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Photo of the Day / Toyworld Combustor (7/1/2020)

July 01, 2020, 10:21:52 AM

Combustor wants YOU! to join the... well, not the Decepticons. He's a third-party toy, after all. Maybe... the Liartrons? Or the Fibbots? How 'bout the Naughtymatons? Nah, that's one's a bit of a reach. Whatever they're called, you'd better enlist with them quick; he looks impatient and pointy. (Picture courtesy of Uncle Spiff-O-Matic)

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Photo of the Day / United Autobot Tracks and Henkei! Henkei! Sunstreaker (6/1/2020)

June 01, 2020, 03:31:27 AM

We're constantly hearing about the impact that COVID-19 is having on humans, but no one talks about how it's affecting Cybertronians. With all of the beaches empty, poor Tracks and Sunstreaker don't have anyone to admire their freshly waxed and buffed chassis! Now having to wear a mask to the store doesn't seem so bad, does it? (Picture courtesy of Goldenboy, who tested positive... for awesome photos!)

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Photo of the Day / Tiny Turbo Changers Starscream (5/1/2020)

May 01, 2020, 02:34:25 PM

According to all known laws of physics, there is no way that Tiny Turbo Changers Starscream should be able to stand. His legs are too spindly to keep his wide, flat little body off the ground. Starscream, of course, stands anyways, because no one tells the great and mighty Starscream what he can't do!!! (Logic-defying photo courtesy of Spiff-O-Matic.)

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Photo of the Day / Combiner Wars Decepticon Viper (4/1/2020)

April 01, 2020, 07:11:53 AM

Don't let the fact that you're one of a million identical, expendable drones get you down! Take a cue from Decepticon Viper and keep on truckin'! (Photo courtesy of the Fabulous Furry Freak Spiff-O-Matic!)

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Photo of the Day / Tiny Turbo Changers Grimlock (3/1/2020)

March 01, 2020, 04:30:55 AM

He may be a diminutive dino, but Tiny Turbo Changers Grimlock still has a big bite. Or he would, if he could open his mouth. Poor little guy wasn't budgeted for a movable jaw. (Photo courtesy of Spiff-O-Matic, the world's foremost micropaleontologist.)

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Photo of the Day / Beast Wars Cheetor (2/1/2020)

February 01, 2020, 09:17:38 AM

Cheetor wants you to think that he got his name from his beast mode, but the truth is that Rattrap gave him that moniker back on Cybertron when he caught the future feline palming aces during what was supposed to be a friendly game of Kaon Hold 'Em. Fortunately for him, everyone at the table decided to stage an impromptu intervention for his bad habit. After a few kind words and a two-hour beating, the big yellow cat vowed to clean up his act. (Photo courtesy of Hellscream333 and the suspicious royal flush that won it for him.)

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Photo of the Day / Generation 1 and Titans Return Brawns (1/1/2020)

January 01, 2020, 04:39:15 PM

Are you worried that you're not going to keep your New Year's resolution to get in shape? Then take some inspiration from our pal Brawn. Look at how much he bulked up, and it only took him 33 years! (Photo courtesy of Spiff-O-Matic and his mega-muscley picture-snapping finger.)

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Photo of the Day / Hallmark Keepsake Starscream Ornament (12/1/2019)

December 01, 2019, 06:19:10 AM

Don't put Starscream too close to Bumblebee on the tree this year. Things are still heated between them after they got into that big argument about politics during Thanksgiving dinner. It'll save everyone a lot of headaches if we just keep them away from each other. (Photo hung by the chimney with care by Spiff-O-Matic.)

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Photo of the Day / Generation 1 Pepsi Optimus Prime (11/1/2019)

November 01, 2019, 05:35:25 AM

Fighting a war for millions of years isn't cheap, so you can't fault Optimus Prime for trying to offset the costs by taking on a sponsor. It's not the most desirable solution, but it could've been worse; Motormaster's tooling around with a big ol' Preparation H ad on his trailer. (Photo provided by Hellscream333 with a generous grant from the ExxonMobil Corporation.)

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Photo of the Day / Titans Return Triggerhappy (10/1/2019)

October 01, 2019, 05:52:47 AM

You know what makes Triggerhappy so awesome? He's the only Transformer who shares his name with a "Weird Al" Yankovic song. Though it really makes you wish that Hasbro didn't cancel his Autobot rival Amish Paradisetron. Those could've been some fun battles. (Photo courtesy of the White & Nerdy Spiff-O-Matic.)

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Help Us Build the Database / 10,000 Product Entries!

September 20, 2019, 03:41:01 PM

It's official! I've entered a whopping 10,000* product records into this fine database. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you have no social life to speak of. Did you just ask what the 10,000th toy is? Oh, you didn't. We'll I'll tell you anyway: it's Super7's NYCC-exclusive Super Cyborg clear purple Megatron!

*not counting duplicate records and canceled toys, of course.

