Spotted Online – Transformers + Universal Monsters

Everything always gets weird when you start looking deeper and deeper into it. Take, for example, the classic Transformers Generation One toyline. Not satisfied with the weirdness of Headmasters and Pretenders in the late eighties, Hasbro toyed with the idea of a “Vintage Horror Movie Series” which — as we can see at the TFWiki — would have brought the likes of Dracula and the Creature from the Black Lagoon into the Transformers.

What I find especially cool is that Hasbro could probably make this idea happen today with an official Universal Monsters license. Just imagine how much fun it would be to walk into the store and find your very own Frankenstein or Mummy Transformer right beside the Star Wars and Marvel Transformers toys. Make them a Halloween release and they’d probably sell just fine. Plus, once you painted Frankenstein pink and made a few slight modifications you would have a Franken Berry Transformers toy. I’ll take two!

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