Were I to look actually carefully at my fingers, I’m positive I may discover a lingering scar or two from a childhood spent painstakingly reworking robots into automobiles and again once more—a course of fraught with occasional pinched fingers. To my technology, Transformers toys have been a problem on par with these metallic ring puzzles, however right now’s youngsters want to do nothing greater than smash their toys to get the job accomplished.

This is Hasbro’s new Transformers: Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures Dinobots Unite Smash Changer Optimus Prime determine, which solely bears a passing resemblance to the heroic bot chief that was launched to the world in the unique ‘80s animated series. Since then there have been countless Transformers cartoons and movies, and to keep them all unique and marketable, the character’s appearances and car modes have modified significantly through the years. What’s at all times stayed the identical is the multi-step strategy of going from a robotic, to a car, and again once more, which was particularly pleasurable and difficult (and infrequently dangerous) for individuals who eschewed an instruction handbook.

By comparability, it takes simply three steps to rework the most recent Optimus Prime toy from a truck right into a robotic, however it’s even simpler than that. As the toy’s full title implies, as a substitute of twisting limbs and folding physique panels out of the way in which, the nine-inch tall Prime may be reworked utilizing three smash motions. Remember the fashion you felt as a child once they killed off Optimus Prime within the Transformers animated film? Hasbro is now letting youngsters channel that vitality into the precise toys. After smashing the highest of the truck, youngsters simply must smash the toy a few additional instances on a tough floor to disclose Prime’s bot mode.

I’m all for each technology having a better run on this planet than the final did, and I’m not going to fake like I didn’t have moments as a child after I wished to smash a Transformer toy after failing to correctly get it again into car mode. But it was these irritating childhood experiences that helped make me the curmudgeonly outdated man I’m right now with the knowledge and motivation to complain about fashionable Transformers toys.

The Transformers: Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures Dinobots Unite Smash Changer Optimus Prime shall be formally accessible later this yr someday in October for $32.

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