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Transfomers and X-Men Collide, and More of the Most Mutagenic Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of all things good and plastic. This week: Hasbro turns its transforming eye to another nostalgic mashup. Mando Monday reinforcements bring The Mandalorian’s big bad to the Star Wars Black Series. Also? Warm Kirby. Check it out! Hasbro Transformers Generations Collaborative: Marvel Comics X-Men Mash-Up, Ultimate X-Spanse … Continued

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The Next Transformers Movie Hopes to Pack a New Punch With Creed 2‘s Director

The Transformers may have found their new leader. As reported by Deadline, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro Studios are looking to bring Creed 2 director Steven Caple Jr. aboard to helm the next movie in the seemingly never-ending Transformers franchise. According to the trade, negotiations are set to begin between Paramount and Caple, who executives saw … Continued

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Lego Goes Deep Into the World of Sesame Street in the Week’s Best Toys

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the very best in plastic-based goodness on the internet. This week, Hot Wheels celebrates Back to the Future with a nifty board you’ll never want to take out of the packaging, Lego takes a trip down Sesame Street, and Medicom swings the finest ‘90s Spider-Man … Continued

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Your Shelf Can’t Escape Spooky Season, and More of the Most Frightful Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, where our latest adventures into all things shiny and plastic have taken a turn for the spooky. This week, Hasbro summons up an an entire army of Dinobots, Mattel turns its hand to The Rise of Skywalker, and so much more. Check it out! Hasbro Transformers Takara Tomy Generations Selects … Continued

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The New Transformers Show Gets Some Wildly Expensive Figures, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round-up of all things shiny, articulated, and plastic (or mostly plastic). This week, the Marvel S.H. Figuarts line continues to mine Endgame, the War for Cybertron gets your wallet caught in the crossfire, and Disney classics get some lovely new action figures. Check it out! Super7 Disney Ultimates … Continued

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Remember When Toys Were Fun? Hasbro’s $575 Unicron Figure Takes Almost an Entire Hour to Transform

A year ago, Hasbro revealed a massive 27-inch tall Unicron figure that, despite an equally gigantic $575 price tag, still managed to find 8,000 backers to help officially put it into production. The figure is impressively detailed, but in a recent blog post sharing the progress on Unicron’s development, it was revealed the figure takes … Continued

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5 Things We Liked (and 3 We Didn’t) About Netflix’s Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege

Everyone’s favorite robots in disguise returned to TV this past weekend with the launch of Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege on Netflix. Except this time, they weren’t really in disguise, as the Autobots and Decepticons duked it out in the final days of the war for their homeworld. But was it an Allspark or … Continued

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Wars for Cybertron, Ranked

The myriad Transformers continuities are united by many things—mostly robots that transform into vehicles (and or prehistoric creatures, depending), but also: war. War, specifically not just on Earth, but for their homeworld. We’re about to see the battle for Cybertron rage all over again in Netflix’s new Transformers show, so to celebrate, here’s the best … Continued

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Volleyball Decides the War for Cybertron, and More of the Weirdest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the coolest toys and merch on the internet lately. This week: as San Diego Comic-Con draws (virtually) ever nearer, we’ve got tasty exclusives from robot volleyball to New Asgard. Plus, Lego gets artistic again, and Mario manages to make Jenga somehow even more stressful. Hasbro … Continued

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In Netflix’s New Transformers Trailer, Even Optimus Prime Is So Very Tired

Another day, another war for the fate of Cybertron, and things are looking dire in Netflix and Rooster Teeth’s take on the latest version of the Transformers origin story. So dire that even Optimus Prime, scion of hope and occasional truck, is getting a bit defeatist. Netflix just dropped the latest trailer for Transformers: War … Continued

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Our 25 Favorite Summer Blockbusters of the 2000s

For the first time in most of our lifetimes, your local movie theater won’t have a summer blockbuster season. The covid-19 pandemic took care of that, pushing most of the big-budget popcorn films scheduled for this year’s summer months into fall, spring, or even next summer. Since we can’t enjoy summer blockbusters in theaters this … Continued

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Back to the Future Meets Transformers In the Most Gigawattin’ Toy of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the latest and greatest in bits of plastic rapidly draining your bank account. This week: Hot Toys swings in with yet another variant Spider-Man, The Mandalorian’s little green star gets some unconventional merch, and Final Fantasy legend Testuya Nomura gets his hands on the Avengers. Check … Continued

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The Worst Episode of the GoBots Cartoon Knew Exactly How Bad It Was

Oh, the GoBots. That poor, ridiculous, terrible toyline and animated series that somehow managed to be a crappy knock-off of the Transformers, despite the fact that both the toys and the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon came out before Transformers. While I’ve talked about how the action figures sucked before, it’s time to take a … Continued

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Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel Trade Transforming Robots for…Talking Dogs?

This is how you appropriately deal with the collaborative trauma of having been in multiple Michael Bay Transformers movies, right? Therapy dogs? Talking therapy dogs? While we all wonder just when, how, and why we would want to be going anywhere remotely near a movie theater right now, Lionsgate is here to remind us of … Continued

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Daredevil’s Charlie Cox Shuts Down Rumors of His Spider-Man 3 Involvement

Hasbro has tapped Toy Story 4’s director to make an animated Transformers prequel set on Cybertron. Fede Alvarez is no longer trying to make a Labyrinth sequel. Sigourney Weaver returns to Pandora in a new Avatar 2 set picture. Plus, James Gunn’s plans for the Guardians 3000 team in the MCU, and our first look … Continued

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Catwoman Gets a Glorious Animated Series Action Figure, and More Purrfect Toys

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the latest and greatest bits of plastic threatening our wallets. This week: Lego gets its May the 4th celebrations on by giving the worst Star Wars ship a lovely set, Neon Genesis Evangelion Tamagotchis make us question things we’d really rather not, and somehow, there’s … Continued

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A Prime Example of How to Make a Perfect Transformers Figure, and More of the Most Optimal Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of all the fun toys and collectibles you forgot you pre-ordered until your credit card statement arrives. This week we’ve got another Lego Creator expert vehicle for your growing car collection, the best Optimus Prime to ever appear on the big screen in figure form, a … Continued

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Watch the First Trailer for Netflix and Rooster Teeth’s Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy: Siege

The first chapter of a three-part serialized saga, Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy: Siege sets up the stakes pretty clearly. Megatron wants the Allspark. The Autobots can’t let that happen. Time to fight. Revealed yesterday at Toy Fair, the Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy is a three-part episodic series, each one taking place at a … Continued

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Halo Gets Nerfed, Pettable Pokémon, and G.I. Joe‘s Grand Return Are Already Toy Fair’s Most Fun Reveals

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the latest and greatest toy news. This week, we’re basking in the glorious surprises that are already coming out of this weekend’s New York Toy Fair. You can head elsewhere for major Baby Yoda goodness, but here we’ve got Transformers, G.I. Joe, Halo, and more to … Continued

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Fandoms Collide as the Transformers Finally Team Up With Some Little Ponies [Updated]

It’s the epic crossover years in the making. IDW Comics has unveiled the first look at the new Transformers comic, which pairs the robots in disguise with the gentle equestrian creatures of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It could very well be the thing that breaks the internet. Spotted by Equestria Daily and confirmed … Continued