RFC 937May 31, 2025
But Now It Glows
LEGO Soundwave reportedly lands August 1 with 1,502 pieces and a working sound brick. Hot Wheels Color Shifters Tracks and a glow-in-the-dark Cyberglow Megatron tempt the crew. Dr. Wu’s Slugfest…
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RFC 936May 24, 2025A Toy Reverse-Engineer!
Blokees won’t sell its Galaxy Defender Devastator combiner parts in the U.S., citing the copyright holder. Studio Series Mixmaster and Hook and Long Haul show Devastator taking shape. Don finally…
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RFC 935May 17, 2025A Robot Underneath a Jet Skin
Takara Tomy’s Shizuoka Hobby Show 2025 reveals take over, from Shield D Prime to the Macross 7 crossover Basara Prime. The crew sizes up the Adamas Machina Predaking, MPG-18 Hauler…
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RFC 934May 9, 2025Carscream is an easy pass
HasLab Omega Prime is finally in hand, and Diecast has the fix for that fragile chest. Hasbro price increases hit after May 8, and Skybound’s Transformers Kickstarter sets an all-time…
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RFC 932Apr 25, 2025Low Effort Popples
The crew remembers G1 box artist David Schleinkofer. HasLab Omega Prime is shipping, and Diecast might get his before Don. Plus Transformers x NFL wave 1, a two-minute Supreme Optimus…
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RFC 931Apr 19, 2025It’s probably Sunbow’s fault
Missing Link Grimlock and Ultra Magnus are rumored, and the crew wonders how Takara will articulate them. Studio Series Devastator nears completion, odd leg and all, which is probably Sunbow’s…
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RFC 930Apr 11, 2025Welcome to G1
MPG-17 Optimus Prime pre-orders are live, and only Diecast took the plunge. Tariffs cloud pre-orders and HasLabs, and Skybound’s Transformers Compendium Kickstarter funds in two minutes. Plus a $3,500 Unicron…
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RFC 929Apr 4, 2025I desperately want green Swoop
Leaked 2026 listings tease Leader Big Convoy, G2 Swoop and Sludge, and an 86 Kranix. New tariffs on Vietnam have Brian bracing for Transformers prices up near 50 percent. MPG-17…
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RFC 928Mar 28, 2025Chris Would Know
HasLab Liokaiser funds, but its backer count drops by more than 10,000 overnight. TakaraTomy teases Masterpiece MPG Optimus Prime 4.0 as an MP-10 homage. Blokees reveals Action Edition Soundwave, and…
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RFC 927Mar 22, 2025At OnlyDons.com
TakaraTomy reveals Transformers Wild King, a combining animal-robot line the crew calls a successor to Power Core Combiners. HasLab Liokaiser unlocks every tier, and Robosen sketches out a fully robotic…
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RFC 926Mar 15, 2025We couldn’t come up with a better title than “Gao Gai Gardner”
HasLab Omega Prime reaches New Zealand backers, and the photos leave some of the crew happy they skipped it. HasLab Liokaiser passes 16,000, and Triple Takeover in-hand photos reignite the…
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RFC 925Mar 8, 2025That’s a fumble for Bumble
Toy Fair 2025 brings the first look at Transformers Cyberworld, Hot Wheels crossovers and an all-new Walmart Cybertron Sideways. Missing Link G1 Arcee opens for preorder in two colorways. Hasbro’s…