Tag Archives: Diaclone
2002
Metrotitan - $150 in 2002
I often get told by collectors that they couldn’t possibly imagine starting a pre-Transformers collection due to the staggeringly high prices every item commands nowadays, and it’s true, Diaclone and even Micro Change Series prices do seem to be on a perpetual rise. However, the same collectors are spending hundreds per month on Masterpiece and 3rd Party items, …
Yet More News To Me
Blues Brothers
It’s 2013, approaching 30 years since the launch of The Transformers toy line globally and over 30 years since the dawn of the pre-Transformers “Diaclone” and “Micro Change Series” toy lines in Japan and Europe. There are thousands of Generation 1 collectors and enthusiasts worldwide, there have been dedicated websites for a decade and more. Despite all of that, …
Posted in Diaclone, European Transformers, Japanese Transformers, Mexican Transformers, Micro Change, Minibots, Prototypes, Source Articles, US Transformers
Tagged Bluestreak, Bumblebee, Bumblejumper, Ceji, Cliffjumper, Diaclone, Fortress Maximus, Frenzy, Hasbro, Iga, Mexico, Micro Change Series, Milton Bradley, Optimus Prime, Rumble, Smokescreen, Takara, Transformers, Wheeljack
Leave a comment
(Not a) Vintage Year
Rare toy, battered bubble, what would you do?
Paint chips? Loose joints? Questionable paint application? Damaged packaging? This is all part of the territory when it comes to collecting vintage Transformers and pre-Transformers, whether we’re buying loose or boxed, rare or common. To hear such vociferous complaints from collectors of more recent toys about the same issues can sometimes be amusing, as …
Posted in Diaclone, European Transformers, Masterpiece, Minibots, Reissues, Source Articles, US Transformers
Tagged Autobot, Battle Convoy, Buzzsaw, Decepticon, Diaclone, Fairlady Racing, Frenzy, gold plastic syndrome, Headmaster, Huffer, Killbison, Liokaiser, Lynsa, Masterpiece, Milton Bradley, MP-16, Optimus Prime, Peru, Red Tracks, Skullcruncher, Smokescreen, Transformers
Leave a comment
Collector Interview 12 – Brandon Yap
Very well presented
For this month’s dedicated Transformers collector interview, we wrap up the first year of features in style with one of the most impressive and well-known collections in the community, that of popular blogger Brandon “heroic_decepticon” Yap. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have the honour of interviewing some of the hobby’s most respected luminaries in the last 12 …
What Now? (The New Masterpiece – Part 2)
Geneva Motor Show 1971?
What if Hasbro don’t release the Lamborghini Countach moulds as part of their Masterpiece Transformers line? What if Takara Tomy don’t do a second production run of either toy and instead move along to the other Autobot cars beyond Prowl, Streak and Smokescreen? Prices will continue to rise, that’s what. There’s not currently a whole lot of …
Posted in Diaclone, Masterpiece, Source Articles
Tagged Alert, Bluestreak, Convoy, Diaclone, Hasbro, Lambor, Masterpiece, Optimus Prime, Prowl, Red Alert, Sideswipe, Smokescreen, Soundwave, Starscream, Sunstorm, Takara Tomy, Thundercracker, Tigertrack, Transformers, TRU, Yellow Sideswipe
Leave a comment
Collector Interview 11 – Benjamin Davis
I'd look smug too if I had what's in those cabinets
It’s time for another Source Blog Interview, and we like to think that as we approach a year’s worth of contributions from our esteemed group of selected interviewees, we’ve offered a nice spectrum of gathered experience and eye-candy across the field of vintage Transformers and pre-Transformers collecting. This month, although we …
Posted in Featured Collector's Corner
Tagged Black Tracks, Diaclone, G1, Hasbro, Jazz, Optimus Prime, Takara, third party, Transformers
Leave a comment
Under The Skin
Gentlemen, start your engines...
Toy collectors all have their reasons for spending hard-earned money on action figures, vintage toys, modern children’s toys or high-end collectibles. It could be nostalgia, simple adult appreciation, a hobby or as a coping mechanism for something. There is a wide spectrum within which people enjoy the hobby in different ways. Vintage G1 Transformers have a lot to …
What Am I Doing?
Masterpiece Lambor, Prowl & Streak
What am I doing? Takara Tomy is putting out some of the most exciting and incredible collector-focused product seen for years in the world of Transformers, and I’m not pre-ordering, buying or collecting any of it. When saving money by not buying things or going out, not splashing out on holidays due to accumulating savings for a property, trying …
Display Space
The dream
One of the greatest joys of having, adding to and maintaining a vintage Transformers collection, or any collection for that matter, is the ability to display it. When collections reach a certain size, it becomes harder and harder to appreciate each individual item that helps make up the glorious whole. There’s nothing like organising a display of Transformers toys, boxed, loose …
Is It Conceivable? – Part 4
GiG Trasformer Micro Change Series
Chic, prestigious, expensive, revered, exotic and understated all at once, these are the Pre-Transformers. All of those things that make them special contribute to so many of them being unobtainable. As widely as Diaclone and Micro Change Series toys were released globally in various guises, their distribution and quantity was certainly nothing compared to the blanket that was …
Posted in Diaclone, Micro Change, Minibots, Source Articles
Tagged Battle Convoy, Black Tracks, Blackhood Bluestreak, Blue Bumblebee, Diaclone, GiG, Italy, Japan, Micro Change Series, Microx, Police Sunstreaker, Raiden, Red Bumblejumper, Red Hoist, Reflector, Takara, Trainrobo, Yellow Trailbreaker
Leave a comment
Source Blog