#transformer toys

[dat-lil-shark]

I really wish Transformers can be marketed like Barbie to be honest. I know if they do it’s probably gonna be more expensive than my own house but I want a box with more than just one or two Transformers, and maybe a gun or two. I want a box with one or two transformers and some plastic chairs from the Ark, some energons in a mug, five tools for different tasks, and then four to five different guns. On that note, I also want a transformer dream house. It can be structured just like their base in their continuity, or it could be structured like an entirely cartoony house where everyone got their own rooms and themes. And inside this house we got transformer chairs and tables and computers and a giant pile of energon and countless accessories like Ratchet’s tools, weapons, Wheelhack’s danger toys, etc.

I also want toy boxes based around specific themes and little moments. For example I want a toy that is exclusively about being in the med bay of Ratchet’s, with Ratchet, a surgery table, about 15 of his medic tools, maybe even a patient sitting on the table like a sad little Bumblebee with a little bandage on his leg, and a cardboard backdrop of the med bay.

[pluralsword]

We regret not being able to contribute to Nightbird Week but wanted to say it inspired to finally figure out how to do Cybertronian Sign Language, since the version of her we've encountered in a friend's TTRPG in which Nightbird is a major npc who helps out the party and has helped save the world made such an impression on us also mostly used nonverbal communication, and we already loved a lot of her canonical aspects and were elated to hear her voice acted by Michaela Jaé Rodriguez in Rise of the Beasts. If we had the spoons we would have made a chart already for letter spelling and common phrase signs / how they build their language from a (trans) robotic point of view (they don't have phrase signs for genders they spell those out to avoid bioessentialism/reductivity and otherwise use gender neutral language for the most part) and written a story life has just been hard this week and we've had to focus on taking care of ourselves. So we wish to simply say that we love Nightbird, very, very much <3 And yes the bot with the Solus Prime core head there is intended to be a Solus Prime stand-in (she should she big so she can completely envelop Nightbird with her hugs dkfasldkfj)

[spiritgenie]

the struggles of trying to figure out good alt modes for battleslash and roadtrap to where battleslash isn't towering over roadtrap, that way it makes sense they would be able to combine into 1 robot

roadtrap: 1994 Hummer h1 overland camper

battleslash: Bell AH-1Z Viper

if any of y'all know any good alt modes for roadtrap that resemble his alt mode and also is in a similar size to battleslash, please tell me

battleslash: white helicoptor roadtrap: blue campervan

[artobotsrollout]

ROASTING REVIEWING KNOCKOFF TRANSFORMERS

Part 1

So it's no secret that I enjoy collecting TF figures. My collection isn't massive but I like to collect my favourite characters! Hasbro figures (at least the first series released at the start of a continuity is. I can't speak to some of the later releases) are usually p decent quality.

Decent faces. Thought out weight distribution so even characters like TfP Starscream can stand. Smooth joints. Basically an all around decent toy.

Of course with any piece of media there are the knockoffs.

Let's get into the first one

DINOSAUR Battle $4

Montoy

I saw these and thought they were cute right? "ooh a bunch of mini transformable dinosaurs"

However, the moment I look a little closer I already found things that bug me.

Review under Readmore

* Please be aware that this entire post is meant to be jokey. I'm not actually angry about any of these things. I'm exaggerating for emphasis and humour. *

The pictures of the dinosaurs to the left of each toy are not the same colours as the actual toys in the packaging. It's possible maybe the colours are random but from what I could see all the packages had the same colours??

Another issue... Maybe it's not as big of a deal to most people but as a paleo-nerd it really bugs me. So they label which dinosaurs they are right?? Well...

CRYPTOCLIOUS IS A PLESIOSAUR (Think long necked swimming dinosaur. Think Loch Ness monster) which if you look at the figure

IT HAS FREAKING FEET

A better name would be diplodocus or brachiosaurus OR Yknow what I'd even accept the outdated term Brontosaurus for this guy. At least it's the long necked land living dinosaur and not the water dwelling sea reptile.

I FEEL LIKE to have put down Cryptocleus you had to google it. So if you had to google you'd have seen that cryptoclious has FREAKING FLIPPERS.

I don't usually get upset about dinosaur mistakes bc like... I don't want to be that person who yells at people for not knowing dinosaurs / extinct creatures. Lord know I have gaps in my own knowledge. It's more just baffling to me that they picked a species that isn't even a dinosaur like the toy is. And it's such a weirdly weirdly specific and not well known species too.

I haven't even opened them yet and for some reason?? I expected every dinosaur to transform but apparently they are just meant to combine?? Into a wholeass dude? And that's it?

Anyways here they are

Despite my misgivings and the definitely cheap plastic used some of the designs are p cute.

Only the tip of the wings flap apparently 😂 the rest of the wing is permanently out oof.

Poor T-Rex. This is as high on his body as his head goes. He is doomed to forever fall flat on his face. 😔 Truly tragic

I appreciate the stegosaurus having constant finger guns 😂

The joints are not great. Some are okay while others are kinda tough to move. The pieces come off too easily as well.

