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It's a curse not unlike that of Cassandra from the Greek fables. You are always able to break news on previously unannounced merchandise, but it's always merchandise that the fandom at large doesn't give two craps about.

I did enjoy that bit.

I'm a pretty big fan, and I have to admit that I stopped seeing the Bay movies after Age of Extinction. I haven't seen The Last Knight to this day. We all have our breaking points.

Hope they make that. I didn't buy the last one because I was holding out for a VW (or at least VW-ish) Bug Bite.

The problem is always that "the fans" aren't actually a hive mind that all want the same thing. 20% of the fans don't want to see a new Spider Man without showing his origin. 20% of the fans have seen it plenty of times and don't want to see it ever again. 60% of the fans don't really care...

Transquito needs to be one of the 13 Primes. The equivalent of the Greek Plutus, the god of plenty/abundance.

Started the day at a flea market, where I found a Machine Wars Optimus (along with some other treasures) and finished the day off with the anniversary showing of the Fifth Element at the fancy theater.

That's true, that may be a better "translation" of the term.

I love the fact that Slag's name is literally a Cybertronian curse word, the equivalent of "F***" (in the "I'm going to F you up" sense, devoid of any sexual connotation). Like, dude is just THAT hardcore.

Yeah, for all the sins of the Titanium line, their Rodimus Prime was actually pretty ingenious. That same basic transformation scheme on a larger toy not restricted by needing to be made out of metal could be great. PotP Hot Rod / Rodimus had some similar ideas, but was built around the idea...

I do miss Topless Robot. I was late to the game on that site, not finding it until shortly before it got folded into IO9, which then got folded into Gizmodo.

I would love this. Make it a traveling show with the Cybertronic Spree playing the music live along with the film, giant drone-show Unicron looming over the audience, the whole shebang!

I went to a small, 100% Engineering school, so it was basically Nerd Central. I remember one day walking into my dorm after classes and a large group was gathered watching TFTM on the big screen in the lobby. Naturally, I stopped to watch. A friend of mine who was from Greece and therefore...

My Ross had Metalhawk (who I bought) but sadly no Twincast (who was the one I really wanted.) I did see that G1 loopy track. If it had been a good homage to the old Tyco slot car track, I would have gotten it. As it was, the Transformers branding was pretty much contained to the box and a...

I'd keep Bumblebee above '07, but I'll admit that it's a close race. I feel like Bumblebee was the better story, but '07 was the better "spectacle."

Retro Comics was always my go-to until the crash.

They seem to be roughly 1:64, Hot Wheels/Matchbox scale. For the Chopper and Van, they unfolded into playsets. Found some old commercials from GiG (same Italian company that distributed Transformers back in the day)

I would not be shocked to see the new Studio Series Long Haul remolded / repainted into Landfill as they actually do share a lot of visuals with the truck front forming the chest. Mixmaster into Quickmix wouldn't be quite as on-the-nose, but I would probably still buy it.

I have to admit, I've never been a huge G1 toy collector. I'll definitely pick them up if I find them at garage sales / thrift stores / flea markets where the prices are reasonable (or ridiculously low on a good day), but I've never made a point of trying to seek them out, as modern toys are so...

Beautiful pictures and great review. I never knew about the Optimus head carrying case. Now I have an intense need for one of them.