#optimus exprime

Optimus: An interesting choice

Ratchet: Shut up, Optimus, you decided to be a flying train once.

in case anyone is unaware, since I’ve been looking at various toy lines all day and I’ve literally never heard anyone talk about this: 

there was basically a not-quite-Shattered Glass TFP Ratchet made as part of the TakaraTomy Go! line 

Unusually, he's identified as a Decepticon, complete with insignia! According to a translated version of the bio, Ratchet was captured by the Decepticons, and forcibly exposed to Dark Energon thus mutating him into a Decepticon.

I’m genuinely surprised there isn’t more fanfiction about this toyline plot, but to be fair there might be, I’m just not aware of it because if it exists it is almost certainly in Japanese and not English so idk 

I find this interesting because they did Go! versions of all the main TFP Autobots, but Ratchet is the only one who got pulled over to the Decepticon side of things 

the other bots all seem okay with it?? I don’t know what the full backstory is for this line up though, for some reason I’m having a hell of a time trying to dig up more details but I’ll share if I find anything-- let me know if anyone has a clue, I’ve been having asthma attacks all day back-to-back so I’m not on my A game for researching right now lmao 

but I mean, it seems like there were some fun ideas here 

the Go! line was kinda interesting because it introduced some fun concepts: 

1) As above, Ratchet is now a Decepticon, which is a fascinating choice and honestly if they made that concept into a filler episode in TFP or some shit I would have loved to see it animated

2) They called this Go! lineup “Hunters”, although apparently it’s not specifically related to Beast Hunters in the show (or is related primarily through the use of a few re-decos from the Beast Hunters line figures) 

3) Arcee is an archer, which makes sense with the Hunter theme 

4) They gave Hunter Wheeljack a spear/shield combo weapon which looks like about as close to a Keyblade as they could legally get 

5) They gave Hunter Shockwave a second optic but it’s on his tits 

6) There is a Hunter Nemesis Prime and it fucking rules 

As part of the Go! series they also made Optimus Exprime, WHICH IS AN OPTIMUS PRIME WHO TURNS INTO A BULLET TRAIN AND SOME KIND OF CYBER-DRAGON THING ??? 

so I mean, the Go! run had a lot going on, there were some whiffs but mostly there are a few solid ideas/designs that are pretty good 

I think the Hunter Nemesis Prime looks pretty rad, check this shit out 

god the TFP designs make for some kickass re-decos 

also because I’m still trying to piece together any more of the storyline(s) for these figures (if there actually is any further background info, lmao), 

time for some wildly speculative headcanons 

I’m going to choose to believe (for now) that TFP Decepticon Ratchet is painted that actually kinda nice olive green colour because it might be trying to evoke a corrosive chemical green/yellow shade,

which would make sense as we know in TFP series canon that Shockwave is doing chemical shit in his lab all the time and of course in this scene we see Ratchet and Shockwave doing chemical shit together and it’s great 

so since Ratchet’s a Decepticon in this line up, I would like to assume that Hunter Ratchet and “My Second Optic is On My Tits” Hunter Shockwave are probably hanging out and doing some high level, extremely fucked up chemical lab work while truly delivering some legendary banter that we will sadly never hear 

truly love it, may or may not add this to my “extremely long list of fanfiction concepts” notebook for further development when possible 

anyway this was Toy Hour, I’m sorry every single thing I post is approximately ten million words give or take a little, thank you for putting up with my shit <3

Kickin off the New Year with a project, here’s a sneak peak! 

#Transformers TFSS 4.0 Bludgeon Final Mockup Revealed! .@The_TF_Club .@RID_NightViper

Fun Publications has revealed the last member of the Mayhem Attack Squad Bludgeon’s revised mockup via their Facebook page.  The revised mockup shows off a more final look at how the figure will likely appear.  Also included in the mockup is the swords described in the TFSS 4.0 preorder page.  The swords are the ones that were included with Transformers Go! Optimus Exprime.  For those not…