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Giving the toys a backstory and character profiles created more of an identity that kids could connect with. Hasbro had the great foresight to know it wasn’t always an ideal move to just release a new toy line out of the blue. They bought the rights and molds to all 28 figures that were in the Diaclone line. Hasbro bought up the whole kit and caboodle.

Hasbro executives would go to the Tokyo Toy Show in 1983 on the lookout for some new toys they could import to North America. Many of the Autobot version of the Transformers came straight from the car-robot line and a lot of future Transformers would already exist in the Takara toy line including the Dinobots, Insecticons, Decepticon planes, and the Constructicons. They would combine both of these things together to create the Transformers. Hasbro, either too lazy to come up with something or just seeing the huge potential licensed the “car-robot” toyline along with the micro man line from Takara. In 1982 they put out a line of car-robots that also was able to transform. It was a line of toys that included transforming vehicles and robots that were piloted by minature figures that came from the microman toy line. The origins of Transformers start with the Diaclone toy line made by the company Takara Toys launched in 1980. So the idea of Transformers as you know it may not have been an original idea. So let’s look back on what, in my opinion, is the greatest toy and franchise of all time.ĭiaclone: The Original Transformers Looks kind of familiar aka Optimus Convoy

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Transformers shaped a whole generation and actually caused some significant heartache with Transformers: The Movie in 1986 the same way some of the pieces of crap made by Micheal Bay would decades later. The anticipation and excitement was next level until Christmas day when I realized it was a multi-pack of Life Savers. I remember looking under the Christmas tree one year and thinking I saw the distinctive box shape of what I hoped was Soundwave. I don’t remember any other toys leaving me spellbound and in awe. G.I Joe was a VERY close second but something just captured the imagination in a different way with Transformers.

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The definitive toy and cartoon series to me growing up in the ‘80s.

Transformers led to an animated movie in 1986, many future toy lines and a series of live action movies. Transformers were a toy line and cartoon series from 1984 produced by Hasbro and became one of the best selling toys of all time. They’ve been instrumental in most kids childhoods but did one stand above the rest? Yes, the same makeup organizer all of us ’90s kids used to decorate with Lisa Frank stickers way back when.There were a lot of toys and cartoons that burst on the scene in the 1980s.

As senseless and time-consuming as it was, I stayed set in my ways until divine intervention arrived in the form of a Caboodles case. So each morning when I'd go to do my makeup, I'd scavenge through heaps of shimmery liners and shadows I'd been saving for nights out, just to end up with the same roster of basics- a black or brown eyeliner, shade-matched foundation, cream blush, and lip balm. For years, I would store it all beneath my bed or stockpiled in various makeup bags under my bathroom sink-no rhyme, no reason. To give you some context: As a beauty editor with privileged access to samples, I try to be as scrupulous as possible with what I hold onto, but inevitably end up with an excessive reserve of pencils, pigments, pots, and palettes I just can't bare to part with. I've pared back my wardrobe (well, ish), streamlined and feng shui'd my living room, and most determinedly, taken my substantial makeup collection to task. Ever since I started spending all of my time at home during the pandemic, I, like so many, have reevaluated my relationship to the many physical things taking up space in my tiny, cramped apartment.

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