Transformers and other action figure reviews
Ah 1987. Walk Like an Egyptian, Dirty Dancing, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (UK!), Beverly Hills Cop 2, visible Nike Air bubbles, Predator, Rick Astley and Michael Fish getting the weather forecast very wrong, Oh to have a time machine. Fast forward 29 years and Hasbro 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 …
Titans Return is off and running, focusing on a very specific era of the Transfomers – the 1987 Headmasters. Takara’s Transformers Legends line takes the same Titans Return figures and puts them through the Headmasters cartoon blender to bestow them with more accurate colours, better Read More …
Ever since I was a kid, there was something more alluring about a Decepticon commando group, that was effectively an evil A-Team. Brawl is Mr T Vortex is HM Murdoch Onslaught is obviously Hannibal Swindle is Face Blast Off is….errr…Frankie Santana – the forgotten member Read More …
It’s almost two years since I reviewed Ollie. X-Transbots take on a Masterpiece styled Wheelie, came and went in a hail of criticism, flimsy plastic and broken dreams and whilst it was a decent figure, it felt like an almost criminal waste of some fantastic Read More …
When I first clapped eyes on Maketoys Pandinus, I was thrilled to see a figure not trying to force itself to look a certain way to fit a space on your shelf. I saw a toy brimming with possibilities and imagination. The eye watering price Read More …
Me and Sandstorm go way back. In the mid 80’s I became obsessed with owning his Generation 1 figure, actually obsessed. When my Gran finally relented and offered to buy me the toy (she was always the easiest relation to convince that a new toy would Read More …
Haven’t we been here before? I feel like we have. For years Reflector has been a criminally under utilised character within Transformers, but here we have the third attempt from a third party manufacturer in under a year, Having reviewed the previous two, today I Read More …
Truck, F1 car, Police car, Porsche, Jeep. Ask any 80’s kid to reel off Transformers vehicle modes they remember and each of those will be right at the top of the list. Originally planned to fulfil the role Bumblebee ultimately did, Hound’s alt mode is Read More …
Unceremoniously shrunk down to a legends class figure, and replaced by a bloke in a daft hat, a true deluxe class Groove has been desired for as long as we thought there was not going to be one. Takara then came along with the ultimate Read More …
Regular readers will have noticed I love the heck out of upgrading my Combiner Wars figures. Hasbro get so close but sometimes they could do with a little extra nudge to get them over the line. Perfect Effect have ruled the Combiner Wars upgrade kit Read More …
As a kid I had a special love for the G1 Insecticons and they are the one group where my fondness leans far more to their original toys rather than the cartoon. Whenever new toys of the G1 Insecticons show up in any form – Read More …
As Combiner Wars enters its death throes, it manages to throw out that most completely left field of character updates- Sky Lynx! As a toy which was never released over here in the UK, I have always had a fascination with Sky Lynx. When Hasbro Read More …
Across the oceans, in far away lands there are people able to walk into shops and buy cool little curio toys for little more than the cost of a Greggs pasty, a packet of Monster Munch and bottle of Cherry Coke. Imagine that right? Q Read More …
If you collect Transformer then chances are you have crossed paths with at least one of the hundreds of uses of the Masterpiece seeker mold at one point or another in your life. Whether it be the original MP-03 version or the updated, more cartoon Read More …
X-Transbots have been facing a rising tide of criticism with each release drawing more and more concerns over poor quality control. I reviewed Ollie yonks ago, and quite liked him but there were so many problems with that poor fella that it put me off buying more X-Transbots Read More …
Kenners Jurassic Park Toys What better way to start an irregular series of articles than with one of the biggest, most enduring movies of all time about Dinosaurs eating people in a theme park. Yes, that’s right pop the corks on your champagne bottles – Read More …
The third party trend for weird names continues, this time with Maketoys Cup holder. Cuckold. Cupola…even. According to Radio Free Cybertron it means “Dome” which is an interesting a way of getting around not actually being able to call him Chromedome for fear of Hasbros dusty legal Read More …