Time to make it into a man.

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How the Frick is this a man?!?

This is so goofy looking help 😂

Amazing.

Now I'm gonna leave the joking mode and be serious for the conclusion.

These are not great quality but they have cute designs. The designs are fun if a bit odd at some parts. Cheap plastic and not super well thought out toy. Then again I didn't expect much for $4CAD

If you're someone who likes painting toys then these could be fun to use as a base.

I don't have children and haven't worked very much with children so take what I say with a grain of salt. For a child who is delicate with their toys and old enough to not eat everything it's not terrible. Could be cute in a gift bag from a birthday party. Wouldn't recommend for young children. There's a lot of easily removable small parts that could be consumed and be a choking hazard. Not to mention idk how toxic the material is. Also wouldn't recommend for children who play very roughly with their toys. Parts will go missing easily and some of the parts are thin and feel like it wouldn't take very much to break them.

The Combiner mode is kinda pathetic so if you are getting the toy, get it for the cute robot dinosaurs and not for the robot they turn into.

[lyorofthequill]

For those who have seen the Starscream tree

Shockwave, poor Shockwave, has become one with the Christmas gonks.

[megatronsimp]

I think it’s been hinted at, but has anyone seen the Nightshade toy in the wild yet and if so where? I thought tfw20005 had a teaser of it or something. It was like before the last episode batch.

[pluralsword]

just wanna remind everybody that transformers shows are not primarily or at all dependent on reviews... what they actually depend on is toy sales of stuff they are attached to. so if you want to ensure the show keeps going, buy the toys, or buy the show on dvd or itunes etc.! see this is why war for cybertron got three seasons released even though er, the show was not received well, because everybody wanted the mini masterpiece chug war for cybertron toys. all transformers shows are like this, a lot of shows for toys are. go check out To sell toys on tfwiki. reactionaries could not stop this if they wanted to either by review bombing or boycott, even they were gonna just, not be part of the fandom (assuming they were to begin with, a lot of the review bombers probably are not) because literally hastak does not care, they care about the fact they get revenue from toy sales and the fact people buy into the media, etc. etc., not to mention that they do have some cognizance of 'the community' as it were

‼️‼️ HEY EVERYBODY GO GIVE TF: EARTHSPARK A GOOD REVIEW ON GOOGLE & IMDB ‼️‼️

Fox News decided to talk about nightshade so now a ton of transphobes are review bombing the show, on google the rating dropped all the way down to 2.7 stars

Please help boost the ratings with good reviews, I think we can all agree we don’t want this show canceled before it can even start

[forecast0ctopus]

i get it now these guys are cool

[wavewavethoughtsonly]

I hope they put this scene in the sequel. Full Video

[orion-archives]

Went to see TF One for a second time (in a different cinema) and look what I managed to get:

TF ONE POPCORN BUCKET

And, since it is MegaSound Week, I had to doodle the husbands in the bucket full of popcorn afterwards, obviously :]

"Did you enjoy the movie, Soundwave?"

":]"

This thing is MASSIVE. I had popcorn FOR THREE DAYS 💀

Just to put an idea on how BIG this things is, my TFP Megatron figure is 20cm tall and it's SHORTER THAN THE BUCKET.

[pluralsword]

-*laughs in prowl* back in 2022 at TFCon Chicago the last panel of the con was IDW artists talking about the art experience, and someone asked how they draw the bots doing things or something like that, and Alex Milne said more or less 'well we have to use visual tricks of perception, for example Prowl's bosom on the toy would keep him from crossing his arms so you have to change the angle of things to make it work'

-Transformers is such a different world when it comes to gender and anatomy because Arcee can usually cross her arms across her chest just fine including IDW1 and Terminator Arcees who have the most protruding chest except for Q-Transformers Arcee whose torso is the chest basically but all the Q-Transformer cars are like that. Her girlfriend Aileron who is chubby and buff can cross her arms fine. Meanwhile on the other hand the average car Prowl (canonically a guy so far) with lanky big ankle proportions except for his massive and broad chest cannot do that. want to show this in toy form someday when we get an official or unlicensed aileron toy (our close to proportion accurate Aileron custom can't twist her arms sadly)

flat-chested transformers don't know how good they have it, being able to cross their arms privilege n all that

[disformer]

Something I've been thinking abt for ages

(based on the electric Miku bike)

[pluralsword]

Sniper bot gals... ...have some poses in mind to do when we're more awake tomorrow. they're so fun. Specifically we want to recreate some sniper team things

[pollopom]

i was forced to pick up a pencil (brother is borrowing my drawing tablet)

[chrissy-kaos]

He’s in for a treat tonight 🥵🥴

[babygirlbreeder]

Lazy Saturday mornings!

Mommy Hucows never get to sleep in with there baby calves knocking on the door lol

No worries...mommy's coming...im just admiring my seed filled belly a little bit longer🥰