Bright colors were in at the time to draw kids attention to the toys. They may have gone a bit overboard.

 

Watch this video from a sale pitch guy in the 1990, fast forward to about 2 minutes in:

 

Coplady was hawt.. wouldnt mind her....pincers.....toys....dayglo....

 

Is that Megs bigger than the Green one? Anyone have that green G2 megs and is willing to take a shot next to ROTF Megs?

That was a huge part of the style in the 90's all the way around. The pseuto new wave/techno look was huge.

Granted it was gay looking, but before Wu-Tang and Nirvana that was what the look!

 

8-Ball Jacket and dayglo orange overalls with a big pleather tri colored africa logo was the shizz back then.

 

The new wave punk look started in the 80's but reached it's zennith in the 90's then thank god finaly died.

Bright colors were in at the time to draw kids attention to the toys. They may have gone a bit overboard.

 

Watch this video from a sale pitch guy in the 1990, fast forward to about 2 minutes in:

 

 

Thats like Polar Attack Megatron or somethin isnt it? Isnt he supposed to be uber rare?

The best part of G2 Transformers commercials is that many had 2 versions... one had an announcer, and the other version had rap music!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE_fJv9E7J8

 

"It's heavy metal crunchin' time / as Optimus Prime / goes toe-to-toe with Combat Megatron / Prime is one tough dude / underneath his hood / he's a transformin' missile firin' phenomenon!"

 

I like how Prime has to correct the kid---"Uh, over here. . .", because all trucks look like Hero Prime did! Fun stuff :tflaugh

Too much LDS at Berkley.

 

someone had the bad energon...

A lot of bad ideas put out back then. If they did it because they thought people would be more interested... HUGE FAIL! It is one of the things (along with overflooding the market with characters) that turned me off of TFers (even as a kid). I always thought they looked more like Happy-Meal toys.

Is that Megs bigger than the Green one? Anyone have that green G2 megs and is willing to take a shot next to ROTF Megs?

 

I don't have them both out, but checking a review site G2 Megatron is 27 centimeters call, 2007 movie Leader Class is 25 centimeters tall. G2 Megatron is basically Leader class, and stands slightly taller than the 2007 toy.

A lot of bad ideas put out back then. If they did it because they thought people would be more interested... HUGE FAIL! It is one of the things (along with overflooding the market with characters) that turned me off of TFers (even as a kid). I always thought they looked more like Happy-Meal toys.

 

Hmmm...it seems to me that the overflooding of Transformer characters didn't really start until the Beast Wars line by the incorporating of Japanese characters into US stores. I don't remember to much of G2, because I stopped paying attention to Transformers in 1987 and didn't resume again until 1997. Anyhow, The overflooding has gotten progressively worse as the past 10 years have gone by with the newer iterations of Transformer series. Fortunately, for G1 at least, each character released was an actual character in the cartoon.

Is that Megs bigger than the Green one? Anyone have that green G2 megs and is willing to take a shot next to ROTF Megs?

 

I don't have them both out, but checking a review site G2 Megatron is 27 centimeters call, 2007 movie Leader Class is 25 centimeters tall. G2 Megatron is basically Leader class, and stands slightly taller than the 2007 toy.

So he is huge? Is he worth trackin down?

 

A lot of bad ideas put out back then. If they did it because they thought people would be more interested... HUGE FAIL! It is one of the things (along with overflooding the market with characters) that turned me off of TFers (even as a kid). I always thought they looked more like Happy-Meal toys.

 

Hmmm...it seems to me that the overflooding of Transformer characters didn't really start until the Beast Wars line by the incorporating of Japanese characters into US stores. I don't remember to much of G2, because I stopped paying attention to Transformers in 1987 and didn't resume again until 1997. Anyhow, The overflooding has gotten progressively worse as the past 10 years have gone by with the newer iterations of Transformer series. Fortunately, for G1 at least, each character released was an actual character in the cartoon.

I see the fact we get allot of characters and NONE SHOW characters as being a major advantage. It gives choice and allows some experimentation I mean without that we wouldn't have had the fantastic BM Buzzsaw and NightViper.

I read somewhere that they changed the faction symbols because they did some sort of focus group with kids, who didn't recognize them...I guess they were just an attempt to be "fresh" or "new." Funny thing was, the sticker sheets that came with all the G1 repaints still had the original faction symbols on them.