Cool Cards: Transformers Action Cards Bumblebee and Shockwave

Transformers Action Cards is another fun card line, this time from Milton Bradley (strangely enough). The cards featured both packaging art from the toys and animation from the cartoon. I could do without the animation cards; even as a kid, I thought the cartoon's animation was lacking. But the Transformers packaging art was the most awesome of any toyline, and it certainly deserves a card series dedicated to it. You can see the Bumblebee and Shockwave cards above.

I always thought that Bumblebee's design on the toy packaging was way cooler than his cartoon design. The packaging art showed him with a super-cool robot face featuring a "ninja mask", whereas Bumblebee's design in the show made him look like a little twerp kid. It's pretty much impossible to screw up the Shockwave design, though. Remember the Marvel comic in which Shockwave blew up all the Autobots right after they thought they had beaten the Decepticons? Cool stuff.

I seem to remember the Action Cards being packaged with the Transformers Action Master series, but that could be just a false memory.