Originally written March 2019. Since the nostalgic collector’s side of Transformers really kicked into gear back in 2006 (under the name of Transformers Classics), it’s slowly but surely been making modern updates of every single toy in Generation One, the slow part...
Everyone who saw the Bumblebee had something to say about that opening sequence on Cybertron, with its cavalcade of cameos of G1 designs filtered through the movie aesthetic. Despite each one only being onscreen for a few moments, there was an immediate demand for...
Forget new stuff, let’s talk about some old stuff. Kingdom? Studio Series? Nah, we’re going back to the year 2010. My first Transformer ever was Generation 2 Hubcap, and because of that, he’s always been my favorite D-list Transformers character. And I realized, going...
Originally written April 2020, this is an especially interesting figure to go back and look at in a post Studio Series 86 Hot Rod world. By now, you all know I love me some Hot Rod. I’m pretty sure it dates back to repeatedly renting the original animated Transformers...
I know myself well enough to say that I’m pretty easily pleased by most Transformers, and I’m not as critical as I could be. Still, this is one situation where I know I’m being very odd, in that I liked a figure a big chunk of the fandom specifically does not, and I...
Originally written March 2019. For the next part of my look at the first series of Transformers: Siege, I’ll talk about the smallest, simplest figures in the line, Battlemasters. These are basically reworked Targetmasters, an idea from the fourth year of the...