It is time for an all new Vintage Toy of the Month! This month will be a musical medley of Decepticon goodness as we look back at Squawkbox made up of the vicious microcassettes Beastbox and Squawktalk. Before we delve into all the Transformers action, let’s first have some toy talk.

I feel as if I should first make a major confession. I am not a hardcore Transformers fan. As much as I have grown to appreciate and even enjoy collecting some items from the ever evolving Transformers line, it just wasn’t always that way. Growing up I was glamoured by …

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The Transformers Animated line of action figures have been both praised and rejected by fans of the property. On one side, old-school fans of the 80’s original feel that the figures look cheesy and are upset about the choices of weapons such as axe’s and swords over guns and missiles. On the other side, fans of TF Animated find that the great articulation, sculpt and bladed (more kid friendly weapons) are cool and they don’t care about being gung-ho about the originals by liking both versions.

A Toys R Us exclusive, Arcee is the first high quality incarnation of the character. …

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