Transformers Question?

[Phillyman]

After seeing the movie, I remembered back to when I was 7 or 8 years old and actually had some transformers figures. I remember them being about 3 inches and made out of metal. When I was in a Target I went to the toy isle and looked to get one, but they are all like 7 inches tall and made of plasic.....they look cheap as hell.

So I went onto ebay looking for the transformers I had......I cant seem to find them.......What production was made of metal?? Or am I just not remembering what I had correctly

 

[Julee]

Its called Diecasting. Its a lost art. They refuse to make them for kids anymore because they can do too much damage to one another with them. I mean Scavenger came with a handy arm you can swing him by, thus making him a flail.

 

[TLSpartan]

Matchbox cars are still made like that(and they hurt alot still

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[Devante]

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_%28toy_line%29

It tells you all about the toy line.
It mentions they only did a small amount of diecasting at the beginning of the toy line.