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My mission is complete!
I now have all the levels of Riviere for my Mermaid deck. My deck is now perfect.

Reminds me of the Transformers ALternators that came out several years ago. THey looked awesome and were big, but they were impossible to transform back to the point that I sold them off because I hated it (especially Prime).

Grimlock... God, I hated Grimlock. I never was able to figure out how to transform him back. I sold every Alternator figure I had with a bunch of other things to BBTS this last February.

Just picked up a Princess of the Crystal Figma, IMAGEEEEEEEENE!

Grimlock AND Wheeljack as they both used the same mold.

The only Alternator I still have is Prime. The rest I sold off or trashed (The ones who were trashed had broken in some major way).
Alternators was a fun concept that was executed poorly due to a constant reuse of molds, I felt.

Grimlock was the only one of those I ever bought. I got him in the mail shortly before my physical that year and I was playing around with him and the raw frustration of trying to get him back into car mode was enough to elevate my blood pressure.

And that's why I never bought another. :D

Alternators Grimlock (and Wheeljack since he as pointed out uses the same mold, but I never had him) is the KING...of frustrating Transformer toys. I've experienced some pain in the butt Transformers in the past, but none I couldn't eventually transform in time like Grimlock. I'd say the second most annoying with the first Transformers movie Leader class Megatron.

Alts hard to transform? Wha?

Whaaaa??? I've transformed the Itashar back and forth about a dozen times, gets easier every time