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Even More News To Me
A tremendous mistake
The passage of time continues to bring us brand new discoveries in the vintage world of Transformers and pre-Transformers collecting. We’re nearing the 30 year anniversary of the first release of The Transformers, and we’ve already surpassed that mark for Diaclone and Micro Change, and despite those milestones this amazing hobby and area of toy collecting still present gems, gifts, mysteries and …
Posted in Diaclone, European Transformers, Micro Change, Source Articles, US Transformers
Tagged Browning, Diakron, Finland, G1, Hasbro, Huffer, Jazz, Joustra Diaclone, Lynsa, Micro Change Series, Milton Bradley, Peru, Powerdashers, Ramjet, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Takara, Transformers
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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
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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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Japanese Transformers 1988 (Chōjin Masterforce) – Part 2
Over priced, Over hyped, Overlord
Japanese exclusive Transformers are old news aren’t they? Big time collectors have long since moved onto areas like Euro variants, AFA graded museum pieces and pre-Transformers. If that was true, then 1988 Destrons such as Overlord, Darkwings and Black Zarak would not be commanding 4 figure sums. Still an extremely hot area of collecting, Japanese exclusives from the Masterforce series are not …
The Chicken or the GiG? – Part 2
Apparently Swoop could not be sold in Europe because he was too light for the price point
Transformers and TraSformers, what’s the difference and which came first? Last week we started looking at the origin of the Italian Takara Diaclone and Micro Change Series toys labelled as “Trasformer” and started to question whether the use of …
The Chicken or the GiG? – Part 1
GiG Trasformer Perfidi Distructor Ciclone - Pioneer or saboteur?
Which came first? The chicken or the egg? The Transformer or the TraSformer? This is absolutely straightforward, Hasbro released their global phenomenon known as “Transformers”, then companies like Ceji Joustra in Europe and GiG in Italy got in on the show and did their best to mimick Hasbro’s masterstroke in order to cash in on the popularity. …
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Tagged Autobot, Autorobot, Car Robots, Ceji Joustra, Diaclone, Diakron, GiG, Hasbro, Italy, Japan, Micro Change Series, Takara, Transformers
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