Happy anniversary to the Transformers Sunbow series! For many, it was their first view of Cybertronians, and it changed our lives. Thanks to all who brought us these stories that we still love and share! Relive the excitement and fun by watching the pilot episode below!
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 […]
Weibo user Yukimura Sanada posted a video taking viewers on a short tour of the largest Transformers collection in China featuring over ten thousand U.S. and Japanese figures, books, production art, animation cels, and various other merchandise. We at Axalon Underground have provided an audio translation from Chinese into English for Transformers fans and toy […]
James Eatock (a.k.a. CerealGeek) and Grim2 have uncovered the previously lost version of The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1 with Ted Schwartz as the voice of Rodimus Prime! Ted Schwartz was the original actor cast as Rodimus for the TV series, and was replaced by Dick Gautier. Gautier’s lines were dubbed over Schwartz’s, except […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the newest installment of the “More Than Meets These Guys” podcast Ed and Evan dive into the Transformers G1 Season 2 episode, “City of Steel”. We get to see Ed’s first encounter with AKOM animation. Will he survive? What are the guys’ musical guilty pleasures? Is Optimus Prime’s greatest weakness revealed? View it below […]
Evan and Boo once again dive into the Transformers Marvel UK comics as they dive into Transformers UK #5, “Prisoner Of War! – Part One”. This corresponds to the first half of the U.S. Marvel Transformers issue #3. The guy contemplate the Transformers’ fuel needs and how they relate to human technology. Is Sparkplug Witwicky […]
Today Evan and Boo continue their trek through the G1 Marvel UK Transformers comics with the second part of Power Play (which was issue #2 in the Marvel US G1 run). Who is who in this issue? It’s hard to tell, because the artists weren’t even sure. What 1960s sitcom tropes make their way into […]