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News to Me – 2018 Edition

Diaclone | May 13, 2018 by Maz

Every once in a while I put together an article like this for the Source Report which consists of vintage Transformers and pre-Transformers discoveri

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Gimmicks

Car Robots RiD | May 3, 2018 by Maz

Transformers by their nature are a gimmick. Toy cars planes animals etc that turn into action figures or vice versa. Within our beloved toy line

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Collector Interview 69 – Wayne Wong

Featured Collector's Corner | April 20, 2018 by Maz

Wayne Wong may be a UK-based Transformers collector but hes different to most of us based here in that he grew up with Japanese Generation 1 shows l

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A Return Gone Wrong

Masterpiece | April 19, 2018 by Maz

Its not just the selling of Transformers toys within the community or on eBay that brings complications. Although these days with eBay and PayPal in

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Bit By Bit

Japanese Transformers | April 4, 2018 by Maz

I remember a time when getting the toys I wanted in complete condition required work. There was not a whole wave of figures I could buy in one go to c

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Rich

Japanese Transformers | March 21, 2018 by Maz

There are a lot of assumptions made by wider society about people who collect childrens toys. Themore negative views held by some groups relate to

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Collector Interview 66 – Ed Pourtahmasbi

Featured Collector's Corner | February 23, 2018 by Maz

Ed Pourtahmasbi experiences Transformers collecting very differently to many of the rest of us. He approached me recently hoping that I would be inte

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Stickers

Masterpiece | February 21, 2018 by Maz

Transformers toys and stickers are inextricably linked throughout their history. The vintage Generation 1 Transformers came with factory applied stick

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