
July 7th 2010: Post-Botcon Death Edition
BotCon 2010 is over, and Toys R Us shelves are suddenly full of Power Core Combiners and Generations figures a month early. Ironhide1975 calls War for Cybertron the most Transformers-feeling…
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BotCon 2010 is over, and Toys R Us shelves are suddenly full of Power Core Combiners and Generations figures a month early. Ironhide1975 calls War for Cybertron the most Transformers-feeling…

RFC’s BotCon 2010 recap covers Generations Scourge, Thunderwing and Skullgrin, Legends Optimus and Megatron, Transtech Cheetor and Dinobot’s Hall of Fame win. Plus Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster on AllSpark…

Hasbro’s BotCon 2010 design panel was G1-a-palooza: Legends Gun Megatron, a treaded Generations Perceptor, Jazz with door speakers and Megatronus of the Thirteen. Headmaster Don finally gets his Arcee, and…

Transformers Generations Wave 1 hits Toys R Us, and Takara rolls out event-only repaints like G2 Dreadwing and Smokescreen. Ender says War for Cybertron is pure Sunbow and blasts the…

Generations Dion is out and falling apart in JD’s hands. John DeLuna gets Punch/Counterpunch, the crew tries the War for Cybertron demo, and Stan Bush backs RFC’s Project Awesome. Then…

Transformers 3 set photos show the new female lead in a bathrobe. Jack of TFormers.com gets the inside story on War for Cybertron for Nintendo DS. Ender rips IDW’s Transformers…

BotCon 2010’s Rapido gets a brand-new head, and the crew calls it pure love. New Seacons surface and Takara’s 2010 Unicron goes full Transformers: The Movie. The crew shares a…

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley replaces Megan Fox in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and Club magazine 33 shows War for Cybertron Soundwave. The crew picks winners in the RFC May giveaway, then…

Ender takes the host chair as BotCon 2010 registration finally opens online without crashing. Toys R Us briefly lists Masterpiece Grimlock at $59.99, and Peter Cullen is confirmed as Optimus…

The Transformers Hall of Fame names Peter Cullen and Bob Budiansky, and the fan vote’s radio buttons don’t work. Punch-Counterpunch and Clench pictures surface, and Pat Lee resurfaces at Newsarama.…

Ender’s embargo is lifted, and he has played Transformers: War for Cybertron. His verdict: a well-made third-person shooter that looks like Cybertron, with drop-in co-op. Plus Power Core Combiners Rally…

Masterpiece Convoy Sleep Mode, a BotCon 2010 Streetstar and War for Cybertron’s new Warpath and Barricade lead a live RFC. Plus a Del Rey origin novel, first looks at Drift,…