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So, I’ve now seen the film twice.  Yes, I do love my giant transforming robots.
I’ve seen both the normal and Imax version, and enjoyed it a lot.  In fact, the two things that annoyed me first time around (the twins and the length) grated a lot less on a second viewing.  Aside from the fact [...]

IGN does it again.  This time an interview with the guys at DC Direct about the upcoming Blackest Night figures, including a look at the range, with many figures we hadn’t seen.  Including a brand new Kyle figure
I’m going to be so incredibly skint.  Loads of these look worth having.  Kyle and John [...]

I’ve just been looking at Action Figure Insider’s DC Direct gallery from the NYCC.
There’s some really nice stuff there, including some nice close-up, hi-res pictures of the upcoming Blackest Night figures (well, minus the two “surprise” figures anyway).   They looked really nice in the preview shot we’d been, but these pictures are even better, and [...]

Well, that was easier than I thought. The local Woolies had clearly only just put out a new case, so I grabbed all the figures I was missing. And with the prices down to £4.50 each, and a 20% voucher they’re currently giving out, it only cost me about a tenner.
I [...]

Grrrr. I hate these collect-a-figure things. Marvel Legends were famous for doing them. Basically, each figure in a wave would include a piece of a much larger figure, so by collecting every toy in the wave, you’d have all the bits to put together the final figure.
As a result, I’ve got [...]

Some new pictures of the upcoming City Commander trailer for Classics Ultra Magnus can be seen here
I can’t afford it sadly, but its certainly drool-worthy, and hard to resist for a big Ultra Magnus fan like me.
On a related note, I’m really loving the Universe Classics. Prowl and Sunstreaker have both been released over [...]

Hasbro have updated their site with new pictures of the Animated Ultra Magnus toy (there’s a lot of new info due to Botcon being this weekend).
I’m definitely picking this guy up.   He looks really cool

Well, we’re just over the halfway mark now in Transformers: Animated.
This is easily the best show since Robots in Disguise. While I enjoyed Cybertron, Armada was quite painful for most of its run (surprisingly since the plot was actually good – just badly executed with really annoying kid sidekicks) and Energon I just got [...]

Man, its been ages since I posted anything Transformers-y.
TFW2005’s forums have some pictures up of the new animated Grimlock toy.
That’s a “must buy” for me. It looks brilliant
I’ve been enjoying the new cartoon a lot. I was originally dubious as it was such a large departure from the “Unicron Trilogy” style [...]

Well yesterday I nipped into Toys R Us and saw that they now had a giftset of Blackout and Scorponok. These two Decepticons should be familiar to anyone who’s seen the movie, as Blackout laid waste to the US Army base in the opening scene of the movie, and Scorponok tracked the soldiers who [...]