The long-beloved, ultra-expensive Transformers Generations Guidebook is supposed to get a reissue sometime this year, but will it be available in English Stateside or kept merely at outrageous import prices?

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers...ons_(guidebook)

Currently watching

Trans Formers G I
Series II

Also movie 2 - 6 on the big screen as Inown them on DVD.

As for GI -

I like it so far.

I may rewatch Headmasters - Victory to see the full G1 story.

Exactly what technical trickery is needed to take a professional stock photo with no shadows or background save for blank space like the ones Hasbro has done for years with various Transformers figures?

I can't pinpoint an exact method, but based on what I could find on the internet one method seems to be primarily placing an item not so close to the backdrop and use multiple lights to eliminate the shadows? At least that seems to be direction to start with to achieve what I think is what you want. Maybe google stuff like "how to take professional product photos" for starters and experiment a bit. Hope that helps.

Does anybody here own any of the Diaclone reboot figures? I've thought about picking up a couple but I'm not sure which ones. Really, I'd like a Battle Convoy, maybe one other full-sized mech, and then a few smaller ones? The Battle Buffalo is looking pretty nice too, though...

Basically what Sunred said, just keep it far from the backdrop and hit it with light from multiple angles to fill in any shadows.

I don't own any because they're Gucci tier toy robots to me, but if you have the money to get some Battle Convoy seems like an okay purchase. Of course, if you want the Big Daddy of them all you might wanna look into this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1mcIDC_x0

Keep in mind this thing is expensive and is two different products that combine into one iirc.

The Authentics "Bravo" Optimus Primal is appearing at Five-Below for only $5!

Why was Vector Prime's name maintained as such in Galaxy Force when Big Bosses follow the Takara-Tomy trend of Convoy?

There is a serious Star Wars element to this question, but it relates specifically to Transformers to me so I'll ask it here.

In the old EU (Legends continuity as far as Disney is concerned), Tales of the Jedi was released in '93 and tried to tell the story of the time in Star Wars when Jedi and Sith were prolific in comic form. One of the conflicts in that story is literally referred to as "the Beast Wars"!

Hence the main question: Did the creators of the obvious literally rip-off Star Wars, or were they at the very least heavily inspired by it!?

https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/...he_jedi_1993_1

Considering that Star Wars itself is a collage of American and Japanese science fiction from the 60s, it seems to me that if anyone could be plagiarized, it would be them and The Matrix.