{"id":43937,"date":"2025-01-07T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=43937"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:46:53","slug":"soon-forget-transformers-prime-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/soon-forget-transformers-prime-gears\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: \"Transformers Prime\" Gears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's <i>Transformers Prime<\/i> Gears.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfp_rat.php\"><i>Prime<\/i> Ratchet<\/a> was released, his instructions showed a much different head than the toy had. That's not unusual for Transformers, but it wasn't immediately clear who this alternate head was supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tfp_gears1.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"335\" title=\"surprise mystery head!\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was eventually revealed to be a <i>Prime<\/i> version of Gears, a decent choice given their similar altmodes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tfp_gears2.jpg\" title=\"TF Prime Gears\" width=\"525\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Boss Fight Studio's Andrew Franks designed the toy's colors, but ultimately it never went into production (for unknown reasons).<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Novastar addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/transformers-novastar-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Novastar addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Drippy Pup review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/transformers-botbots-drippy-pup-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Drippy Pup review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - June '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/flippin-through-previews-june-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - June '15<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Tuesday: City Commander instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/transformers-tuesday-city-commander-instructions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Tuesday: City Commander instructions<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Build your own Megatron cat condo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/build-your-own-megatron-cat-condo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Build your own Megatron cat condo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's Transformers Prime Gears. When Prime Ratchet was released, his instructions showed a much different head than the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/soon-forget-transformers-prime-gears\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,331,8],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-43937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-hasbro","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43941,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43937\/revisions\/43941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}