Picked one up a few days ago, and the first thing I noticed was that the cover was different From the sky blueish cover box - the Australian edition has a dark blue cover and an outer clear plastic cover slip with a big autobot symbol on it.

All the gimmicks shown in the youtube review a there and they're pretty cool. The tech specs repro are of sunstreaker, trailbreaker, inferno, wheeljack, smokescreen, the animation cell is nifty, the movie poster is cool too with grittier artwork, the Hot Rod bio is an interesting read as well.

It gives a good overview of the toyline from diaclone to now and has some good pics of prototypes, design drawings etc. (my fave is the pic of the prototype unicron from 1986/7).

It gives a pretty good outline of the transformers story in comics, TV! Big screen and video games (that whacky c64 version brought back memories of frustration!).

The foreword by Peter Cullen and the afterword are nice touches, and there's loads of great artwork from all different continuities and media and was a must buy for me from when I first saw it on bbts a few months ago, but I'm a book person.

This book contained mo than just good pictures and anecdotes for me, it triggered the sensation of being a kid again and reliving the experience watching the TV series, buying the toys reading the comics.

The only downside is that it doesn't go into detail about any one continuity, but there's still heaps of detail in there. I give it 9/10 and don't regret for a second dropping $29 at Target for it.