Category Archives: BotCon

Transformers: Medix addendum

As mentioned in today's review, here are the five robots attendees of BotCon 2016's Customizing Class could have made: <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Trans-floor-m and wipe out! Flippin' through Previews - September '15 This is why... BotCon box set Part … Continue reading

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Soon Forget: Transformers Animated Primal

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our subject today is a potential Transformers Collectors' Club set. "Transformers: Unanimated" wasn't the only Animated-related set Fun Publications tried to work … Continue reading

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Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3

Surprise! Part 2 wasn't the end of the race after all. Part 3 may not have been ready when Crasher went up, but now we finally get one: <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Transformers BotBots Sour Wing & Aday reviews Transformers … Continue reading

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Soon Forget: Transformers Animated Sari Sumdac

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our subject today is Transformers Animated Sari Sumdac. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>The Transformers G1 song That time Arby's prompted a Transformers/GI … Continue reading

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Soon Forget: Titanium Soundblaster with Ravage

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's Titanium Soundblaster. The 6" Transformers Titanium Series line had some decent figure, but also some of the … Continue reading

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Soon Forget: Titanium Bumblebee

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's The War Within Bumblebee. The Cybertron-mode Bumblebee we reviewed today was not Hasbro's first attempt. This Bumblebee … Continue reading

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Soon Forget: Only Human Transformers Part 2

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are Part 2 of Fun Publications' "Only Human" GI Joe/Transformers crossover figures. In 2017, Fun Pub lost the rights … Continue reading

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The long-lost BotCon 2011 script reading

Well well well, look what's finally surfaced! That's the professional voice-actor (and Vangelus) reading of The Stunti-Con Job, which FunPub has been promising for years now that they would eventually release. Thankfully someone has gotten sick of waiting, because the … Continue reading

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Transformers Collectors' Club gets mad about knock off toys

Last week, whoever runs the Transformers Collectors' Club Twitter account posted this: It came out of nowhere and was apropos of nothing, so people began trying to figure out what they were talking about. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>When is … Continue reading

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Transformers Kre-O Optimus Prime exclusive review

In 2003, Hasbro introduced their "Built to Rule" toys, low-rent Lego knockoffs produced in-house. The toys were terrible and the line folded within a year, mourned by no one. Apparently not willing to let a bad idea rest in the … Continue reading

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