TakaraTomy’s September batch is here, and the hosts have opinions. Jetfire becomes Optimus Prime’s pants, Delta Magnus goes Diaclone, and Mattel wants $65 for a tiny Hot Wheels Bumblebee. Plus boxed G1 hauls and a homemade Spanner space bridge.
Radio Free Cybertron 933 – Half the price and all plastic
HasLab Omega Prime arrives with breakage and yellowing reports, and Hasbro already has a replacement process. Age of the Primes Sideways turns out shockingly big, and Yolopark’s AMK Series goes all plastic at half the price. Plus Wild King Energy Beasts wave 2 and Dr. Wu’s best-ever Broadside.
Radio Free Cybertron 801 – Anonymous Diecast
Hasbro’s earnings drop its stock to about $65 a share. Forged to Fight shuts down, Hound and Hatchet go Buzzworthy, and Scraphook impresses in hand. Don comes back from his honeymoon with Titan Metroplex, LEGO Optimus Prime and a Minerva wedding gift.
Radio Free Cybertron 779 – Satisfying Clicks
Legacy Velocitron Override debuts as a new Walmart mold. Wreck ‘N Rule wraps with Bulkhead and Twin Twist, and HasLab Victory Saber gets an engineering update.
Radio Free Cybertron 622 – It’s not the best spider, but it’s my spider
MP-46 Blackarachnia’s spider mode is out, and it is not great. Toy World reveals TW-F09 Freedom Leader, a Movie Masterpiece-scale Bumblebee movie Optimus Prime. Plus Siege Barricade, Cyberverse Spark Armor and another FansToys Phoenix sellout.
Radio Free Cybertron 573 – Crack-up Gets You Hooked
TFU.info’s Ant reveals he was a consulting producer on The Toys That Made Us Transformers episode. Takara shows off Studio Series Jazz, Lockdown, Megatron and Brawl. Street Fighter II x Transformers two-packs arrive in hand, and Diecast raves about X-Transbots Crackup.