh eh eh?! Way cool, its like looking into an old school Lego box. Gee I wonder which toy in there I should play with first? No-no-no, not play, but look over and review every detail of the instruction booklet for proper toy functioning! I know, I know.


Once I open it up, if there isn't another box that I am not seeing, I will review the toy finally, in the most thorough Autobot Blaster review on the internet ever.

2010 SDCC Autobot Blaster Review Day 2

So... Apparently the box I showed yesterday, was not really part of the packaging. It was more of a shipping thing. So today, we look at Autobot Blaster's box!


Pretty flashy huh. Metallicy, red, shiny, and rectangular. Something is in there, but what. Uh, dude, Blaster? Oh yeah. Blaster. Not much really on the design side. No cool illustrations, or spiffy photos, just Transformers and Autobot Blaster and a chocking hazard warning.


There just might be a pizza inside! Find out what's inside tomorrow, or so, on the most thorough Autobot Blaster review on the internet ever.

2010 SDCC Autobot Blaster Review Day 1

Autobot Blaster is here! Lets review! The 12" x 16" x 16" outer box is light weight at about 4 pounds, with the use of single corrugated cardboard, and 2" matte packing tape. The box art is a bit plain with a small sticker indicating some shipping info, box 1 of 1, and other small unrelated Transformers facts. Not sure why Hasbro went with such a boring box, maybe I should open it?After opening the top with a scissors a five foot section of packing paper is crumpled up, holding the toy to one side. More info to follow, as this is the most thorough Autobot Blaster review on the internet ever.

Cobra Serpent / S.N.A.K.E. Battle Armor

Along with the A-Team van being on clearance so was this! Awesome deal too, I had been trying to find one of these for the past year, and always came up empty handed. The Serpent battle armor is so classic it stretches one's inner rubber bands.


Looks like a repaint of the white 1983 version, which terrorized GI Joes in a snow cave. The black looks way more menacing though, and less prone to pinkafying in the sun.


Loading the driver is kind of tricky. Almost reminiscent of fixing a GI Joe with a broken rubber band. You're holding on to the back plate, the two arms and the rest of the figure to snap everything into place. Funny thing is, once its all together, it looks the same with or with out the inner driver. I prefer without, as then I have another Cobra trooper.


Can you imagine the embarrassment being caught with your Serpent armor down?


The version matches the Cobra B.A.T.s really well. Maybe I should ebay a few more, they arn't too expensive yet.

2010 A-Team Van

Oh why oh why did I go to Target last night? Here I am trying to cut down on the toy budget (trying to recoup loses from Autobot Blaster), and I still go to a toy aisle. I guess a clearance sale doesn't count. The A-Team van was on my list of must have summer toys, and getting one for 12.48, was a steal!


It features lights and sounds, but lights are just head lights that blink on and off. The sounds are okay, but it would have been nice to have a button for sound effects, and one for quotes, instead of them mixed. Also missing is the quote, "I love it when a plan comes together!" Instead the quote is, "We'll need a plan" in a somewhat bored voice. Sound effects are nice; gun fire, tires screeching, zooming sounds.


Over all feel is pretty good. Its not your kids back yard toy, the doors are very weak, (the sliding door is easily removable), and some of the outside vehicle pieces are really soft. Other than that, its solid, and should hold up in a battle. It's nice that they have four chairs, but maybe instead of electronics, and back door with cannon would have been nicer? I looks so authentic, I guess extra features are unnecessary.


In some ways its the same toy from last years Rise of Cobra APV. My friend warned me that I already bought this toy once, and he's probably right. Thats why I bought another one, the look so good together.


I don't have any A-Team figures yet. Target didn't have any figures left, so for now here is my A-Team replacement team. The mainframe figure looked old for Hannibal, and Quick Kick is crazy enough to play Murdock, Roadblock is missing a mohawk but he's big like B.A. Baracus, and Flint can disquise up like Hannibal too or Face I guess.

I would give the A-Team van four out of five My Little Ponies.

The Claw Machine is back!

Is it actually true?...


Looks like the Claw Machines profits plummeted when they moved it to a different lobby. But now its back, and so am I, and as soon as payday comes, tomorrow, I shall play again, putting the vendor's kids, through college.


That's a cute little guy. I wonder who made that? Any ideas Eclecto-Tron?