Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Australia have given me an exclusive reveal of one of the character cards from the next set of the Transformers Trading Card Game (TCG): War for Cybertron Seige. Introducing Sergeant Skrapnel, a leader Insecticon card… card… card. Skrapnel is interesting as his alt mode directly uses the brave ability … Continue reading
My son turned 12 and when asked what he wanted on his cake this year I was delighted and a little daunted as he asked for his favourite combiner Transformer – G1 Devastator. Devastator provides a few challenges for a buttercream cake as he can have quite a bit of detail to him because he … Continue reading
Released 1st March 2019 in Australia is the eagerly anticipated second wave of the Transformers Trading Card Game (TCG) aptly titled “Rise of the Combiners”. This second wave of booster packs expands on the initial Wave 1 set of cards with new characters, battle cards and most importantly the introduction of Combiner and Triple Changer … Continue reading
Wizards of the Coast Australia and Hasbro Australia have generously given me the imagery of 2 new battle cards from the upcoming second wave of the Transformers Trading Card Game (TCG). The second wave of cards will be released in March 2019 in Australia and I’m delighted the game has had enough popularity to ensure … Continue reading
Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Australia were kind enough to give us a free Metroplex Transformers TCG set to try out. What is Transformers TCG you ask? It’s a new trading card game where you battle bots against bots to see who can take down each others team first. The character cards you use … Continue reading
Normally I would have posted about this event much sooner but time has been something I’ve not had much of lately… and to be honest of all the years I’ve been going to ani-con this year seemed to lack the diversity of previous years. No amazing displays from Hot Toys, no superbly noteworthy figures from … Continue reading
A lot of toys were on display at Cybertroncon but the most popular and most talked about by collectors were those showing off and revealing upcoming figures in the Titans Return line. Triple changer figures of Optimus Prime and Megatron were revealed along with new figures like Gnaw, Sixshot, Hot Rod and Bumblebee. Opinions on … Continue reading
Do you have people you’d absolutely love to meet one day? I have a short list – I could list them on one hand in fact – of people who inspire, influence and engage me enough that I will try to see or meet them if I can. The unfortunate problem is I live in … Continue reading
You’ll be seeing a few posts over the coming weeks from my first ever Transformers Convention – Cybertroncon which took place in Shanghai from the 29th to 31st of July. To start it off we’re going to talk about a rather large display of a Transformer known as Fortress Maximus (or Fort Max for short) … Continue reading
Hasbro isn’t releasing this guy until late August but thanks to the Hasbro Hong Kong trial event my daughter and I got to play with Computron in hand. My son has been asking about a Computron figure for a very long time. In the G1 cartoon Computron (made up of a group of Transformers called the … Continue reading
