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Mistransformed or not…I’m not sure that completely absolves the weak robot mode. It almost feels like Hasbro did an Arcee in this price point to satisfy the crazy “scale die hards“, more than anything else. I know there are listings for a number of additional Arcee figures, though I can’t...

At the end of the day, Hasbro is still in the business of making toys, which includes managing costs. Given the relative obscurity of Crosscut as a character, and this being the third use of the mold in a year, I just don’t think the design/marketing guys felt this was ”a hill worth dying on”...

Entertainment Earth’s “Drop Zone” has a posting for Tuesday, January 24th at 10am PST: “This is going to be a beast of a drop, so be sure not to miss it!” Kind of feels like a hint to a big preorder drop for Rise of the Beasts. There are other Tuesday listings that point to Transformers drops...

Freezer transforms into a weapon usable by other Studio Series? Perhaps this character (or characters, if there ends up being more than one) provided the inspiration behind the “Power Series” of gimmick toys planned for release? Either way, Freezer looks like an ”old school” Bayformers design...

I mean, it was FINE…but it was just that. It wasn’t a mess of a film like the Sony live action films have been. It’s clearly cut from the same cloth as the post-Justice League DCEU films (ie, more blatantly trying to “Marvel up” their films). The writing really isn’t up to to handling the...

Oh, the optimism of youth

Crosscut has leaked. Looking like wave 2 is Crosscut, Animated Prowl, bike Junkion, and probably an unseen Decepticon He's exactly what you think he is, but the silver and red is still quite striking, and I actually dig his character concept...

And Hasbro Pulse is shipping TF Duke. Got my notification last week. Still no word on his Tiger Force buds, though.

A Bravo version (the small ones) of discount Authentic Optimus Primal has been found overseas. Like the Titan Changer, his design is more evocative of the original design than Cheetor's Rise of the Beasts-based Titan Changer. The usual lack of deco aside, he doesn't look bad for a $6-7...

Images are out of a Rise of the Beasts Cheetor toy. What kind? It seems to be some sort of deluxe, given the size comparison with Battletrap, Wheeljack and the larger deluxe Airrazor. If the trailer is accurate, Cheetor (in the film) will be bigger than Bumblebee, so this might be part of the...

Witch from Mercury is now streaming, weekly, from Gundam.info's Youtube channel. New episode every Sunday, in case you didn't want to spend money on Crunchyroll.

I think the Animated Omega is probably the most viable because it can, potentially, hit a lot of targets. An alt mode evoking the Ark, and the Omega robot mode. Maybe in a few years if pricing makes makes rerunning the Ark or Omega Supreme less practical. But we ALL know the Titan we NEED…...

The biggest issue with Gigastorm is that he’s, fundamentally, not THAT a significant a change from Trypticon. Aside from the new head laser cover and some remixed color locations…he still hits about all the same color marks as Trypticon. That said, a Dinosaurer redeco based on the Gum toy...

I didn’t find an overt thread for the the feature film due this spring, so I guess we’ll just use this for all things D&D. Honor Among Thieves will be out at the end of March and Hasbro is rolling a full spread marketing blitz for the film. We’ve already seen a handful of items this past fall...

An online retailer named CollectionToys.com has seemingly leaked the other parts of the Rise of the Beasts Studio Series cases: Battletrap will be joined by Cheetor (SS98), while Airrazor (SS101) will fill out the case with Bumblebee https://collecticontoys.com/collections/rise-of-the-beasts

A great injustice has FINALLY been corrected!

So, I guess the story here is that an independent toy store in Turkey got a bunch of new Hasbro stuff, and the owner’s son decided to share some images. Hopefully, this means we’ll be getting a good look at the rest of the “kids stuff” before too much longer. Smash Changer Optimus Primal...

New stuff may be on the precipice of reveal: Entertainment Earth has notes that Hasbro will be “dropping” a bunch of new product next Saturday, with Transformers explicitly called out. Given Hasbro’s…lack of interest…in the actual kids toys, I feel we might see some wave 1 stuff then. Drops...

Next week will be interesting: Entertainment Earth is now posting a “drop zone” where they reveal when new stuff is slated to be put up for preorder by various companies. Hasbro has a, seemingly, significant drop for next Saturday with Transformers explicitly noted. With Rise of the Beast kids...