30 Years of Transformers in 30 Days – 1996
With the demise of Transformers Generation 2, the Transformers brand once again faced oblivion, and this time, it looked like Transformers might disappear from store shelves worldwide. Hasbro decided...
View Article30 Years of Transformers in 30 Days – 1997
1997 arrived and the Beast Wars entered their second year. The toys developed and became more complex, dropping some elements such as battlemasks and flip-changers, but also bringing back limited...
View Article30 Years of Transformers in 30 Days – 1998
1998 arrived and Beast Wars entered its third year. This was the year that the Beast Wars series truly came of age, with episode after episode that continually show up on fan’s “favorite episode”...
View Article30 Years of Transformers in 30 Days – 1999
1999 was the fifteenth anniversary of the Transformers brand, an occasion that went largely unmarked save for a recognition at Botcon 1999 (which was also the fifth anniversary of Botcon). Beast Wars...
View ArticleBeast Wars Second Galvatron Design Sketches
Hisashi Yuki has shared a real blast from the past on his Twitter account, TFYuki. He’s posted up some of the original pen concept sketches for Beast Wars Second Galvatron. Beast Wars Second (or BWII...
View ArticleBeast Wars Megatron’s Christmas Wish
David Kaye is back as the voice of Beast Wars Megatron to wish Transformers Fans a Merry Christmas. This time Tara Strong joins him as Bubbles from Power Puff Girls (although this newsie secretly wish...
View ArticleYear Of The Monkey Platinum Edition Optimus Primal Sighted on Retail Shelf
As we approach that last quarter of 2015, big ticket items are starting to appear in stores. One of such items found on store shelves in Taiwan is the Year Of The Monkey Platinum Edition Optimus Primal...
View ArticleYear Of The Monkey Platinum Edition Optimus Primal In-hand Images
Coming off of our news regarding Platinum Edition Optimus Primal being sighted at retail, we’ve received our first in-hand images of the newest Year Of The Monkey figure via Snakas Blog. The images...
View ArticleThe Tripredacus Agenda – behind the scenes of Beast Wars The Agenda, Part 1
With the news that the 2016 Botcon exclusives would include show inspired versions of the Tripredacus Council – based on their cameo in the Beast Wars season 2 finale, The Agenda Part 1 – TFW2005...
View ArticleTransformers Legends Blackarachnia In-Hand Gallery
For our next Transformers gallery update, we’re staying in Japan but coming right up to date, with a look at a recent Japanese release. Takara-Tomy last month released a set of three female...
View ArticleMasterpiece Optimus Primal Render
Courtesy of TF Upgrader on Facebook, we have our first look at a render of the upcoming Masterpiece Optimus Primal. This figure was announced back in June, but thanks to this new magazine scan, we see...
View ArticleTakara-Tomy Announces 20th Anniversary of Beast Wars Celebrations
Takara-Tomy’s Hisashi Yuki has announced that Takara-Tomy has something suitably grand in store for this year, which is the 20th anniversary of Beast Wars. According to TFW2005 member Darkstone, the...
View ArticleQ-Transformers Arcee Talks Beast Wars Anniversary
Earlier today we received an announcement hinting towards a combination of Q-Transformers and the 20th Anniversary of Beast Wars. It was easy to jump to conclusions and assume we’d be seeing Beast Wars...
View ArticleMasterpiece Optimus Primal Teaser Image
Thanks to the Twitter feed of @tagoal, we’ve received a silhouette teaser of Masterpiece Optimus Primal! We’re starting to see the news pick up speed for this figure, which will be one of the top...
View ArticleMasterpiece Optimus Primal – New Images Of Toy Design
Thanks once again to the Twitter profile of Tagoal, we’ve received new images of Masterpiece Optimus Primal that show off the toy design of this planned Masterpiece release. These new images show off...
View ArticleClear Image of Masterpiece Optimus Primal Prototype!
Hot on the heels of all our Takara Unite Warriors Bruticus and Blast Off news, TFW2005 boards member aniline has just dropped by with an image from Figure King magazine of yet another upcoming figure...
View ArticleBotcon 2016 1st Souvenir Confirmed? – TM2 Megatron
Botcon has posted on Youtube this morning a commercial for their show coming up in a couple months. The video features David Kaye reprising his role as Megatron talking about the characters featured in...
View ArticleNew Images of Masterpiece Optimus Primal Prototype!
Twitter user @tagoal has tweeted out a few new images of the Masterpiece Optimus Primal prototype, giving us what is possibly our best look at the figure yet! These pictures show us some nice closeups...
View ArticleMasterpiece Optimus Primal – Faceplate Images!
Hat tip to TFW2005 member Monrai, we’ve received even more prototype images of Masterpiece Optimus Primal! Coming from the Hyper Hobby magazine, we can see Primal pictured here showing off a massive...
View ArticleWonder Festival 2016 Images – Masterpiece Optimus Primal & Unite Warriors...
Via TFW2005 boards member Type-R, we’re just now starting to get photos in from Wonder Festival 2016! Shown off here is, at last, the fully-colored version of Masterpiece Optimus Primal’s robot mode!...
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