Toybox Soapbox

A blog that is not solely Transformers reviews - just mostly.

Thursday, 24 August 2017

WE HAVE MOVED!

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Thank you to everyone who has visited this blog over the years and taken the time to read the articles within, but it is now time to ma...
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Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Review: Titans Return Clones two pack - Cloudraker and Wingspan

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The world must be ending. Surely this can be the only explanation for why the toy gods have finally seen fit to bestow upon us modern upda...
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Sunday, 23 July 2017

Short Controlled Bursts: SDCC 2017 trailer wrap up

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It's the most wonderful time of the year. Nope, not the snowy, selection box eating one - it's SDCC 2017 time. For those of us wh...
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Sunday, 16 July 2017

Review: Titans Return Misfire

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Misfire hails from the late 80's era of Transformers when the franchise took a sharp turn into super futuristic sci-fi. Not that Ali...
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Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Micro Review: Shadow Fisher SF-M03 & SF-M04 upgrade kits for Masterpiece Ironhide and Ratchet

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We can't say as Transformers fans that we don't have companies catering to our many whims. If third parties aren't adjusting ...
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Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Review: Toyworld TW-M08 Wavebreak

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If Optimus Prime is a blockbuster movie, Seaspray is the obscure Argentinian shoe lace making documentary that Mark Kermode tries to conv...
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Wednesday, 5 April 2017

MechFansToys 07 Galvontron review

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​ "Behold - Galvontron". Wait, that's not how it goes.  Third parties are leaning ever closer to Hasbro's trad...
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Perfect Effect PC-15 Legends Super Ginrai upgrade kit review

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Perfect Effect carved out a pretty decent niche as the go to guys for upgrade kits during Combiner Wars and now they've set their...
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Monday, 27 February 2017

Titans Return Broadside Review

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Generation One Broadside is a toy I vividly remember getting and not for a good reason. A rare example of a Transformer purchase where I ...
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Thursday, 16 February 2017

Titans Return Perceptor Review

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Titans Return Perceptor review...sighted In the early 80's Takara released a line of toys called "Micro Change" which was...
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Monday, 6 February 2017

Maketoys MTRM-09 Downbeat review

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Maketoys MTRM-09 Downbeat The Masterpiece Jazz wars were always an inevitability and the only question was - when? Unquestionably o...
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Monday, 23 January 2017

Titans Return Legends Sharkticon Gnaw review

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I am starting to think we've moved into some bizarre alternate timeline. Away from all the political strife and weirdness like Wayn...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Beelzeboss Spiritual Leadership Combiner Wars Optimus Prime upgrade kit review

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Am I seeing things? Is this real? Beelzeboss Spiritual Leadership kit has actually been released...as is sat on my desk? Announced mi...
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Monday, 9 January 2017

Transformers Legends LG-35 Super Ginrai review

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As a self confessed Powermaster Optimus Prime fanboy as soon as Takara announced Legends LG-35 Super Ginrai was coming, it instantly bec...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Nonnef Trivia review, plus a look at Ironhide and Ratchet hip kibble upgrades

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Nonnef productions has cornered the market in piece meal  add on's and upgrades over the last year or so. From combiner feet to hip r...
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Monday, 21 November 2016

Transformers Masterpiece MP-11NT Thrust Review

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Masterpiece Thrust is the boogeyman and he's in your nightmares, Spike A Takara Tomy Mall exclusive, which basically means "bl...
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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Wei Jiang Reaver - Oversized KO Toyworld Shinebug

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Wei Jiang Reaver As a crumpet eating Brit, China can sometimes look like a crazy lawless place. From the outside looking in it appears ...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Transformers UW-08 Unite Warriors Computron review

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Unite Warriors Computron review As a child the one figure I could never convince any unwitting family member to buy me was Scattershot. ...
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Thursday, 13 October 2016

S.N.D Primo Vitalis Combiner Wars Optimus Prime upgrade kit review

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When Don Figueroa decided he wanted to redesign all of the Transformers for IDW's ongoing Transformers series it didn't go well. ...
Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Titans Return Wolfwire & Monxo Review

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Ah 1987. Walk Like an Egyptian, Dirty Dancing, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (UK!), Beverly Hills Cop 2, visible Nike Air bubbles, Predator...
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Friday, 16 September 2016

Generation Toy GT-04 J4ZZ Review

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If you ask most people to name 5 Transformers "the white Porsche one" will usually follow Optimus Prime, Megatron and Starscrea...
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Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Takara Legends LG-21 Hardhead Review

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Titans Return is off and running, focusing on a very specific era of the Transfomers - the 1987 Headmasters. Takara's Transformers Le...
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Thursday, 11 August 2016

Unite Warriors - UW-07 - Bruticus Review

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Unite Warriors Bruticus Review Ever since I was a kid, there was something more alluring about a Decepticon commando group, that was ...
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Monday, 18 July 2016

X-Transbots Ollie V2 early prototype

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It's almost two years since I reviewed Ollie . X-Transbots take on a Masterpiece styled Wheelie, came and went in a hail of critic...
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Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Maketoys City Bot Series MCB03 Pandinus review

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When I first clapped eyes on Maketoys Pandinus, I was thrilled to see a figure not trying to force itself to look a certain way to fit a ...
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