The Alternators line was not long for the world -- the complications of making licensed toys meant that the toy manufacturer wasn't exactly in charge of their own fate and agreements would come with expiration dates. In Japan, the originating line - Binaltech -- briefly transformed into Binaltech Asterisk, a line of redecos of existing molds paired with figurines of female characters from anime or manga fiction. This is comparatively wholesome to what the line would later become.
So of the short-lived Binaltech Asterisk line, first up is Broadblast - a redeco of the Scion xB - intended to be a new incarnation of the classic G1 character Blaster. He was packaged with newscaster Lumina Hoshi.
