The future as I imagined it in the 90's has finally arrived

This is what we have hobbies for. Now it is time for the we-don’t-need-takeout-because-we-have-burgers-at-home version out of disassembled transformers, some motors, LEDs, and an Arduino.

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bagelwholedonutwhole@reddit

You get whole raw chicken for toy, now go and play

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Away-Quantity928@reddit

I’m that stupid, don’t have a wife but also don’t have $1200 of FU money.

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blackhawksq@reddit

What she doesn't know, won't hurt you

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drrj@reddit

I had to stop myself from buying some hugely expensive Star Trek LEGO set once.

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drrj@reddit

Haha yeah I know there also obscenely pricey Star Wars stuff but I am a classic Trek fan. To the point I have Vulcan calligraphy tattoos on my forearm. But no LEGO sets.

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WingedGeek@reddit

I'm just not familiar with anything Lego that was Star Trek I don't think they licensed it?

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khinkalitzchen@reddit

Bluebrixx, they even have figurines now

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drrj@reddit

Oh I admit I might be mixing up what kind of toy it was. It was some years ago. But it was a very expensive Trek toy of some sort.

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Shrek1982@reddit

Not official LEGO but they licensed to so other block brand IIRC. So it is obscenely priced off-brand LEGO.

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amonarre3@reddit

I still want one, just need to win lottery so wife agrees with the purchase

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PumpkinSpice2Nice@reddit

Does it do anything else for the $1200 for it to be worth it?

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ItsFoolishPride@reddit

Yeah, it should be a vacuum in its tank form. Roombatron.

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buppiejc@reddit

Same. No kids, no wife to support. That thing is mine.

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mickeltee@reddit

I could afford it, but I do have a wife and she would probably murder me if I bought it.

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buppiejc@reddit

Tell her all your Reddit friends are getting one, and let us know what her response is. ……don’t forget to duck! 😆

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cortesoft@reddit

If someone had shown this to me before my kids were born….

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Drum_Eatenton@reddit

There are cooler electronics you can get for that kind of money. Once you show your friend group this thing, it just becomes a $1,000 toy that just sits there.

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Dramatic_Addition_68@reddit

Ok what’s cooler than this for 1k?

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Drum_Eatenton@reddit

I used to scoff at soundbar surround sound, then I got one for that ballpark. It blows my old Sony 5.1 surround sound out of the water and it’s very low key

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Quixotegut@reddit

Neat... but the transformation sound being over before 10% of the transformation is done is whack.

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ExpressCheck4089@reddit

Do this in the Dune universe it’s over lol

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DepartmentSudden5234@reddit

Can I please get a link to buy this thing???

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stardust54321@reddit

my husband got home today from taking our son to the park & he went OFF on how jealous he was of some kid that had a remote control Optimus Prime toy like this.

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Sharpshooter188@reddit

Didnt megatron originally just turn into a big floaty gun that fired itself?

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phlavor@reddit

Hey Megatron. Go make me a sandwich.

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Aggressive-Level1500@reddit

It use to take me a full 5 years to transform them by hand

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Enigmatic_Observer@reddit

As cool as that is, Megatron is a handgun, not a tank in my brain.

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SnooEagles6930@reddit

In all fairness it never made sense why he would be a handgun

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Hopeful_Strategy8282@reddit

Yeah, like he turns into the weapon used by the guy who’s always talking about betraying him? Doesn’t make loads of sense

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he was originally a handgun because he was a licensed toy from a different line that transformed into life size items (watches, radios, etc). Being evil, the most obvious life size handheld item would be a gun. It actually worked out well storywise IMO because it showed his character pretty well; he was ineffective without others also being evil or choosing to be evil and he had no other purpose other than to do harm. It was a pretty defining "guns are bad" statement too but I get why they stopped it. I just wish he had better alt modes than a generic tank/plan/ship. He's the main bad guy and his new alt form is one of the least memorable/consistent.

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TheLastBlakist@reddit

I think he was the man from U.N.C.L.E. variant of the microchange walther PPK.

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space-to-bakersfield@reddit

> he was originally a handgun because he was a licensed toy from a different line that transformed into life size items (watches, radios, etc). Did Soundwave come from that line too?

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kelp_forests@reddit

Yes, it was called (“micro change”)[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Micro_Change] There is a YouTube channel called the basics on transformers and one or two of the episodes is how the toyline was originally created, and it’s actually pretty interesting. It answered a lot of questions I had. It’s actually made me appreciate transformers even more, and now I’m a little sad they are unifying all the storylines into one consistent lore. I kinda enjoyed the slightly different retellings, made it seem a little more mythological…and you could pick and choose what you liked.

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dontrespondever@reddit

Specifically, he was a Nazi handgun.

