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Apparently WFC Barricade showed up, so unless they're reissuing that Siege figure (why?), this kinda points to the games after all. I'll be curious if they're just doing the figures, or if they worked out the licensing to bring the games back into distribution. I'd love it if they were made BC...

Oh wow, the Jointrons suuuuuuuuuck. I think I'd rather have Fred from Armada than these three complete screwups.

Hey, it's Starscream favorite friend/murder victim: Metalhawk https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/05/transformers-legacy-voyager-metalhawk-listing-found-460086

Assuming these would be G1-ified versions Core G1 Wheeljack G1 Jazz G1 Grimlock G1 Arcee BW Quickstrike Cybertron Signal Lancer I like the aesthetic they have going with Iguanas, so more core pretenders? Pretty much anyone, really Deluxes G1 Quickmix G1 Squeezeplay Aileron A new Nautica Rung A...

It's incredibly funny the through line of "Toy designed around gimmick->cartoon charcter based on a toy designed around a gimmick->toy designed to look like a cartoon model based on a toy designed around a gimmick, but does not include said gimmick." The circle of liiiiiife... Anyway, Armada...

Oooh, what's their name?

I dunno, seems like the studio series thread was a good spot for them. ;)

An entry was found for "Gen Studio Series DLX WFC Bumblebee" which some are speculating will be a release of Netflix Bee, but I find that unlikely as I think they'd just call it '86 Bumblebee in that case. The other theory, however, seems even less likely: that Studio Series is going to expand...

Speaking of characters with limited screen time in the movie. :D I like how they included two blasters so you can recreate the scene where he gets mowed down. I think the Masterpiece is the last time he shipped with two pistols?

A listing for SS86 Snarl has shown up in Walmart computers. Not unexpected, and I understand why this figure is happening, but it's still funny to me that a character that was in the film for all of ten seconds is getting a figure in the Movie Toy line. :D...

Circuit Breaker is the exception that proves the rule. She would have been a Hasbro character, but the comic writer liked her so much that he pre-emptively premiered her in Secret Wars II #3 before she showed up in the Transformers comic, just so Marvel would own the rights. This is why IDW...

The fact that Marvel did that and then proceeded to do jack all with Circuit Breaker in the intervening years sucks. There was literally a comic about robot Avengers (Avengers AI) that she would have made a fantastic villain for. Just replace GB Blackrock with Tony Stark and Shockwave with...

Typically if they appeared first in a licensed comic, they're owned by the licenser, so if Hasbro or whoever making their shows or comics wants to use them, they can. Remember Rung and Nautica have already gotten toys and Tarn is getting one next year. (After showing up in Cyberverse)

I just realized... is this the first major continuity that had zero stories involving Earth or humans? Even Beast Machines was tied to G1/BW where Earth was prominent.

So I've recently been on a kick of watching all of the Transformers shows I never got around to. I recently completed the Unicron Trilogy (I had seen Armada and a smidgeon of Energon before, but that was it) and rewatched Robots in Disguise 2001 for the first time since, uh, 2001. I've seen...

IDW1 had the benefit of being around for ages, like 13 years, frequently with multiple series running concurrent. I think I counted over 400 issues for IDW1, compared to like a fifth of that for IDW2. When you've put that many issues out, you're going likely have some real bangers (as well as...

Your right that the mentor system doesn't come up a bunch because new protoforms are exceedingly rare in this continuity. IIRC, we only see the flashbacks to Bumblebee/Cliffjumper, then Rubble and finally Gauge. Though we do have Starscream's mentor referenced in the Halloween special, as well...

I feel like you don't do Leo Breaker unless there's a Cybertron Prime you can attach him to.

G1 Cartoon Cosmos is an impossible design, I've just realized thanks to this figure. In robot mode, he needs to be wider, but in vehicle mode, his bridge needs to be smaller. Unless you really go crazy with the panel forming, something is going to suffer. Still he's way closer to the mark...

I know a lot of people didn't care for this series, but I really liked it. I love the new ideas it added to the canon, like the mentor system, or cybertron as a intergalactic cultural hub, or going immersant. It reminds of of how much the original IDW series did to flesh out Cybertronian...