Category Archives: US Transformers
Making The Grade – Part 2
Crystal clear
This is exactly where we left things last week on Part 1. The factory sealed vintage Transformers Generation 1 Aerialbot Fireflight had been photo-analysed, admired, had a potential grading result predicted by a number of experienced collectors and then promptly sent off to the Action Figure Authority (AFA) for grading as part of an experiment. …
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Tagged Aerialbots, AFA, Fireflight, G1, Generation 1, Hasbro, Transformers
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Making The Grade – Part 1
Grading virgins, Fireflight & I
These days, invariably, you will find good condition factory sealed vintage Generation 1 Transformers preserved, immortalised, imprisoned, desecrated (delete as appropriate) in an acrylic display case, with a grade attached. The AFA – or Action Figure Authority – grade toys like Transformers be they factory sealed, opened and unused or even loose. Everyone has an opinion on this, from not keeping toys …
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Tagged Aerialbots, AFA, Fireflight, G1, Generation 1, Hasbro, Transformers
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Remind Me
Lovely old Diaclone catalogue image
Just very recently I read a great blog post by Dave Barry (Gangu Stars) on a new phenomenon called ‘digital collecting’, a practice whereby toy enthusiasts strictly collect images of toys they desire instead of physically owning them. Now while most of us want to be able to touch and transform the items …
Posted in Classics, Diaclone, Japanese Transformers, Masterpiece, Micro Change, Paperwork, Prototypes, Reissues, Source Articles, US Transformers
Tagged Cassettes, Classics, Diaclone, FOC, Hasbro, Masterpiece, Reissues, Takara, Transformers, Wheeljack
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Best of 2013 / 2014 – Three Years Of Source Articles
Cross-generational quality
It’s been over three years now that we’ve been producing articles and collector interviews for the TFSource Blog, and just as with the previous two years, we thought it might be interesting for our readers to see what the top 5 most visited and read articles have been over the last 12 to 14 months. One thing the results have shown us are that our …
If You Lost It All…(Part 2)
Cast of TF Noir?
Last week we explored an intriguing question posed by UK Transformers collector Alex Kirk: ”If for whatever reason you lost all of your Transformers collection tomorrow, what figure would you buy back first?”. We expanded the question to include the first 3 toys a collector would buy as either a collection rebuild, …
If You Lost It All… (Part 1)
Any 3 of these 5 for me
If for whatever reason you lost all of your Transformers collection tomorrow, what figure would you buy back first? That excellent question was asked by Alex Kirk at a UK Transformers meet recently and created some fascinating discussion and introspective analysis. After the initial wave of “Nothing, I’d be free!” responses, everyone who was asked the question gave some very …
FansToys FT-05 Soar (Blue)
Swoop?
FansToys have created a problem for themselves, their first 3rd Party offering Quakewave was almost universally acknowledged as one of the best 3rd Party products ever to hit the Transformers collector market. After that, their decision to tackle Masterpiece-style Dinobots, or “Iron Dibots” led to their version of Dinobot Slag, FT-04 Scoria, and certainly I believed it to be every bit as good as Quakewave although …
Posted in 3rd Party, Diaclone, Masterpiece, US Transformers
Tagged 3rd Party, Dinobots, FansToys, FT, Generation 1, Grimlock. Transformers, Iron Dibots, Masterpiece, Scoria, Slag, Soar, Swoop
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Why Repaints?
The same and yet not
Why repaints and remoulds? Why can’t every Transformers toy be a completely new mould and something brand new to enjoy and explore? We all know the answer to that already. The money involved in creating fresh toy sculpts – the engineering, tooling and design required to birth just one new Transformers toy – is such that the company responsible counters that by …
Posted in Animated, Classics, Cybertron, Diaclone, Masterpiece, Mexican Transformers, Minibots, Movie, Prime, Source Articles, Transformers GT, US Transformers
Tagged Animated, Arms Micron, Diaclone, Fall of Cybertron, Generation 1, Generation 2, Generations, Human Alliance, Macross, Masterpiece, Micro Change Series, Minibots, Minicons, Movie, TF Prime, Transformers, Transformers GT
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The King Is Dead, Long Live The King
The king is dead
There’s nothing quite like Predaking. He was unique amongst the Generation 1 Transformers combiners and Mastermind Creations managed to capture the same zeal and passion from the collecting community for the Reformatted Feral Rex project as existed for the original G1 Predacons in the hearts of vintage Transformers enthusiasts. Back in 2012, the Feralcons were unveiled by MMC, and two …
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Tagged 3rd Party, Feral Rex, Feralcons, Mastermind Creations, MMC, Predacons, Predaking
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The Golden Eagle
Cherry Bomb
He was supposed to be first, but he is coming out fourth. Mastermind Creations (or MMC) are about to unleash R-02 Mercenary Aerial Assaulter Talon on the fandom at large, representing their interpretation and considerable update of the Transformers G1 Predacon Divebomb. Talon is the fourth member of Feral Rex (MMC’s Not-Predaking) after R-03 Bovis (Not Tantrum), R-05 Fortis (Not Headstrong) and R-04 Leo Dux …
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Tagged 3rd Party, Bovis, Divebomb, Feral Rex, Feralcons, Fortis, Leo Dux, Mastermind Creations, MMC, Predacons, Talon
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