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EXTENDAR™ Each Sold Separately |
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| FROM THE GALLERIES |
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Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
On the left, a glum, grumbly, gloomy, grouchy grouse: GEARS by name, a truck by game, one tasked with material transport and reconnaissance. He was released in 1984 along with the rest of the very first Autobots, though with less fanfare than most, I would be greatly surprised to hear anyone call him their favorite. He was the star of only one cartoon episode, "Changing Gears", wherein the Decepticons' fiendish plot relied upon altering Gears' disposition from rain to shine. He was the star of only one comic book (US issue #3) wherein he teamed up with Spider-Man to infiltrate Decepticon headquarters. (Though the web-slinger is the one featured on the cover, Gears was at least awarded the comic's upper-left corner box beside the masthead, a distinction usually reserved for Autobot leaders.) These distinctions may not amount to much, but compared to some of the later, lesser-known Transformers, Gears is practically royalty.
What the hell is up with the dentist? I mean, who the hell wants to be a dentist. Frankly, I don't get it. Why would you want to stare at this all day?
Consider with me now our mutual friend, the pre-eminent Autobot scientist: PERCEPTOR. He's not just the only Transformer who turned into a working microscope with the ability to magnify objects by a factor of 14. He also appeared in 30 of the original 98 episodes of the cartoon, and he and Grimlock were the only Season Two Autobots to be grandfathered into the Season Three regular cast. In addition to being super-smart, he's brave, self-sacrificing, and not afraid to shoot back. So sit up and take notice of our updated box art for Perceptor. This image was edited by Nailbomb and scanned from the Japanese laserdiscs box sets.
And speaking of updating Perceptor... There have been two other "updates" of this character recently. One was his introduction as an infrequent supporting character in the greatly-missed Transformers: Animated series, the other was in the pages of the ongoing IDW comics. Let's compare.
