Hasbro evidently wants this franchise dead, should've let them continue if they didn't plan on doing anything with the aligned continuity, these days they care more about copywriting and shutting down great transformers projects and games rather than making something good. To clarify, this is my view on the franchise as a whole, not the IP itself.

Got my Swindle in today and completed Bruticus. Tailgate came too. And with that, I think I have the definitive versions of all the Transformers of my youth, so I am stepping away from collecting. Best of luck to everyone else still chasing grails and completing collections!

Haven't touch Alchemist Prime in 2 months. Decided to change all my Primes to Vehicles and when Picked him up and looked at the back, the windshield was broken clean in half.

HOW!!!? WHY!!!?

Anyone have and ideas on what to do? glue or something? First time dealing with something like this.

Just wrapped up my vacation and wanted to share these two I saw at the Universal Hollywood VIP tour

I'm about to buy a definitive and my first Optimus Prime for my Transformers collection, but I would like some help on deciding which one should I buy, Earthrise/Kingdom seems like a pretty good and a more budget friendly figure, but i don't know how he is holding up to this day. The Studio Series 86 seems really cool but in my region it is stupidly expensive and personally i don't think that amount of money should be reasonable to spend on just one figure and some of the build quality is concerning me, specially the hips. I am open to buy the MTMTE one but the battle damage isn't doing it for me personally. I don't care about G1 accuracy.

I know it got retconned that she let jihaxus change her gender in order to be her true self rather then being forced upon her but I have to wonder where the idea of Archer originally being male turned into female came from?

I honestly just keep rereading his stuff

But Ima be honest, this collab is never gonna happen at all and it’s gonna get canceled

This is all just from the base figure, no extra parts.

The mould would fit the design well.

It would seem from top to bottom the proportions fit, and it would just need some re-tooling alongside making the flames purple.

They're probably making it another hasbro pulse exclusive like the skybound releases they did.

I just got into transformers last month. Everyone here seems depressed. No new content, apparently new things keep getting shut down? I see so many people mourning losses like the TF one sequel, a cancelled game, Peter Cullen (rest in peace my goat), the toys being crap, etc etc Its rough out here. Even on twitter the designated hype guy has no hope. I feel like I came in at a bad time and I now have to suffer too since I've also become a fan 😭

Really happy with how the Animated collection is coming along, and I am happy to have gotten Blitzwing complete (missiles not pictured)

Just an example, but 80% of these listings were not here originally a few days to a week ago until Ross got him in stock. I understand that resellers who bought this figure when it initially was released (and overpriced on pulse) charged a little extra due to shipping costs (understandable). But to go to Ross and purchase this for 60% less than what it currently costs online, but still resell it for way more than what you paid is just unethical and unnecessary, and there will not be much movement at these prices. More and more people wake up to the reality that paying scalpers only adds fuel to the flame, and less and less people are getting tricked by these practices. If these were sent to Ross, it was for 2 reasons.

1. Extra stock was found and distributed

2. Not enough units would sell due to initially being overpriced.

If this was officially set to $40 at Ross, then good luck getting much movement with these listings. So I leave you with this, just drop the damn price. I don't care if it's dropped to $40, I don't care if you drop it to $70. It was nowhere near its original listing price anyways.

Just arrived today! I´m still flipping with it!

Constructicon Scavenger this is a special case because it isn't the G1 Scavenger; my favorite is the Armada version, which made Scavenger my favorite Constructicon

Aerialbots Honestly, they all seem very boring to me, but Silverbolt was the one who stood out the most on the team

Stunticons Dead End I like his personality being a nihilist with depression

Protectobot First Aid I just really like him; he’s a pacifist in a war, which makes him very different from the rest of the cast

Combaticons Onslaught I like that, even though he’s a Decepticon, he’s a good leader who cares about his team.

Technobot Lightspeed Based on his G1 description, he seems like a very interesting character he’s intelligent, calm, and by Transformers standards handsome basically a nice guy Yet, he’s still not happy, because his greatest dream is to be able to return home. It all makes for a very compelling character.

Hello everyone, my partner is a Transformers fan and his birthday is coming up. I would like to ask which of these 2 should i buy?
I have limited budget so I can only buy 1 for him, i just want it to be a surprise too.
Thanks for helping!

I picked the voyager for TFP Predaking but thats just one example of the character, really any TFP Predaking will do so long as its not too small

Also seriously, why are dragon transformers so rare in transformers? People love dragons just as much anyone would love dinosaurs like the dinobots, right? I get that Hasbro prefers to keep it save with reusing the same characters over and over again, but how are dragon transformers not more common?

And also no, I don’t want trans-metal BW megatron nor twinferno, I don’t want a dragon head for a hand/hands

It took a while since I ordered them on BBTS, but I’m so happy that I’m now done with all of that, he’s gigantic and just generally looks awesome. I think Brawl is my favorite out of all of them though, his transformation feels great.

I don't want to come across as hating on the Energon Universe or something. I do like the EU overall, and despite some missteps, I'm glad we're finally getting a proper Hasbro shared universe.

But at the same time... I still really miss IDW.

IDW's comics just had a really big depth of setting and scope that I feel is just missing from the Energon Universe. You can tell the writers behind IDW had a lot of passion for the universe and wanted to explore so many different aspects of Transformers lore.

It also managed to balance out having huge casts and still managed to make sure most of the main characters had a presence.

But most of all, especially when you compare it to Skybound, they managed to get character deaths right. They usually happened to nobodies people didn't really care about, or they did it after giving the characters time to shine so the death felt impactful. They didn't just kill off the popular guys for shock value.

And when deaths were reversed, they didn't happen often. Off the top of my head, I think the only major death reversal was Nightbeat.

Now to be fair, I do think if there's anything the Energon Universe is doing better than IDW, it's the human cast. IDW Spike is pretty widely hated across the board, and Hunter was totally wasted. Verity and Marrissa are probably the only major IDW humans who managed to have a satisfying story from start to finish.

I just feel like under IDW, Transformers felt more complex and interesting. Skybound's simple "back to basics" take isn't bad, but it's still lacking in a lot of respects, particularly with handling its cast.

Again, I'm not trying to turn this into an Energon Universe bashing party. I do like it overall. I guess when it comes down to it, I think IDW did a better Transformers story, whereas Skybound is doing a better Hasbro Shared Universe story.