Chinese Space Turkey.

Another G1 KO!

Now this guy here, Doubledealer. He’s a weird one in more ways than one. Back when I was a kid, this guy was a prolific KO. He was available undersized, oversized, 1:1 and even as a Kabaya style model kit! I got mine sometime when I was 9 to 12. So about 2005 to 2008 ish? He was RM15 back then.

This Doubledealer is a 1:1 copy by the way. By that I mean size. The Powermaster gimmick on this guy has been neutered. Or maybe it just never worked? Anyway, I don’t have the original Doubledealer to compare with but this guy’s plastic feels about the same as a G1 Pretender. Which is to say, very good. He did break at the neck once but that was because he dropped from the top of a very tall shelf. This guy was built tough!

I love this guy. I loved him as a kid and I love him now. He turns into a great missile carrier with no obnoxious kibble. He turns into a good looking (if brickish) robot mode. He turns into a space chicken/turkey/Griffin with a gigantic undercarriage missile! What’s not to love?! If you can’t dig it, you’re weird.

Also, it just occured to me. I didn’t care that he was brick that couldn’t be posed when I was a kid. Maybe that’s what Hasbro was banking on with the 3-Step Changers and the whole Cyberverse line?

Robot mode

Alternate mode (Space turkey mode)

Vehicle mode (Missile carrier)