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Is It Conceivable? – Part 2
Early Cybertron wall
Japanese Transformers are not just an exotic flavour to be sampled by collectors who fancy adding a touch of spice to a normal G1 collection. Some Transformers enthusiasts actively try to complete the whole run of Takara G1 Transformers from start to finish. In addition, a few hardy souls even take up the challenge of finding all of these foreign …
Posted in Japanese Transformers, Source Articles
Tagged Artfire, battlestars, Convoy, Cybertron, Destron, Deszaras, Dinobots, Guard City, Headmasters, Japan, Liokaiser, Masterforce, Megatron, Operation Combination, Overlord, Stepper, Takara, Transformers, Victory, VSX, VSY, VSZ
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Best of 2011 / 2012 – A Year of Source Articles
Japanese Transformers - The first Source Article
When the TFsource blog project was started in 2011, we had a vision of a weekly series of articles that would aim to eventually touch many corners of the Transformers collecting universe, primarily G1, and be a valuable online resource for collectors. The idea was always to add more authors to the team to help cover more bases and …
Posted in Diaclone, European Transformers, Japanese Transformers, Minibots, Reissues, Source Articles, US Transformers
Tagged Black Tracks, Canadian Transformers, Diaclone, Lucky Draw, Masterforce, MB Jazz, Micro Change Series, Overlord, Police Sideswipe, Police Sunstreaker, Red Slag, Yellow Sideswipe
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Mail-away G1 Transformers – Part 2
Japanese G1 mail-away Gnaw "Limited Edition" sticker
One man’s pegwarmer is another’s mail-away rarity. While toys like G1 Ratchet were common as muck and available everywhere in North American and European toy stores, in Japan it was never sold in stores and only available as a mail-away, and he wasn’t the only one! From exclusive artwork and packaging to standard Hasbro-packaged items, the second part of …
Posted in Diaclone, European Transformers, Japanese Transformers, Minibots, Paperwork, Reissues, US Transformers
Tagged Diaclone, Dinobots, Dirge, Gnaw, Hasbro, Japan, Japanese Transformers, Lander, Landmine, Mailaway, Masterforce, Minibots, Omnibots, Pretender, Ratchet, Reissue, Repugnus, Sharkticon, Takara, Tigertrack
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Japanese Transformers 1988 (Chōjin Masterforce) – Part 1
Preeee-tend-aaaah!
I hated Masterforce. The intro to the anime was unbelievably camp, they were trying to glorify Pretenders, there was too much of a human-centric approach, the toys are ridiculously expensive, the humour in the show was immature and just generally unbearable. I hated Masterforce…until I actually watched it! By the third episode I was not only a convert but an avid follower, fan, enthusiast, whatever …
Posted in Japanese Transformers, Reissues
Tagged Cab, Cybertron, Destron, Go-Shooter, God Ginrai, Godbomber, Godmaster, Grand Maximus, Hasbro, Headmaster Junior, Japan, Japanese Transformers, Lightfoot, Masterforce, metalhawk, Minelba, Minerva, Powermaster, Pretender, Ranger, Super Ginrai, Takara
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