Today at the New York Toyfair the world was treated to the teaser trailer for the new Transformers cartoon trilogy coming to Netflix later this year – War For Cybertron: Siege. Even though this has been touted as ‘Anime’ we are getting a CGI cartoon like the Power of the Prime’s trilogy rather than some … Continue reading Transformers Siege trailer: Character breakdown and analysis
Mirage is one of those middle-of-the-road Autobot Car characters in terms of popularity, and this is reflected in the amount of toys based on him over the years. Whilst not super-rare like say Grapple, not super popular like Sideswipe or Prowl either. Mirage has cropped up in such Transformer toy sub-lines such as Kre-O, Alternators … Continue reading Toy Review – Siege Mirage
Omega Supreme – the first BIG bot of the Transformers franchise. Sure Devastator showed a season earlier but he was made up of 6 smaller bots whereas Omega was simply massive in his own right. I still remember the first episode I saw him in – out of nowhere this big battle base character showed up, flew to the moon as … Continue reading Toy Review: Siege Omega Supreme
The Wreckers – the biggest bot badasses this side of the Dinobots. The team the Autobots go to when they don’t give a shit about collateral damage, they just want some Cons dead! The Wreckers have been around since the old Marvel comics and since have become ingrained within Transformers lore. And before the mighty … Continue reading Toy Review – Siege Impactor
Over the past few years we have been getting Transformer toys based on increasingly obscure Generation One characters. While it’s pretty hard to beat Scrounge (a character from the Marvel comics who turned into a wheel and died) who came with the Combiner Wars Technobots, we may have a contender. This time it is a … Continue reading Toy Review – Siege Greenlight
Back in the late 80’s the Transformers brand was starting to suffer. Something new had to be tried. So in direct reaction to the popularity of Micro Machines, the Transformers made Micromasters. These were actually pretty cool little toys! You could get them in packs of 4 or 6, some had bases, some could combine, … Continue reading Toys Review – WFC: Siege – Micromasters: Wave 1
The first Transformers continuity created by IDW comics is regarded by many as the best Transformer comics that have ever been made. Kicking off in 2005, it ran for an impressive 13 years with hundreds of issues and took the G1’esque universe to places it had never been before, culminating in a climatic battle against … Continue reading Transformers IDW 2019 Continuity – a retrospective
In what can be only be described as an impressive feat of electronic labour, Australian Transformer fan and prolific youtuber DrLockdown has created a video showcasing every single figure from the War for Cybertron Trilogy. That’s right – every single toy from Siege, Earthrise and Kingdom is discussed in one video with an impressive runtime … Continue reading Video: EVERY War For Cybertron Trilogy Figure
It’s been over two years since the last installment, but we have another entry in the ever popular Transformer Fan Interviews! In this latest interview with Aussie TF collectors we are talking to Michael Vella, a young bloke who in recent years has become well known to many fans of Transformers down under. Name and/or nicknames: … Continue reading Transformer Fan Interview – Michael Vella
It seems like only yesterday fans were swooning over finally getting an updated set of Stunticons in the Combiner Wars and Unite Warriors toy lines. Fan favorites, the Stunticons were the second ever combiner group to be introduced in the G1 Transformers cartoon and their rebellious attitude and sweet alt-modes gave the Autobots a run … Continue reading Toys Review – Legacy Motormaster & Drag Strip
