The fourth and final catalog continued using the terms originated by the third (although each of the combiner teams has its own double-page spread, and the individual members have no price points listed, even though the limb and torso bots shipped as part of the Energon and Combat Class assortments, respectively), but finally listed Omega Supreme as Supreme Class.
The second pack-in catalog introduced the size class range as: In the case of Alternators Optimus Prime, Hasbro reportedly accepted a smaller profit margin (since the toy was more expensive to produce than other Alternators toys) so they could still sell it at the US$20 price point.Įnergon took a somewhat random approach to size-class naming. Hasbro later replaced the original mass retail Alternators assortment with a second one, which remained at the original one's price point. In fact, there was an official "Mega Alternators" assortment of sorts, which consisted of shrinkwrapped two-packs consisting of two individual toys (mostly limited to shelfwarmers such as Smokescreen, Side Swipe, or Windcharger), available for the price of a single Alternators toy exclusively at Toys'R'Us. Some retailers actually listed the toys under the "Mega" price point, but this designation was never officially used by Hasbro. This was owed to the uniform scale of the line at 1:24, as well as the fact that all the toys from the line were based on licensed vehicles. The Alternators line was unique in that it only consisted of a single price point (US$20).
As information on how much the original toys sold for back in the '80s is limited, the only real "size classes" back then were based on whether a toy came carded (including smaller toys such as Mini Vehicles, Mini-Cassettes or combiner limbs) or boxed (consisting of medium to large Transformers and giftsets of smaller toys).
Since it was a patchwork of products gathered together from multiple unrelated toylines, the original The Transformers toyline did not feature the modern size classes we know today.
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