This Optimus Prime collectible figure stands at the new Core Class scale! The 3.5-inch mini-figure allows fans to collect a mini version of the iconic character to pose out with other Optimus Prime figures at larger scales! (Each sold separately, subject to availability.) Phew. Are we all done with the ’80s now? Can we march on to the acoustic guitar covers and plaid? The Golden Disk’s B-side hits Includes Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: Kingdom Leader Class figure, accessories, Golden Disk card, and instructions.

Transformers Toys Generations War for Cybertron: Earthrise

In Beast Wars, G1 Megatron’s face is reflected in the disk as he’s encoding a message in it while in deep space. Remember when I gushed over Dinobot at the end of my writeup for Earthrise? Well, my gushing was well-founded! I think the folks behind Kingdom also gush a little over Dinobot, and it shows, and so a lot of episode 3 felt very me-targeted. I am the intended audience. In episode 3, as the Autobots and Decepticons wander the forest around where the Allspark is located, it starts to give them each personalized hallucinations. Megatron sees Galvatron. Optimus Prime sees his perished mentor Alpha Trion. Arcee sees Cog (who died in Earthrise). Sideswipe calls out for Sunstreaker, his twin brother who doesn’t appear in this trilogy. Starscream’s hallucination is, of course, his crown and cape from his coronation scene in The Transformers: The Movie. Image: NetflixWhen the Autobots and Decepticons meet up with the Maximals and Predacons on Earth in Kingdom, Beast Megatron has the Golden Disk already. So how does Beast Megatron get the disk? Why, the same way he got it in the original Beast Wars — he stole it. B I was honestly hoping they’d recycle Dinobot’s character model in different colors like 16 times like they did for Cog or the Reflectors or the Seekers, just to give me an excuse to (1) tell you about them at length, and (2) buy up a bunch of Dinobots and customize them into those recolors. But alas, it was not meant to be. BEASTIFY THE BATTLEFIELD: Unleash the primal power of the beasts with the ancient and highly advanced F.O.S.S.I.L. technology. Sentient Fossilizer bots, infused with primordial energy, break apart and weaponize their allies. Use Deluxe Fossilizer figures to beastify this figure with epic bone armor accessories! (Each sold separately, subject to availability.) Includes a Golden Disk card that reveals a possible destiny of a key character. Collect other Kingdom figures to reveal all 3 alternate destiny variants for each character! (Each sold separately. Subject to availability.) Note: the Voyager “Sounds of Earth” Golden Record (known in Transformers circles as the Golden Disk) as seen in Kingdom has some pretty low-res English on it. It should say, y’know, “Sounds of Earth” there, but instead there’s what looks like pixelated Cybertronian letters.

Transformers Toys Generations War for Cybertron: Kingdom

This is wrong! It’s so wrong that even Optimus Prime’s Matrix-less chassis starts throwing a fit and showing him images of the way things were supposed to be. The last chapter of War for Cybertron left viewers wondering how Galvatron obtained the Voyager Golden Record that he was trying to pass off to Megatron. Would you believe … from one of the two Voyager probes? It’s crazy, we know!Well, why is anything important? Because it happened before, OK? When we were five years old. Image: Netflix Beast Wars’ Cheetor was the Maximal’s awkward over-eager teenager. Beast Wars’ Tigatron was an aloof tree-hugging samurai loner.

Kingdom Core Transformers Toys Generations War for Cybertron: Kingdom Core

Ed. note: Spoilers for Transformers: War for Cybertron - Kingdom follow.] One more ’80s hit for the road The original Airazor was the Maximal’s wry kid sister who had a crush on big ol’ sexy Tigatron, not realizing that speaking up about her crush on big ol’ sexy Tigatron is what triggers them both to get suddenly ejected from the series. It’s like slasher film rules, where “sex” = “holding hands” and “getting stabbed by the Scream guy” = “getting abducted offworld by a tentacled alien plant trap.”DISCOVER KINGDOM: Worlds collide when the Maximals and Predacons join the fight, coming together with the Autobots and Decepticons in an epic battle that will alter their destiny forever Includes Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: Kingdom Core Class Optimus Prime figure, 1 accessory, and instructions. GOLDEN DISK CARDS REVEAL POSSIBLE DESTINIES: Includes a Golden Disk card that reveals a possible destiny of a key character. Collect other Kingdom figures to reveal all 3 alternate destiny variants for each character! What I’m saying is that green Cog’s name is obviously Christmas Cog. Spoiler Toys III Photo: David Willis Beast Wars Scorponok was a pretty forgettable also-ran henchman, so it’s honestly no real loss that in Kingdom he’s a generic. The real tragedy is that we never see Scorponok’s little claw pal, Cyberbee! There’s so many Scorponoks and yet zero Cyberbees. It’s a crime. We have “Code of Hero” at home Image: Netflix