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Escalation – A Collector’s Story

Escalation – A Collector’s Story

Escalation – A Collector’s Story

Its 1984 and youre too young to remember The Transformers. Its 1986 and youve seen Arrival from Cybertron on television and VHS many times. You ...

Am I Just Being Paranoid?

Am I Just Being Paranoid?

Am I Just Being Paranoid?

Why are the prices of Diaclones andspecificJapanese exclusive Transformers ballooning out of control? Is it really because there are so many more ...

Best of 2011 / 2012 – A Year of Source Articles

Best of 2011 / 2012 – A Year of Source Articles

Best of 2011 / 2012 – A Year of Source Articles

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 ...

Forgotten Corners

Forgotten Corners

Forgotten Corners

Buying toys is good buying toys is bad. Having a focus in your collection is good having a focus in your collection is bad. Some of us torment our l ...

Mail-away G1 Transformers – Part 2

Mail-away G1 Transformers – Part 2

Mail-away G1 Transformers – Part 2

One mans pegwarmer is anothers mail-away rarity. While toys like G1 Ratchet were common as muck and available everywhere in North American and Europ ...

Collector Interview 03 – Eric Warren

Collector Interview 03 – Eric Warren

Collector Interview 03 – Eric Warren

This month we continue our series of collector interviews with a well known Transformers collector and blogger whose collection pictures inspire the k ...

Japanese Transformers 1988 (Chōjin Masterforce) – Part 2

Japanese Transformers 1988 (Chōjin Masterforce) – Part 2

Japanese Transformers 1988 (Chōjin Masterforce) – Part 2

Japanese exclusive Transformers are old news arent they? Big time collectors have long since moved onto areas like Euro variants AFA graded museum p ...

Japanese Transformers 1988 (Chōjin Masterforce) – Part 1

Japanese Transformers 1988 (Chōjin Masterforce) – Part 1

Japanese Transformers 1988 (Chōjin Masterforce) – Part 1

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 appro ...

Collector Interview 02 – Francesco Ristori

Collector Interview 02 – Francesco Ristori

Collector Interview 02 – Francesco Ristori

The Transformers and pre-Transformers community is made up of some of the most interesting diverse and dedicated people Ive ever met in my life. Iv ...

The Chicken or the GiG? – Part 2

The Chicken or the GiG? – Part 2

The Chicken or the GiG? – Part 2

Transformers and TraSformers whats the difference and which came first? Last week we started looking at the origin of the Italian Takara Diaclone an ...


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