Transformers – Studio Series – Black Out
Posted in2018 - Studio Series

Transformers – Studio Series – Black Out

As sort of a last hurrah for the Michal Bay Transformers series, which is effectively done, Hasbro has been doing a sort of "greatest hits" line themed around the movies called Studio Series.  It's not a bunch of re-releases though, it's new molds of most of the figures, with an emphasis on Robot Mode Scale.  It's also a way for Hasbro to give us better versions of a lot of characters who aren't named Bumblebee or Optimus Prime.  Often in the case of movie toys, for the sake of spoilers, toy companies end up working from pre production art and…
Review – Transformers – Titans Return – Topspin and Twintwist
Posted in2016 - Titans Return

Review – Transformers – Titans Return – Topspin and Twintwist

Where Combiner Wars did it's duty by giving us remakes of all of the original Combiner Transformers, it also used that opportunity to repaint all of those molds into different versions of the original G1 Autobots.  Titans Return has been moving into a lot more interesting territory.  There's a lot more updates of Targetmasters, Movie bots and in this case, Jumpstarters.  Topspin and Twintwist were a pair of very similar G1 bots that had one specific gimmick.  Pull them back, and a motor would speed the vehicle along and eventually it would pop up and land on it's robot feet. …
Review – Transformers – RiD – Scorponok
Posted in2015 - Robots in Disguise

Review – Transformers – RiD – Scorponok

Possibly the last of these fun little animal Decepticons we're going to see is Scorponok.  There's also a Toys R Us purple colored repaint of this figure called Paralon, who actually really resembles Beast Wars Scoponok, but this review primarily covers the normal brown colored mass released version.  Scorponok's animal motif is, a scorpion. In fact, he simply IS a scorpion in his alt mode.  While the other Decepticons all turn into vehicles with animal like themes in robot and beast mode, Scorponok just turns into robot and a scorpion.  Straight out Beast Wars style.  He has a really unique…
Review – Transformers – Combiner Wars – Computron (Technobot Giftset)
Posted in2015 - Combiner Wars

Review – Transformers – Combiner Wars – Computron (Technobot Giftset)

Combiner Wars was definitely an interesting take on the line.  The need for every figure to be a robot and a vehicle and an arm or a leg really made for some pretty similar designs across the board.  All of the most well known combiners, Superion, Menasor, Bruticus, Defensor, ended up with a release in the main line.  Devastator got a massive Titan Class boxed set release as well.  One vehicle combiner missing from the mainline was Computron.  Instead of individual releases, Computron came available at the tail end of the line as a boxed set only, though he consists…
Review – Transformers – RiD – Bisk
Posted in2015 - Robots in Disguise

Review – Transformers – RiD – Bisk

I have yet to actually watch any of the Transformers Robots in Disguise show, but very early on one of the designs showed off was for a character named Bisk.  Everyone hoped Bisk would get a toy but early indicators where we had one Decepticon for a dozen Autobots, it didn't seem likely.  Thankfully things changed and we ended up with our crazy Lobster Man Transformer.  He's even gotten a repaint named Thermidor. Bisk, has the pleasure of having a Lobster for his animal theme.  He definitely takes this theme above and beyond with his lobster head and giant Lobster…