The Transformers Animated: Battle Begins DVD Box Set is AWESOME !

Advantages: Amazing value for money, great DVD and impressive looking Transformers figures !!!
Disadvantages: Hard to find at a reasonable price ... it's become a collectors item (which pushes up the price)

... Transformers Animated: The Battle Begins DVD Boxed Set AWESOME The Transformers Animated: The Battle Begins DVD Boxed Set is brilliant ... not only does it contain the DVD 'The Battle Begins' but it also comes with two fantastic Transformers Animated Figures !!! 'The Battle Begins' is a DVD that introduces the new Transformers Animated series ... a sort of 'Pilot Episode' that sets the scene for the ultimate battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons and the quest for the elusive All Spark !!! It is a great DVD for Transformers fans of all ages and an ideal episode to introduce younger fans to the animated series. However, it is the two Transormers Figures themselves that make this set extra special because they are, infact ,the two greatest Transformers of all time - Optimus Prime and Megatron !!! Also...

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Review of Hasbro Transformers Animated The Battle Begins Pack with DVD

Transformers For Tots !!!

Advantages: A brilliant "child friendly" version of a classic favourite retro toy !!!
Disadvantages: Hasbro seems to have forgotten about Megatron (???)

...which locks the robot down. When the switch has been pressed the friction mechanism is disabled and the toy works like an ordinary toy car and can be pushed along in free wheel mode ... this is a great feature and the Cyber Slammer toy in this mode becomes a great little vehicle for whizzing across the lino !!! ~~~ OPTIMUS PRIME ~~~ The Cyber Slammer I bought for my son was of course Optimus Prime. The heroic leader of the Autobots is perhaps the best known of all the Transformers and the Cyber Slammer version of Optimus Prime is a cute and chunky looking truck ideal for my little boy to play with. When I gave the Cyber Slammer Optimus Prime to him he immediately pointed to the shelf with my own Optimus Prime on it ... which clearly demonstrated that he knew that this wasn't a regular toy vehicle (it also shows that Hasbro have...

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Review of Hasbro Transformers Cyber Slammers - Optimus Prime

A Great Transformation, A Great Anime

Advantages: An easy to watch, compelling and uplifting series
Disadvantages: A lack of action and adventure means it's not for everyone

...Fruits Basket Vol. 1 Intro Fruits Basket is a comedy/drama/romance anime show (Japanese cartoon) aimed at teenage girls. The series is 26 episodes long, split over 3 DVDs. Volume 1, "A Great Transformation", contains episodes 1-8. The DVD features the show in the original Japanese with subtitles, or dubbed in English. Fruits Basket is based upon a manga series (Japanese comic books), also translated into English. The manga series is ongoing (currently around volume 10+ in English). The DVDs cover the first 7 or so mangas. The DVDs start from scratch and there is no need to read the manga to understand the plot. Synopsis Fruits Basket follows the life of optimistic heroine Tohru Honda, a high school girl who lost her only living parent, her mother Kyoko, to a car accident a year before the start of the anime. It...

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Review of Fruits Basket - Vol. 1 - A Great Transformation And (Animated) (Dubbed) (Subtitled) (DVD)

A bee with no sting

Advantages: Transforms automatically
Disadvantages: Arms keep falling off

...With my little boy being a fan of Transformers I've had to become well practiced in the art of transforming his toys from car to robot and back again, there are a few I've still not mastered so I was delighted when he started playing with Transformers Activator toys. Activator Bumblebee is from the new "Transformers Animated" series, which features most of the favourite movie characters, albeit some of them in new forms. Bumblebee is still a vivid yellow and black sports car which turns into a robot, he's well detailed and matches his TV counterpart well, not quite as detailed as the retro or movie toys but more angular in the features, an almost softer version of the Japanese styles. at just under 4 inches tall in robot mode the toy is perfectly sized for my 4 year olds small hands but he has another feature which fits him...

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Review of Hasbro Transformers Animated Activator Bumblebee

Transform and roll out!

Advantages: 2 toys in one
Disadvantages: Plastic design is easily broken

...Over the last year or so my little boy has become quite a fan of Transformers, he's only 4 years old but can already name all the characters and even work out how to change the toys from one form to another. It was for his 4th birthday earlier this year that he asked for some new transformer toys and among the selection he received was Voyager Ratchet from the Transformers movie. Voyager Ratchet is based on the classic transformers idea coming in the form of a vehicle, Ratchet is an American emergency services vehicle in green and red, but able to change into a robot with the help of a clever design that allows you to move around parts of the toy until it is completely "transformed" The toy is suitable for 5 years upwards and while this was too old for Christopher I didn't have the heart to tell his Great Granddad he was too young...

