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Transformers Collection – Prime

January 23, 2024 Big Angry Trev Leave a comment

And thus the great cataloging of my personal collection continues.

The Transformers Prime cartoon came out while the live-action movies were at their peak in popularity, and so took on much of their asthetic. Prime as a long-nosed cab, Arcee as a motorcycle, Bumblebee having a damaged voicebox – all lifted from the Movieverse. This meant that poor old Ironhide lost his spot on Team Prime as in the Movieverse, Sentinel had just killed him.

Prime has proven to be one of the most popular Transformer cartoons of all time, and it had a pretty good toyline to go with it, although all the sublines contained within became very confusing, including: First Edition, Robots in Disguise, Cyberverse, Arms Micron, Go!, Adventure, Thrilling 30, Beast Hunters, Beast Hunters: Preadacons Rising and even more!

Transformers Prime Autobot Figures

*Item #PRA001: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Autobot Ultimate Optimus Prime

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*Item #PRA002: Transformers Prime Autobot Optimus Prime

*Item #PRA003: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Autobot Optimus Prime

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*Item #PRA004: Transformers Prime Autobot Weaponizer Bumblebee

*Item #PRA005: Platinum Edition Transformers Prime Autobot Weaponizer Ultra Magnus (MISB)

*Item #PRA006: Transformers Prime Autobot Weaponizer Optimus Prime

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*Item #PRA007: Transformers Prime Autobot Ultra Magnus

*Item #PRA008: Transformers Adventure Autobot TAV14 Ultra Magnus

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*Item #PRA009: Transformers Prime Autobot Cliffjumper

*Item #PRA010: Transformers GO! Prime Autobot G06 Smokescreen

*Item #PRA011: Transformers Prime Autobot Kup

*Item #PRA012: Transformers Prime Autobot Hot Shot

*Item #PRA013: Transformers Prime Autobot Wheeljack

*Item #PRA014: Transformers Prime Autobot Bumblebee

*Item #PRA015: Transformers Prime Autobot Arcee

*Item #PRA016: Transformers Prime Autobot Ratchet

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*Item #PRA017: Transformers Prime Autobot Bulkhead

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*Item #PRA018: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Autobot Smokescreen

*Item #PRA019: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising Autobot Smokescreen

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*Item #PRA020: Transformers Prime Autobot Fallback

*Item #PRA021: Transformers Prime Autobot Tailgate

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*Item #PRA022: Transformers Prime Autobot Ironhide

*Item #PRA023: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Autobot Huffer

*Item #PRA024: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Autobot Trailcutter

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*Item #PRA025: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Autobot Arcee (MOSC)

*Item #PRA026: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Autobot Arcee

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*Item #PRA027: Transformers Arms Micron Orion Pax (MISB)

*Item #PRA028: Transformers Arms Micron Gold Metal R.A (MISB)

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*Item #PRA029: Transformers Prime First Edition Terrorcon Cliffjumper (MOSC)

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*Item #PRA030: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Autobot Quickblade Bumblebee (MOSC)

*Item #PRA031: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Autobot Arcee (MOSC)

*Item #PRA032: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Autobot Prowl (MOSC)

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*Item #PRA034: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Autobot Wheeljack (MISB)

*Item #PRA035: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Star Hammer (vehicle) (MISB)

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*Item #PRA036: Transformers Arms Micron Shadow C.L

*Item #PRA037: Transformers Arms Micron Shining B.B

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*Item #PRA038: Thrilling 30 CollectibleTransformers Prime Autobot Wheeljack

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*Item #PRA039: Mashems Transformers Prime Autobot Optimus Prime

*Item #PRA040: Mashems Transformers Prime Autobot Optimus Prime (2nd unit)

*Item #PRA041: Mashems Transformers Prime Autobot Bulkhead

*Item #PRA042: Mashems Transformers Prime Autobot Bumblebee

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*Item #PRA043: McDonald’s Transformers Prime Autobot Bumblebee

*Item #PRA044: McDonald’s Transformers Prime Autobot Optimus Prime

*Item #PRA045: McDonald’s Transformers Prime Autobot Bumblebee (vehicle mode)

*Item #PRA046: McDonald’s Transformers Prime Autobot Optimus Prime (vehicle mode)

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*Item #PRA047: Kinder Surprise Transformers Prime Autobot Ratchet

