Thoughts Before Bed:

I love the Transformers toys because I never really saw them as toys. I saw them as puzzles. Some of them had some some pretty complex transformations.

After the movie came out, the line changed and became a lot simpler, both in how they were made (way more plastic) and how they transformed (way simpler). That's probably why I lost interested in the line.

I love these new G1 re-releases because I not only get the figures I never got in the 80s, but they're all the original run, which had really good puzzle like transformations.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/thundercracker-shrapnel-and-perceptor-coming-to-the-walmart-g1-reissue-retro-line/47569/