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Will Hasbro move Transformers TV shows away from home video and to a streaming-only model?

With Paramount, Disney, Amazon and Netflix all producing original TV shows on a regular basis and Disney taking the bold move of outsourcing their own DVD and Blu Ray production to Sony, it’s clear that the industry is trying as hard as possible to encourage consumers to move away from home video to streaming. Broadcast television has been changing rapidly over the last decade and an increasing…

Will Hasbro move Transformers TV shows away from home video and to a streaming-only model?

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The Transformers Greatest Battle: Autobots vs Spambots

One of the downsides of running as many websites as we do is getting junk email. We get about 20-30 in a typical day, although this isn’t helped by the fact that our sites have a contact form on them allowing visitors to get in touch easily. One thing we have noticed amongst all of the spam from companies pitching their services to us is that not only do they make use of spambots to crawl the net…

The Transformers Greatest Battle: Autobots vs Spambots

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Auto Assembly Website - Back From Our Hiatus

Regular site visitors will have noticed that things have been fairly quiet here the last couple of weeks. Not only for this website but aross all our projects here at Infinite Frontiers, covering al four of our websites and our YouTube channel. I take a great deal of pride in our output and the fantastic work of all of our hardworking team members, and I try to dedicate as much of my spare time…

Auto Assembly Website - Back From Our Hiatus

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Episode Review: Transformers Prime S01 Ep01 - "Darkness Rising, Part 1"

After the first live action movie, Peter Cullen and Frank Welker made their long-awaited return to Transformers on the small screen in Transformers Prime. Notable for its use of CGI and having a similar visual style to the movies, it had a lot of promise. Opening with an epic five part story to set the scene – a throwback to G1 – many had high hopes. But was “Darkness Rising” going to live up to…

Episode Review: Transformers Prime S01 Ep01 - "Darkness Rising, Part 1"

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Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep22 - "The Low Road"

In a stark contrast from the previous episode, Posession, the first season of Beast Wars continues on a more light hearted note with Episode 22, “The Low Road”… The Low Road – Story Summary Rattrap and Dinobot are outside the Maximal base on an incredibly dangerous mission… clearing an overgrown area of vegetation that could be used by the Predacons as cover when planning an attack. Not impressed…

Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep22 - "The Low Road"

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Auto Assembly 2025 Website Update

Regular visitors to the Auto Assembly website will have noticed that things have been quiet here for the last few months. Usually we have tried to add new content on a regular basis, but real life has got in the way recently so we wanted to bring you all a website update as well as give you a teaser for all our plans for 2025… 2024 – It’s A Wrap! While 2024 has generally been a great year for us…

Auto Assembly 2025 Website Update

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Transformers One: First Watch Reaction

When the first Transformers One trailer came out, I was one of those people who was disappointed. I thought, “this movie isn’t going to be for me.” It looked to me like it was going to be a film made for younger viewers, with lots of slapstick humour not consistent with the tone I was used to with Transformers. I was wrong. After having watched that first trailer, I was contemplating letting…

Transformers One: First Watch Reaction

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Is Transformers One really a flop?

Since its release, Transformers One has struggled to meet its predicted box office takings, leading many to declare the movie to a financial flop. Released on 20th September 2024, it had an opening weekend total of just under $25 million and under $10 million the following week. So do the detractors have a point? An Expensive Outing There have been mixed reports regarding the cost of the movie,…

Is Transformers One really a flop?

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Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep21 - "Possession"

As the first season of Beast Wars approaches its conclusion, we come to one of the first real episodes of the series that builds a strong bridge between the series and G1 – Episode 21, “Possession”… Possession – Story Summary The episode starts off with us seeing a stray spark flying through space. An unusual event in itself as they’re not known for their ability to exist outside of the body, but…

Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep21 - "Possession"

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Transformers: Galactic Trials heads to Consoles and PC October 2024

Outright Games, the leading publisher of family-friendly interactive entertainment, in collaboration with Hasbro, a leading toy and game company, are thrilled to reveal first details of their upcoming video game TRANSFORMERS: Galactic Trials. Developed by 3DClouds and based on the iconic TRANSFORMERS brand, this unique racing adventure game, with rogue-lite elements, will give fans an intense…

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Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep20 - "Dark Voyage"

The end of the first season looms closer as we continue our watch through of the show that made me a fan of Transformers. This time our attention turns to episode 20, Dark Voyage. Dark Voyage – Story Summary Our heroes are out on a mission searching for energon. Rattrap boasts of his skills in mining but while exploring the area that is rich in eneron deposits, Dinobot discovers a large source…

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Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep19 - "Call Of The Wild"

We’re into the final stretch with our look back at the first season of Beast Wars. Episode 19 sees series story editor Bob Forward return to writing duties once more with Call Of The Wild so I was expecting something special… Call Of The Wild – Story Summary Cheetor is having nightmares… He finds himself dreaming about being a wild animal chasing down prey before being surrounded by fire then…

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Game Review: Transformers: Battle To Save The Earth (Commodore 64)

With the size of the franchise today, you’d expect to see Transformers video games released for every major platform on a regular basis. But that wasnt’t always the case. It took a year before the first game was released by Ocean Software for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Another year passed before Activision took over the license and released their Transformers game, this time exclusively…

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Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep18 - "Spider's Game"

Our last couple of Beast Wars reviews looked at the two-parter “The Trigger”, but things are back to normal with our overview of the first season as Episode 18 returns to the single episode format. As you can no doubt guess from the title, “Spider’s Game” is going to focus on the 8-legged Predacons… Spider’s Game – Story Summary What seems to be something of a regualar occurance these days,…

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Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep17 - "The Trigger, Part 2"

I have to be honest and say that I wasn’t particularly impressed with the first episode of this two-part Beast Wars story. Frankly “The Trigger, Part 1” was the first episode of Beast Wars that I didn’t really enjoy and it felt far too much as if the story overall had too much material for a single episode, but not quite enough for a two-parter so extra was written to pad things out. Hopefully,…

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Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep16 - "The Trigger, Part 1"

Once again, we’re diving back into Beast Wars for another episode review. This time our attention turns to the show’s first two-parter since the series opener. So it’s time to check out episode 16 from season one, “The Trigger, Part 1” written by Bob Forward. The Trigger, Part 1 – Synopsis The story starts off in an icy wasteland, where we encounter Tigatron out on patrol. An unexplained tremour…

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Episode Review: Transformers S02 Ep32 - "Kremzeek!"

“Kremzeek!!” I’ve been both looking forward to, and simultaneously dreading writing this one! If you’ve seen this episode before, you probably know what I mean! Megatron creates Kremzeek, his ultimate weapon against the Autobots. Kremzeek is some kind of energy based creature able to penetrate computers and cause chaos. Spoiler alert – he’s really annoying! Megatron drops Kremzeek into Autobot…

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