*Item #PRA048: Kinder Surprise Transformers Prime Autobot Arcee

*Item #PRA049: Kinder Surprise Transformers Prime Autobot Bumblebee

*Item #PRA050: Kinder Surprise Transformers Prime Autobot Optimus Prime

*Item #PRA051: Kinder Surprise Transformers Prime Autobot Bulkhead

*Item #PRA052: Kinder Surprise Transformers Prime Autobot Bulkhead (2nd unit)

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Transformers Prime Decepticon Figures

*Item #PRD001: Transformers Prime Decepticon Megatron

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*Item #PRD002: Transformers Prime Decepticon Starscream

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*Item #PRD003: Transformers Prime Decepticon Soundwave

*Item #PRD004: Transformers Prime Decepticon Laserbeak

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*Item #PRD005: Transformers Go! Prime Decepticon G13 Shockwave

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*Item #PRD006: Transformers Prime Decepticon Skyquake

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*Item #PRD007: Transformers Prime Decepticon Knock Out

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*Item #PRD008: Transformers Prime Decepticon Arachnid

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*Item #PRD009: Transformers Prime Decepticon Dead End

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*Item #PRD010: Transformers Prime Arms Micron Stunticon Wildrider

*Item #PRD011: Transformers Prime Arms Micron Ozu

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*Item #PRD012: Transformers Adventure TAV-12 Decepticon Dreadwing

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*Item #PRD013: Transformers Arms Micron Decepticon AM-30 Rumble

*Item #PRD014: Transformers Arms Micron Decepticon AM-31 Frenzy

*Item #PRD015: Transformers Prime Arms Micron Dago-R

*Item #PRD016: Transformers Prime Arms Micron Dago-F

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*Item #PRD017: Transformers Arms Micron AM-34 Jet Vehicon General

*Item #PRD018: Transformers Prime Arms Micron Igu S

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*Item #PRD019: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Vehicon

*Item #PRD020: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Cyberverse Jet Vehicon

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*Item #PRD021: Transformers Prime Insecticon

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*Item #PRD022: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Decepticon Knock Out

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*Item #PRD023: Transformers Thrilling 30 Collecible Prime Decepticon Shockwave

*Item #PRD024: Transformers Thrilling 30 Collectible Prime Insecticon

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*Item #PRD025: Transformers Prime Robots in Disguise Vehicon (MOSC)

*Item #PRD026: Transformers Prime First Edition Vehicon (MOSC)

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*Item #PRD027: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Decepticon Soundwave (MOSC)

*Item #PRD028: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Decepticon Ravage (MOSC)

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*Item #PRD029: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Decepticon Flamewar (MOSC)

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*Item #PRD030: Transformers Prime Decepticon EZ-SP2 Breakdown (MOSC)

*Item #PRD031: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Decepticon Breakdown (MOSC)

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*Item #PRD032: Transformers Arms Micron Decepticon AM-22 Dreadwing (MISB)

*Item #PRD033: Transformers Arms Micron Jigu (MISB)

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*Item #PRD034: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Decepticon Knock Out

*Item #PRD035: Transformers Prime Cyberverse Energon Driller (vehicle)

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*Item #PRD036: Transformers Prime Star Seeker Thundertron

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*Item #PRD037: Transformers Arms Micron Shadow Gora

*Item #PRD038: Transformers Arms Micron Shadow Balo

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*Item #PRD039: McDonald’s Transfomers Prime Breakdown

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*Item #PRD040: McDonald’s Transfomers Prime Decepticon Megatron

*Item #PRD041: McDonald’s Transfomers Prime Decepticon Starscream

*Item #PRD042: McDonald’s Transfomers Prime Decepticon Megatron (vehicle)

*Item #PRD043: McDonald’s Transfomers Prime Decepticon Starscream (vehicle)

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*Item #PRD044: Kinder Surprise Transfomers Prime Decepticon Megatron

*Item #PRD045: Kinder Surprise Transfomers Prime Decepticon Starscream

*Item #PRD046: Kinder Surprise Transfomers Prime Decepticon Starscream (2nd unit)

*Item #PRD047: Kinder Surprise Transfomers Prime Decepticon Soundwave

*Item #PRD048: Kinder Surprise Transfomers Prime Decepticon Soundwave (2nd unit)

