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I’ll be passing on this one since I prefer the classic cartoon versions but I have to admit, I’m very impressed by the detail work on this, especially at this scale! Available for preorder at Hobby Search for $32.

This has been making the rounds on the message boards so I felt I should toss up a quick article about it. Sideshow announced that they were increasing the edition side of their Optimus Prime exclusive maquette (the $1200 one) from 100 to 150. They’re offering refunds to customers unhappy with this decision. I personally [...]

North America is getting left way behind in the enormous roughly 1:1 scale statue department, embarrassing! This behemoth is 33 feet tall and made out of junk car parts found in local garbage dumps. Original news source

I’m not terribly familiar with this company, though they seem to have scored a number of important licences, including plans for a variety of Marvel dioramas. They’ve announced a 12″ Optimus Prime with a variety of pictures, 2 of which I’ve included under the cut. That said, I’m not impressed with this Optimus Prime. Very [...]

Here’s some of the highlights. If you’d prefer to read the full thing, here’s the link : Sideshow’s “Ask Sideshow” Feature At Comic-Con, you unveiled plans to produce a 20+ inch Optimus Prime maquette. Are there others in the works such as Ravage, Bumblebee, Jetfire, Sideswipe, Arcee, Megatron, The Fallen, Soundwave, etc.? Does the license [...]

I’m sure most of you have heard of the upcoming giant (20″+) Optimus Prime movie maquette coming from Sideshow. Seems the artist wanted to show a teaser on his Deviantart. http://poboyross.deviantart.com/art/Optimus-Teaser-131109362 Full view is enormous, but it’s worth it if you want to see the detail.

I’m going to tackle a review of Revoltech Transformers line. Revoltech is a Japanese toy company that releases small (about 4 1/2 inch) toys that can be posed in pretty incredible ways, yet the joints on their figures arn’t obnoxious, and don’t ruin the sculpts. The Transformers line has 5 figures in total. Optimus Prime, [...]