Transformers

Graded tapes are selling for hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars on eBay.

From follow-ups nowhere near as good as the original to unnecessary spinoffs and reboots, these movie franchises have overstayed their welcome with too many sequels.

‘Beast Wars’ fans, it’s your time.

It doesn’t transform, but it can roll out.

The Ecto-1 robot comes with its own proton pack, which is almost too perfect.

The new prequel is a breath of fresh air for the stale series.

Optimus Prime and a handful of Autobots and Decepticons are back in the new trailer for the ‘Transformers’ spinoff.

How far off are we from a Transformers/Power Rangers crossover?

If I had to pick the most egregious example of product placement ever, I would nominate the scene from Transformers: Age of Extinction, when the entire movie stops to examine the wreckage of a crash involving an alien spaceship and a Bud Light truck. The camera pans across a street littered with Bud Light bottles; then Mark Wahlberg picks one up, cracks it open, and takes a healthy swig. And while he’s shilling beer, there’s a second product placement in the background; just over his shoulder, very much in focus, is a giant Goodyear Tires sign.

We currently live in a world where society has stopped blinking incredulously at the mere idea of major film franchises based on the dumb toys you used to play with back in the ‘80s. So, it’s not too surprising that Hasbro is apparently examining the possibility of a big screen ‘GoBots’ revival.