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I've been clamoring for a return to Micro/2010s Cyberverse scale play for some time. This sounds great, although ymmv on the death thing.

It was such an awkward price point that they seemed to want to do everything with. New characters. Existing characters who work best at the size class for scale (more or less, since they're also upsizing all minibots to Deluxe anyway). Existing characters shrunken to the scale so you can build a...

Kony Island Babies (2025 remix)

Energon Optimus would do well because it's Optimus. Decepticons would be easy to pull off; Starscream fits right into today's approach and Megatron is also an easy thing to get right (even at core class). The Terrorcons for the most part are also very workable. The top/bottom combining bots are...

Realized shortly after taking the first one that I'd somehow forgotten one that was hanging out on the desk right beside the photo. Maybe because it was an older one and I'd somehow gotten the three within the same thirty-day period, which is a lot of Wheeljacks in a little time, so they were...

Oh dang, I get a yellow RID Optimus too? This day just keeps getting better and better.

Joke's on you, I'm into that. That would in fact be preferable, especially if it were just the cab.

Only three real contenders there, I feel, with One still being the underdog (I think it may be even with The Wild Robot). I do hope it wins. With Keanu getting the nod in his category and Maya in hers.

Even with the prospect of an initial QC challenge, this is a gorgeous set and it's a shame to have to miss out. Same mostly true for Liokaiser. But that's how it's gotta be for the foreseeable future. C'est la vie.

Well, that's fun news! I hope these are good. Again, it's really going to come down to the faces; the regular TF Blokees range (I don't know which of the many subtitles this is, but it feels like the "main"/default one) has faces that are a bit long/gaunt looking in the helmets. And Mega Man...

We'll have to wait a while longer for 2 Trans 2 Formers.

The "faux retro" is pretty much the appeal, but looks like you and I aren't the target audience for that specifically. I love that GI Joe fans who were open to a new scale and/or who can afford to start a new collection are eating really good with a line made by people who clearly have a love...

I agree that there are a lot of non-Mainframe directions that can be taken. I did say "hard" but maybe that's not the word I should've used. I think what I was trying to say is that it's clearly taken time to get onto the idea that this can just be called Beast Wars and have the "cast of...

G1 being remixed and G1 fans' reactions to the remixing are two different things, heh. Or really just fans in general... I get why BW has been hard to retool, because the original narrative shines partly because of the separation from G1. Either the fact that the cast are so removed from what...

I'm not wild about that bit in the Almanacs, which like the rest of the Almanacs seemed to just want to cram name this into homage that and garnish with references. Like, it technically FITS the backstory of consumer goods/defense vs military, but eh. But I am intrigued by the idea of using the...

The segments make sense, as we've been shown in annual reports. Tiers of toy complexity (which not-coincidentally align with production cost) pair with distinctive aesthetic approaches and presentation to create a ladder that young fans can progress through to grow up with the brand as a whole...

Sort of. I remember them shoehorning in a Great Shutdown on Cybertron that conveniently paralleled the Earth-based Cybertronians' slumber. Shockwave's whole new world order situation was set up over only the most recent few thousand years. Which still feel like kind of a big window for those...

Video games in general are a messy landscape these days, and AAA video games in particular are an expensive, long-production-process minefield. Similar time and money would likely be better sunk into a movie or series. If an existing studio wants to license the brand and characters and take on...

I've been wanting a new Unicron Trilogy-level remix for some time. Have some recognizable elements and names, but change everything up that you can.

I mean, really, what is it good for.