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I was looking at Seibertron.com's gallery of the L.A. premiere, at the movie vehicles in particular. Ratchet's rear in vehicle mode has windows, a red stripe, door handles, his logo, and some lettering that are totally absent from the toy: Has anyone tried to re-create these missing details? How did you do it? Pics of your results? I really like Ratchet, he deserves to look his best. Thanks!

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/prime-the-pump/...rime-276731.php

people i dont know if i am entirely remembering this right but way back inthe early early 1980's somewhere between their and the early mid 1980's wasn't their at one point a transforming popmachine commercial? like i said my memmory is a little fuzzy but i could have sworn that back in the day at one point there was a pop machine commercial that showed this old mom and pop style food store getting closed down and locked up for the night and as the lights were shut off for the night in one room it showed these popmachines lined up against one wall that as the commercial reached it's end actually transformed into these pop machine robots. does any of the older fans …

The spinning propeller gimmick I never really liked so I took the rotor section apart & removed the connecting gear rod between the main rotor gear assembly & plunger arm. The rotor is now free spinning & doesn't make that obnoxious toy sound. I also wanted to remove the whole trigger assembly inside the tail but the rear section isn't screwed together but factor sealed & to open that would result in cracking/breakage. Not worth it. I wish Hasbro has used the same soundless assembly as Cybertron Evac which worked as well as free spun the blades. Ah well that's what mods are for.

It looks like a broken piece but I can't tell from where or what. anyone have any idea?

The fact that Blackout's rotor stops dead the moment you let go of the trigger is incredibly lame. Is there any way to stop it from....um...stopping?

Hi, I'm new to the whole collecting transformers thing and have a few questions. Actually, I used to have a lot as a kid, but my mom threw them away when I went to college =(. Just found out that my old optimus prime is worth a small fortune on ebay, so that was kind of unfortunate =\. Anyway, I want to collect actual transforming robots, so none of the titanium series, and i don't like the look of the FABs either, but i'm not sure whats the best way to go. Obviously I don't have enough money to get all of them, but what do you guys recommend as generally "worth buying". From the looks of it, anything that ends in deluxe, is not bad, and the voyagers are a class above…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yldgse7MeY Just watch it.

so i did the unthinkable yesterday, i bought a "big dog" shirt. optimutt prime... :07laugh

The figure is fantastic, but does anyone else think that the blue parts that act as a ratchet hinge for the knees are backwards? Has anyone unscrewed his legs and reversed them?