Title:
Blaster 1st Cassette Communications
Description:
Blaster (Autobot, 1985/1986/1990)
Takara ID number: 38
Accessories: Electro-scrambler gun
Rather huge by the typical standards of Generation 1 Transformers, Blaster transforms into a miniature ”ghetto blaster” boombox. He features spring-loaded buttons: when pressed, his ”start” button stays in the depressed position until his ”stop” button is pressed, while pressing the ”eject” button pops open his tape door, which can store a single Mini-Cassette Transformer. Due to what was presumably a common internal misassembly issue, many original Blasters had doors which would not open when the eject button is pressed, nor would the other buttons work. Blaster has rather limited useful articulation, located in his neck and shoulders.Early versions of Blaster have a back panel that can be removed (with great difficulty) to reveal an empty compartment that originally stored the tape on his Microman source, as the chest door contained the radio. Many reissues retain this while some have omitted it.Blaster was reissued in his original packaging in Australia in 1990. Other reissues with different packaging would follow, and are listed below.
Takara ID number: 38
Accessories: Electro-scrambler gun
Rather huge by the typical standards of Generation 1 Transformers, Blaster transforms into a miniature ”ghetto blaster” boombox. He features spring-loaded buttons: when pressed, his ”start” button stays in the depressed position until his ”stop” button is pressed, while pressing the ”eject” button pops open his tape door, which can store a single Mini-Cassette Transformer. Due to what was presumably a common internal misassembly issue, many original Blasters had doors which would not open when the eject button is pressed, nor would the other buttons work. Blaster has rather limited useful articulation, located in his neck and shoulders.Early versions of Blaster have a back panel that can be removed (with great difficulty) to reveal an empty compartment that originally stored the tape on his Microman source, as the chest door contained the radio. Many reissues retain this while some have omitted it.Blaster was reissued in his original packaging in Australia in 1990. Other reissues with different packaging would follow, and are listed below.
Theme:
1985
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1985
Country:
United States
Series:
G1
Model Number:
Red Communications
Date Added:
2021-07-04 11:25:56
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2021-07-04 11:25:56
