Restoring a Blast From The Past - Pushing G1 Blaster's Buttons - Vintage 80s Transformers
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- In this video, we tackle a common problem... G1 Blaster's broken buttons.
My brother bought one of these classic 80s Hasbro G1 Transformers and the buttons were frozen stuck.
Be ready for some cracking music and strobing lights!!
#vintagetoys #restoration #transformers
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During the pre-transformer days, Blaster was a microman figure referred to as MC-21 Radi0-Cassette Robo. Due to how the toy was configured as a working AM radio, the transformable micro-cassettes could not be stored in the tape door but were stored in the rear compartment. This compartment was carried over when the toy was released as Blaster.
Thanks for the info!!! That's really interesting and now I'm gonna have to lookup the AM radio version. Sounds awesome, literally! I can only assume the compartment was much easier to open, as I could only remove the lid from the inside 👍
Nice work as usual, Dave, repairing this Blaster Transformer Boombox. No easy task, but one small step at a time gets results. Thanks!
Thanks! 👍 Really enjoyed restoring this one and having a bit of fun with the video 🤘
😂😂😂 kids today will never know the joy of sitting down to eat a sandwich at the dinner table and just as your bum hits the seat, a VTR resto video drops! YES!!!!
More sterling work Dave, Blaster definitely on my wants list for this year, another fantastic repair job my friend, and a VTR outtake that’s right up my street 😂👏👏👏
Ha ha!! What are you doing with a phone at the dinner table 🤣 Love Blaster, we may both be looking for one this year. Sits really nicely with Soundwave! And those springs strike again. Seriously, several times that happened and I could here it bounce over by the cabinets. Found it with the Dinos 😎
@@VintageToyRush I had my phone at the table as I was eating alone 😔😂🤷🏻♂️
Brilliant job Dave. Those frozen buttons would certainly be a problem for kiddie fingers! Another one rescued from being consigned to the back of the display.
Thanks Jeff! 👍 Yeah, can imagine a few broken buttons back in the day. Apparently many of them were like that out of the box!
Imagine the excitement before opening and then the bubble bursting when you realise it doesn't work 🫤🫣
Great job Dave! Always a bonus when toys work as good as the look!
Thanks! 👍 I love the restoration process and brother has a fixed Blaster - win win!!
I heard that cursing all the way over here when that spring launched! 😉😂 Seriously though, the meticulous manner in which you trouble shoot these toy repairs is addictive to watch. Great job!
Thanks Scuba!! 🤘 Ha ha I'm imaging you on a dive and all of a sudden you hear a garbled curse pass by and you're thinking, oh Dave is restoring something again 🤣
Love these videos, Dave. The restoration ones are very therapeutic and your enthusiasm is infectious. Keep ‘em coming.
Ah thanks! I really appreciate your comment. I love creating these restoration videos but they take some time, so great to have feedback like this! 👍
Excellent fix Dave! Great video!
Thanks! 👍 Enjoyed restoring this one 😎
Fantastic Dave
Cheers Brian! 🤘
Fantastic!!! I have this Transformer with the same issue ❤ As Leanne is watching and you pressed play on Soundwave and music started, she looked at me and asked "they actually play music?" I laughed, and she knew it was thru the magic of editing that music was being played 😂😂😂
As always Dave, absolutely brilliant fix, and totally fascinating how you worked thru the issues 🤩👍😁
Thanks Matt! 👍 Ha! It's amazing what a couple of sound effects can do 🤣 But I have since learned the original version of Blaster did have a working radio in it!!! Mind blown. It seems this button problem is more wide spread than I'd imagined. A number of people have said they have the same problem after watching this. Lets fix all the Blasters 🤘
I love that they included a rubsign even with the giant Autobot symbol on his chest. Gee, wonder what side he's on:)
Ha! That's true. It didn't even cross my mind 👍
Great restoration and vid. You have the patience of a saint! 😂👍🏽
Thanks Gary!! Most of the time, I have patience 🤣
Awesome stuff, Dave! You really are a wizard at restoration & watching you at work is brilliant. I'm glad to hear you're such a potty mouth whilst you work as well!😁🤣🤣 Cheers👍🍻
Oh yeah, I have periods of patience mixed with outbursts of resto rage 🤣 Thanks, love doing these restorations!!
Great video Dave.. Thanks for sharing.. 👍😎👍
Thanks Nick!! 👍 Enjoyed restoring this one!
Awesome video sir! Yes, I hate springs too 😂 and yes many an hour spent scrabbling around on the floor looking for them 😅. My God that kid in the advert with the green eyes is truly terrifying 😮, really the stuff of nightmares......
Thanks! 👍 For some reason, springs don't like me 🤣 and yeah that kid's face made me laugh. When I searched for the advert, I found several versions which they must have released, the green eyes were added later!!
Great video man! The cover and all the small details were for the original Micro Change Blaster. It was a real working radio! Sadly have not been able to score one!
