Chinese company Kayou has revealed a set of officially licensed trading cards using computer generated models from the feature film Transformers One. Images show cards displaying the cogged and cogless versions of various characters, action poses, alternate modes, and holofoil variant cards. The card set also includes clear images of the 13 Primes. See the […]
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Today is the 40th Anniversary of “MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE, Part 1”
Takara-Tomy’s T-Spark brand announces crossovers with Transformers, Godzilla, Diaclone, Zoids, Patlabor, Spiderman, Macross 7, & Monster Hunter
Takara-Tomy is launching a new branding initiative named T-Spark, which will feature the Synergenex brand that facilitates crossovers between popular I.P.s. They announced upcoming products for this line that includes a Godzilla-redeco of SS86 Grimlock with a new Megatron head, a Mechagodzilla redeco of G2 Laser Optimus Prime, a Transformers/Zoids/Diaclone crossover figure named Shield-D Prime, […]
Takara-Tomy Transformers 40th Anniversary Expo 2024 Exclusive Reveals & Info
Takara-Tomy is having a Transformers 40th Anniversary Expo in Tokyo Japan to celebrate the brand’s 40th anniversary running the 13th of September – 29th of September, 2024 at Warehouse Terada G1 Building (2-6-4 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo). Admission Is 2200¥ ($14.31 USD) if purchased in advance, or 2500¥ ($16.26 USD) at the door. There are two […]
Transformers: One 2nd trailer released
Micro Change Gun Robo Walther P38 (Pre-TF Megatron) Manga Ad Translated
In 1981 Gaku Miyao and Hidekatsu Takahashi created this manga ad for a TV magazine advertising the upcoming Walther P38 Micro Change Gun Robo figure (the pre-Transformers version of the toy that would become Megatron, in gold) and its adventure protecting the protagonist, a boy named Takashi. Below I have posted my translation of it, […]
Why Do I Love Transformers?
A member of a Facebook group posed the question “Why do you love Transformers?”.The following was my lengthy, convoluted, rambling response: If I understood that, then maybe I could find a way out to escape from this madness. But, no, that sinister urge compels me…”collect and save…collect and save”, as, like the pharaohs of old […]
40th Anniversary Table Read of “More Than Meets The Eye, Part 1” on Youtube
A few months ago, some of us were treated to a table reading of the script for the 1984 Sunbow Transformers animated pilot More Than Meets The Eye, Part 1, by G1 voice actors Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Paul Eiding, Michael Bell, and Dan Gilvezan, along with Arif Kinchen (Robots In Disguise 2015) […]
SDCC 2024 Exclusive Cobra Commander (Once A Man) Figure
Hasbro Pulse and San Diego Comic Con’s G.I. Joe exclusive this year is G.I. Joe Classified Series Cobra Commander in his spore mutation form from G.I. Joe The Movie (1987), as well as his final mutation as a cobra with arms. San Diego Comic Con is occurring July 25-28, 2024.See official press release and slideshow […]
SDCC 2024 Exclusive Transformers Fractured Friendship 2-Pack
Hasbro Pulse revealed another San Diego Comic Con 2024 exclusive: Transformers Legacy United Fractured Friendship 2-pack featuring pre-war versions of Optimus Prime and Megatron.Optimus Prime is recolored and retooled from Studio Series Voyager 03 Gamer Edition Optimus Prime from the War For Cybertron video game. It has been retooled to resemble the pre-war version of […]