{"id":45199,"date":"2008-03-11T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=45199"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:54:06","slug":"yo-thoughts-on-transformers-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/yo-thoughts-on-transformers-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"yo: thoughts on Transformers Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yo sez:<\/p>\n<p>Here's something to ponder on TFTuesday: Hasbro has made <a href=\"\/yo\/swtfslave.php\"><i>Star Wars<\/i> Transformers<\/a>, and they have Marvel ones on the way as well. So where, may I ask, are the GI Joe versions?<\/p>\n<p>There have been many GI Joe\/Transformers crossovers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megaupload.com\/?d=4N19H4NL\" target=\"_blank\">in the comics<\/a>, so why not in the toys? Fans would be lining up to get them, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I don't mean that we should have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yojoe.com\/vehicles\/83\/hiss\/\" target=\"joe\">HISS tank<\/a>, for instance, that turns into Cobra Commander, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yojoe.com\/vehicles\/82\/ram\/\" target=\"joe\">a motorcycle<\/a> that turns into Snake-Eyes - that would just be silly. But a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yojoe.com\/vehicles\/84\/rattler\/\" target=\"joe\">Rattler<\/a> jet that turns into Starscream? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yojoe.com\/vehicles\/83\/wolverine\/\" target=\"joe\">Wolverine<\/a> that changes into Ironhide? Include tiny Joe and Cobra figures to serve as drivers, and you'd have a sure-fire hit. Heck, they already did something similar with the <a href=\"\/yo\/tfe_snow.php\"><i>Energon<\/i> Snow Cat<\/a>, and it was awesome.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a105.ac-images.myspacecdn.com\/images01\/12\/l_d3ca628b454c024ca6fe4abbf667f870.jpg\" alt=\"you can do better than this, Hasbro\" title=\"Like this, Hasbro, but better\" height=\"375\" width=\"300\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So with the movie coming up next year, how about it, Hasbro? Where are our GI Joe Transformers?<\/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=\"Periodic table of Transformers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/periodic-table-of-transformers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Periodic table of Transformers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Carb O'Nate exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/transformers-botbots-carb-onate-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Carb O'Nate exclusive review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Another suitably '80s altmode for Soundwave\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/another-suitably-80s-altmode-for-soundwave\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Another suitably '80s altmode for Soundwave<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The power of imagination. Or optimism.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-power-of-imagination-or-optimism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The power of imagination. Or optimism.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Slappyhappy review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/transformers-botbots-slappyhappy-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Slappyhappy review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yo sez: Here's something to ponder on TFTuesday: Hasbro has made Star Wars Transformers, and they have Marvel ones on the way as well. So where, may I ask, are the GI Joe versions? There have been many GI Joe\/Transformers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/yo-thoughts-on-transformers-tuesday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8],"tags":[22,14],"class_list":["post-45199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-hasbro","tag-gi-joe","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45199","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45200,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45199\/revisions\/45200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}