Transformers

Transformers Prime – Season Two

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  • Title: Transformers Prime – The Complete Second Season
  • tv.com: link

transformers-prime-blu-ray-season-2The Second Season of Transformers Prime continues the animated battles of the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth as well as the robots in disguise home planet of Cybertron. The series adopts the look and style of Michael Bay’s (truly awful) Transformers franchise and recent video game releases that as a fan of the original toys, comics, and cartoon series, I will freely admit, doesn’t always please me.

This means we’re stuck with several problematic elements from the movies including a Bumblebee that still can’t speak (and is a Camaro instead of a VW Bug), the moronic monster-like design of several of the Decepticons, a lack of understanding basic differences between robots and humans, a scarcity of only a handful of Autobots heroes, and a near endless supply of nameless (not to mention useless) Deception cannon fodder warriors that rank somewhere between Stormtroopers and Cobra soldiers in the grand scheme of things.

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The First Look at Masterpiece Soundwave

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A few weeks back we told you about the Masterpiece Transformers toys Takara Tomy was set to put out this fall. Well now there are pics of the Masterpiece Soundwave, Sideswipe, and Red Alert (currently available to pre-order in Japan). Very, very cool. Now we’ll just have to wait and see how long it takes the Decepticon to make his way across the ocean and satisfy insanely happy Transformer fans who will no doubt want to add him to their collection.

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Masterpiece Sideswipe and Soundwave on the way

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We now know the next Masterpiece Transformers toys Takara Tomy is set to produce. First up is Sideswipe which will hit Japan sometime in October (the mold will also be used for Red Alert). But the big news is the release of the mold for the next Transformer to get the Masterpiece treatment – Soundwave, who will hit Japan just in time for Christmas.

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Shockwave HISS Tank

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Mashup one of my favorite Decepticons and one of my favorite Cobra vehicles and you get… a toy that doesn’t look like either one? What I can tell you: The Shockwave HISS Tank will be a 2012 San Diego Comic Con exclusive, and come with Destro and B.A.T. figures, energon cubes and tiny non-transforming Soundwave with cassettes. It will come packaged in a box that has been made to look like a 6th issue from the classic G.I.JOE Vs. Transformers comic book series. What I can’t tell you: Will it actually transform?

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Transformers 3 brought to you by Michael Bay and Lenovo

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  • Title: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • IMDB: link

transformers-dark-of-the-moon-posterIt’s official, Michael Bay can now be legitimately named the serial rapist of my childhood. Three Transformers movies and the man still doesn’t know what the hell a robot is (let alone a Transformer). Short version: Despite showing a momentary early glimmer of promise of not totally sucking, the film wastes what little it had going for it by making a series of mistakes and beating you down with a level of stupidity it’s hard to believe was done on purpose. For the first, but certainly not the last, time in this review, let me just say: Fuck you Michael Bay.

What works? The special effects are well done. The 3D isn’t Avatar level but is still impressive. Everything else? Hold on to your seats boys and girls this is going to get messy. Spoilers be damned, I’ve got a hellova lot to talk about. You’ve been warned!

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