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Transformers Prime Predacon Figures

*Item #PRP001: Transfomers Prime Predacon Predaking

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*Item #PRP002: Transfomers Prime Predacon Skylynx

*Item #PRP003: Transfomers Prime Predacon Vertebreak

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*Item #PRP004: Transfomers Prime Predacon Cindersaur

*Item #PRP005: Transfomers Prime Predacon Rot Gut

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*Item #PRP006: Transfomers Prime Predacon Blight

*Item #PRP007: Transfomers Prime Predacon Windrazor

*Item #PRP008: Transfomers Prime Predacon Hun-Grrr

*Item #PRP009: Transfomers Prime Predacon Rippersnapper

*Item #PRP010: Transfomers Prime Predacon Twinstrike

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Transformers Prime Gods Figures

*Item #PRG001: Transfomers Arms Micron Unicron

*Item #PRG002: Transfomers Arms Micron Bogu

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Transformers Prime VS

*Item #PRV001: Transfomers Prime Robots in Disguise Autobot Bumblebee (MISB)

*Item #PRV002: Transfomers Prime Human MECH Soldier (MISB)

*Item #PRV003: Transfomers Prime Human Silas (MISB)

*Item #PRV004: Transfomers Prime Robots in Disguise Starscream (MISB)

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My Transformer Collection Showcase, Transformatorium

Video: The Transformatorium: EXTENDED CUT

March 27, 2023 Big Angry Trev Leave a comment

I’m a Transformers collector. For quite a while now, people have been asking to see more than just photo’s of The Transformatorium, my specially built shed housing over 4000 Transformer figures! But doing a quick few vids with a camera phone to post online didn’t seem like it would really do the scope of the shed justice.

So in conjunction with Able Media Productions, for the first time we have proper footage of The Transformatorium in all its glory, as well as questions about the shed answered by yours truly.

The following video is the extended cut with 12 extra minutes of footage, showing through my personal collection a history of Transformers toys going back nearly 40 years!

If that sounds like a little too much looking at toys for you, the shorter 7.30 minute version can be found here.

Did you like this behind the scenes look at my lifes work? Then say something nice in the comments section below 🙂

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Video: THE TRANSFORMATORIUM!

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Video: THE TRANSFORMATORIUM!

March 27, 2023 Big Angry Trev 5 Comments

I’ve been collecting Transformers for nearly 40 years. For quite a while now, people have been asking to see more than just photo’s of The Transformatorium, my specially built shed housing over 4000 Transformer figures! But doing a quick few vids with a camera phone to post online didn’t seem like it would really do the scope of the shed justice.

So in conjunction with Able Media Productions, for the first time we have proper footage of The Transformatorium in all its glory, as well as questions about the shed answered by yours truly.

So strap in and enjoy! And if you like this video and are a rabid Transformers fan, then you might also enjoy the extended cut with 12 extra minutes of toy shelf footage, showing figures spanning the last 39 years!

Did you like this behind the scenes look at my lifes work? Then say something nice in the comments section below 🙂

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Toys Review – Legacy Motormaster & Drag Strip

June 19, 2022 Big Angry Trev Leave a comment

It seems like only yesterday fans were swooning over finally getting an updated set of Stunticons in the Combiner Wars and Unite Warriors toy lines. Fan favorites, the Stunticons were the second ever combiner group to be introduced in the G1 Transformers cartoon and their rebellious attitude and sweet alt-modes gave the Autobots a run for their money on the roads. This has lead to them appearing in multiple toylines, from KRE-O to Bot Shots to even Robots in Disguise.

Toys Review – the Combiner Force Stunticons

Well the Stunticons are back again – well – two of them anyway, with more along later in the year. Drag Strip was released several months ago and Motormaster – the latest Commander Class figure – has just hit stores here in Australia. So without further ado, lets have a look at Legacy Motormaster & Drag Strip!

Drag Strip

Robot Mode

‘Yes I have a name like a bloke in a dress taking his clothes off – wanna make something of it?’

There is a lot of yellow going on here, like a lot. The faux-engine in his chest and the guns and head break it up a bit, but this here fella is yella through and through I tell ya what! But he still a nice looking figure with good proportions, a very cartoon-accurate countenance and no big ugly combiner peg in his chest. Overall an improvement on what has come before. His articulation is quite good, with ankle-tilts and a decent range of motion in all his limbs.

