Transformers Studio Series ‘86 Movie Line

I’ve been avoiding Hasbro’s Studio Series figures for the past couple of years because they’ve mainly been about characters from the live-action movies, which I’m not too keen on. But this year’s ‘86 movie line, based on the original Transformers: The Movie animated feature, hit me right in the nostalgia gland.

The line features movie-accurate (or as accurate as Hasbro can get) versions of characters from the iconic film. Newcomers (at the time) like Hot Rod, Kup, and Nipples the Motorcycle (Wreck-Gar) are presented in movie-accurate colors, with little details pulled straight from the animation cels. As with other figures in the Studio Series, each comes packaged with a movie-inspired backdrop for photos and display.

Even better, the figures are in scale with one another. The original Dinobots were relatively small figures. The ‘86 Studio Series Hot Rod figure is six-and-a-half inches tall. Grimlock and Slug (aka Slag) are both eight-and-a-half inches in robot form, relatively towering over their fellow Autobots. Now all I need is a movie-accurate Optimus Prime corpse and I’ll be all set.