Masterpiece Grimlock to be available July 1st-ish at Toys R Us
Last week, Hasbro posted an announcement that Masterpiece Grimlock would be available at Toys R Us stores starting July 1st. This posting was located on Hasbro’s site here. Rarely do…
Read more »G1 Seacons & other Transformers reissue rumors
Over at TFW2005 there’s some rumors being dished. A few weeks ago some mysterious photos of Seacons made their rounds. Supposedly these are due out from HASBRO this summer as…
Read more »Botcon Scorch?
File this under toys that I covet. Listed at the auction site Taobao is a yellow/orange repaint of Transformers Classics Hound with a white repaint of Ravage. The Hound repaint…
Read more »New TakaraTomy 2010 Unicron Pictures
The July 2010 issue of Hyper Hobby magazine is out in Japan and includes a spread on the latest TakaraTomy Transformers offers, including a page dedicated to the new Unicron…
Read more »A Seacons reissue on the horizon?
On the Asian Transformers message boards an interesting picture has popped up. Mirrored on tfw2005.com, these pictures feature the Seacons. The deco on these figures is not the same as…
Read more »Best costume I’ve seen at Phoenix Comicon
I did want to highlight one awesome costume I saw today. There was this youngish boy (8, maybe) dressed up as Bumblebee and I asked his father if I could…
Read more »Takara-Tomy 2010 Unicron’s Box
The 2010 Takara-Tomy Unicron toys has quite a bit of buzz around it with preorders sold out across the board. Since there’s so much interest in the figure, he’s a…
Read more »Optimus Prime Mighty Mugg Contest is over
Thanks for all the entries, the contest is now closed. I’ll be contacting the winner today…so cross your fingers if you entered.
Read more »Vote for Transformers Hall of Fame
I could have written this post weeks ago, but can’t really put it off any longer. Voting is on-going for the fan’s choice inductee into the Transformers Hall of Fame. …
Read more »Takara-Tomy Reveals Unicron Repaint
In Japan, Transformers: the movie (the animated one) occurs in the year 2010 and to celebrate the fact that it is actually 2010, Takara-Tomy are releasing some special products in…
Read more »Botcon 2010 Box Set fully Revealed
Botcon is coming up next month, and they’ve not revealed the box art and contents for the convention’s exclusive set over at botcon.com. The set drew its inspriration from the…
Read more »Official Hasbro Images have been posted
I’m pleased to announce that AwesomeToyBlog now has a gallery page. Now posted there are the new official pictures from HASBRO for Star Wars, Marvel Universe and Transformers. Check all…
Read more »Takara-Tomy Releasing Dead Masterpiece Optimus Prime
To celebrate the year 2010 (coincidentally the year that Transformers:the Movie happens in Japanese continuity) Takara-Tomy has decided to release a special edition of Transformers Masterpiece Prime. This time up,…
Read more »Botcon 2010 Exclusives Theme Revealed
Botcon.com updated today with an image that spills the beans on the theme on their 2010 five piece convention set. The convention set will be boldly (and brightly) entering the…
Read more »First Pics of US Masterpiece Grimlock
Coming later this year to a Toys R Us near you is the Hasbro edition of Masterpiece Grimlock. The first pics have surfaced over on the ACToys message board and…
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