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Michael Bay is going back to Sony Pictures. The studio got gave him his start as a director with 1995's Bad Boys has signed a multiyear first look deal with Bay for both television and film properties. His next film will be Sony Pictures Black Five, which is an original story by Michael Bay himself. […]

Transformers fans have four more ReAction figures to add to their shelves. Super7 is now taking orders for Grimlock, Rumble, Shrapnel, and Skyfire join the Autobots and Decepticons from Wave 1. One of the most underrated parts of these figures are the vintage style cardbacks. Super7 did a fantastic job taking the classic transformers packaging […]

(IDW Publishing, creative team: Kate Leth, Cohen Edenfield, Alex Milne, David Garcia Cruz, Jake M. Wood, Val Lopez) This tragic tale is set millions of years before the Cybertronian Civil War that, according to what we were told for decades, had "Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons." Here's the […]

I may be the wrong guy to review a Transformers comic – I grew up with Japanese giant robot anime, so I always thought Transformers was a US toy company trying to ape them. I consider the Michael Bay movies crimes against Cinema and Storytelling. But I never sniffed at the fans – I envied […]

Beast Wars: Transformers was a very interesting concept with the cartoon series being set up as a sequel to the iconic cartoon. The series showed off new Transformers called the Maximals and Predacons who are descendants of Autobot and Decepticons. These warriors transform between animal forms which are way different from the usual vehicles we […]

M.A.S.K. is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality. The cult 80's favorite cartoon and toy line is set up at Paramount for a feature film, and Bad Boys For Life writer Chris Bremner has been tapped to pen the script. F. Gary Gray is set to direct. Hasbro is producing with Paramount under […]

Viz Media released their solicitations for manga coming out in May. It's a big list as ever, so get those preorders in. Shonen Jump JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 4–Diamond Is Unbreakable, Vol. 5 By Hirohiko Araki Yoshikage Kira's true identity is revealed! The serial killer lurks around Morioh, killing as he pleases and enjoying a […]

Bleeding Cool was on-site at Toy Fair 2020, the annual trade show for the toy industry in New York to take a look at the forthcoming products from Hasbro's various Transformers' lines. Announced this weekend was the Netflix adaptation of the Generations: War for Cybertron line. The animated series will feature the last days of […]

One surprise from the New York Toy Fair was the Flame Toys panel. It was surprising to see so many Transformer figures and were packed with detail. Some might not know that Hasbro isn't the only place that makes Transformers figures. Flame Toys is defiantly bringing the heat this time with some great pieces like […]

While things might still be in a bit of flux on the film side, the Transformers franchise appears to be doing just fine on the television/streaming side, thanks to the fine folks at Netflix, Hasbro, Inc., and Rooster Teeth. Need proof? Look no further than the recently-released first teaser trailer for Chapter One ("Siege") of […]

IDW has a bunch of launches in May 2020, from licensed titles such as Star Wars Adventures #1, Captain Marvel #1 and the crossover My Little Pony/Transformers #1, as well as creator-owned series Bermuda #1 by John Layman and Nick Bradshaw and Sea Of Sorrows #1 by Rich Douek and Alex Cormack, Chained to the […]

Hasbro has decided to bring back a little '90s nostalgia in gaming as they will release a new set of Tiger Electronics handheld LCD video games. There will be four games released in total, each one costing $15 a pop. They are Sonic The Hedgehog 3, Disney's Little Mermaid, Transformers' Generation 2, and Marvel's X-Men: […]

The heroic Autobots Leader Optimus Prime is back once again and this time he is going retro. PCS Collectibles is bringing this Transformers legend alive and all his classic glory. Right off the bat, you can see that the cel-shading on this statue is something special and it hits your nostalgia in all the right […]

Welcome to the latest edition of BC Toy Spotting! We are in and out of stores pretty much every day, and we figure (ha!) why not show all of our fellow collectors what we are coming across on pegs and shelves. As collectors, we know that staying on top of what is in stores can […]

When the Mane Six gallop alongside Autobots in battle, the forces of villainy stand no chance… IDW is to publish the very first official My Little Pony/Transformers crossover comic book, four issues, weekly in May in all comic book stores. In My Little Pony/Transformers, the scheming Queen Chrysalis casts a spell in search of changeling […]

(IDW Publishing, creative team: Brian Ruckley, Bethany McGuire-Smith, Anna Malkova, Josh Burcham, Joana LaFuente, Jake M. Wood) The comic that should be a prose novel continues to slowly boil tensions on Cybertron between the legitimately aggrieved if somewhat manipulated movement formerly known as the Ascenticons and the lying, trigger happy power structure of the Autobots. […]

The Transformers film franchise has kind of been a mess but the newest addition to the series, Bumblebee was amazing. Hell, I am a fan of the first three films too it was after they decided to continue it after Shia LeBeouf is where they lost me. However, Bumblebee introduced use to a time before […]

Taking a look at IDW's April 2020, launching Stephen King & Owen King's Sleeping Beauties as a comic by Rio Youers and Alison Sampson. Five issues of Star Wars Adventures: Clone Wars in one month. A new Star Trek: Deep Space 9 comic. And the return of Simon Furman to Transformers in Transformers: Secrets And […]

We normally do this for Marvel and DC Comics. But now we find ourselves doing it for IDW Publishing, The changes between solicitation and publication. Transformers Valentine's Day Special #1, solicited as being written by Patrick Ehlers, Kate Leth & Cohen Edenfield will now be written by Patrick Ehlers & Sara Pitre-Durocher. Transformers #18, solicited […]

Transformers collectors for the past year can be forgiven for thinking it was the late 80's all over again when walking into the figure aisle at Walmart. Hasbro has been reissuing G1 robots for the last year, right down to the box art. The appeal for these is of course nostalgia, I was born in […]