Originally written October 2019 Movie toys are a funny thing, and this doesn’t just go for Transformers. It takes longer to prototype and produce a toy than it does to finish a movie, which can be altered up until the 11th hour instead of locked in far in advance. So...
The neat thing about the Studio Series line is that between going on for over ten waves (and counting!) and having a mission statement to specifically plug missing holes in people’s live-action movie collections, we often see a lot of unusual designs finally getting...
Originally published February 2019. If you haven’t yet noticed, I tended to not take as deep a dive on figures as I do these days. Another quintessential original 1984 Transformers cast member, Hound’s a bit of an obscure guy, once you get past his automatic...
Here’s a figure from a few years ago that’s suddenly relevant again, thanks to an upcoming re-release. So, Punch is another one of those odd little d-lister Transformers characters that I’ve really become fond of due to his conceptual weirdness. Introduced midway...
Originally written September 2018. Out of all of the Prime Wars Trilogy, 2016-2017’s Titans Return was by far my favorite, striking a good balance of solid, poseable updates of classic characters, mixed in with a gimmick that added to them without being too obtrusive....