In 1986, kids everywhere wept as Optimus Prime, as voiced by the immortal Peter Cullen, seemed to speak his last robotic words. In the first act of The Transformers: The Movie, the heroic Autobot ...

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This week The Transformers: The Movie returns to theaters to mark its 40th anniversary. As the film that defined my childhood possibly more than any other, I wanted to take some time to celebrate this ...

A cartoon made to sell toys put Orson Welles in the credits, killed its main character on screen in front of a theater full of grade schoolers, and to top it off, it lost money doing it! Unicron, the ...

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If you’ve ever stood in your childhood bedroom in your mind and mourned the toys that didn’t make it to adulthood with you, ...

After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.” ...