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Review of Hasbro Transformers Voyager - Autobot Ratchet

Bumblebee is an awesome "robot in disguise" !!!

Advantages: Bumblebee looks great as both a vehicle and as a robot. A strong and durable toy.
Disadvantages: Once you get one you may get the collecting bug !!!

...Transformers have been around since I was a kid. I loved them then and I can honestly say that I still love them now !!! When the first Transformers Movie was released a couple of years ago a whole new generation of kids suddenly became interested in the "robots in disguise" from the planet Cybertron. This summer the hype surrounding Transformers continues and the new sequel "Revenge Of The Fallen" has flooded the toy stores with a range of Autobot and Decepticon related merchandise. In my opinion, one of the best ranges of Transformers toys on the market at the moment is the Transformers Animated Series ... a range that I often feel gets overlooked due to the sheer amount of movie tie in toys and merchandise that seem to be flooding the shelves. Transformers Animated toys are excellent. To begin with they have a unique...

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Review of Hasbro Transformers Animated Deluxe Action Figure 2009

Transformers back to DVD!!!

Advantages: good film | its the transformers | great battles | great music | keeps you entertained
Disadvantages: Its getting a bit old

...This review is about The Transformers: The Movie, I will give information about everything about Transformers the Movie, and hopefully some background on the episodes so you know the movie better. So here I go, about to start the review... The Transformers, are these robots that can transform into a vehicle, there are 2 different races, Autobots, and the Decepticons, they are 2 races trying to destroy each other. The Decepticons are the evil ones, and the Autobots are the good ones. It is a robot bruel. There are loads of Transformers, not all of them like to fight, but they must to defend themselves. You have some Transformers that have loads of different uses, like Perceptor (voice of Paul Eiding), who can transform into a telescope. There are loads that can do things like this, but they all have different uses. There is this one...

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Review of Transformers - The Movie (Animated) (DVD)

Transformers- Best film i've seen in years!

Advantages: Brilliant movie, great effects!
Disadvantages: Hardcore fans mightnot appreaciate changes to characters appearances

...have been longer. At no point did I think about how long I'd been in the screen and certainly never wished it would hurry up. The sound track to the film is suitably dramatic and fits well with the modernised take on Transformers, back in the 80's it was all very soft rock and cheesy which would not have fit in with the modern setting of the movie, or with today's society and culture. The only disappointment which comes from the modernisation, as far as music is concerned, is that the classic theme tune is gone as well as the jingle which appeared in between Decepticon and Autobot scenes, I can see though how that would have made the movie too comic book and cartoony which would have defeated the object of creating the movie in live action. There are some interesting references to modern interests and to Hasbro, the maker...

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Review of Transformers - The Movie (Animated) (DVD)

Transformers - Armada - Vols. 1, 2 And 3 (Animated)

Advantages: Old school cartoon
Disadvantages: Not as good as i remember!

...Released on the 23rd of August 2002. The Autobots and the Decepticons are going at it again, but this time the two factions are fighting over little transformers called the Mini-Cons. These Transformers gives there masters a massive power boost either to defend or destroy. And, again this battle is on Earth. If you're a transformers fan, want to live your childhood memories or have a few hours to kill then maybe this is for you! One thing i have found when watching some of these old school cartoons are they are not as good as you remember then when you used to watched them when you were a kid. I ave put this as satisfactory but as i said it may bring back great memories and you'd give it 5 stars!...

sanders0812 25.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Transformers - Armada - Vols. 1, 2 And 3 (Animated) (DVD)

Autobots Transform! FFWO

Advantages: Fast paced, moralsitic, great soundtrack.
Disadvantages: Poorly animated, corny dialogue.

...Transformers - The Movie is the first film my befuddled memory recalls seeing at the cinema. At the tender age of six I remember the excitement of its release. It was greeted with the same furore as Power Rangers was and is probably one of the first children's films and animated series that was devised with marketing in mind. Over the years the franchise transformed itself in several guises and has recently made a comeback. However, my rose tinted mind is tinged with nostalgia and accepts no substitute for the original and of course superior series. More than meets the eye? ***************************** The movie centres on the age-old battle between the Autobots (good) and Decepticons (bad). These robot like beings have waged war on each other for countless millennia and after their home planet "Cybertron" was destroyed...

Shortsharpshock 02.06.2005 · Read review
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