The failed Hasbroverse reminds me how so many things could have been spun off from Transformers: Animated and (after that) Transformers: Prime.

Requiem of the Wreckers was post-Revolution, but it was also, you know, a single issue.

But Roche didn't have a series to keep out from the crossovers since Sins of the Wreckers was before Revolution.

Oh wait, that post said Roche, not Barber.

And then seemed surprised nobody particlarly wanted it.

Wasn't Barber among the editorial guys that pushed for Hasbroverse?

He did it possibly due to 616 Spider-Mans marriage reset between Civil War and Secret Invasion.

Bendis kept a tight leash on Ultimate Spider-Man because it was mostly set far away from Earth?

I'm learning so much-

At its worst it was better than MASK, sure.

At it's worst it still stomped all over the failed Hasbroverse. Roberts and Roche kept their respective series well out of that one for the same reasons Bendis kept a tight leash on Ultimate Spider-Man when Loeb and Miller wanted greater control for Ultimatum.

That's so accurate it's physically painful.

The Red Dwarf of Transformers? An interesting, innovative and genuinely funny series that descended into a self referential mess of cliches that continues long after it should have been put out to pasture and rendered nerly everyone thoroughly unlikeable? That seems about right.

MTMTE and Lost Light are the Red Dwarf of Transformers stories, as opposed to the others which are more like Star Wars and Star Trek.

Anyone in CONUS want a Skylynx for $100 shipped?

Maybe an acquired taste in that's in that it's from a fan raised on the UK run where Transformers wasn't taken so seriously in many stories, especially some Earthforce standalones.

so, terrible?

Yeah I think at that point Lost Light is just the '86 movie without the soundtrack.

So, exctly what Triangleman just said.

A few of the same characters.

Now having actually read Galaxies #10, I don't actually see what it has in common with Lost Light at all besides featuring Ultra Magnus, Chromedome, and a spaceship.

So, it's exactly like Lost Light, then.

What if Lost Light was stripped bare of its charm and humor? Galaxies #10 is the answer.

I didn't mean "*exactly* 15 years ago and no other time."

I mean, the comment was about a linewide gimmick of 15 years ago, not a gimmick only present in a minority of toys from that year.

I'd like a western take on the UT for it's twentieth, like a annual CG or anime movie on Netflix that is a condensed retelling similar to the film Macross/Robotech: Do You Remember Love.

Giant Planet had them, Energon had a few. I've been disappointed in Siege for not having something for the Micromasters, Earthrise has with the base bots but they've been wasted here.

Wasn't 15 years ago Cyber Keys rather than Minicons?

By and large, even the worst Minicons have some unique engineering or design elements. The nostalgia factor aside, Micromasters got pretty samey after you got several, especially the "proper" 89 series.

There's certainly a load of crummy ones to sift through

Or both. There's some overlap.

People either hated minicons or became completely addicted to them.

A properly-planned theme, or as people called it 15 years ago, a stupid linewide baby toy gimmick that ruins the toys.

Look on the bright side: at least Kingdom has a properly-planned theme to its name unlike Power of the Primes being a hilariously transparent junk drawer for the PWT, and with letdown Prime toys to boot.

Oh that makes sense-

To renew their copyrights on all their names, characters and series.

Strange.

War for Cybertron trilogy is a strange thing, from pre Earth to Earth to Beast Wars.
What was their plan again?

Fall! FALL!! I would have waited an eternity for this; it’s Autumn, Prime...

Wow...harsh truths!

Saw Age of Extinction. Not Rise of Skywalker 10/10

So not a murderer, just a cheapass. Wanted the whole kit for the value of the batteries.

You can't force other people to sell; ao despite abundance the prices are high. I'm just a small scale hobbyist, I'm not looking to cash in just help other folks with their... uh, passion.

It's like diamonds, artificial rarity boosting the price,

I call bull carp on that. There's a HUGE secondary market, and gently used pieces go for tens of thousands.

They lose a lot of their value when not mint in sealed body.

I could probably stand to part with 2 or 3 of them. I've been collecting them for years anyway.

Coming soon to kijiji, wonko's kidney.

I threw a bunch of lawn and garden tools up on kijiji, today someone messaged me and said they wanted them all. They haven't even tried to haggle or anything. I suspect I'm about to be robbed or otherwise ripped off.

Proud dad moment: my 6 year old daughter telling her 3 yr old brother that Prime is the leader because he has the matrix, but Hot Rod gets it next.