In a decade of excess, the toy landscape was also revolutionised. From Zoids to My Little Pony, playtime would never be the ...

Rare Transformers toys are helping children in poverty Hasbro The original Transformers in the 1980s were a huge success, with cartoons, comics and movies all following Author, Jonathan Geddes ...

When it's all said and done, you have a pair of Decepticon Mini-Cassettes, a fully functioning Soundwave with the ability to speak and a working eject button for his cassette minions, a tiny ...

His uncle bought him seven that day. More than two decades later, Yee, 31, has 3,000 pieces in his Transformers collection and his own Web site, Ben’s World of Transformers, www.bwtf.com.

In case you missed the 1980s, Transformers are giant, sentient robots made up of a gazillion moving parts that shift around to turn the big guys into all sorts of things - vehicles, jet planes ...

Could it be, a good 'Transformers' movie? 10 burning questions about 'Bumblebee,' the 1980s-set spinoff trying to right the maligned franchise.

1980s: Hasbro has success with the My Little Pony franchise, introduced in 1982. In 1984, the company launches the Transformers toys, an even larger success.

In 1983, he got the idea for the Transformers — action figures that turn from cars into robots. He brought the idea to Hasbro, which first produced the toys in 1984.

Toy-Fu's work is not as simple as buying up some old toys and selling them. Thousands of the robots have been released over a 40 year span. They range from the diecast metal originals of the 1980s ...

The original Transformers in the 1980s were a huge success, with cartoons, comics and movies all following Jonathan Geddes BBC Scotland News ...