Originally written February 2019. Even if you barely know Transformers, you know who Optimus Prime is, which is why when Takara started making Masterpiece Transformers, the high-end, collector-oriented, super-accurate-to-the-80’s-toon line, it makes sense that they...
Kingdom’s Core-class assortment has been a great run of Transformers minifigures. Or rather, that larger Legends scale that started in 2014, vanished for a little bit, and came back with a new, less-confusing name, continues to be great. Core figures are small, but...
Originally written January 2020. Since 2014, every Transformers Generations sub-line has had some kind of fandom vote, to decide on the identity of a figure or figures in the line. This has ranged from creating an entire new character through a series of polls (hello,...
Releasing new versions of classic Transformers characters who were first created after G1’s always a dicey proposition. See, when it comes to modern G1 updates, you can directly see what the upgrade is. Sure, original G1 figures have a charm all their own, but updates...
Originally written March 2019. Cog is easily the most obscure character in Transformers: Siege, so bear with me while I explain who and what he is. Throughout the original Transformers toyline, there were several giant Transformers released that changed into cities or...
Let me take you back to an early time in collecting. Around 2008, after the first of the Michael Bay movies had dropped, Transformers were hotter amongst retro collectors than they’d been for a long time. I’d recently rejoined the hobby, looking for cool things to...