Earlier this month, the Transformers line of toys, cartoons and more released a special video in Japan to mark the franchise’s 40th anniversary. Titled “We Are Not Alone,” the result is an impressive video full of stop-motion animation that has the Transformers figures coming to …Read more »
Actor Garry Chalk is best-known for playing Optimus Prime in Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Cybertron, and Transformers: Energon, as well as in Beast Machines: Transformers, where he also played Optimus Primal. He was additionally Optimus Primal in Beast Wars. Right now he is in the news …Read more »
The Naruto franchise has teamed up with The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Silverlake Ramen and CASETiFY, to name a few examples, and now it’s teaming up with the Transformers toy line from Hasbro. That’s right, two Naruto Shippuden characters are getting the Transformers treatment, but …Read more »
Takara Tomy is teasing a Transformers 40th anniversary video, and they have the folks at Studio TRIGGER working on it. First revealed at the Tokyo Toy Show 2024 event this week, the promotional video is teased as being in production at the moment. You can …Read more »
Note: If you intend to watch Brave Bang Bravern! but haven’t seen at least the first episode yet, stop reading now. Seriously. Trust us. Get at least episode 1 under your belt, then come back. If you’re already caught up, then read on. But it’s worth …Read more »
Companies like Kotobukiya have proven time and time again that you can turn anything into a beautiful girl, from inanimate objects to horror icons like Freddy and Jason. The latest characters the company has turned to both hail from opposing factions of the classic Transformers …Read more »
Japan might not have gotten all the otaku-oriented tourism it wanted during the Tokyo Olympics, but some of its otaku sites are still making their way into the news. That includes the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam statue, which is just under 65 feet tall and located …Read more »
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, is coming out with the real-world AR mobile game TRANSFORMERS: Heavy Metal. “This will be a Transformers game unlike any other, an AR game where you’ll get to team up with the likes of Bumblebee and the Autobots in …Read more »
Optimus Prime and Megatron hangin’ out in Cybertron. That’s what we can expect from a freshly-announced animated Transformers prequel film from Josh Cooley, the director of Toy Story 4. The film will be written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, who penned Ant-Man and the …Read more »
Knights of Sidonia anime studio Polygon Pictures is returning to the bottomless Transformers well to kick off a new Netflix original trilogy. The first one has them teaming up with Rooster Teeth (RWBY), which is in charge of producing Transformers: War for Cybertron: Siege, consisting …Read more »
Last month we posted about Hasbro’s crowdfunding campaign for a Unicron figure, which would end up being the largest Transformer toy ever produced at over 27 inches tall. The HasLab platform established the campaign in hopes of getting 8,000 backers to throw down $575 each—which …Read more »
The Transformers line has been host to some truly tremendous toys, some of which stand at impressive heights. Figures like Fortress Maximus managed to scrape the two-foot mark, and now Hasbro is attempting to crowdfund the biggest Transformer of all time. Naturally, the character in question is …Read more »
Two of the world’s most famous giant robot teams, those of mega-franchises Mazinger Z and Transformers, are set to face off in an upcoming manga. Now we’ve learned the cover of that manga was drawn by none other than the legendary Go Nagai, the creator …Read more »
Shinji Aramaki. Even if you don’t know his name, you probably know his work: he’s spent decades in the anime industry, starting out as a mecha designer on shows like Mospeada and Megazone 23 before reinventing himself as a director of CG films like Appleseed …Read more »
At this point, everyone should be well acquainted with the full-scale RX-78 Gundam statue, currently residing between a parking lot and a shopping mall on the man-made island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. Despite receiving a considerable amount of media attention over the past few …Read more »
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