I haven’t bought many of the toys from Takara’s Transformers Adventure* series, so it may be that my understanding of the line is faulty, but from what I can tell, many of the toys were Hasbro releases that were produced for the Japanese market in redecorated versions. I would have rather seen a shoulder blaster instead of the axe - to make the toy a little more like the original - though that’s a minor detail and there’s no real reason that Runabout doesn’t work just fine with a hand weapon. The original was a block of plastic on wheels where this toy has actual joints and serves as a small transforming robot action figure. The 1986 Runabout may win in the toy car department, but it is tough to deny that this 2015 Takara Transformers Adventure Decepticon Runabout doesn’t beat the earlier release when it comes to robot modes. On top of that, the parts don’t lock together quite well enough for this to serve as a toy car, even if the wheels rolled well. and it isn’t just because the new toy doesn’t include a pull-back motor. It kinda skids and slides a bit, sure, but it in no way matches the racing action of the classic Battlechargers. The wheels do not roll well, the base of the vehicle almost drags, and there’s no way that you can roll the toy across a desk or floor. Where the vehicle mode fails, though, is in acting as a toy car. The axe/spoiler isn’t quite Generation One accurate, but it works well and overall, I am fine with this mold being used as a Battlecharger. Runabout works quite nicely as a modern take on the 1986 Battlechargers toy, with the Transformers Combiner Wars Blackjack* repainted to follow the designs of that classic self-transforming toy. And yes, they did release Runamuck, but we’ll have to wait until a later day for that harder-to-find Transformers toy. Here we have the more common of the two Takara 2015 Battlechargers, Runabout, which was released as part of the Transformers Adventure* series. (My girlfriend would argue that my brain still works like this today, even though I am a grown man now.When I shared those customized Transformers Battlechargers toys last month there’s something I failed to do: I should have dug deeper into the situation surrounding Transformers Combiner Wars Blackjack* toy and repaints, because it turns out that Takara made the customs a reality. 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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