Phil's
Transformers Cosmos
and
E-Hobby Pathfinder
Review


Cosmos

Cosmos represents another first for the 85 Minibots: He's the first transformer with a fictional alternate mode. Technically Topspin & Twintwist predate them as they were Diaclone Attack Robo but .... Cosmos is a green flying saucer: a little green space ship for little green men. The saucer is modelled on the description of a flying saucer given by Ufologist George Adamski.

Transformation: Pull the front of the saucer forward and fold down under the saucer to form the feet and to reveal the legs. Push the sides of the saucer up and swing round to form the arms. Pull the red command post on the top of the saucer up to form the head.

Cosmos' robot mode is odd. Big green feet, thin yellow legs which bend at each end a fat round body, short dumpy green arms with yellow front panels and a head that's a red cylinder with a face painted in yellow over some moulded detail on the lower half. Unfortunately that then makes it look like the upper half look like he's wearing a hat!

I'm afraid my first reaction, as a 12 year old, on looking at Cosmos was "how silly". The UFO is a bit too fat and tall for my liking and I don't like the fat robot mode body and as for the hat .....

Cosmos was not released in toy shops in Japan during the original run of Transformers toys. Instead his Japanese version, called Adams after the aforementioned George Adamski, was available as a mail in toy in return for 2 robot points and 500yen. He was reissued in 2004 in the Transformer Collection #12 E-Hobby Minibot set which also contained Transformers Collection Bumblebee a re-mould of Original Bumblebee, Gears, Huffer, Powerglide and Warpath.


Pathfinder

Pathfinder is a Cybertron repaint of Cosmos that was released as part of 2004's E-Hobby Minibot set. It's a simple repaint swapping the green for blue and keeping the yellow and red. Unfortunately the end result is a bit of an eyesore!

The E-Hobby Minibot set also contains:

Bug Bite a Destron repaint of Transformers Collection Bumblebee which is a re-mould of the Original Bumblebee.
Road Ranger a Cybertron repaint of Huffer
Small Foot a Cybertron repaint of Gears
Bad Boy a Destron repaint of Powerglide
Treads a Destron repaint of Warpath

Each of the toys in this set has a name taken from the original GoBots toy line.


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