(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 […]
Pulsecon 2023 is just around the corner, beginning on the 22nd of September, 2023 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. The brands scheduled for presentation are Transformers, Power Rangers, Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Marvel Legends, and G.I. Joe. They will begin at 11:15 AM ET and run until 3:30 PM ET. Below […]
On September 19th, 2005, the third part of what has become known as The Unicron Trilogy, Transformers: Cybertron, premiered on Cartoon Network. It imported the video and music from the Japanese series Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Galaxy Force with translated and localized dialogue and a new theme song created by Paul Oakenfold. Where Transformers: Galaxy […]
24 years ago today the Beast Machines Transformers series premiered on the Fox Kids Saturday morning television block on the FOX network. It was a continuation of the previously syndicated Beast Wars Transformers series, but also a departure. Many of the cast members carried over from Beast Wars Transformers, as did the animation studio, Mainframe, […]
On Monday, September 17th, 1984 a new cartoon hit the airwaves. It was the pilot episode advertising for a new toy line of imported robots who shapeshifted into vehicles and common household objects, like cameras and German pistols used by super-spies: The Transformers. It was a collaboration between Hasbro, Griffin-Bacal Advertising’s Sunbow Animation, Marvel Entertainment […]