His two pistols can be combined into one double-barreled gun and can also be stored on the backs of his thighs.

Vehicle Mode

A really beautiful and faithful rendition of the original toy, Drag Strip finally turning into a 6-wheeled racer again rather than a Mirage wannabe. There is very little to fault here and kudos to the designers for making him look sweet as!

The pistols can be added to his vehicle form, giving it a battle mode. Gotta say it is an improvement on the giant cannon that plugged into the back of the G1 toy. Overall this is a really nice figure with an intuitive Transformation and perhaps the nicest official Drag Strip figure we have ever had.

Toys Review – the Combiner Wars Combaticons!

Motormaster

Robot Mode

The original Motormaster toy was quite different from his cartoon depiction. The toy had its body made from the trailer so was therefore grey, whilst the entire cab made up Motomaster’s feet. This made the toy a bit comical, although very easy to stand up admittedly, with his feet being the size of Prime’s alt-mode on their own! The cartoon kinda skirted around this by making Motormaster predominantly black, as if he was made up from just the cab like Prime was. This Motormaster comes with a trailer but the robot is made up solely of the cab, though they gave him little fake-cab feet, which are actually pretty cute, if quite odd. The lower legs are disproportionately big compared to the rest of him, but that beautiful face-sculpt more than makes up for it.

Motormaster has good range of arm motion, but very little swivel in the neck and the legs are too bulky to do much with. Still very good overall however and more cartoon reminicent than the larger Unite Warriors version.

Vehicle Mode

Now this is what I’ve been waiting for – Motormaster with a trailer! Just like I’ve often felt many Optimus Prime toys have been lacking when they come sans trailer, I was disappointed we got no trailer for any of the Motormaster toys subsequent to the original one. Though it’s not as long as I would have liked, it is an extremely welcome addition and really makes the toy for me. Motormaster doesn’t appear nearly as big as the other Commander-class figures in their alt-modes, but that is due to just how jam-packed with parts the trailer is. This mode is what made me want to go buy the figure, and it has (except for the quibble of length) not disappointed. Plus unlike the original toy the cab can detach too!

‘Suck a fat one Optimus and Ultra Magnus – I can do this now too!’

Base Mode

The original Motormaster toy had a sorta base mode, complete with a ramp for his little roller-drone to drive down. This base mode is by far an improvement on the original, with the entire trailer partsforming into a big gun emplacement. This helps make up for Motormaster’s lack of a rifle. It actually looks pretty sweet in person, and while not as cool as Sky-Lynx‘s shuttle launch bay, looks a lot cooler than Rodimus Prime‘s gun trailer. Given everything the trailer has to do to become both a gun-emplacement and parts for Menasor, the partsforming is forgivable in my opinion. The one silly thing is that Motormaster has to put down the sight in order to actually use the gun.

Between robot mode, truck mode and base mode this is easily the best Motormaster figure we have ever had, and we haven’t even got to the gestalt gimmick yet!

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Menasor

(thus far)

It’s a bit hard to do a review of Menasor at this stage since only two of his five components have been released, but I’ll give it a shot.

Drag Strip Component

While they fully made up the limbs of the original G1 toy, in the cartoon the four smaller Stunticons seemed to simply plug onto pre-existing limbs to give them more bulk, and that is apparently the route they are going with this rendition of the Stunticons. Whilst I appreciate toon-accuracy, I’m not a big fan of this, and poor old Drag Strip has to literally split in half in order for Menasor to use his right elbow. It might be screen-accurate, but personally it’s not my cup of tea.

Motormaster Component

Motormaster himself converts into the upper torso of Menasor, whilst his trailer becomes the chest, hands, feet and, er…., exoskeleton of the rest. Once again partsforming is in play. It’s actually quite cleverly done and this mode, like all the others of Motormaster, consists of lots of tab-slotting which gives a lot of structure stability to the figure. I appreciate how the effect overall differentiates this Menasor from his CW/UW counterpart, who because of the design looked similar to many of his toyline gestalt peers. I will reserve judgement on his good this Menasor is until I get the remaining three Stunticons. The gun turret from the base mode stays separate to Menasor and is useable by him, though it does look a bit odd, with it being so big compared to Motormaster, and so small compared to the combined form.

