Hahahahaha
Whenever we visit friends with kids, within the first ten minutes one of the parents will sidle up to me with a mish-mash mangle of plastic joints and ask..."Can you turn this back into a truck for us?"

And you're being a bit kind on the original Transformers - Prowl's arms were/are a nightmare to put away, especially what with the fact that his roof is held on with the slenderest of plastic bits and he'll become a convertible if you so much as breathe on him funny.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 8:05, 1 reply)

To be fair, I am basing my opinion of "classic" Transformers
on the single HeadMaster that we retrieved from my parents loft. 4 points of articulation! The kids lost his head pretty quickly, though. :(
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 8:56, closed)

Yeah that was a major drawback to the Headmasters
I've got a couple without heads though I do have a couple of spare heads for others that I picked up at a car boot sale for abut 10p each. The other problem was that they tended to be kinda blocky to incorporate the gimmick - the Targetmasters that were released alongside them are better as they don't suffer from either of these issues.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 9:29, closed)

The novelty of the transforming head wore off pretty quick.
Don't remember TargetMasters, although I do recall going off Transformers when Pretenders were released, as it struck me as a particularly stupid gimmick.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 9:53, closed)