After I dropped Eva off at school I ran over to Target to poke around. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had some new Transformers Prime figures (Bumblebee, Wheeljack and Cliffjumper). I picked those up for me and then went to the Dentist.
While at the Dentist I talked with the hygienist about Skylanders. Her fiance, nephew, future Brother-in-law and future father-in-law all play the game. She’s staked out Toys R Us on Tuesdays to get the new figures and has even played once or twice. We exchanged tips and tricks about the game and I’m glad I know the delivery day. I guess I can call the store and see if Skylanders are supposed to be shipped and luckily for me I can be there at TRU at 10am when they open to see if I can find specific figures. We’re pretty much at a complete set (for what has been released minus the special variant stuff) but we are missing Empire of Ice with Slam Bam. I keep looking for that one everywhere. Continue reading Rescue Bots, Fall In→
When Transformers Animated was cancelled I was pretty upset. I thought that was one of the best Transformers cartoons ever and wished that it had continued. There were great callbacks to Transformers Generation One which I grew up on as well as new characters and a fun storyline. Then I saw information about a new Transformers cartoon that would be on the TV network, The Hub. The show would be called Transformers Prime. I saw some of the character designs and they looked like they were from the Transformers live action movies. At least BumbleBee looked very much like his Transformers movie counterpart. I have to admit that I wasn’t that impressed at first there didn’t seem to be much personality there in the design.
So, I was pleasantly surprised, even though I was a bit skeptical going in, when Transformers Prime debuted with a five part miniseries in November of 2010. After that first episode I was completely sold on the series and things just got better from there. I was so wrong about character design and the characters having no personality. This series brought some very emotion filled episodes into the lore of Transformers. The characters look amazing and even the humans are good in the show.
