1985 Transformers Dinobot Snarl Instruction Booklet
I have written before about how the original Transformers instructions are so much better then the modern transformation instructions (posted here), and today I want to share with you the instruction booklet for Snarl. In my opinion. it’s the combination of illustrations and words that make this work wonderfully. And the addition of a third color to the black and white printing works beautifully, making these instructions both a functional tool and a work of art.
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I am a staunch advocate of Hasbro returning to this way of printing instructions. The current ones are frequently unclear, leaving people with just ever-so-slightly mistransformed toys (and frustrated) because there’s inadequate description.
It seems like it should actually be EASIER to make these kinds of illustrations, being that the bots are likely rendered in Autocad (or similar) software.
I’m in agreement, the current method of relaying instructions is surprisingly clunky!