Quick list of moderately obscure Transformers that I adore:
Squeezeplay, the American version of Cancer from Masterforce. Got his toy in a multipack (that I picked up because it was the easiest way to get The Rock Cliffjumper, and I needed the The Rock) and now he’s one of my favs. Love that he turns into some sort of crab/scorpion/python monster thing. He’s a major fixture of my desk.
Shard. One of the Armorizers meaning she has zero story but is a cool rock helicopter lady with some badass accessories. Love assembling her thrusters and blades together into a cool bow looking thing. Plus what lore she does have ties her to Planet Dread and its Death Crystals that come from Chaos and that’s sick, based episode of G1.
Fossilizers. I fucking love the Fossilizers. I have posted about them before and I will post about them more in the future they are genuinely among my favorite guys. So cool. Skeleton dinosaurs are so fucking cool.
Slash. Littlest Dinobot, she’s based af. My buddy @tendo-the-lich is a brain genius that sold me on shipping her with the similarly sized fossilizer girly Vertebreak. He has a powerful mind. Here’s a picture of Vertebreak kabedoning Slash.
Devcon. There are like twelve Devcon fans and I’m one of them. It was Destiny that his first real toy happened to be a peg warmer right as I was getting hooked into this franchise. Devcon is an Autobot bounty hunter from exactly one episode of season 3 of the Sunbow cartoon. His main gimmicks are that he is hyper energy effect somehow and he hunts Decepticons. And by the end of the episode he has a new best friend named Slizzardo who is just a little guy.
Doublecross. So Headmasters is mostly a bad show and I would not recommend it really unless you are desperate for one additional season of Sunbow transformers. It’s got some highlights but is mostly kind of boring and it’s cast lacks charisma, especially compared to future japan exclusive shows like Masterforce and the two Beast Wars anime (which are not in this post for now because I’m sticking to characters I have toys for and I don’t consider Magmatron obscure enough but he’s dope as hell). Anyway what was I saying. Right DOUBLECROSS. They rock. The monsterbots are kinda bootleg Dinobots but weaker. Doublecross’s main thing is that his two alt mode heads have independent thoughts. They are both idiots. I love them. Sometimes they are both drunks too. Bonus. Sick ass toy. Torso is kind of weirdly long but making them a headmaster/titan master is hilarious. Like I don’t know if the power boost helps but they could definitely use the babysitter. I also love a lot of the sculpted details: they have some cool sculpting on the alt mode arms, the heads have great articulation, and the legs are neat. The guns are kind of awkward for the toy and the robot mode arms make pretty terrible arms but honestly that’s kind of to be expected with this guy so I am not holding that against him. I didn’t buy him for the robot mode he barely used in the show I bought him for the two-headed dragon himbo power.