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AfternoonPast3324@reddit

On the one hand, something that I heard when the ‘07 movie was getting ready to release made sense. The Decepticon leader transforms into something so small he can be handled. And actually has to be handled in order to be useful against an enemy. A change in design made sense in that light, as well as them obviously not wanting to market handgun toys. But on the other hand, Megatron is a handgun with a scope and a shoulder stock and that’s cool just because it is. Him not being a handgun will never sit right with me. I couldn’t even enjoy hearing Galvatron would be in the 4th movie because he obviously wasn’t going to be a huge canon.

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Good_Pirate2491@reddit

The huge cannon was fucking badass though. Starscream really had it coming.

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TheLastBlakist@reddit

Would anyone care to fill his shoes?

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kelp_forests@reddit

I understand why he was a gun and why they wanted to move away from it (even though personally I think he should have still become a space rifle or something). I wish they hadn't chosen a tank because plenty of other transformers are tanks or vehicles with mounted weapons. He needed to be something different..I wish they had gone with him transforming into a dragon, a monster, something really tiny that could control other things...idk more creative than just a tank.

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Cubelock@reddit (OP)

True! Sadly they completely avoid the gun design these days. Hasbro doesn't even reissue the G1 toy version anymore, only Takara in Japan still does it.

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getwetordietrying420@reddit

I remember that episode of the Toys that Made Us and the Green Rangers flute sword was like legitimately sharp for the Japanese version. Toy safety is not a number one priority over there.

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its_raining_scotch@reddit

My favorite toy gun was my black uzi. But my M-16 was pretty awesome too. And yeah, they looked pretty real in the dark.

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Drugs_R_Kewl@reddit

I remember the Inter Tek line of toys in the eighties. They were so realistic that cops would literally shoot kids because they were "Fearing for their lives." The megatron pistol was dope though.

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numberonealcove@reddit

Led to law changes in many states, where the business end of toy barrels had to be safety/dayglo orange in color.

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Drugs_R_Kewl@reddit

I remember that. The company changed the paint schemes in order to clearly identify their products as water toys. Pretty sure they went under at some point or were bought out by Mitt Romney's people. He was known for doing that.

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Cubelock@reddit (OP)

Still is :) I have the G1 and Master Piece version: [https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/10wylp0/just\_me\_myself\_i/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/10wylp0/just_me_myself_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

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Hmm_I_KNOW@reddit

Oh wow! Do you still have the Ali link for the KO? I have never shopped from that site before and I'm not sure which merchants to trust. I can DM.

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pct2daextreme@reddit

You could buy an actual Walther P38 for the same price.

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thechristoph@reddit

Never really bothered me. After all, what is a tank if not a big ass portable gun?

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BobbyGuano@reddit

Yeah G1 Megatron…but literally everything after the OG animated movie changed him to a tank or a space ship.

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RedSix2447@reddit

Came here to say this. Wasn’t the original design a German Luger too?

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OlDirtyTriple@reddit

Walther P38/P1, with some stylistic flourishes.

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schwartzchild76@reddit

Megatron was a gun.

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esoldelulu@reddit

I’m not into Transformers, but if this can also vacuum the floor - take my money.

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TheLastBlakist@reddit

IKR? It's not enough that the roomba is a hocky puck that moves on its own. make it a F'ing TANK that moters around.

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Free-Contribution-93@reddit

As a father in his 40s, I'm 100% blown away by this. I just wish my kids could understand. In the near future, we will be explaining to kids we had to do this by hand. Like, figure it out on your own if you lost your booklet.

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TheLastBlakist@reddit

I was the autistic kid everyone in my family brought their transformers to because they lost thier booklettes. There was just.... something about how my brain worked at the time I could just see how everything flipped around. I would hand their toy back properly transformed.

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KitchenNazi@reddit

"Figure it out on your own if you lost your booklet." - curse of the greatest American hero.

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Free-Contribution-93@reddit

First world problems, right?!

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MattyRixz@reddit

Definitely tough, I was extremely mechanically inclined, and couldn't figure out a few of my buddies transformers

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KaleidoscopeLegal583@reddit

Crosspost in r/transformers?

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TheLastBlakist@reddit

that is both insanely cool and... kid-Me would be kinda sad he didn't get to. Even more disappointed that after all that? Megatron can't move.

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No_Cow_4544@reddit

Very cool but aren’t you a gun

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ecozits@reddit

Not me thinking it was a fancy roomba skin

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No_Description_483@reddit

I was having a rough day. That was about 30 seconds ago. Thanks OP !! All better

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novisimo@reddit

I'd love to know the guy that came up with the sound for the transforming. Key memory unlocked.

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USWolves@reddit

I wish Transformers were real dudes we could chill with, but still only this size.

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Beantownbrews@reddit

Just wait a few years to see what Boston Dynamics does with this.

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Geekboxing@reddit

Weird that he's a tank and not a gun, butttttttt here in 2024 I understand. Now where's the best Transformer, Soundwave???????

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three-sense@reddit

Probably an ode to the G2 Megatron

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ElJeferox@reddit

I thought it was going to turn into an upright vacuum lol.

