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Day 157: Hoist

Taking a break from the beasts to cover Machine Wars, a short-lived program of Kay-Bee Toys exclusives from 1997 that brought back the vehicles-into-robots play pattern to Transformers. No Maximals or Predacons, these are Autobots and Decepticons. Most of the toys in this subset were redecos of ones released in the European market earlier in the 90s, but a few "new" designs surfaced as well, such as this one. The design was originally intended for Generation Two, but that toyline ended before it came to light. This is Hoist, the Autobot maintenance tech, who has been upgraded from a Toyota 4WD toy truck to a Kenworth W900 wrecker truck. 








 

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