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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 11:30 pm
- Forum: Stock Exchange
- Topic: Maz sells: Vintage, Diaclone, Modern, 3P, Everything
- Replies: 21
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- Mon May 09, 2016 2:16 pm
- Forum: Stock Exchange
- Topic: Maz sells: Vintage, Diaclone, Modern, 3P, Everything
- Replies: 21
- Views: 33780
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:38 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:12 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Imagine a relatively complete collection of Generation 1 Transformers from about 1984 to 1988. An impressive sight and a wonderful achievement. Now imagine that same collection in the form of prototypes, test shots, first shots, packaging samples, hand-painted mock-ups and pre-release box/catalogue/...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:44 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
I’ve often said that simply buying, amassing and displaying toys is not enough to sustain my interest and passion for Transformers as a hobby. I’ve spent many years researching variants, writing articles, photographing toys and trying to unearth unknown facets of the global Transformers and pre-Tran...
- Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:06 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Headmasters, Targetmasters, Powermasters. The Transformers gimmick juggernaut powered on through 1987 to 1988, bringing us the first reincarnation of Optimus Prime, a smaller range of Headmasters and Targetmasters (smaller toys, too) and introducing us to the concept of Powermaster-activated transfo...
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:31 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
I have already written articles on the importance of discipline, occasional sacrifice and priorities in Transformers collecting on this blog, but I feel things have changed enough recently to warrant a second look at how I collect. Before it was a case of maybe choosing the toy lines and styles I li...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:26 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Not really, I was lucky in that one local collector was selling a very very well preserved set of Transformers in package and he didn't want a lot for them, so he's sold a lot of what I have written about to me. The rest I have had to buy from abroad on eBay and while I haven't quite gone over 3 fig...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:14 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
MP-9 is out of the range of a guy who buys boxed G1s? Just how much is he worth these days? MP-9 in the condition I would want it, and not one of those dodgy loose ones on eBay, is about £120 upwards. I haven't paid three figures for any of the boxed G1 you've seen me write about on my blog(s) in t...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:33 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Masterpiece MP-28 Hot Rodimus is almost upon us. A new Masterpiece Hot Rod. The build up to this figure’s release has been a mix of anticipation and divided opinion. As with most new Masterpiece moulds, as a fandom we have pored over the prototype and promotional images from every angle, analysed ev...
- Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:14 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Mastermind Creations, under the guise of Masterpiece-focused Ocular Max branding, have introduced a sub-line into that sub-line! The Remix line begins with RMX-01 Jaguar, a figure that homages the Generation 1 Decepticon cassette Ravage. Now why bother launching a line with something already covered...
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:26 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Has there ever been a greater case of pre-release doubts being so comprehensively crushed by in-hand production toy as with TakaraTomy’s MP-27 Masterpiece Ironhide? Actually yes, look at Ultra Magnus, Bumblebee etc, so it’s not uncommon for us to get the wrong impression from TakaraTomy’s stock Mast...
- Wed Feb 10, 2016 12:57 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Having been in the making for something like 4 years, a hefty lead time even for the most sedate 3rd party release schedule, Mastermind Creations’ Reformatted R-11 Seraphicus Prominon is ready to be released. The Moritorus Sovereign, as the box calls him, is almost an amalgamation of characters from...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:35 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
MakeToys MTRM-05 Wrestle (Masterpiece Grapple) FULL review and Gallery now live! Square One: MakeToys MTRM-05 Wrestle (MP Grapple) https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wyUMhaMgXT8/VrPwm7PIzkI/AAAAAAAAJ3s/J0nqtnk_Y0c/s1600/Wrestle33.jpg https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C5d3gN8YSlI/VrPwio0aQPI/AAAAAAAAJ3I/203u7lfsE40...
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:45 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:05 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Max, I've always wanted to ask but have been too scared; how do you maintain such a whopping and consistent level of output? This is a lot of material every single week. The photography alone! At the cost of other things like sleep! Haha, I tend to do photography in bulk almost every night apart fr...
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:48 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
FansToys Mercenary
FT-13 Mercenary is FansToys’ second evil insect after FT-12 Grenadier, and has a lot to live up to thanks to the success of the latter. Based on what was originally called a lamellicorn type beetle insect robot, Mercenary recreates the look of the original toy and on-screen inspiration. With die cas...
- Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:20 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
MP-21R Bumble Red Body
TakaraTomy's Masterpiece MP-21R Bumble - Red Body is a fascinating release, probably for all the wrong reasons. I know I personally pre-ordered it out of a sense of obligation and completion, trying to make up for never having properly completed the vintage Diaclone and MC Car Robots & minibots ...
- Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:59 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
MP-11T Thundercracker
It's about time, they said. A Takara Tomy, cartoon-accurate Masterpiece Decepticon strike plane Thundercracker. MP-11T is, across Hasbro and Takara, the second version of Thundercracker to use the MP-11 mould. The Hasbro Thundercracker from a few years ago was more toy coloured and had tampos of Ref...
- Fri Jan 29, 2016 8:57 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: TFSource / TF-1 Articles
- Replies: 755
- Views: 175317
Francesco Lombardi is the kind of collector I had always heard about but never met. Someone who never participated in the online or collective fandom, but was privately growing a hugely comprehensive and impressive collection featuring toys I had never seen. Dealers used to tell me about their secre...