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 […]
The second trailer for the upcoming movie Transformers: One has been released online.It is set to be released in theaters on the 20th of September, 2024. Watch it on Youtube of in the viewer below!
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, […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hasbro Marvel Legends marketer Dan Yun revealed on X/Twitter today that a Death’s Head exclusive figure will be available at the Hasbro Pulse booth at San Diego Comic Con in limited quantities. San Diego Comic Con is running this year from July 25th-28th. Yun also stated in the post, “There will be an opportunity later […]
Skybound Entertainment, Robert Kirkman‘s studio at Image Comics, has launched the Volume 1 trade paperback collections of their Void Rivals, Transformers, Duke, and Cobra Commander comics. These issues kick-off the Energon Universe continuity, the newest comic iteration in the Transformers/G.I. Joe family. The collected editions of Void Rivals and Transformers are available to order now. […]
Hasbro Pulse’s newest livestream, hosted by Ben “BMac” MacRae and Evan Brooks, and just completed with official reveals for the following items (see below for image slideshow): Studio Series 86 Core Class SteeljawStudio Series Gamer Edition Deluxe Class Decepticon SoldierStudio Series Bumblebee Movie Voyager Class SkywarpStudio Series Leader Class SpringerStudio Series 86 Deluxe Class BumblebeeComic […]