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Okay, a couple nights ago, I dreamed about Ord, Nebraska. There is not much notable about Ord, except that it is roughly in the center of Nebraska, and it rhymes with "bored". I lived there when I was 8-10 years old, around 1989-1991. I found my original trio of Insecticons at a garage sale...

That's a good point, but since we got 3 remolds from Scraphook (Tow Line, Axlegrease, and the upcoming Lockdown), I don't know that that necessarily prevents a second remold; if anything, maybe the mold layout makes the Junkions easier to modify? If any of the bike parts on Road Pig are...

I feel like Crashbar would make a decent Transformer body for CyKill at the deluxe scale. It's not a 1:1 on transformation, but the body looks roughly analogous, with the 3 headlight details standing in for CyKill's yellow rectangles. Give him a new head with the 5-o'clock shadow, and maybe a...

I always liked "Moto-Cross" as a pre-Renegade name for CyKill... I would also keep the Master Renegade as the origin of the Renegade faction; perhaps he and the Last Engineer could have been early Quintesson experiments that failed and were discarded, only to survive and perhaps lead the Gobots...

I wonder if that is kind of a translation issue? Or just differing terminology; as in "figurine" is a more posable figure in his mind, while he seems to consider the typical Transformers up to that time as simply "toys"?

Exactly this. The early DX figures get a lot of flak for being...different...but the small figures were generally pretty legit. Machine Robo Rescue revisited some of the classic designs (and had some pretty awesome unproduced designs), but once it morphed into Mugenbine and then became relegated...

It...kinda depends on which Toho Godzilla you're talking about? Showa era Godzilla would probably lose to Legendary, vs Heisei Goji I think it would be a tie, Millennium era was kind of a mixed bag, but I don't think any of them would beat Legendary, Shin might just go full Evangelion (whether...

I would like to retain the fictional idea of the Gobots being cyborgs to differentiate them from Transformers, but I do like the idea of competing factions added to the Transformers mythos. What would be really cool is if Hasbro could get Bandai and Takara to work together and just officially...

So, I thought there was a separate thread for Lego Bumblebee, but it seems to have vanished? Anyway, Lego Bumblebee is a thing, and The Brothers Brick have an advance copy for review...

The Brothers Brick got an early copy of Bumblebee to review: https://www.brothers-brick.com/2024/06/15/lego-icons-10338-transformers-bumblebee-does-this-beetle-bot-beat-all-bots-review/#more-391085

My almost-6 son started singing the Jaws theme, then knocked on the bathroom door and said "Candygram!" ...brought a smile to my face!

YMMV, but the Ollie's that just opened near us had the Beast Wars Monopoly sets marked at $4.99! Original price was 49.99, and this thing comes with tokens for most of the major characters in both robot and beast modes, so if you collect Monopoly tokens or Beast Wars merchandise, it's a pretty...

Wasn't that an unproduced prototype, though? Obviously, it existed enough to make it into the magazine that the pic is from, but is anyone known to actually own one?

What about DROPSHOT? Comic-only figure with just a smidge of unobtanium?

I think there were a couple more minibot-Gobots based on unused decos: Buggyman from Beachcomber and Man-O-War from Seaspray. Beyond that, if Hasbro wanted to dive deeper into the Gobot waters, Leader-1 and CyKill seem like there are decent options for remolding out there, and Turbo, Scooter and...

Animated Optimus is kind of a hard figure to redeco: *Ultra Magnus looks nothing like Optimus in Animated, so that deco is kind of a non-starter. *Nemesis Prime and/or Scourge, while technically possible, is there really any demand for a not-quite-Animated version? *Shattered Glass might have...

In the Kalahari, it's always Tuesday, or Thursday if you like. Or Sunday. No clocks or calendars tell you to do this or that.

Just noticed that BBTS shows the packaging for the 3-pack, and it has the classic Gobots logo on it (as well as the Transformers Legacy one)! Pretty cool that they did that!

I like that Buzzsaw, and toy colors Frenzy is great, but that Ravage...ugh. Just ugh. I don't know that I've seen a mainline Ravage update that truly improves on the original figure. Enemy and Silver (movie) Frenzy when, Hasbro?

I would love an update for the original Pathfinder design, too (she's a badass combat saucer!), but these being based on the old eHobby minibot set kinda meant Pathfinder from Cosmos was a foregone conclusion. I do like that they got the Guardian emblem on the flag! Kinda wondering if we'll get...