generation 1

First dropped by @TF_pr on X, the first Missing Link Decepticon has been revealed! As many suspected, Soundwave is the first evil robot to receive the Missing Link treatment. Soundwave will be available in two deco/accessory options: Toy Deco, which includes a brand-new Autoscout cassete as...

Image via Toronto Blue Jays On August 1st, 2026, Major League Baseball team the Toronto Blue Jays held a special "Transformers Day" event at their hometown stadium, the Rogers Centre Skydome. What this meant was that after the game, they were going to be running the 1986 The Transformers: The...

June 9th, 2026. There's a lot of stuff surrounding that date. It's Rockman Day. Nintendo had a Nintendo Direct this morning, with a Nintendo Treehouse showcase afterwards. Heck, it's even my 25th wedding anniversary! But no, that wasn't enough. John Hasbro decided to log into his YouTube...

Stern Pinball, purveyor of the ancient art of creating physical pinball machines for arcades, game rooms, and other such places in which one indulges in coin-op merriment, recently announced that they are going to be releasing a new series of units based on The Transformers. Specifically, the...

The original Transformers Legends line came to a close in Japan back in 2019, and with it ended the manga which told the story of why every single new attempt made over the years to create more cartoon-accurate toys is actually canon to their version of Generation 1, where the characters already...

You know, like we usually do. Only we don't have to do it alone this time! Beginning at 10am (presumably EST) on Saturday, February 14th, Hasbro Pulse is hosting a watch along as they stream Valentine's themed episodes from the original Transformers cartoon! Now, I don't remember any being...

From Nune at TFW2005, we have our first look at Wave 2 of Studio Series '86 figures. Featured in this wave are: Kranix, the Lithonian who famously slipped away from Unicron only to be devoured by Sharkticons on Quintessa: He converts from Lithonian Scientist to the spaceship mode previously...

Multiple new listings from Amazon Japan have revealed official pictures of multiple upcoming releases. First of all is The King! Anime-style Missing Link Grimlock in glorious cartoon colors: Next up is Transformers Overgear Ironhide and Blackout. This is our first good look at the...

It feels like we've waited an eternity for this. If you want to avoid spoilers (wait, does that term apply here? Meh), then turn back now. Over on the r/Transformers Subreddit, Redditor "sixthrowshot" has posted a number of in-hand images of the long-awaited upcoming and yet-to-be-revealed...

We're less than a month away from the release of Skybound's Transformers Compendium, Volume 1 trade paperback, and -- well, "trade" is kind of a funny term in this case. At least, if you think about the word in terms of "trading" it to someone else. This volume encompasses roughly half of the...

And who better to wish you a Happy Boxing Day than a guy who's basically 4/5 box, right? (5/5, if you want to include the cubical nature of his cab's shape.) Anyway, over on Takara Tomy's T-Spark YouTube channel, they've posted a new video featuring a step-by-step process of how to convert...

It has long been the stuff of Marvel and Transformers legend: When writer Simon Furman created the character of Death's Head, it was decided that Marvel should own the character, rather than Hasbro, the owner of the Transformers property, and to whom any characters who first appeared within the...

These days we have an over-abundance of non-toy transformers merchandise, from stickers to birthday plates to shoes, and we had these and more in the 1980's during Transformers early G1 heyday. Today we are going to review some of this G1 merchandise and even open some of it after 40 years...