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Blockrock - Comes packed in with Universe Blaster

(Blockrock)

RIP David Bowie, you were as talented as you were creepy. 

The newest TFU review is blasting at you with Blaster and Blockrock from the 2008 Universe line-up. Have fun reading: http://www.transformers-universe.com/a.php?ID=3014 You own this toy? Give it a rating at TFU: http://www.transformers-universe.com/i.php?ID=1771

In the old Marvel comics, the Autobot Blaster was part of a terrori insurge resistance cell on Cybertron operating against a Decepticon provincial governor, Lord Straxus. Blaster destroyed Straxus, and though Straxus did return a couple of times in the Marvel UK comics, he never had the opportunity to take revenge. Well, over twenty years later, Hasbro finally made a Straxus toy, and as it happens, Blaster had gotten a new toy (with a bird-buddy, Blockrock) just a couple of years earlier. Which was also when the toy-only character Nemesis Prime came out, whose packaging bio described him as a mad clone of Optimus Prime created by Straxus. So it seemed entirely appropriate to bring all these guys together. (A bit of trivia: Hasbro couldn't use the name "Straxus" on his toy for copyright reasons, so they called him "Darkmount" instead. That's the name of his towering fortress, which toppled when the Autobots detonated explosives beneath it. Guess he never forgot.)