From kendrick@io.com Mon Mar 20 18:37:02 1995
Article: 7436 of alt.toys.transformers
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From: kendrick@pentagon.io.com (Kendrick Kerwin Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers
Subject: TF Weekday:Tuesday 11 October
Date: 11 Oct 1994 08:23:30 -0500
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The Master Builders, featuring Hoist, Grapple, and six green guys with 
dependency complexes...

Grapple designs a solar power collector that would generate tons of 
energy, but Prime doesn't approve construction because the Decepticons 
are a threat. The Constructicons dupe Hoise and Grapple into helping them 
build the tower with a phony secession story, and Megatron takes control 
of the tower. The Autobots arrive, trick Devastator into destroying the 
tower, and rescue Hoist and Grapple. The Decepticons run away.

Somebody have a sports fetish over in Toei? This ep features Prime and 
several other Autobots playing basketball, for crying out loud. Since 
this episode also comes from the original 13 ep run of G2, I can count no 
less than 4 epiosdes with some kind of sports theme in it...

This episode is one which establishes pre-earth origins for the 
Constructicons. Scrapper gives a line to Grapple about admiring all his 
buildings when they were back on Cybertron. This flies in the face of the
Constructicon's origin story, that they were built on earth by Megatron. 

Beautiful transform sequences, especially for the Constructicons and for 
Smokescreen. Many of these segments became snapshot transforms during the 
credits of the original show, like LongHaul transforming and leaving a 
pile of energon cubes behind him. 

Toys they should reissue:
Powerglide ("Airborne is reborn!")
Warpath ("POW! ZAM! ZOOOIE!")

"Am I drooling correctly, Spike?"

"And just what does your doohickey do, Grapple?"

KKC, sadly, none of the original minibots will get reissued save the ones 
that are already released. According to Hasbro, the molds for the other 
ten minibots were destroyed when TF was canned in America. Unless they go 
and retool them completely, we won't see any new minibots anytime soon. :(
-- 
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