![]() Stow the handle-halves on the outsides of his legs, fold down the tweeters to form his feet. Slide the grip on the handle to the right to detach the handle-halves, swing down the speakers to the side and then down underneath to form the legs. If you have one of his cassettes you'll probably enjoy this mode a lot more, but either way it's good. The handle really sells this mode, and the speaker grilles add to the effect. Still, with three buttons he's got some play value, and you only need one of the six Autobot cassettes, since that's all he can stow.Ī very nice looking boombox, Blaster really does look like an 80s ghetto blaster, and I prefer this look to the Microcassette recorder of Soundwave, even if his Decepticon equivalent is slightly more detailed. Unlike Soundwave, who ships with Buzzsaw, Blaster's tapes were all sold separately. Assuming the door on your Blaster opens, you can fit Rewind or one of the other Autobot tapes inside. Just to the left of the tape door is a moulded tuning dial, while on the left side of the door itself Blaster has a large Autobot logo. There's a power switch moulded above the left speaker, a earphone jack behind the right speaker - it actually says "8ohm OUTPUT EARPHONE" (with an ohm symbol - which exists on my mac but wont work in windows). I had to open mine and rebuild it, and I'm happy to report that it's pretty easy, since you only have to take it apart and fit it back together properly to fix it (I've done it twice now). A lot of Blaster toys actually come with the internal mechanism put together wrong, in which case none of the buttons will actually work. The left button is labelled "eject", and will release the door - again on mine the internal spring isn't quite strong enough and I have to help the door open with the other hand. The two central buttons are a single piece, labelled "stop", and release the play button, although the internal spring on mine isn't enough to spring the play button up - I have to press stop and the lift up the play button. The one on the right is marked "play" and will stay down if pushed. ![]() There's a transparent window on the door, and there are four buttons on the rack below this. ![]() I think I've largely covered the look of this unit, so now I'll cover the details. Still, it's a plausible colour scheme and the colours are needed to make his robot mode interesting. The colours work well visually, and while the silver and black are about right for 70s and 80s boomboxes, the red and yellow weren't quite as common. There are stickers below the speaker grilles representing woofers, and below the button rack (which is below the door) is a rubsign, in its own indent. He has black speakers - both standard grilles and the tweeters above the main speakers that were common on Ghetto Blasters, and the grip in the middle of his handle is black. The central section is red whilst the speaker sections and the buttons are grey, as is the handle at the top. A red and silver boombox with a yellow cassette door, Blaster is actually a "Ghetto Blaster" (hence his name), although I'm not sure that term is really used much, since portable stereo styles have changed and the English vernacular is more politically correct. ![]()
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