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That’s been one of my favorite things about this crossover: it has REALLY allowed the Mattel designers to flex some creative muscle that is all too rare in these legacy brands. My overall enthusiasm dampened considerably after the store exclusive fiascos of this past year, but there are still...

I didn’t realize copying the link at a specific time would do that

First Off, Astrobot, the GLORIOUS platformer from Team Asobi, won Game of the Year at the Game Awards (among other nods). While I have nothing against the usual open world adventures or RPGs that tend to dominate awards season (and Metaphor WAS well represented this year)…it’s still refreshing...

That’s about my biggest “hang up” on the 13, as a modern concept. Hasbro and fans are so set on “defining” everything to a concrete thing, some of that fun we get from building our own interpretations seem lost. Just consider how different fans probably perceived The Jedi Order and The Clone...

Reportedly, some leaked footage of a 2020 build for Transformers Reactivate.

Statler and Waldorf are at the Game Awards. They are as confused as the rest of us as to why they are there.

Well, jive. Turned out this WTF episode of Secret Level was a "pre-preview" of BN's new title, Shadow Labyrinth. Which uses much of the same WTFery which permeated this weird episode.

I found the Hot Wheels Racerverse toy I wanted today. I largely ignored the line, until... I found out they did a Star Trek Captain Kirk release. And not just any, but of early-mid 80s coifed hair Shatner riding in an Enterprise 1701 refit in all its Wrath of Khan glory. The fact it wasn't...

Lord, the Pac Man episode of Secret Level was a just a big ole pile of Dubya Tee Eff!

The catch there is that...there IS no "idealized G1 cast" everyone can agree on. You have toy, cartoon, and comic, each with their own quirks and unique style choices. The early Generations/Prime Wars days were heavily geared around the toys as the default look. These days the Sunbow cartoon...

I find it interesting that Mark explicitly cited Prima as sporting the "Creation Matrix", NOT the Matrix of Leadership. You know what would help with this whole "Primes" thing? Give them all a Matrix (or comparative Macguffin thing like Star Convoy's Zodiac). Follow the Japanese series and...

A narrative tweak might be that they WERE all Primes..at a given point. Maybe conceptualize the Matrix as one part repository and one part “power up” as a fragment of Primus. Every set period of time, original 12 would hold a council to “elect” a new council leader (who would become the “Prime...

Late 2004. Grabbed them a week or so before Thanksgiving the ONE time I saw the set.

New discounts at Walmart. Remember, so long as the site listing is FROM WALMART, stores will honor the lower price! Retro Bombshell and Ramhorn- $15 Thundertron Star Seeker pack- $30! TFOne Megachanger and Energon Glow Bumblebee figures are $10 and change each War for Cybertron Trilogy...

Fans were robbed of more truly great stuff when the line was “refocused” in 2005 than they were in 1995.

Huh. The 2024 rerelease of Interstellar made more money to date than The Crow or Megalopolis.

So…. I’ve been doing my usual “head cannon” (such as we can knowing only a “piece” of the overall arc the team might have planned) to continue building off the “ongoing narrative” Hasbro kind of started with Siege. In my cannon, an assembly of Primes (from the toys: G1 toon and toy, Animated...

*Hasbro releases Energon Sixshot* Seriously, I still stand by the assertion that the 6 changers are a solid foundation to make an Amalgamous Prime and would make a fine excuse to redo Sixshot (who hasn’t had a release since Titans Return). Plus potential retool into Quickswitch or Sixknight.

TBH, if Hasbro had offered Selects Star Convoy a second time? I probably would have gotten it and been completely happy skipping the Titan. But at this point, the Selects is pricing around the same (or more!) than just getting the dang Titan version. But yeah, I can see the Nautica vibes, and...