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2012 Highs & Surprise
Superior
You can’t keep a good thing down, and Transformers has continued to go from strength to strength in 2012. New offshoots of the brand were announced, and with a seemingly assured future for at least a couple more years, and well loved parts of the toy line being extended with very popular additions, Transformers enthusiasts have much to be excited about. On top …
Posted in Diaclone, European Transformers, Japanese Transformers, Masterpiece, Mexican Transformers, Minibots, Movie, Reissues, Source Articles, Transformers GT, Transformers GT
Tagged Alert, Calsonic, Fortress Maximus, Masterpiece, Megatron, Saber, Sideswipe, Soundwave, Takara Tomy, Transformers GT
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Look Closely
Where's Bruticus's head?!
Toy catalogues are wonderful things, we’ve even looked at them before on Source Blog here and here. In addition to the waves of nostalgia washing over us every time we look at a vintage Hasbro Transformers catalogue included with the toys, there are loads of …
Posted in Diaclone, European Transformers, Minibots, Paperwork, Prototypes, Source Articles, US Transformers
Tagged 1986, 1987, Astrotrain, Blitzwing, Brainstorm, Broadside, catalogues, Chromedome, Cosmos, Crosshairs, Cyclonus, Fortress Maximus, Grimlock, Hardhead, Hasbro, Headmasters, Highbrow, Hot Rod, Insecticons, Metroplex, Mock-ups, Octane, Prototypes, Scorponok, Slag, Smokescreen, Sureshot, Targetmasters, Tracks, Transformers, UK, Us
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Collector Interview 04 – Marco van Leeuwen
Marco says it's good to make friends
September sees us press on with our collector interview series, however this month we spotlight a Dutch Transformers and pre-Transformers collector who is slightly less active in the online community than our previous interviewees, but whose collection does all the talking for him. With a very significant selection of pre-production and prototype gems from the world of Transformers toys, …
Collector Interview 03 – Eric Warren
The child within
This month we continue our series of collector interviews with a well known Transformers collector and blogger whose collection pictures inspire the kind of awe we all felt on our first trip to a Toys ‘R’ Us in the 1980s. We hope you enjoy his insight into the changes experienced by the collecting community in the last decade, his fabulous collection pictures and …
Posted in European Transformers, Generation 2, Interview, Japanese Transformers, Minibots, Reissues, US Transformers
Tagged 3rd Party, Autobots, BotCon, Deszaras, Dinocassettes, Fortress Maximus, G1, Generation 2, Hasbro, Headmasters, Japanese, Reissues, Starscream, Takara, Transformers, Unicron
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In Their Own Words – Part 3
We love errors
Unique packaging, ‘sadistic’ promotions, items in the kind of condition you would expect straight off the factory floor and toys from countries people never expected to see Transformers from. We’ve had all this and more over the last 2 weeks of spectacular contributions from some of the most experienced and well-read G1 collectors in the world.
I hadn’t originally planned to do …
Posted in Diaclone, European Transformers, Interview, Japanese Transformers, Micro Change, Paperwork, US Transformers
Tagged Animated, Autobot, BotCon, Convoy, Decepticon, Decoys, Denmark, Fortress Maximus, GiG, Mechabot-1, Megarobot, Minerva, Omega Supreme, Rodimus, Sunstar, Transformers, Trasformer
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