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 So, having finished reviewing my first movie figures for now (though Payload arrived today...) I'm on to the Revenge of the Fallen toys - six months after the event, for sure, but then I doubt anyone comes here for finger-on-the-pulse current events.
This first batch of reviews was going to be themed on the Shanghai battle from the film, but I don't have the screen-accurate Demolishor yet, and am waiting for the release of Flareup (or Elita-1, whichever it is) before reviewing the Arcee bikes - being an enthusiast of the film, they'll all be grouped in a single review titled "Arcee" and with tortured prose as I steadfastly refer to Chromia as "the blue Arcee bike".
So, that leaves us with Optimus Prime, Skids & Mudflap in their ice cream truck form, Sideswipe and Sideways. By sheer fluke, three of these have had signifcant roles in my recent collecting habits - Sideways was a present from my parents, and interested me enough to maybe consider trying out the Revenge of the Fallen range; Sideswipe was then bought the next day to go with him. And Leader Optimus Prime (a beautiful toy) is roughly the point where I went from "Yeh, I'll pick up the ones that catch my eye" to "MUST RECREATE FILM WITH PLASTIC FIGURES". Not that the Twins are unloved - they were a Christmas present from Sar =)
- Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen Optimus Prime review
- Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen Skids & Mudflap review
- Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen Sideswipe review- Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen Sideways review
 Next thing on my list was to tidy up the pages for The Robo Machines as part of my one-man quest to get Fleetway's forgotten comic strip about the European version of Gobots recognised as the classic it was, possibly resulting in simultaneous storming of Bandai and IPC's offices, the forced unretirement of Tom Tully and his reunification with Kim Raymond to finish the thing. It's something to aim for, anyway.
The main thrust of the update is that people kept hotlinking the images (seriously, is Photobucket/Flickr/Picasa/Imageshack too complex for people?), so the files have been moved to Rapidshare. So, that means they can be downloaded fairly easily too. I've had a little bit of fun 'packaging' the two arcs as faux cheapo TPBs utilising only my poor Photoshop skills - indulge me, I'm the one who scanned the thing.
- Gobots - The Robo Machines comic
 I've finished up reviewing the rest of my figures from the first Transformers film - Leader-class Decepticon bruiser Brawl (a.k.a. Devastator), Deluxe-class sidekick Scorponok, videogame tie-ins Longarm and Swindle, and sentient vehicle Landmine. A pretty mixed bunch of figures, but there we go.
Revenge of the Fallen reviews should be commencing soon, and I'm tinkering away at other bits for the site - a mix of more capsule reviews, more Challenge of the Gobots episode pages, a review for Soul of Chogokin Raideen, and some other odds and sods.
- Transformers Movie Brawl toy review
- Transformers Movie Scorponok toy review
- Transformers Movie Longarm toy review- Transformers Movie Swindle toy review- Transformers Movie Landmine toy review
 Megatron is one of those toys where Hasbro are arguably on a hiding to nothing - in the films he's basically a big, spiky robot that turns into a folded up robot, and it would be very difficult to capture the feel of movement in a toy.
The first film's Premium Leader version has a passable go at this difficult task - it's not especially accurate to the flowing CG model, and is quite simplistic for something of this size, but at least it's recognisable as Megatron and interacts fairly well with other toys from the line.
- Transformers Movie Megatron toy review
 Ironhide is probably my favourite toy from the first Transformers film line. It helps that he's one of my favourite characters from the films, but this really is a great toy. It's ingenious, doing a good job of following the complex CGI model without being needlessly complicated. Ironhide looks solid in both modes, and is fun to transform to boot.
The various muddled with versions are inferior for one reason or another, but the basic mould remains sound, and those curious might want to keep an eye out - Revenge of the Fallen Voyagers seem to be reduced in a lot of chains in the UK, and while the grey Ironhide might not look as sharp as the original, presumably the engineering still shines though.
Also this update I've put up what reviews I've done for IDW's Movie-verse comics. The four volumes covered here are probably about as in-depth as coverage is going to get, as they were so dire that reviewing them was actually a bit depressing. This site is mainly meant to be about stuff I like, and while my completist urges mean I'm going to end up with a few figures that aren't so great I'm not mad on the idea of spending time reviewing comics I feel are below contempt. That said, there didn't seem much point in not putting up what I'd done so far.
- Transformers Movie Ironhide toy review
- Transformers Movie comics reviews
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