Well, now that Rise of the Beasts has come and gone, and turned out to be a Certified Banger (™) of a Transformers production, it’s time for me to do what the movie was trying to make me do all along: Start buying the figures. Now, I have nothing against the...
A good thing about conventions like TFCon is that they let you circle back to stuff you missed, stuff that’s long out of circulation, and maybe you can even get a deal or two on it. Case and point: This version of Wheeljack. As someone who maintains a standing shelf...
In the style of long-departed Official Transformers Conventions, it’s a tradition every TFCon for there to be a small group of exclusive figures only available at the show (and occasionally at future shows if they don’t sell through). Of course, since TFCon is not an...
Y’know, people talk about how lucky Canadians are that Toys R Us is still a thing up here, and while that’s generally true, there’s a few drawbacks. For one thing, stuff there’s generally a bit more expensive than other retailers, especially exclusives. And as for...
Every year that I go to TFCon, there’s always some random little thing that wasn’t on my shopping list that I wind up grabbing, and it always becomes a highlight of the stuff I bring back. This year, it was this little figure: Choro-Q Rodimus, a tiny little novelty...
Since Combiner teams started receiving modern updates in earnest (mostly in Combiner Wars), it’s become something of a tradition to add a new member or two to the classic teams, for one reason or another. Sometimes, it’s an extra classic character getting folded into...