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Overall – worth getting?

Both Motormaster and Drag Strip are a significant improvement on their predecessors. Both have smaller robot modes but this is far outweighed by both their visual appearances and the intricacy of their toys. Both have good transformations, and despite the multiple configurations inherent in Motormaster there is never a point where one feels frustrated by the process and all the tabs lock tight and sweet! There is one issue however:

There have been many, many reports of yellowed parts on this first batch of Motormaster. I lucked out that there was only one small panel suffering from it on mine, but there have been reports of much worse from many Aussie TF fans. If you purchase a Motormaster and find many such panels, I suggest you try to swap for another.

As previously stated, I am reserving judgement on their Menasor mode before I fully review that mode. Right now my plan for my Transformatorium is to have, regarding my Stunticons, my Combiner Wars in their combined mode, my Unite Warriors in their robot modes and the Legacy toys in the vehicle modes. Then I have the best of all 3 worlds!

So yeah, Legacy Motormaster and Drag Strip – go pick them up! Just watch for the yellowing, only that dang varmint Stripper should be yeller on his belly.

Got something to say about these figures? Pop it in the comments section below!

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Toy Review – Nemesis Grimlock

October 2, 2021 Big Angry Trev Leave a comment

Don’t ya love it when you come across an incredibly cool action figure that you didn’t even know existed?

It’s such a good feeling for the avid collector, but an increasingly rare one. No longer do we only find out what Transformers are being released by perusing our local toy stores to see what’s on the shelf. No sir, we do most of our shopping online and are well aware what toys are in the works, usually a good year before they actually get released.

Well, a really cool figure got past me years ago that I didn’t even know existed until a few weeks ago when I was on a Japanese site, looking for a Wipe-Out to go with my TR Trypticon, and came across this gem by accident.

So let’s take a look – from the Movie Advanced line – at the dark, the dangerous, the friggin awesome – Nemesis Grimlock!

First off – why haven’t you heard of Nemesis Grimlock?

I asked around a lot of my TF buddies and, like me, they had never heard of this toy. And it’s easy to see why. This redeco of the AOE Voyager Class Grimlock toy was an exclusive figure you could only obtain by attending a Transformers Expo that ran for 8 days in Yokohama, Japan back in 2014. Thus if you don’t hail from Japan, this spot of news was easy to miss.

Robot Mode

Like all the other Nemesis characters (Prime, Hot Rod, Primal etc) Nemesis Grimlock has his colour scheme made up of blacks, purples and light blues. And damn does it work! So much cooler than the awful baby-poo brown and death-grey colour scheme of the original toy. For the first time I find myself really liking a Movieverse Grimlock in his robot mode.

He has decent articulation and is able to be posed fairly well. He scales quite well with other Nemesis characters and his weapon looks like it could deal a lot of damage. Overall fantastic!

Robo-Dinosaur Mode

To be honest I don’t think they’ve made a good looking Movieverse Grimlock toy outside of the Studio Series one. Every other one has got weird colour schemes and weirder features. Proportions wise Nemesis Grimlock has the same flaws as his regular AOE counterpart. But given that this is meant to be an evil version of Grimlock, the weird huge face and teeth with the psychotic eyes work for once – you could imagine that this is the criminally insane version of Grimlock that arose from the bowels of Unicron himself.

The hellishly insane version of Big Grim!

The club can be attached to the tail to make… err…. an extremely long tail, but is best left detached. Nemesis Grimlock comes with a jaw chomping gimmick, some articulation and scales OK with Nemesis Primal, if not the other Nemesis robots.

Transformation

Not particularly hard or fiddly – you’ll pick it up fairly quick.

Worth Getting?

A Nemesis Grimlock figure? Hells yes it is! I don’t care that it hails from the Movieverse continuity rather than the Generations line, it’s still a cool concept. Surprisingly this figure isn’t that hard to find online, probably because no one is actively searching for it, and isn’t ruinously expensive so if you fancy him you shouldn’t have too many headaches tracking one down.

Got something to say about this figure? Pop it in the comments section below!

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Video: Kingdom Galvatron Review

June 12, 2021 Big Angry Trev Leave a comment

Well kiddies, I know I usually do written reviews of Transformers, replete with fascinating details and lots of pics, but today is something different. Today I, along with my good buddy Brendan, have created a video review. And it’s of none other than that Unicron lackey, the big bad himself – Galvatron!

