Transformers (Generation One) Warpath 1985

Professor blog: 000008 Subject: Warpath Brand of product: Transformers (Generation One) Original Release year: 1985

I will start this out by saying that Warpath was my favorite Autobot Transformer as a kid because of the cartoon. He always said ridiculous stuff like “BLAM!” or “KABOOM!” and other hilarious non-sense. I will not let my sentimental side look at this toy and see it for what it is.

Warpath is modeled off of the General Motors M551 Sheridan Armored Recon/Airborne Assault Vehicle and is a lightly armored Vietnam-era tank. He was one of the original pre-Transformer toys in Takara’s Microman: Microchange toy line and is usually considered to be a Diaclone product by most collectors. Now Warpath’s toy has many molded details to appear to look like a real tank. He has a gunner’s hatch, a driver hatch, details all over the body of the toy as well as wheels in the treads, etc. He was designed pretty well for a toy that is barely the size of your thumb transformed. Now the only paint on this toy is the maroon body, black eyes and the silver treads. He also has a rub sticker, which Hasbro used to seperate their official toys from the competition. This is the most common Warpath out there but there is a variant with the mouth piece painted black instead of the eyes.

Now Warpath is a very simplistic toy. Like the other Mini-bots (Bumblebee, Gears, Cosmos, etc.), Warpath has a very simplistic transformation and is pretty small compared to most Transformers. The only down side to the mini bots is that they have no weapons and tend to have very simplistic paint schemes because of their small sale value in the 1980s. Now this can be a good thing as well as a bad thing. The good thing is that this makes him extremely easy to complete considering you only have to buy him. The bad thing is that he looks like of cheeky next to other Transformers. Now as bad as that would be, the mini-bots have grown on all of us so it is pretty hard to judge them accordingly. Now there is no other repaint of Warpath besides the Diaclone counterpart so collecting him for your collection will be unique and worth the hassle. He is fairly priced for his age and will make a great addition to anyone’s collection.

Background of the toy: This particular Warpath came to me opened from an Ebay auction. He arrived into my collection in November 2013. He has no breaks or chips and his paint looks amazing. He is complete because he came with no weapons. He is the proper color and has no damage.