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Disavowed_Rogue@reddit

I've spent more on pictures on the internet this thing's awesome

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Top-Telephone9013@reddit

>spent more on pictures on the internet Do tell us about the expensive internet pictures. You mean gacha games?

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Rags2Rickius@reddit

You can tell a lot of commenters never moved beyond G1 Transformers in this thread

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Independent-Wolf-832@reddit

![gif](giphy|dARUXSVNXc5Da|downsized)

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Deluxe78@reddit

Not gonna lie , I was kinda hoping it was a Roomba mod

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media-and-stuff@reddit

At 1st I thought it was just a cool rumba cover. lol

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m8remotion@reddit

You are facing the wrong way Megatron!

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buttery_nurple@reddit

Dude I got the Optimus Prime and almost started crying like an idiot the first time I played with it.

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kurwaman12@reddit

Kind of odd that he would introduce himself in the middle of a conversation like that

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kratomklaus@reddit

Holy shit! Get me a StarScream and I’m all in for 2 G’s.

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SailMoonDog@reddit

Only on Reddit

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PhineusQButterfat@reddit

[low voice] Melody!

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48HoursLater@reddit

I audibly yelled "ohhhh shiiiiitttt!!!"

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Striking_Conclusion2@reddit

Legit

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Henchforhire@reddit

Now we just need a Johnny 5 with a laser.

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YoualreadyKnoooo@reddit

I bet i could easily engineer this to be an actual weapon with a bit of capital…

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CompetitionOk2302@reddit

Let me know when it can wash the windows.

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Someidiot666-1@reddit

Megaton isn’t a tank. Fuck this bastardized version of my childhood hero

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HunterMeares@reddit

Not gonna lie I totally want one of those.

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Quez0lc0atl@reddit

r/holdmywallet

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Competitive-Meal2322@reddit

My jaw actually dropped! That is awesome!

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hyporheic@reddit

I wish my main battle tank could do that.

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83CO@reddit

Oh wow, only $1200. https://us.robosen.com/products/flagship-megatron

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kalebdraws@reddit

And it doesn't even walk..

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QuietRatatouille@reddit

Meh. My leaky roof can hold up for another year.

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Man_Without_Nipples@reddit

Kids have way cooler toys these days, man that is so sick!

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tacocat_racecarlevel@reddit

Shut up, Starscream!

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justifythethril07@reddit

Only that friend with rich parents had it though.

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elMurpherino@reddit

Man that wouldve made my childhood friends so jealous

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Ambitious_Toe_4357@reddit

The Transformers pinnacle was in 1986, when the OG movie was released. Let's fight.

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xmadjesterx@reddit

Get him and Optimus Prime. Let them battle

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Obscuriosly@reddit

Now let's get a Small Soldiers reboot, but with this style of Transformers toys.

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NatPortmanTaintStank@reddit

I thought this was going to be from that movie Toys staring Robin Williams

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elbowless2019@reddit

Pretty cool!

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SnooEagles6930@reddit

My parents would have never bought me that. I on the other hand will gladly spend money on that

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Xibby@reddit

But… why does Megatron listen to a human?

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D3LICI0U5@reddit

I’ve died and gone to 1986

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wubrotherno1@reddit

Wow! That is so rad!

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MakingWaves24_7@reddit

Real Life Tranformers that are just as big as the movies show isnt far enough away technologically speaking for my comfort.

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RobbyFingers@reddit

You know your little bother would have broke this shit in a hot minute

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Annhl8rX@reddit

I had no idea what I was looking at before hitting play and was expecting something much cooler than that.

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AquariusRising1983@reddit

Holy damn shit that's cool as hell!! Bet it cost you a pretty penny...

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ph30nix01@reddit

I want a remote controlled battlemech from battletech/mechwarrior. Imagined those since I was a kid.

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randysavagevoice@reddit

The countdown to our doom just sped up.

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happyhippy27@reddit

No Way!!! I need the transformation sound though ![gif](giphy|4rLVuq4WqrMQw)

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

Pretty sure the Optimus Prime one does the sound effect.

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No_Zombie2021@reddit

How could they miss that?

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vid_icarus@reddit

I got my son the robosen Optimus and Grimlock for different birthdays. This one is next on his list.

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EyeLess7299@reddit

WANT

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AstronautSea6694@reddit

I mean there was voice bot [https://youtu.be/GF37qea3M5U?si=R9M4zt3yWBUF6Em6](https://youtu.be/GF37qea3M5U?si=R9M4zt3yWBUF6Em6)

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ElboDelbo@reddit

I gotta say...the amount of useless shit I would buy if I was rich is astronomical.

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Bertybassett99@reddit

Wants Megatron just a gun?!?!

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OmgYoureAdorable@reddit

I don’t know what a megatron is but it makes me happy seeing someone get the toy of their dreams!

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83CO@reddit

My brother would go gaga for this.

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Off-Safety@reddit

This modernized my nostalgia. Tank you for this!

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