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So, I am babysitting my store tonight while a technician does some work on the network cabling, and, as tradition demands, I brought in a TV to watch some Pinky and the Brain, Godzilla: Up From the Depths (my son's name for the H-B cartoon, I quite like it), and now Gamera vs Gyaos (in Japanese...

So, fun story, I am the oldest of 8 kids, with a 20 year span between me and my youngest sibling (brother). I first started heavily collecting Transformers when RiD01 hit stores. Transformers were cars and trucks again, all was right with the world. (I like to think I've grown a bit in my...

I've only dipped a little into the add-on market. Bought a Matrix for G1 Prime from Transrepro back in the day, and the G1 Prowl and Tracks heads for RiD Prowl and Sideburn (looking back, 20-y.o. me was kind of a dork! Thankfully, I quickly got out of that stage and reversed that error!) And a...

I do get the price issue, but it's not like the Cyberverse figures and even these Earthspark finger puppets don't transform; in the case of the former, the transformations stopped in a weird gerwalk-like mode for (mostly) poorly-executed action features, the latter have to auto-convert when you...

A lot of Transformer heads have looked like that over the years.... ....it's just that, in the past, most of them filled that hole with a transparent plastic slug for light piping

I don't think that most of the line deserves that level of disrespect, but I do wonder what the thought process was behind Transformers finger puppets. Between Cyberverse and Earthspark, I wonder what's wrong with just making small-scale transforming figures without extra gimmicks?

This is an interesting exploration of how one fan's personal headcanon can become folded into official canon. Quite the research project!

So, if anyone has some nostalgia for the off-brand 3-3/4" compatible plastic vehicles that were available back in the day, apparently TimMee is bringing some of them back. They have a transport truck, a tank, a jeep, and then this monster of a fortress...

The Man With No Name...mostly just to continue the theme of Westerns that were lifted from samurai films (in this case, Yojimbo), but the dude is clever and resourceful, so he's still a decent pick.

"The Energizer Bunny has fallen! Battery-cons, follow me!"

The High Wire is not bad, but I honestly prefer the look of Armada High Wire over Energon. Would have really liked a larger-scale Armada Grindor, though. The whole Perceptor team, really.

Unless the torso is not made to come apart (don't remember on Kicker, but most Joes are held together with a small Phillips-head screw), the o-ring is easily replaceable, and readily available at any decent hardware store or auto parts supply. I don't remember the exact size (I feel like it's a...

Hasbro has started to redo the 3-3/4" line in the old o-ring style this last year, so the Baroness from this set is one of those. I believe these are new molds recreating the old ones, not simple reissues. Probably my biggest complaint (aside from price, but that's my problem) is that I think...

AOE Galvatron is one Movieverse idea I would love to see translated to Legacy, as long as it wasn't just an Optimus Prime redeco. Sort of an inverse Reverse Convoy.

This is it, exactly. G1 S3 figures didn't have ball joints (if you wanted ball joints in the early- to mid-80s, you had to buy GoBots!), and, illustrated in the comments above, most had little or no leg articulation. Authentics Arcee is a decent little figure (tiny forearms notwithstanding), but...

Not that we need another Arcee on shelves (we have SSBB, SS86, and Legacy Prime at the moment, locally at least, pretty sure there's some unsold ER/Kingdom stock floating around somewhere, too), but if Hasbro were ever going to do a G1, but better, line, they really ought to revisit the original...

I would love it if the next round of TF redos used GI Joe vehicles for altmodes, even if they weren't to Joe scale. Seaspray and Beachcomber are practically begging to be the W.H.A.L.E. and the A.W.E. Striker, Powerglide is already almost the Rattler/Tiger Rat ( the Viper redeco says hello), and...

And/or plan ahead with alternate tooling that would let you reissue said playsets and vehicles for GI Joe. (I assume you're talking the 3-3/4" line) If Hasbro continues the o-ring retro figures, they're going to need some extras for the line eventually. Or should, at least.

It's almost like someone at Hasbro was making a sly commentary on situations where they go back and forth on working names...

I mean, not really? The Countach and the Ferrari have distinctive enough noses that it's kind of obvious that Breakdown's nose isn't remolded from Wildrider's, and clearly several people believe it should have been. After Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, Breakdown is the third transformation for the...