Category Archives: Binaltech Alternators
Binaltech BT-13 to BT-16
Finish with a flourish
When Transformers collectors speak about Generation 1, the rose-tinted glasses come out and nostalgia colours perceptions. The technology employed at the time of manufacture is now appreciated for what it was in the grand scheme of things, and the figures that made up the line are enjoyed as venerable icons. When collectors now speak of Binaltech, they’re sometimes described as “ahead of …
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Binaltech BT-09 to BT-12
Experimentation
Cowards play it safe. Think of a breakthrough artist whose first album showed glimmers of massive potential including an unforgettable debut hit that will be chanted in stadiums forever. The second album builds on that potential shown to establish the band as something special, but then comes the difficult third album where a crossroads is reached. Do you go for the same winning …
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Binaltech BT-05 to BT-08
Enter the repaints
Binaltech, Alternators, reissues, Cybertron, Energon, Armada, Classics, Henkei, United, Generations, Movie, Animated, Prime, 3rd Party and Masterpiece, the scenery has been moving rapidly for Transformers collectors in the last decade. For completists the sheer weight of product must have been overwhelming, and for the dabblers not much easier. That’s to say nothing about the distraction of vintage collecting.
Often …
Binaltech BT-01 to BT-04
Start of something beautiful
Licensed real-life vehicles, strong homages to Generation 1 Transformers, updated interpretations with much-improved posability and action figure technology, aimed at the collectors moreso than children, feverishly lapped up by fans during their pomp. No, this is not another article about the new Masterpiece Transformers toy line, I am talking about Takara’s Transformers Binaltech chapter, a series of toys that these …
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Tagged Alternators, Binaltech, Bluestreak, BT-01. World Rally Championship, BT-02, BT-03, BT-04, Dodge, Hasbro, Hound, Impreza, Jeep, Lambor, Masterpiece, Sideswipe, Smokescreen, Streak, Subaru, Takara, Transformers, Viper, Wrangler
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Display Space
The dream
One of the greatest joys of having, adding to and maintaining a vintage Transformers collection, or any collection for that matter, is the ability to display it. When collections reach a certain size, it becomes harder and harder to appreciate each individual item that helps make up the glorious whole. There’s nothing like organising a display of Transformers toys, boxed, loose …
Collector Fail
My best work
Collectors of vintage Transformers and pre-Transformers regularly deal with items that are nearly 30 years old, most of which are pre-owned, loved and abused, so they can be trusted to employ the required care and attention in order to preserve these collector’s items of value and beauty. That is, until very recently, when stories of broken vintage pre-TFs and rare G1 in the …
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Tagged Binaltech, Browning, Ceji, Devastator, Diaclone, Diatrain, Hasbro, Joustra, Micro Change, Prowl, Raiden, Takara, Trainbot, Trainrobo, Transformers
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Escalation – A Collector’s Story
European G1 Starscream
It’s 1984 and you’re too young to remember The Transformers. It’s 1986 and you’ve seen “Arrival from Cybertron” on television and VHS many times. You are moved by Starscream’s traitorous behaviour and Mirage’s heroism. Your parents take you, your older brother and cousin to the biggest Toys ‘R’ Us around. While you’re looking at Teddy Ruxpin bears your mother says “Your brother and cousin have …
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Tagged artwork, Black Tracks, BotCon, Diaclone, Finland, Joustra, Mexican Transformers, Mirage, Movie, Optimus Prime, Prototype, Reissue, Starscream, Tracks, Transformers
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Alternators Artwork Gallery – Part 2
Alternators Meister original box artwork (Marcelo Matere)
The packaging for a Transformer is so much more to most of us than just a container for the toy we’re after and a pretty picture or two designed to entice us. As collectors we don’t usually need the box artwork to do any talking, we already know what’s inside and have made our decision, even moreso with newer …
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Tagged Alex Milne, Alternators, Camshaft, Guido Guidi, Hasbro, Jazz, Marcelo Matere, Meister, Mirage, Paul Vromen, Prowl, Skids, Sunstreaker, Tracks
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Alternators Artwork Gallery – Part 1
Alternators Mirage production box art
What makes us buy a Transformer? Maybe it’s the developed character from a comic, cartoon, movie or game. Maybe it’s the design of the toy itself or the vehicle/item it is based upon. Maybe it’s the character, a fan favourite or talismanic member of a faction. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s the beautiful box art that can ultimately sell a Transformer …
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Tagged Alternators, Binaltech, Guido Guidi, Hasbro, Marcelo Matere, Mirage, Skids, Swerve, Takara, Tracks, Wheeljack
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The Racing Cars of Diaclone and Early G1
Nimble as an elf too
The month of May plays host to two of the world’s biggest and most historic motor racing events, the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500. Just a few weeks later we have the immense Le Mans 24 hour race in June, so what a perfect opportunity this is to pay tribute to the magnificent racing cars used by …
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Tagged Autobot, Binaltech, Datsun, Diaclone, Fairlady, GiG, Jazz, Joustra, Lancia Stratos, Ligier, Mirage, Porsche, racing, Smokescreen, Transformers, Wheeljack
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