Transformers and other action figure reviews
Reviews of Third Party Transformer toys
“Listen to the wind blowwww,, watch the sun riseeeeee”….Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain, is an iconic song for many reasons but in my sphere it’s synonymous with one thing specifically – Formula One Motorsport. Here in the UK it was the intro to the BBC’s racing Read More …
“Should old acquaintance be forgot and old lands endddddd!” or however that song goes. Yes, that’s right it’s 2019. The year of flying cars, neon Atari adverts, awesome red motorbikes whipping around the streets of neo Tokyo and Rutger Hauer talking to birds. So what Read More …
No matter how great the various Transformers lines have been recently, the one area they still lag behind in is accessories. Figures frequently come with weapons that are hollowed out, random added bits at the expense of their weapons, or don’t even come with accessories Read More …
Despite loving the character as a child I have never owned a Generation One Omega Supreme toy. Somehow it’s always eluded me. This passing ships in the night like relationship began at a car boot sale in mid 1980something or other, when I came across Read More …
As a kid, the Transformer toys I saw the most in shops were The Stunticons. Those maniac sports car robots were everywhere and clogged up almost every Transformers display in each toy shop across Nottingham. Or that was how it felt in 1980 something. I Read More …
Something I discovered recently is that a lot people find the Aerialbots to be the most boring combiner team because they are “just” a bunch of jets. As someone whose imagination lives more in Afterburner II than Super Monaco GP, I struggle to wrap my Read More …
Looking at the picture above you could be forgiven for thinking that we have been taken over. Actually that picture is there because today we are doing an interview, yes – an interview! Sat here a few weeks back, idly basking in the fuzzy, Read More …
2017 has been another outstanding year on the Transformers scene. Titans Return ran wild with the zest of the spirit of Hulkamania, Beast Wars has risen from its prehistoric grave, Power of the Primes restored the honour of the Dinobots and third parties spammed us Read More …
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….” and with the amount of toys he’s dropping on my door step Santa must be shattered. One of these toys is X2 Toys Skycrusher, a third party take on a Titans Return style Skyfire. Titans Return may Read More …
As a kid, I got Powermaster Optimus Prime for Christmas, but me and my cousin had already found the present stash a week before – it was the exact moment I discovered Santa Claus doesn’t exist in 1987. Despite killing Santa Claus, the toy Read More …
A new challenger has appeared. The third party Masterpiece market is getting really crowded at the minute so anyone hoping to make inroads is going to have to do something special to get a foot hold. Lowering the price to half of what your competitors Read More …
We can’t say as Transformers fans that we don’t have companies catering to our many whims. If third parties aren’t adjusting colour schemes or details on their own figures to suit feedback, they have their ears to the ground ready to fix whatever we don’t Read More …
If Optimus Prime is a blockbuster movie, Seaspray is the obscure Argentinian shoe lace making documentary that Mark Kermode tries to convince you is more worthy of your time. Weird, non militarised, carrying a weight problem and fond of romancing the occasional “Tlalakan” he’s something of an oddity amongst a line Read More …
“Behold – Galvontron”. Wait, that’s not how it goes. Third parties are leaning ever closer to Hasbro’s trademarked names without ever jabbing their flag right in the face, and Galvontron is comically close to the character it’s intended to be – Galvatron. Mechfanstoys like to prove they Read More …
Perfect Effect carved out a pretty decent niche as the go to guys for upgrade kits during Combiner Wars and now they’ve set their sights on Titans Returns which will please many people who hate keeping hold of money. like myself. Their latest attempt to Read More …
Maketoys MTRM-09 Downbeat The Masterpiece Jazz wars were always an inevitability and the only question was – when? Unquestionably one of the most iconic and popular Transformers it’s amazing it’s taken this long. Good news is, it seems in 2017 we are about be inundated Read More …
Am I seeing things? Is this real? Beelzeboss Spiritual Leadership kit has actually been released…as is sat on my desk? Announced mid way through 2015, if memory serves, this upgrade kit for Combiner Wars Optimus Prime caught my attention with how it dealt with that Read More …
As a crumpet eating Brit, China can sometimes look like a crazy lawless place. From the outside looking in it appears that everything there is a fake version of something that costs us an arm and a leg over here. Even the cars. Third party Read More …
When Don Figueroa decided he wanted to redesign all of the Transformers for IDW’s ongoing Transformers series it didn’t go well. Marrying the G1 characters with live action movie style hyper detailed designs produced characters that lacked charm or personality and instead look like Rodimus Read More …
If you ask most people to name 5 Transformers “the white Porsche one” will usually follow Optimus Prime, Megatron and Starscream. Yet here we are an there is still no sign and of an official Masterpiece Jazz from Takara, and even third parties had shown Read More …