I distinctly remember promo photos of this guy before he was released, showing him with brown flecked paint on the body panels (mostly around the front)... the implication seemed to be that he would be a dirt track racer. Which would have been *sweet*, since all the other Alternators had mostly plain vanilla paint jobs. Oh, well. 🤷♂️
It says "Sporal Plugs". Windcharger was going to be a Mustang but was swapped out for Wheeljack like you said, this was then going to be Windcharger but they changed their minds and made him Decepticharge which was the combo of Decepticon and Windcharger - how unique! They were going to use this mold for Arcee, Paradrone Medic and Black Arachnia but they were canceled after QC issues with this figure's neck breaking and distribution issues. He was a Hasbro only figure - he was a giveaway prize only in Japan in a Takara contest.
i love alternators and binaltechs... thanks for the review i did not even know he did not wven have a barrrel when u open... vamcause kine still inside a box...
the alternators do actually have Bios,it just demands some digging,For example dead ends was that he was the first decepticon to obtain an alternator body,His being Stolen after being finished in the production line,His Mind was then downloaded to the body and the deceticons took over the facility from which the body was made,using mind control on all the human allies who made them while Dead end Held down the fort[ie. the facility]
TMan978 the Binaltechs actually either are a continuation or just another line in the alternators I think,Cause when I compared my Alternators nemesis to the binaltech model they were almost spot on alike,only difference was there was some grey coloring instead of Just teal black and red
+I Am Legend here's the rundown. Binaltech is the Japanese release. They have or at least had at first, metal parts and better paint. They released about 4 months before the US released alternators. In Japan they were pretty much Masterpiece figures having an extensive bio an interesting illustrations in their booklets. The Hasbro Alternators we're not allowed to have bios in the as an agreement with the car companies. None of the car companies wanted to be associated with War toys. At least not until the first live-action Transformers movie came out then every car company started being more lenient
Love Alternators, especially ones turns into race cars ^^
I distinctly remember promo photos of this guy before he was released, showing him with brown flecked paint on the body panels (mostly around the front)... the implication seemed to be that he would be a dirt track racer. Which would have been *sweet*, since all the other Alternators had mostly plain vanilla paint jobs. Oh, well. 🤷♂️
It says "Sporal Plugs". Windcharger was going to be a Mustang but was swapped out for Wheeljack like you said, this was then going to be Windcharger but they changed their minds and made him Decepticharge which was the combo of Decepticon and Windcharger - how unique! They were going to use this mold for Arcee, Paradrone Medic and Black Arachnia but they were canceled after QC issues with this figure's neck breaking and distribution issues. He was a Hasbro only figure - he was a giveaway prize only in Japan in a Takara contest.
You know if their plans for Arcee involved a new head? She got Decepticharge's head in Japan
I don't - I presume it was going to be the same as the one in Japan due to cost reduction like this guy had the Windcharger head.
he reminds me of g1 pointblank
i love alternators and binaltechs... thanks for the review i did not even know he did not wven have a barrrel when u open... vamcause kine still inside a box...
If you haven't seen, here's my Transformers ALTERNATORS/Binaltech CHILL REVIEWS Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLegahrCDClEs3QdEm0L-xNPF2L3DJy6-h.html
Eu gosto do decepticharge
the alternators do actually have Bios,it just demands some digging,For example dead ends was that he was the first decepticon to obtain an alternator body,His being Stolen after being finished in the production line,His Mind was then downloaded to the body and the deceticons took over the facility from which the body was made,using mind control on all the human allies who made them while Dead end Held down the fort[ie. the facility]
+I Am Legend those were the Binaltech bios. Officially in the US they had no bios. Later on they got a one sentence character motto
TMan978 the Binaltechs actually either are a continuation or just another line in the alternators I think,Cause when I compared my Alternators nemesis to the binaltech model they were almost spot on alike,only difference was there was some grey coloring instead of Just teal black and red
+I Am Legend here's the rundown. Binaltech is the Japanese release. They have or at least had at first, metal parts and better paint. They released about 4 months before the US released alternators. In Japan they were pretty much Masterpiece figures having an extensive bio an interesting illustrations in their booklets. The Hasbro Alternators we're not allowed to have bios in the as an agreement with the car companies. None of the car companies wanted to be associated with War toys. At least not until the first live-action Transformers movie came out then every car company started being more lenient