I just went into Target today and picked up two of the new Transformers: Alternators series of toys. They are quite cool and really make up for the slow degradation in quality of the other Transformers toys in recent years (the Aramada and Energon are arse :/). For those that don't know, they have taken some of the original Autobot designs and translated them into current real life cars. I bought Side Swipe who is now a Dodge Viper SRT-10 and Smokescreen who is now a Subaru WRX. They both look very cool in vehicle mode and Smokescreen looks awesome as a robot :D There are two different versions you can get of each Transformer. A die cast metal version and a plastic version. Target and K-Mart sell the plastic ones for between $30-$50 and this website http://www.figuresdirect.com.au/takaratransformersbinaltech.html has the metal ones for $99 (at least I hope they are the die cast ones for that price). Here are some more links to some of the figures http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?TAK08124 (Side Swipe) http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/NA_Autoshow/transform_big.html (Mazda RX-8 - I'm pretty sure it is the new Jazz) http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/alternators/ (Official Hasbro site)
Transformers - Alternators
I just went into Target today and picked up two of the new Transformers: Alternators series of toys. They are quite cool and really make up for the slow degradation in quality of the other Transformers toys in recent years (the Aramada and Energon are arse :/). For those that don't know, they have taken some of the original Autobot designs and translated them into current real life cars. I bought Side Swipe who is now a Dodge Viper SRT-10 and Smokescreen who is now a Subaru WRX. They both look very cool in vehicle mode and Smokescreen looks awesome as a robot :D There are two different versions you can get of each Transformer. A die cast metal version and a plastic version. Target and K-Mart sell the plastic ones for between $30-$50 and this website http://www.figuresdirect.com.au/takaratransformersbinaltech.html has the metal ones for $99 (at least I hope they are the die cast ones for that price). Here are some more links to some of the figures http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?TAK08124 (Side Swipe) http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/NA_Autoshow/transform_big.html (Mazda RX-8 - I'm pretty sure it is the new Jazz) http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/alternators/ (Official Hasbro site)