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Photo of the Day / Q-Transformers Ironhide (9/3/2019)

September 03, 2019, 07:39:07 AM

Look at this adorable little Ironhide! He's so precious! Who's a little cutie-bot? Is it you? Is it you? Yes it is! Coochie-coochie-coo! Aww, isn't that cute? He grabbed my finger! Whatcha gonna do with that finger, little guy? Huh? Whatcha gonna OWW! OW-OW-OW-OWWWW! SOMEONE TELL HIM FINGERS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BEND THAT WAY! OWWWWWW!!! (Picture courtesy of Spiff-O-Matic, who's just the cutest little photo submitter, isn't he? Isn't he the cutest OWWW!)

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Photo of the Day / Universe Cosmos, Toyworld Spaceracer, & G1 Cosmos (8/1/2019)

August 01, 2019, 06:51:47 AM

Today we shine a light on one of our favorite converting robot alternate modes: doorbells! Whether letting us know that someone is at our door or helping us trick other people into thinking that someone is at their door, doorbells have played an important role in all our lives. And who hasn't imagined that their humble little announcer-of-visitors is secretly a shapeshifting automaton from another planet? That's why the young and young-at-heart alike all love a good transforming doorbell toy, a source of hours of fun and..... excuse me..... Uh-huh... uh-huh...…... I see..... I've just been informed that these toys of Cosmos, Spaceracer, and Cosmos all turn into UFOs and not doorbells. I've also been advised not to do "Photo of the Day" posts on three hours of sleep. (Picture credit goes to Spiff-O-Matic, whose photos always ring our bell.)

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Photo of the Day / Titans Return Wingspan (7/1/2019)

July 01, 2019, 02:37:51 PM

Can you guess which of the wily Decepticon Clones this is? Is it the ferocious Pounce or is it the deadly Wingspan? Or could it be a third clone that no one knew about before now? Do you dare risk sinking into the depths of madness trying to figure it out? Oh, wait, I put his name up there in the title. That wasn't very bright. Good thing I wasn't offering cash prizes like the last time this happened. (Thanks to the one-of-a-kind Spiff-O-Matic for the photo.)

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Photo of the Day / Unique Toys' Schunk (6/1/2019)

June 01, 2019, 03:00:14 PM

When you're making not-exactly-licensed toys based on other company's characters, you have to get creative with their names. And when a lot of other "third party" toymakers have already made their own versions of a character, you have to get extra-creative. That's probably what led to this itty-bitty not-Hardhead toy being named "Schunck", which I think is supposed to be the sound his head makes when it attaches. I remember it sounding more like "cha-WEEEEEN" in the cartoons, but the fine folks at Unique Toys have probably watched Headmasters more recently than I have. (Tip o' the head - I mean hat to Spiff-O-Matic for the photo.)

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Photo of the Day / Generation 1 Goldbug (5/2/2019)

May 02, 2019, 12:58:01 PM

Goldbug. That name's pretty on-the-nose, huh? Not very imaginative, really. I know it's hard to come up with new names constantly, but "general description" seems über-lazy. It's like naming Optimus Prime "Redtruck", or Mario "Jumpingplumber", or Muscleman "Muscleman" (wait, they did that. Bad example). Well, enough of this, I'm getting hungry. Think I'll make myself a curedpigflesh sandwich. (Photo submitted by Photosubmitter.... I mean Spiff-O-Matic.)

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Photo of the Day / Beast Wars Neo Heinlad (4/1/2019)

April 01, 2019, 08:34:49 AM

Say hello to the Cybertrons' time-telling tanuki! Heinlad ("Heinrad" to his friends) is a pretty neat toy and a pretty neat clock, which you don't see much outside of Kronoform, though I never understood what was with those gray bits between his legs. Lemme google "tanuki" real quick...... Aw, dude! Put some pants on, Heinlad! (Photo courtesy of Hellscream333, who always wears pants. Underwear, on the other hand..)

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Photo of the Day / Beast Wars II Lio Convoy (3/1/2019)

March 01, 2019, 04:27:04 PM

March comes in like a Lio Convoy and goes out like a.... um.... a Ram Man.

........No, it's not a stretch! Rams are adult male lambs.

This must be why no one tries to geekify old adages. (Thanks to Hellscream333 for the photo. You're the CatSCAN's pajamas!)

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Photo of the Day / Reveal the Shield & Generation 1 Windchargers (1/27/2019)

January 27, 2019, 07:14:16 AM

In the spirit of Facebook's "10 Year Challenge" (which is totally an innocent, just-for-fun social media trend and not a surreptitious way to train their facial recognition algorithms on age progression and age recognition at all, I don't know where you got that idea) we present 2010's Reveal the Shield Windcharger with his Generation 1 counterpart from 1984. (Picture props to Spiff-O-Matic, who doesn't look like he's aged a day in the last decade.)

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Photo of the Day / Hallmark Keepsake Optimus Prime Ornament (12/14/2018)

December 14, 2018, 07:50:39 AM

Optimus enjoys the holiday season so much that he insisted that Hallmark sculpt his ornament doing a festive dance. (Good tidings to our resident Snapshot Santa, Spiff-O-Matic, for the pic!)