Cool, never knew about those features. Makes my wondering indeed why this wasn't shown on the box or in the instructions. A few years later they did do this with the D.E.M.O.N. and the Despoiler. Small feature, but a big win.
Jogunwarrior wrote:
Battle Force 2000 Future Fortress was a big missed opportunity. Nothing connected, the pieces all just sat next to each other.
From the same year, the Road Toad also missed the mark. I think the idea for a battlefield recovery vehicle is awesome, but it never made sense to have a vehicle designed for towing required to be towed. It should have been a modular two vehicles in one type toy like so many other vehicles from that era. The rear could detach to service or hoist a broken down VAMP, while the forward section continued battlefield maneuvers. That would have been awesome.
Agreed. The least they could've done is throw in some connection pieces. I remember some small Transformers could be combined to form one huge Transformer. It was in the same era
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Road Toad is really strange, yeah. A vehicle to tow other vehicles, but it has to be towed itself!? What the....? I do like it a lot though.
I tried combining two bunkers already in my childhood. But I can also remember thinking back then "how would a Cobra get in there?"
I think the Surveillance Port was a little bit disappointing too. The guy manning the big machine gun hardly had any cover and I always thought "my Joes could walk around it and attack from that one open side". It didn't spoil my playfun though, that thing was involved in almost every battle! One cool feature was the molded "escape hatch" on the bottom of the floor. Looked very cool.
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