The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the National Toy Hall of Fame by inducting 4 new toy brands this year. Three will be chosen by their National Selection Advisory Committee, but the fourth will be decided by the public from a list of 5 toy brands […]
(Featured image: Gobots face off against the Transformers. Left to right, The Gobots: Crasher, Super Gobot Leader-1, Cop-Tur, Road Ranger, & Zod, and The Transformers: Hound, Soundwave, Buzzsaw, Bumper, & Optimus Prime) The first episode of season three of The Toys That Built America tells the story of Tonka‘s race with Hasbro to gain the […]
Today’s Monster Transformer is the Terrorcon bulette, Rippersnapper! He’s a blue and white landshark that doesn’t like you at all. In fact, just seeing organic creatures is enough to send him into a frenzy. According to the cast list for the G1 season 3 episode Money Is Everything, he would have been named Frenzy if […]
The third Monster Transformer in our October list is Commander Modesty himself, Sky Lynx!Is he really a monster, though? Well, his manners are immaculate and his diction is above reproach, but in the end, he is a griffin, and that is definitely a monster. Where to begin with Sky Lynx? There’s a lot to his […]
Thanks to Axalon Underground’s Boo (ブー フーパー), we have a translation of the document detailing the upcoming 6th of October Takara-Tomy reveals of the Nemesis crew 4-pack (featuring Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, and Laserbeak) and the Beast Wars Possession set (featuring Starscream and Waspinator).Earlier today 3StarToys posted a leaked document on their Facebook page showing these […]
Today’s Monster Transformer of the Day is the dual-headed Monsterbot Doublecross! (Image credit: Botch’s Box Art Archive) Doublecross’ alternate mode is that of a two-headed dragon. His (Their?) only American animated appearance was in a Transformers commercial in 1987 introducing of the Monsterbots. They destroy the lab where they were created and then turn to […]
October has arrived and in honor of Spooky Season we will spotlight one Monster Transformer per day, each day of the month. To start it off, our first spotlight is upon Monstructor! Monstructor is a combiner made up of the inner robots of the Pretender Monsters Icepick, Wildfly, Bristleback, Scowl, Slog, and Birdbrain. Originally named […]