Runamuck sticks to the gold stripe and gold grill of his G1 toy (adding a gold spoiler for good measure), but Runabout adds a large red stripe down the top of his alt mode, it helps to make them a little less salt and pepper looking together. That and the larger Decepticon symbol painted on the hood makes them truer to their G1 toys.
I am glad they used the Wheeljack version of this mold, as the front end looks much meaner than the original Tracks version does.Ī nice touch is that they retain the Tracks version’s rubsign on the roof, though Decepticon rather than Autobot. The box artwork includes Runamuck as well, being a take on the cover of their comic book debut, Marvel US issue 23 “Decepticon Graffiti!”
Knowing these guys were a duo, the TFCC folks actually carved out a removable piece for Runamuck in Runabout’s foam insert! The club exclusives come with snazzy packaging with cool artwork and foam inserts, but the membership figures ship in plain white boxes. Whereas Runamuck was this year’s membership figure, Runabout (or Over-Run as they call him due to copyright issues) was actually sold as one of this year’s two club exclusives, the other being Shattered Glass Drift. The head and mold working for both at the same time is where the genius of these two comes in. The new headsculpt used is perfect, and of course, works for both of them. Though you could argue that they should each have one gun on a shoulder, given where you place their G1 toys’ rifles, but it’s quite clear from every appearance in fiction they would ever make that these are meant to be handheld weapons, just that neither of them have actual hands in toy form. I like just tucking the wings down because that allows the trunk piece to still lock in to place properly. You can even fold their wings completely in and push the trunk piece up over their heads to make them look even more like their original toys.
Neither Runamuck nor Runabout do, so I leave their wings folded down and attach their would-be shoulder launchers to the clamps in their legs. Wheeljack and Tracks have wings and launchers on both the shoulders of their G1 toys. Now, before the claims of mis-transformation start I already have a variation of this mold twice as Tracks, G1 and Shattered Glass, and this same mold with a different head as Wheeljack. What has pushed G1 Runamuck and Runabout even further down on that list is why would I need the legless, armless Battlechargers when I have these guys, (My girlfriend would argue that my brain still works like this today, even though I am a grown man now.One of these “Battlespringers” is not who he claims to be…Īll four of these toys may eventually join my collection, somewhere down the road, but they’re pretty far down on the priorities list. So, of course I did what I always did when I came across some serious cash in those days, which was usually only around birthdays or the festive season, and that was to speed off to my local toy store to buy Transformers!! Really, that’s how my brain worked when I was a kid. One good day somewhere in the second half of the 1980s’s I found 25 guilders just lying on the pavement (the guilder was the awesome Dutch currency we used to have in the Netherlands, before we got the Euro -) and I just couldn’t believe my luck. Like I said I still remember buying Runabout in late 1986 or early 1987 at my local toy store. Still, I have a soft spot for Runabout, because it was a Transformer that I owned when I was a kid. This limited the way you could play with the toy, especially in car mode. Also there was no way to really play with the toy the way I wanted to, because pulling the car back would always inevitably trigger the motor mechanism whether I wanted to or not. In order to be able to transform automatically their transformations were usually relatively simple. Cool, right? Well, a little bit… To tell you the truth I was never really fond of these G1 Transformers with pull back motors.
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