Toysday: Mastermind's Hearts of Steel

     Back in 2006, IDW published a Miniseries called Hearts of Steel- it reimagined the battle between autobot and decepticon in the late 19th century. With it, we got steam engine autobots and biplane seekers.

     Now I love me some steampunk, and steampunk transformers...well that's just hella cool.

     In 2010, a company called Mastermind Creations released a figure called KM-01: Knight Morpher Commander. He was Optimus Prime as conceived in this Concept- He never appears in the series, but I had to have him. He was my first third party figure purchase, in December of 2011.

he comes with his smokestack gun and a lance

parts of the barrel of the cannon can become a jetpack for him

the shield becomes the front of hiscabin

And there is his matrix of leadership

     Mastermind continued this line with other characters, and in August 2012, they released the first seeker mold, a limited Monotone. They followed that with Screecher, Stormer, and Warper. I ended up with Stormer, the Thundercracker version of this mold, and he is extremely cool to look at in both modes.

All three came with different cannons

His hipskirts can be removed and used as swords