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Apr 18, 2019
Toy Review - Transformers: Power of the Primes Dinobots (with bonus Black Mamba Upscaled Version)
When I first learned that we’d be getting new Dinobots in the Power of the Prime line, I was excited…especially upon seeing that they...
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May 3, 2018
Toy Review - Garatron's G.O.D. 01: Thunderstorm
Did you ever think the Megatron mold from Transformers Energon would make a good remold into Thunderwing? I certainly did. Well, the...
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Apr 18, 2018
Toy Reviews - Transformers: Titans Returns Store Exclusives
Okay, one final rush to get the remaining Titans Returns toys off my damn review desk. This time, we’re dealing with exclusives…some...
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Apr 9, 2018
Toy Review - Action Toys' Bike Robo DX [The REAL Masterpiece Cy-Kill]
When Go-Bots started falling behind Transformers back in the hey-day of transforming robots duking it out in the toy aisle for a kid’s...
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Apr 6, 2018
Toy Review: Transformers Third-Party - Open And Play's Big Cannon
How many of you were disappointed in Hasbro’s Titans Return release of Voyager-class Galvatron? Raise your hands. ::Raises hand:: [You...
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Mar 31, 2018
Masterpiece Theater Showdown: Takara's Shockwave Vs. FansToys Quakewave
While most of the early Transformers were taken from Takara’s Microman and Diaclone toylines, giving them the Masterpiece treatment was...
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Feb 20, 2018
Toy Review - Transformers Titans Return Overlord and Takara's Transformers Legends Godbomber
Here it is…the last gasp of Titans Return…but man is it a good one! Here we have two leader class figures that see their origins in the...
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Feb 17, 2018
Toy Review - Transformers Titans Return Deluxe Class Waves 5 and 6
With Wave 1 of Power of the Primes hitting store shelves at the time of this writing, I figured it was time to get off my butt and wrap...
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Dec 25, 2017
Toy Review - Perfect Effect's PC-15, 16 and 17 (Upgrade Parts, Jinrai Prime and Core Magnus
The explosion of the Third Party Transformers marketplace has in some ways been really surprising. Hasbro’s reaction to it has been...
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Dec 10, 2017
Toy Review - Transformers Titans Return: Siege on Cybertron Box Set
We continue with our ‘clip show’ reviews here as we continue to make the transition from Titans Return to Power of the Primes…this time...
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Dec 7, 2017
Toy Review - Transformers Titans Return: Voyager Class Wave 4
The nice thing about a toyline winding down, especially when it comes to Hasbro’s Transformers, is that the final wave or two is rife...
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Nov 30, 2017
Toy Review - Transformers Cyber Batallion Figures (Walgreens Exclusive)
Next up in our “Toys I’m Probably Too Old For” file are the Walgreens Exclusive Cyber Battalion Autobots. Like our previous review, the...
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Nov 27, 2017
Toy Review - Transformers Robots in Disguise: Combiner Force Menasor, Galvatronus and Ultra Bee
I’m a sucker for a lot of things, but there are three that pertain to this review: I’m a sucker for Combiners. I’m a sucker for...
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Nov 24, 2017
Masterpiece Theater - Smokescreen and Hot Rodimus
For this episode of Masterpiece Theater [So glad PBS has opted not to sue, by the way. – Ed.] we’ve opted to go for something old and...
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Nov 1, 2017
Toy Review - Power Rangers Movie Legacy Action Figures
As I said in my review of the Power Rangers film that was released back in March, upon exiting the film I felt like I HAD to get my mitts...
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Oct 11, 2017
Toy Review - Transformers: Titans Return Deluxe Wave 4
With the fourth wave of deluxe-class Titans Return figures, we start delving into unnecessary repaint territory. Fortunately, we also...
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Aug 12, 2017
Toy Review - BVS Superman: DC Collectibles vs. Mezco's One:12 Collective
While the mass market toys are planned to hit store shelves well in advance of a movie’s opening, the more collector-oriented items tend...
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Aug 4, 2017
Toy Review - Transformers Legends Convobat and Lioconvoy
Back in 1996, the Transformers franchise underwent a major shift. As Generation 2 was winding down in 1995, it was put forth that for...
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Jul 31, 2017
Toy Review - Transformers: Titans Return Gift-set - Chaos on Velocitron
In terms of Anime…this is what they call a ‘clip show’. Nearly everything included in the Chaos on Velocitron gift-set is a repaint or...
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Jul 17, 2017
Toy Review - Voltron vs Voltron vs Voltron!
Voltron is back…whether it’s the Netflix series (which I should really write up some time, but the short version is it’s mostly awesome...
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