So sit back and enjoy this special video review of Transformers Kingdom Leader Class Galvatron – you wont be disappointed 😉

Got anything to say about this figure? Pop it in the comments section below!

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Podscussion: Bad Toys you Still Love

May 8, 2021 Big Angry Trev Leave a comment

Toys you think are objectively bad but for some reason you still love the things.

We all have a few in our collections, or at least we can think of ones out there that would fit the description.

For his first foray into the Podcast world, Tets of Tets’ Toys & Shenanigans decided to do a Podcast on this very topic, centered around Transformer toys specifically. This included several guests including Paul and in the latter half yours truly (I come in at the 33:30 mark).

So sit back and listen to what TF nuts do best – talk about the toys we love (even if we think they are not very good).

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Toys Review – Micron Micromasters

March 11, 2021 Big Angry Trev Leave a comment

With the Transformers Kingdom toy line hitting the stores we are seeing a shift away from the Micromasters that have made up a decent part of the Siege and Earthrise toylines. Whilst some may be happy for this, others will miss not being able to complete the sets of these classic (if obscure) characters in their updated forms.

Luckily for us, if not so lucky for those with limited online store access, there are still a few sets being released under the Generations Selects line. Today we will look at the latest to be released; it containing three old characters and three (well, 2 1/2) brand new ones! So lets look at the Micron Micromasters set from the Galactic Odyssey Collection.

Motorhead & Runner

Both are recolours of their teammates and will give fans the ability to complete the classic Race Track Patrol. Runner was originally named Barricade in G1, but with the name Barricade firmly affixed to the Movieverse character, this figure has been renamed Runner which was his pre-war name in the Dreamwave comics.

Fireguard & Roadburner

Once again these two are recolours, this time of the Decepticon Micromasters Direct-Hit & Power Punch. And once again we have a name change. Fireguard is most obviously Wheel-Blaze, but since Wheel-Blaze had already received a new figure, they had to rename him and make him a new character.

Disappointingly Roadburner has the cannon of his Decepticon counterpart instead of a fire ladder. I suppose one could argue that it is meant to be a cannon that shoots water rather than laser fire.

Stingracer and Windstorm

Now these two are a bit interesting. The toys are (sigh) yet again simple recolours of other WFC Micromasters that have come before, but they are brand new characters. The most interesting bit is that their colour schemes are homages to MASK vehicles. The Decepticon Stingracer (the brown one) and the Autobot Windstorm have both lifted their paintjobs from toys from the MASK line and even their altmodes have a decent resemblance. I particularly like the colour scheme of Windstorm – the mint green colouring combined with the flame job on the vehicle hood really pops!

Weapons Modes

All these characters can become guns for larger characters or combine to become a double-weapon. Sadly they pretty much suck across the board and there will be few people that use them for this purpose. (For some examples of Micromaster weapons modes SEE HERE)

Worth Getting?

If you are a completionist then yes. If you are after a few new characters instead of the same G1 ones being trotted out time and time again then yes. However if you are after new figures that don’t resemble toys that have come before then don’t waste your time here. Besides colour schemes there is nothing new to recommend these figures, although I must say that the limbs on them are surprisingly tighter than those that have come before. I was able to transform all characters multiple times without limbs detaching, which is something to date that none of the other WFC Micromasters has managed for me. So this set isn’t bad and has a reasonable price point – grab it if you are inclined.

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Toy Review – WFC-GS12 Greasepit

September 30, 2020 Big Angry Trev Leave a comment

Transformer fans had mixed reactions when we saw the return of the Micromasters a couple of years ago. On the one hand it was great to get new versions of characters we hadn’t seen since 89/90. On the other their joints were often weak and their combined weapons modes were more often than not fairly crap.

Then this year we got a new spin on the whole Micromaster gimmick. Back in the day some of them had bases that transformed from things like airports into battle stations with Micromasters manning them – very cool with a lot of play value. Now those classic bases are coming back but now have a third and fourth mode – robot and Modulator armor/weaponary.

The first of these figures released was earlier this year in the Earthrise line with Ironworks. So let’s see how his Decepticon counterpart is getting on in the new millennium with Generations Selects Greasepit.

