I’d thought I was out of the Transformers Retro toyline, but Soundwave (reviewed here) and Blaster (ditto) pulled me back into it! Through them, I got the revelation that, apparently, G1 Transformers toys that were taken from Microman, as opposed to Diaclone, were...
Blaster’s one of those G1 characters with kind of an odd conceptual history. The idea is that he’s an Autobot rival to Soundwave, between his boombox altmode, and cassete-minion-ejecting feature. But when he was released in the second year of the toyline, he didn’t...
So, how about that new Haslab? I’ll admit, despite the evidence mounting up before the reveal, I still found myself shocked that Omega Prime, the combined form of Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus was actually the next crowdfunded super-figure, and...
What a rollercoaster ride the Transformers Retro line’s been so far. To recap, Retro is the latest batch of Wal-Mart exclusive reissues of vintage 80’s Transformers figures (but it’s not the Wal-Mart exclusive Vintage line of reissues from a few years ago. Because...
Sometimes, a Transformers figure has outsized importance compared to the character’s actual role in the stories they come from. This is the case for me with the original 1999 release of Tigerhawk. This Beast Wars character was a fused version of the Maximals Tigatron...
You know, when I looked at Legacy Snarl a couple weeks back, I talked about the downside of slowly releasing the members of a combiner team, but there’s also an upside to it: The fun of slowly assembling the giant robot as the members of the team come to you. That’s...
Studio Series 86 Commander Optimus Prime Heel Misassembly Fixed In New Batches?In TFW2005December 22, 2024
