TFW2005 site updates including podcast releases, photo galleries, customs, wallpapers, and more.
A sealed-envelope toys-in-bags retro special!
You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW – 586 – June 12 2020
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If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a review on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes. We’re now also offering ways to subscribe by Android, Email, and RSS!
In the heat of June, two Canadians reunite to maintain continuity and talk a whole lot about Studio Series Scrapper. NOTE: the entire runtime of the podcast is not 100% about Studio Series Scrapper, and we apologize.
You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW – 585 – June 11 2020
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If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a review on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes. We’re now also offering ways to subscribe by Android, Email, and RSS!
Nobody cares about the contents of a kitchen as much as the podcasters in this episode of a Transformers fan podcast.
You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW – 584 – May 8 2020
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If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a review on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes. We’re now also offering ways to subscribe by Android, Email, and RSS!
ThreeZero is back with another Premium Scale release! This go round is for Bumblebee from the Bumblebee Movie in all his Volkswagen Beetle glory. Their smaller scale DLX figure was a hit last year, striking the perfect balance of movie accuracy and price. The Premium Scale continues in their original larger format series. He stands 14 inches tall, features light up eyes, headlights and gun, has multiple accessories, alternate heads and more. Paint and detailing are top notch, it looks like weathered metal even at the closest distances.
ThreeZero was kind enough to send through an early copy to review. We’ve run him for 110+ shots, which you can see in full here. You can also read on after the break to see some key shots and additional thoughts.
Premium Scale Bumblebee is due to ship in June 2020, a tad delayed due to the Coronavirus issues. Read on to check him out a bit early!
ICYMI: Check out all our 3A / ThreeZero Transformers Galleries here (Premium and Deluxe scales)
We span the chair until Korean transforming robots fell out, and they came with another guest host!
You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW – 583 – May 3 2020
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If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a review on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes. We’re now also offering ways to subscribe by Android, Email, and RSS!
It’s getting hot up in here! Our gallery for the recent release of MP-38+ Burning Convoy is now online! This is a repaint of MP-38 Optimus Primal, done up in clear red plastic with a fully painted head and gold highlights. The color scheme may look odd but it’s a straight reference to exclusive versions of the original toy in Japan, which was done to celebrate Primal’s appearance in the Beast Wars II animated movie from 1998.
Overall the toy is the same as the original. Plastic feels a tad different than original releases, and tolerances are a bit loose. Clear plastic always feels and handles different and this is the same. It is a sharp piece in hand, strikingly weird and glorious at the same time. Beast mode is pretty straight forward, but the robot mode really gets nuts with a non-red fully painted primal head, featuring his trademark battlemask cut out for his lips, which are now blingy gold. That matched other highlights on his hands and feet. There are also some painted red/pinkish areas to break up the all clear plastic.
Fans of the original Burning Convoy will dig this, it has the same vibe. Anyone looking to add some unique flavor to a shelf will welcome him with open arms.
He’s in stock now and shipping from TFSource!
Masterpiece Pre-Orders: Blackarachnia, Optimus Primal, BW Megatron, Dinobot, Cheetor, Shadow Panther, Optimus Primal (Toy Colors), Burning Convoy, Lio Convoy
Read on to check out some quick shots, or hit the full gallery for all 50+ by clicking below.
Steaming pizza blowouts and anthropomorphic nutrition ethics sandwich this Transformers fan podcast!
You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW – 582 – April 13 2020
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If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a review on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes. We’re now also offering ways to subscribe by Android, Email, and RSS!
Today we have a big update for our gallery selection – 7 figures get dropped all in one shot! We have the next rounds of Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise figures – Leader Class Optimus Prime along with Deluxe Cliffjumper, Hoist and Wheeljack. In addition to those, we also have some Siege stragglers which we are just now getting up – Apeface and the Ratbat / Rumble 2 pack (shout to Bulkhead!).
Earthrise continues to impress – the Prime is a work of art and is pretty much a baby Masterpiece. Looks faithful and good in both modes with minimal gaps and kibble. A little more paint or high quality finish would be nice but for 1/10th the price of MP44 you can’t complain. Wheeljack also has some MP engineering inspiration and along with Cliffjumper, Grapple and Hoist, it is a VERY OG G1 looking bunch.
Apeface falls outside my normal focus of Season 1 and 2 cartoon characters. But I had him as a kid and couldn’t resist going nostalgic for a bit. He gets the job done but I still dig the OG jet mode a bit more. Ratbat and Frenzy Rumble are required pick ups for Communications fans of either faction. It took me a bit to track them down but they are here hanging with Soundwave now.
All in all, Earthrise continues the Siege DNA of great toys and tight nostalgia while Siege still has some gems to hunt down if you haven’t yet.
Read on to check out all 7 figures below in our gallery system, 180 shots total. These come courtesy of TFSource – depending on what you are looking for they have some in stock. Grab your preorders for the next waves so you don’t miss out, some heat coming later this year (hopefully)!
WFC Earthrise Releases: Earthrise Pre-Orders, Optimus Prime, Cliffjumper, Hoist, Wheeljack, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Sky Lynx, Scorponok
WTF@TFW gets 100% Toronto as the rotating chair swivels straight into a load of hupla. Featuring absolutely not WTF@TCG! Guest-starring a shallow deep dive into the Studio Series Constructicons!
You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW – 581 – April 10 2020
Check out the WTF@TFW blog here.
If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a review on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes. We’re now also offering ways to subscribe by Android, Email, and RSS!
It is the year… 2005 2020.
To all our readers out there, today is the 20th anniversary of Transformer World 2005! We launched back in the year 2000, around today. We don’t know exactly what day it was done, but we know it was around here so we’ve always celebrated it on 4/20, going back to at least 2005. No, it has nothing to do with that other 4/20 thing :).
So yeah, 20 YEARS! That is a crazy to type, read, say. I am happy we’ve made it this far, it’s been a wild ride. Two decades of my life have revolved around Transformers and this site in some way. I’ve met great friends through it, and it’s changed my life forever. I hope that it’s positively affected you all in some way as well.
Life has been a bit crazy for me here this year, as I assume it has been for everyone given world events, so I didn’t prepare a massive retrospective or any kind of deep article. I just want to say thank you to all the staff – past and present, who help keep this place running. Without the newsies, mods and content guys – this place doesn’t work.
And of course – the fans, some of you have been coming around all 20 years and I salute you. To those that came in during the early 00s revival, the movie era, or yesterday – thanks for stopping by. We hope to be around another 20 so everyone can geek out on their favorite Robots in Disguise together!