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Transformers
This is a list of archived entries published with the Transformers tag.
Toy Aisle Trolls > Let’s Do the Skywarp Again
Toy Aisle Trolls is a feature highlighting acts of vandalism to in-store toy items. If you find a ruined package, a stolen figure, a swapped-out figure, or any other such acts, take a photo (cell phone photos are fine if they’re not blurry) and email them to poe AT poeghostal.com. Also, please note: I’m deliberately [...]
Toy Aisle Trolls > Bludgeon Dudgeon
Toy Aisle Trolls is a feature highlighting acts of vandalism to in-store toy items. If you find a ruined package, a stolen figure, a swapped-out figure, or any other such acts, take a photo (cell phone photos are fine if they’re not blurry) and email them to poe AT poeghostal.com. Also, please note: I’m deliberately [...]
5 Questions With > Prof. Henry Jenkins
One thing I’ve always wanted to do with PGPoA is discuss not just the latest toys or the machinations of various toy companies, but also the nature of of our hobby and, in particular, the way the toys regularly intersect with media since the days of the “half-hour commercials” in the 1980s. And so it’s [...]
I love you, ME GRIMLOCK KING!
Today’s awesomest T-shirt ever:
Hasbro schools Mattel on how to do a toy book
Remember how Mattel is teasing us all with the SDCC-only, limited-to-1,000 MOTU art book? Hasbro’s doing something similar, only they’re letting anyone who wants one get one. Oh, and the profits go to charity.
Wheeljack screws the pooch on the Dinobots
(Warning: there’s more than a few f-bombs in this video, so probably NSFW.)
My favorite part is Wheeljack’s argument about going for “authenticity.” Even as a kid, I did think it was weird Wheeljack built the Dinobots as idiots when he didn’t have to. Which may be why they were actually smart in the comics–Simon Furman [...]
Transformers 2 discussion post
I won’t be attending this modern-day penny dreadful, but I know some of you will and might want to write about it, for good or ill. So consider this post your roundtable for Revenge of the Fallen reviews and discussion.
Feel free to post spoilers, because I don’t care. Here’s one I can give you without [...]
Toy review roundup (via Fanmode)
Michael Crawford reviews the Hot Toys Terminator Salvation Endoskeleton T-700 1/6-scale figure. Excerpt: “Hard to believe it, but somehow Hot Toys continues to improve.”
Dave Van Domelen reviews the Hasbro Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe class Autobot Skids, Deep Desert Brawl, Autobot Wheelie and Chromia figures. Excerpt: “… ‘pop a wheelie’ sounds just wrong [...]
Toy review roundup (via Fanmode)
Dave Van Domelen reviews the Hasbro Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe class Sideways, Sideswipe, Rampage and Breakaway figures. Excerpt: “(Re: Breakaway) It may end up being a pegwarmer, which is a shame, as it’s probably the best overall TOY (i.e. thing for a kid to play with) of the wave.”
Darren Cilenti reviews the [...]
Toy review roundup (via Fanmode)
Corey Tincher reviews the Hasbro G.I. Joe Hall of Heroes Firefly figure. Excerpt: “… this is my early favorite for most fun 3.75 inch figure of the year.” (See also.)
Wes reviews the Hasbro Marvel Legends The Incredible Hulk Limited Edition Hulk Target exclusive figure. Excerpt: “If it weren’t for the fact that you could [...]