Fuel Station Mode

Being a redeco of Ironworks, we are seeing pretty much the same figure here. A small compact petrol station, Greasepit’s building portion looks more industrial than than the auto-repair theme the original sported. Also what the hell were they thinking with the positioning of those gas pumps?! Right at the entrance/exit ramp to the fuel centre, filling up your vehicle means you are going to block other customers and, Primus forbid, if you leave your handbrake off you are gonna see your car roll off into traffic!

The one thing that is kinda cool here is the ‘Super Gasoline’ sign – all but identical to the original toy.

Battle Station Mode

The original Greasepit station (or station belonging to Greasepit I should say) unfolded to have towers, missile launchers, guns and radar dishes – it was very cool. Almost all of that is gone now except for the tower and a solitary gun emplacement. Certainly a downgrade from what had come before and essentially identical to Earthrise Ironworks.

Robot Mode

Also pretty much identical to Ironworks. And once again I have to question the placement of the fuel pumps. I mean, on the end of his fist? Punch someone once and you’ll blow your own hand off! At least the colour scheme is pretty boss and he comes with a gun which you can replace the fuel pumps with.

Modulator

Yeah, the Modulators as a whole aren’t working for me the same way the Weaponizers did. Besides a gun you are really just giving other bots a bit of extra armour and some cyberclown-sized shoes.

Overall

The new Ironworks toy worked because the base mode still had its crane, the battle station mode still had one big weapon and you could get the little truck to go with him from the Micromaster 10-pack that was released in Siege. This redeco doesn’t do the original toy justice at all. No little partner to obtain to go with it, the fuel station mode looks odd and the battle station mode is nowhere near as cool as the original. If like me you intend to get Generations versions of classic G1 characters then you are going to want to pick this guy up. If not then this figure is an easy pass.

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September 30, 2020 Big Angry Trev 2 Comments

The original Headmaster Horrorcons were G1 toys that kinda had it all. They were triple changers, they had beast modes, they had jet modes AND they were Headmasters where the Nebulan partner also triple-changed – becoming the head of the robot and of the beast. Combine all this with the fact that they also showed up in the season 4 of G1 cartoon before it’s end and these were sought after figures!

Sadly, the beast modes weren’t brilliant, the colour-schemes were cringe-worthy, the accessories were easy to lose and if you lost the Headmaster itself the toy only worked as a jet. This makes these figures very hard to find on the secondary market today, and both toys remain some of the few from the G1 cartoon I don’t own.

However for those wanting representations of these figures but can’t afford the huge amounts the originals go for – fear not! They are back in the new toylines! Last year saw the release of Apeface in the Siege line and this year we get his partner in the Earthrise line. So without further ado, let’s have a look at War for Cybertron Snapdragon.

Robot Mode

A good sized and robust figure for the Voyager class, very chunky and strong looking, though it would have been nice to see less kibble on the arms. Despite this the figure has decent articulation. A bit plain looking, but pays homage to the original toy – right down to Krunk becoming the head and the Decepticon-faction symbols on the nipples.

Cybertronian Fighter Jet Mode

Once again it is very faithful to the original figure and it’s certainly his strongest mode. A really nice representation of a Cybertronian Fighter Jet and had multiple ports to not only attach the robots guns but also other weapons such as those from Weaponizer characters.

One feature I really like is the big cockpit in the middle of the jet. It splits down the middle to open sideways and allow Krunk to ride inside and even has a control panel!

Dragon Mode

“All the better to eat Daniel with m’dear!”

If his jet mode is his stronges mode, then the dragon mode of Snapdragon is definitely his weakest, even if a distinct improvement on the original. Firstly Krunk doesn’t even become the head, he becomes the lower jaw and can be extremely frustrating to get into place. For me it usually means leaving his mouth wide open. Also he doesn’t really look much like a dragon – he looks more like a weirdly coloured faux T-Rex with the little forearms and general proportions. Add to this all the visible jet kibble and this is not a great beast mode at all.

Overall

If you are after a Generations representation of the Headmaster Horrorcons then Snapdragon is for you. Also if looking for a figure for a younger fan this isn’t bad, what with the easy transformations, three modes and the Titan Master gimmick. However to other collectors the very cool jet mode may not make up for the average robot mode and subpar dragon mode. So yeah, this is definitely a ‘take or leave’ kinda Con.

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