Anyway,
long story short I love IDW's Transformers comics, they remind me of
being a kid and playing with those toys. I am especially enamoured of
the current crossover event Combiner Wars because I loved the
Combiner sets as a kid. What wasn't to love? Toy robots that not only
turned into toy cars but also clipped together to make a bigger toy
robot. Through frugal saving of pocket money I even got two complete
sets: the Combaticons and Protectobots.
Anyway,
spinning out of Combiner Wars, IDW are introducing an all-female
Combiner team which Hasbro will then release as toys. Hasbro has even
made a statement that they're doing this because they want their
female fans to feel they're part of the story, which is rather sweet.
There
have been female Transformers before, of course, including Windblade
here who has been a big presence in the comics for a while now.
I
need to stop dancing around and get to the crass part, don't I? Well,
you see, the announcement mentioned there would be six Transformers
in this all-female Combiner team and as I remember the Combaticons
and Protectobots there were five robots to a Combiner: a torso, two
arms and two legs.
So
I'm kind of worried the sixth female Transformer on this team might
be used to form the breasts of the giant robot.
(I
also, as an addendum, ended up on the Transformers wikia when looking
for pictures for this post and found out there was a Combiner team
made out of trains. I imagine they never made it to a UK release
because I was such a train fanatic as a kid and somehow I never
noticed them.
Oh,
and I'm probably wrong about the breasts thing since it turns out
there are six Transformers in at least one Combiner team: the
Constructicons.)
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