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Part 2 of the TFCon Chicago 2016 third-party panel. Make Toys’ Downbeat is the Jazz to get, TFC teases a Road Caesar and Gangs of Devil builds a Beast Wars…
Part 1 of the TFCon Chicago 2016 third-party panel: Fans Toys’ two-foot Terminus Giganticus and Fans Hobby’s Monsterbots. John, Don, Diecast and Brian also sort through upgrade kits, Gigapower Dinobots…
Unite Warriors or Combiner Wars Computron? John, Exvee, Matt and Don compare Takara’s remolded Lightspeed, Nosecone and Strafe with Hasbro’s set. They also cover combiner fatigue and a long combiner…
Space Ape Games’ Kiran Ramdhawa tells John and Diecast why Transformers: Earth Wars went G1-inspired. He explains how new bots are picked and timed with Hasbro, and what fans said…
An off-topic Mini-cast: John, Matt, Diecast and Brian review Suicide Squad. John frames it against the Bay Transformers sequels as fellow examples of rough adaptations.
Matt has nearly all of Titans Return waves 1 and 2. Fortress Maximus beats Metroplex, Rewind wins the Legends and Stripes loses. Galvatron’s cannon mode is nailed, and the Titan…
Is third party free to be creative? John, Brian and Diecast debate Make Toys Pandinus, price, transformation engineering and a decade of G1 remakes, then size up the state of…
Tokyo Toy Show 2016 brings Masterpiece Inferno in full red and Masterpiece Thrust at 14,800 yen. Unite Warriors Lynxmaster trades Smokescreen for Ratchet. John, Don and Exvee break it all…
Jen, aka Trixter, joins John to talk gender in Transformers fiction and fandom. From Transformers Animated’s new fans and Blackarachnia’s depth to the IDW Arcee controversy and diversity at conventions.
Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron is Takara’s strangest, prettiest combiner yet. John, Exvee and Matt review Cyclonus, Ghost Starscream, Armada Thrust, Breakdown and Roller, and react to Masterpiece Inferno and Cheetor.
Combiner Wars Victorion, the fan-built female combiner, is finally here. John, Exvee and Brian weigh her red and green deco, pump feet and twin helicopters. Don and Rob join to…
Combiner Wars G2 Menasor finally delivers the unreleased G2 Stunticons as a full team. John, Exvee, Don and Matt review every figure, debate what makes a deco G2, and react…