TF RPMs | Autobot Rachet

Transformers have been universally a favourite brand, because of transforming mass-shifting robots battling out fighting for “Good versus Evil” Hasbro making it so popular that the brand needs to expand trying to capture a different market that they don’t even have a reach. Back in 2009, Transformers was already at its peak with a second film “Revenge of the Fallen” a follow-up to Michael Bay’s blockbuster phenomenon two years earlier that made Transformers explode in mass appeal, and with that, the products need to “go beyond” from just transforming toys into other markets that Hasbro doesn’t, and that’s is where the “Robot Powered Machines” came to be.

Great Toys: Store Sighting Preview

09.21.2012 – Great Toys store is a retail shop that started importing toys not available to retail. The majority of the toys being brought in are not even sold at local retail. The store had a lot of firsts in 2002 as one of the pioneer exhibitors for the original Toy Convention that was held at the conference hall in SM Megamall before its expansion and moving to the main Megatrade Hall. It was founded by Malvin Lim, who is a toy collector turned businessman as being into super robots that also include transformers and various toy brands. Over the years, the business that he started a decade ago also expanded the store locations from North to South there’s a Great Toys store that opened.

Galaxy Force: GC-17 Autovolt!

01.16.2006 – If you haven’t caught up with the ‘Transformers Cybertron’ line this might be a right time to take a look at the list of characters being presented in the series. Most of them are unfamiliar to the classic Generation One versions, but some have something to offer from the old school bots that we know and love. Autovolt (US Name: Crosswise) is one of the latest characters to join the ranks of the Autobots in search of the Cyber keys. In the US English translated series he’s a ‘Monster Hunter’ a protector of the planet Earth and Takara has finally released its Deluxe Class figure introducing this legendary character to the series.

Pepsi + Transformers: Pepsi Convoy!

01.02.2006 – There have been several iterations of Optimus Prime (Known in Japan as ‘Convoy’), but there’s one version that is not part of fiction which is being brought back to be reintroduced in this era. This is one of those licensed collaboration with Pepsi Co. in the US that is getting a reissue. But this time Takara is making Optimus Prime not only have the Pepsi colors they also made an actual trailer to hold either a 500ml drink or two cans of soda just to give you an idea how immensely popular the Autobot Leader as ‘Pepsi Convoy’ and this not even released by Hasbro for the US market.