Big Transformer Trev's articles and reviews

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Lucky Boy!

Those cards look great

[BigTransformerTrev]

Lucky Boy!

Those cards look great

Yep - been running the blog for 2 1/2 years at the cost of over a grand and it finally scored me $50 worth of freebies from Hasbro


Excerpt from Blog: Finally we seem to be getting some of the Wave 3 figures from the Power of the Primes toyline more widely available on Australian shelves, a long wait for many of us who no longer do our shopping overseas online due to the GST. There is only one Voyager class figure in this wave and it’s a character that had their last Generations toy come out a full 10 years ago – everyone’s favorite firetruck – Inferno.

READ Toy Review - POTP Inferno HERE

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Excerpt from Blog: Scalpers – the bane of collectors everywhere.

Nasty little parasites who eagerly buy up all the figures they can and then flog them for twice the price. Evil pricks without an empathy or remorse.


Now I want to make a distinction here. I don’t consider scalpers people who sell rare old toys for a lot of money. Yes sometimes the prices they ask are ludicrous, but there is no rule saying you have to buy what they are selling. You need food. You need water. You need sleep and shelter. You don’t need action figures.


No, what I consider a scalper is some unscrupulous sod that goes from store to store (and even online) when a new figure is released, buys every single one, then is selling them on eBay half an hour later for twice the price or more. In those cases you are a scalper sod. A prick of the highest level! Because you are stealing the opportunity for others to buy the item fair and square and then making them come to you to buy it at an inflated cost.

READ Scalpers: A-Holes of the Collectors World HERE

[Deonasis]

Look I think we have to hassle scalpers on eBay. We are a small community so we hassle their listing, take their toys and let them know Transformers are not worth fucking with.

We should be all over the Aus ebay sellers. We identify scalpers, we neg them, we dispute them, etc.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Look I think we have to hassle scalpers on eBay. We are a small community so we hassle their listing, take their toys and let them know Transformers are not worth fucking with.

We should be all over the Aus ebay sellers. We identify scalpers, we neg them, we dispute them, etc.

It's very tempting


Excerpt from Blog: Over the past 5 live-action Transformer movies we’ve come to expect certain things. From the humans: wacky, half-psychotic characters and overly-sexualized stereotypes. From the robots: zero characterization and dialogue, overly-complex bodies and fight scenes one has no hope of following. Throw in a few convoluted plots and some smutty humour and badda-bing badda-boom, another TF movie pumped out by Hollywood.

However Transformers 6 – Bumblebee, seems to be something different. Something GOOD!

What a delightful breath of fresh air this movie is! It contains none of the issues listed above, and replaces them with relatable characters, great dialogue and a lot of heart!

READ Movie Review - Bumblebee HERE

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Excerpt from Blog: Today, instead of interviewing our usual Aussie Transformers Fan, we will be interviewing an international one, and someone who could be considered the quintessential expert on all things toys. Today we are in fact interviewing the Jolly Fat Man himself, Santa Claus.

READ Transformers Fan Interview - Santa Claus HERE






And Merry Xmas from Big Angry Trev!

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Excerpt from Blog: The relatively short first season of the Cyberverse cartoon has come to an end, but new toys are still turning up on the shelves. I must admit I am eschewing most of them but when I saw Acid Storm in a local store I couldn’t help but pick him (or is it her?) up. So let’s have a look at the characters first foray outside of the Generation One universe with Cyberverse Warrior Class Acid Storm.

READ Toy Review - Cyberverse: Acid Storm HERE