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I'd be good with Gamestop, I had no problem pre-ordering the Bumblebee/Dino-cassette exclusives via their online store. They even went on sale! Much better than Walmart (never did find the "Vintage Edition" Highbrow) or Walgreens (ended up buying Bluestreak on eBay)...

Laser Prime's flip-up missile launcher shoulders are such a funny feature for me. It's like the designers read somewhere that Laser Optimus/Scourge had shoulder-mounted missile pods, and they said, oh, we better include those! We can just put a hinged panel behind these random circle things! And...

It also looks like they misplaced the Matrix for some of the posed shots, which is another reason why I didn't notice it immediately... did they mention it in the video reveal? If so, I missed it.

The renders show Laser Prime has clear chest windows (though they're not the actual cab windows, no surprise there), and he's got a Matrix inside. That's a nice upgrade from the original toy.

The packaging is quite ugly. There's nothing to catch the eye, it's just a haze of rainbow colors and shapes. Even the "Legacy" logo is hard to parse from a distance.

The black-and-purple pistols are my favorite part of Drag Strip. It's so rare we get weapons that aren't just single-color plastic. I don't think there's anything here I need. I'll be all over the inevitable Scourge repaint of Optimus, though, it's a nice-looking mold.

Looks like they're aping Mondo in every way: style, color variants, insanely limited-edition releases intended to sell out to bots in seconds and get flipped on eBay for 10X the price. While I like a lot of what Mondo does, I hate their business model, and I certainly don't like to see other...

I've been posting Halloweeny toy+record combos on my Instagram all month: https://www.instagram.com/700littlerecords/ Today's photo came out particularly well, it's one of my favorite Halloween novelty songs, and a little digging on Wikipedia uncovered an interesting backstory! Here's a...

I used to have Smokescreen, Silverstreak, Prowl, Binaltech Blue Tracks, Binaltech Yellow Tracks, Shockblast, Hound, Grimlock, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Mirage, and Skids. Then in 2007 I had to transform them all back to car mode so I could pack them up to move, and that was such a miserable chore...

I just got shipment notification for mine.

I completely forgot there was an Ultra Magnus repaint of Armada Optimus Prime. I wondered why I didn't own one myself, and then confirmed on TFU.info that it was a Meijer/Kohl's exclusive packaged with a repaint of Armada Sideswipe, so there's the reasons.

$190 for a new remake of a toy that was unpopular and heavily clearanced in its original release 15 years ago. Is it targeted at people who were 7 when the original came out? Do they have enough nostalgia for this thing to be viable? Also the "Legacy" logo is weird. Looks more like something...

Oooo, a transforming VW Bus toy is definitely something I'm interested in.

Ah, the USS Indianapolis scene starts with the hat and shirt... I can picture that now. I've seen JAWS probably a couple dozen times myself, most recently last summer. It's a perfect movie.

That's a fun cartoon Quint, but it bothers me a bit that his costume and accessories don't really match any particular scene. I know when he's chomped he's wearing a bandanna, gloves, and a jacket. Did he ever hold a harpoon (not the harpoon gun, or Hooper's injection pole)? Did he ever wear the...

I'm clearing out stuff for a cross-country move, so help me get some of these Transformers items out of my way! ALL PRICES INCLUDE U.S. SHIPPING! March 7: NEW LOWER PRICES! March 15: NEWER EVEN LOWER PRICES! Final 24 hours! Unless stated otherwise, all are complete with all accessories and in...

I can't seem to find any good source for the Metron trainbot. Amazon listings for the large and mini version are both sold out, and exactly one eBay seller has the Mini version, for like $35 shipped from Russia (it was $15 on Amazon once, apparently). Wish I'd known about these sooner! Maybe...

It's amazing that it's still so hard to get these new consoles. I wonder if they'd have been saturated by now if the pandemic hadn't disrupted every step in the supply chain... I got my XSX on launch day, via a pre-order from the Microsoft site as soon as they opened it for ordering a year ago...

I was hoping to see a toy-colors Selects Slag, personally. Or even a G2 version.

Presumably, and hopefully, it's Cyclonus in toy colors. I've heard people like the toy, but the cartoon colors seem drab and wrong to me. I'd pick up a Selects version in dark blue.