Thanks!! 👍 I can't believe I haven't come across your channel before, so immediate sub! Stupid YT with its recommendations. I'm gonna have to research the original blaster - can't believe it had an radio!! That's nuts. Thanks for the info 🤘
@@VintageToyRush Yeah, google Micro Change and Diaclone! Great channel gotta backtrack your vids!
Good clean Dave do world of difference 🧐🍻👍🇺🇸💪🇬🇧
Yeah Jon!! A good clean and I often use that liquid PTFE, but replacing the springs was the ultimate fix 👍
new video! thanks dave!
thanks for watching!! 👍
Great restoration VTR. Does your brother share your love of vintage toys then?
Thanks Dez! 👍 My brother focuses on retro gaming and Batman but has recently picked up a few G1 Transformers he had as a child, and I have the fun of fixing them 🤣
Great video! Nice work!
Thanks!!! Enjoyed restoring this one 👍
The Diaclone version of Blaster had a built in Radio, it was removed for the Transformers release, but I bet that's what the empty space was for. Wouldn't it be cool if you could take a G1 blaster and add a bluetooth to it?
Nice!! Thanks for the info. Yeah, that would make a great custom 👍
3:48 Haha! 😂
Ha ha!! Was trying to think of the most embarrassing 80s tune to use here, but there was only ever one winner 🤣
So happy I got rickrolled😂
Ha ha!! Accept my apologies 🤣
@@VintageToyRush none needed. It’s unironically one of my favorite songs!
Here in Canada there was versions of blaster that transformed into a robot and had a built-in radio I don't know if they were the Japanese or Hasbro version but I know they were sold through Sears and Kmart and a few other places when I was a kid but I'd swear the radio version still had the option of putting Little Robot tape guy in the front
That's amazing there was a working radio built-in. Pretty sure we never had that version in the UK. I'm gonna have to look for that version cause I'm intrigued to see what it looks like 👍 Thanks for stopping by from Canada!
@@VintageToyRush When I got a Gobot when I was a kid they were on a display near the gold box and I'm trying to remember if it was Kmart or sears or zellers. It would have been the strip mall in Dartmouth where they had the big Christmas tree. I call it strip mall but it's a great big shopping complex Mick Mac Mall that was it but I'm trying to remember which store it was in Micmac.i got a Gobot tank for my birthday and they were on a display near the Gobots and was definitely blaster. I just don't know if it was the Hasbro version or the original Japanese. Believe it or not we got a lot of the toys from diacon and whatnot that were sold at stores here in Nova Scotia alongside the Hasbro releases. I literally have a decline sound wave complete where it has the Japanese coffee right information on the back dated 1974 or 1978 with a bunch of Japanese character writing beside the date a lot of people don't realize Transformers date back to the 1970s and were not just a re-release on our side of the fence but we were quite a few years behind lol.
@@VintageToyRush I'm going to see if John can find me some of the advertising material for it
@@peterparker6584 Cool to hear your memory and hear a little about the Canadian shopping scene back then :) We didn't have any of those shops in the UK. The lineage of many toys is surprising - many of them intertwine especially between Japan and the US. I collect Micronauts, Action Man etc and there are connections between them all.
@@peterparker6584 Whose John? I'd love to see some advertising material.
Another excellent and fun to watch repair video till the end. I knew this but somehow it still blew my mind actually sering it when the cassette came out of Soundwave en fitted perfectly in Blaster.
It's pretty cool they decided to reuse the cassettes!! Thanks for watching as always, I love performing and recording these restorations even if it takes a while 👍
I believe the original version was actually a reel tape player
Yeah, it seems that way - several have now said the same. That's pretty cool and one day would like to find one 👍
@@VintageToyRush you'll have to look at the original release on the Japanese side
I found some pictures on Reddit and sure enough it did
You reversed his thighs when you put him back together. At the end you had the screw holes in his thighs facing forwards but they go on the back with the red painted or stickered bits facing front.
I'm amazed how observant you all are!! Thanks for pointing that out - need to fix that for my brother. Usually, I'm quite pedantic about these things 👍
@@VintageToyRush I'm sure you would have noticed eventually, but still, no problem at all. Great work there BTW. You did a great job fixing that button problem.
I got one in the mail dave. 😐😐😐😐 Yeah so video coming soon after i get it 💪🇺🇸😐🇬🇧🍻😝
Nice Jon!!! 👍
Nice job overall! However you assembled the thighs wrong. The screw holes are supposed to face the rear of the bot, not front. Easy enough to fix though.
OMG!! Well spotted and thanks for pointing that out. I'm usually quite pedantic about these things. Gonna have to get it back from my brother and sort that for him 👍
@@VintageToyRush It takes a village as they say!
@@lemonherb1ha that's very true!
Haven't you learned from Luke? Don't launch small things in the room.
Ha ha Mark!! I've been launching stuff for years. Luke and I are always laughing about our launch mishaps. You should checkout my James Bond video! 🤣