The first Bumblebee to come out is fated to be the weaker of the two since it’s not the one based on the brand new car about to come out.
In reviewing the latest Transformers, especially the movie figures, the following criteria come to mind:
Poseability
Accuracy of look and of transformation
Accessories that are usable in both [...]
Simon Furman and Dorling Kindersley return to the format of their previous Transformers Ultimate Guide with this supposedly exhaustive guide to the movie world. With a hardback cover and A4 size, as well as it’s lenticular cover, the book harkens back to the days of Transformers Annuals.
Sadly, this book was obviously put together in a [...]
Why when all the other Decepticons get insect faces, does Barricade channel Jack Frost? Whatever, what you get here is kind of two toys in one, since you slide out what I suppose would be the radiator considering it’s location, and transform that into a mini, simplistic, but all things considered pretty accurate Frenzy [...]
Wow, the first thing you notice with Bonecrusher is that his claw arm alone has at least 12 points of articulation. The next thing is the complexity of the transformation, way more interesting than anything Cybertron had to offer, and finally in his robot form, it’s striking how little he looks like what he [...]
I can’t help thinking that the movie Blackout - a ‘new’ character to Transformers, though the name has been used before, most recently as an Energon Combaticon - wasn’t meant to be Soundwave in at least one iteration of the movie roster. The combination of his facial design, his ’symbiont’, his shoulder mounted weapons, [...]
I will confess to thinking, when I first saw pictures of Brawl’s alt mode in early leaked movie photos, that there was a bit too much clutter, what with the second turret, rocket pods and minesweepers. When I finally saw the toy, I decided that actually there’s a lot of fun to be had [...]
So the Q&A with Orci and whatshisname is over now, and I managed to catch most of it, aside from a few technical problems, not unexpected since Yahoo were hosting it. The questions were obvious plants, but they covered the important things after all. They definitely were trying really hard to come across as fanboys, [...]
I tried, unsuccessfully, 3 times to watch this movie all the way though for this review. Instead I had to piece it together from snippets caught here and there until finally I’d seen all 100%.
The problem is I kept falling asleep. I can’t think of any film that was quite so effective at curing insomnia.
Steampunk [...]
The end of Binaltech has one good consequence - shops have to stock Alternators to replace them, which I’d argue they should have been doing all along since the differences in the Binaltechs isn’t worth the price premium we have to pay in England.
So I was in Forbidden Planet in London yesterday, and lo and [...]
For my part, I'm mainly only bothered that they do, and get right, all the 83/84 G1 'deluxe' cars. By my reckoning that leaves Hoist, Trailbreaker, Grapple, Inferno, Ironhide and Ratchet. Red Alert was kind of done sufficiently well as a Binaltech Asterisk to appease me, since Prowl is the one who deserved his own [...]
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