

The Robot Masters line was accompanied by a handful of exclusive releases. stores, they were sighted in reverse order compared to their official wave numberings (although all those sightings occurred within the span of a few days at most). retail, and when they finally were found in U.S. The Robot Masters assortment got off to a rocky start, with its first three waves hitting Australasia and U.S.-based online retailers long before reaching mass U.S. Each of them came with a stand in the shape of the Autobot or Decepticon insignia – yes, even the Beast Wars guys – and some of them even included removable accessories! Robot Masters figurines stand (or squat, as may be more accurate) three inches tall, are coated in extensive paint applications, and typically, but not universally, feature articulation in the neck, shoulders, and waist. The eighth wave and onwards, released in 2007, pivoted to focus on characters from some movie or other. The predominant presence in the line was characters from G1, though they were at least filtered through the different lenses of their original character models, original toys, their Alternators bodies, and designs from Dreamwave's The War Within (the latter of which is treated as a distinct entity from Generation 1, as you'll see from the below section). Robot Masters are small, non-transformable, die-cast figurines of various Transformers characters dating from the dim and distant past of Generation 1 to the then-recent past of Cybertron, briefly hitting Beast Wars and Energon along the way.
