What's in your Horror Bags?

I've been jealous of those who got to experience Smith's Horror Bags in the 70's and 80's. I'd love any excuse to indulge in a bag of their delightfully spooky snacks. They might just be flavored and shaped potato crisps, but they're shaped like scary shit and that makes them 100% better! This little commercial for their Bat variety had to be awesome for folks in the UK when it'd air on their TV sets. I'd love to give these out for trick or treat... or just keep them around the house.

Headmaster Horrorcons Run A Scary School

Apeface and Snapdragon. Decepticons, Headmasters, Headmaster Decepticons. I just said what they are three times. If you like what I do, please ... just kidding. Maybe because it's Halloween week I'm trying to do something spooky with every post. Maybe. Also I wanted to share this cool U.K version of their commercial with you.

These two specifically are the Headmaster Horrorcons, which leads me to believe they are in charge of a prestigious school for scary Transformers. I don't specifically know what makes them the Horrorcons and why Mindwipe isn't a member but... they're pretty cool toys non-the-less. If I put dashes in between those words spellcheck doesn't act up.

Transformers Takes Europe & the U.K. at Comic-Con

Hasbro will be showcasing its Transformers and Power Rangers brands along with partner brands Star Wars and Marvel at Paris Comic Con, MCM Comic Con London, Lucca Comics & Games, Manga Barcelona (with German Comic Con Dortmund coming later in December).

Additionally, we will be selling multiple convention items, including figures available for sale first to fans at EU conventions before being available elsewhere around the world.

·         MARVEL LEGENDS 80TH ANNIVERSARY EXCLUSIVE INCREDIBLE HULK and MARVEL LEGENDS SERIES 80TH ANNIVERSARY X-FORCE DEADPOOL Figure 
Available at: Paris Comic Con, MCM Comic Con London, Manga Barcelona

·         STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES LUKE SKYWALKER (SKYWALKER STRIKES) figure
Available At: Paris Comic Con, MCM Comic Con London, Manga Barcelona and German Comic Con Dortmund 

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Can Metroplex beat up the new Decepticons?

Sparkabots and Firecons UK commercial

I love Firecons, love them. Though it dawns upon me, I don't have an original Flamefeather. I have just about every new version of him except the original. I have the G2 Redux Cindersaur, but none of the other G2 Firecons. I need to fix this situation.

Autobot cars 1986 UK commercial

Man, there's just something about that announcer that makes me love this commercial. His voice, accent, and just general 'alright fellows, let's go!' vibe to his delivery that makes this commercial more fun than it already is. As is, it's a basic selling of the 1986 movie Autobot car guys (that look to be in darker colors, but that could just be the video quality). The most noteworthy thing outside of the awesome announcer is the framing, that mirrors G1 packaging. Which is rad.

New Planes!

I'm in the middle of appreciating Cyclonus and Scourge getting such a great commercial and REALLY loving the announcers voice.

JAZZ BAD COMPANY

These were stickers included with a UK issue of Transformers comics. I just want everyone to relish in just how amazingly amazing this sticker sheet is.

Strangers Bots

Watching the new season of Stranger Things this past weekend reminded me of a story in the UK Transformers comics. In the UK comics, time travel would place a Transformer from the current timeline in a limbo dimension while the time traveler would occupy that bots place in the time stream. If this was not followed for whatever reason, it would result in cataclysm. Thanks to Galvatron's constant hijinks in time travel, Skids got stuck in limbo for a few years.

During that time, Skids fell prey to parasites that lived in the dimension. The parasites fed off emotions and soon Skids fell completely under their influence. He imagined them into monsters that terrorized him relentlessly. Which resulted into them becoming reality upon Skids being returned to the real world.

Skids ran from the monsters as they tormented him. His attempts to stop them included trying to trap them in a nuclear power plant (and blow it up) and suicide (they had convinced him he had to die to kill them). Fortunately Springer, Carnivac, and the rest of the Suvivors helped Skids defeat the monsters.

Cybertron's demons

 Cybertron is home to more than just the Transformers. One race of Cybertronian is the Demons, a group of monsters that live underneath the surface of Cybertron that feed upon the life force of Transformers.

City of Fear

I've made the joke before "what doesn't Halloween have to do with Zone Base?", meaning it's all to obvious how horror themes are rampant in Transformers and other similar series. I mean, most of this stuff revolves around a monster of the week. Then you add in the fact that Transformers are robots, and writers get downright morbid. It's like there's a free pass to get as violent as possible.

The point I'm making is that this stuff can be scary, horrifying, and violent without pause. Take the Transformers UK story City of Fear (you can easily find reprints of it physically or digitally, and I recommend you do). In this story, we get a traditional seeming Transformers story start off and evolve into a zombie b movie. It's weird, scary and even has the nerve to use a dead character from a previous story as a zombie and outright does so to intentionally drive the story forward.