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@mage whelp, if you wanted afresh slate to start picking up TF’s again then this a good spot – the Prime Wars Trilogy (Combiner Wars, Titans Return & Power of the Primes) ended midway  through last year, and HasTak are now in the midst of the first phase of the new  War for Cybertron, Siege. The  deal here is reimagining the classics characters as they would have been on Cybertron before arriving on Earth, so robot modes are incredibly posable & articulated takes on their iconic looks,  with alt-modes that are just the right side of unearthly. The main teritary gimmick is what they are calling Weaponizers – effectively the Targetmaster gimmick with these smaller dudes coming with weapon effects like energy blasts for guns and slashes for swords that can be attached to other characters kit, and the Deluxe-class Cog is an update of Fortress Maximus’s G1 drone that can become a staggering amount of firepower (And in a later wave Metroplex’s sidekick Six-Gun is getting the same treatment…). They also are supersising the idea on the Leader-class figs with a new Ultra Magnus  going back to the classic white robot wearing his trailer trope whilst Shockwave looks like being the best CHUG version of the character, with a serving of crazy gun arms – oh, and Micromasters are back. Happily lots of figs at pleasing price points, and Smyths is already showing them so distribution loks to be better this time around….

Oh, and it looks like the early 00’s Unicron Trilogy is getting some love as repaints/re-moulds with the Cybertron version of Optimus getting a version that looks incredibly promising…