Ben Watson

Transformers Age of the Primes Ultra Magnus is a white Optimus Prime stood in a strong evening sunbeam. The wallpaper behind evokes the texture of the sun's surface

Sunbleached #Transformers

I waited til this toy was the price of a deluxe to "cop it" because I thought I'd be really put off by the lack of legs but really, a figure this big, I'm not gonna pose it. It just needs to stand there. What he really needs is wheels

Transformers G1 Zarak stood in the control room kind of space made by Cyberworld Scorponok's chest which is lit from within. The central green rectangle is detailed to look like a large screen

"If we look at the next slide, we'll see the projections for the next quarter"

The thing here is that I am taking the original as this serious, more mature piece when it's also a madly coloured giant scorpion playset that 4 years olds played with simply because it has a nearly 40 year head start on this more 2 dimensional neon lump I got the other day

Transformers 1987 Scorponok and Cyberworld Scorponok are big boys

1987 // 2025

Transformers MPG-17 Optimus Prime's arm close up. With his fist folded away and the peg deployed to attach the energon axe, a small tab still juts out from the arm which prevents the axe from sitting flat

Hooray I have a new question for the style gen designers: why didn't you leave a gap in the axe for this clip that collides with it and pushes it off center

it fucken WIMDY

Off the top of my head I can name Philip K. Dick's The Golden Man or there's one called Cats in Space which, well does what it says on the tin from an assortment of authors.

Is it really the fact we're still working on these 4 packs at a degree of separation from buzzworthy bee. They all have to have some kind of Bumblebee variant in. Cliffjumper is one of those yes.

HasTak out here treating Glyph and Tapout like fan OCs (ok all botcon guys are but) when they've had a couple of comic appearances. Just like other characters (Bumper) who are getting A toy.
Why did they repaint the yellow toy into a yellow toy as a higher priority than something actually different

Thinking about Bumper again. The 2nd head baked into the 86 Bee should have been the masked one. He should have been left as the 2nd head on the Cliffjumper rework. Bumper exists in exactly the same level as Glyph, why does it seem like we're just never gonna get her

Post a picture you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Not heard of this one, adding to the to read pile as soon as the first book arrives

I use it to select "shut down"

Oh! It did it! When I really tugged on it

Wiki says he makes the noise when you transform him and no that's not happening so somethings wrong somewhere

Yeah my Chop Shop is the same, just really unpleasant to make do the one thing it's made to as a toy

Thirty 5mm ports by the way! Not counting screwholes which are the right size, that's 30 specifically sculpted mostly hexagonal hard points

Yeah, I can't tell if it's actually releasing anything

Love that toy! I got it for a birthday present

This is the thing right, the engineering is supposed to allow quick easy conversion on all these toys but how many actually don't fight you the whole way?
Bit sad nothing makes the saw spin, that whole piece is dead despite having more room in it than actual geared mechanisms I own in other toys

Transformers Cyberworld Scorponok in titanic robot mode infested with other Decepticons. Starscream is riding a hover bike made from part of his tail.

Bonkers thing! I'm about to count all the 5mm ports on it cos I think it may break the record. Kind of makes up for not having legs eh.
Oh also, the conversion mechanism is absolutely too tight for a child to do unless mine's not right, which lines up with Cyberworld on a whole.

Transformers Cyberworld Scorponok completes my collection of currently available figures in the line. The box is monolithic

DON'T NOK IT TIL YOU'VE SCORPED IT

Still thinking about this. I didn't go through the whole album but The Sad God made me weep and I don't know why

Missinglink Nemesis... amiami still have some for 66 quid before shipping. Allrighty then

Ah christ, *reaches for wallet*

Can't have good news two days in a row.
Anyway, I just gave out a bionicle zine to a total stranger who also makes zines so there's something

I am describing ones I had on VHS, that's how it works

For me it's the one with the alligators and the one with the pyramid. But also the empire state building

Shot from Sun Probe with the rocket on its gantry

Skipping ahead on Thunderbirds cos my fave is at the end of the disc