As Bill Cameron told viewers, it was "a toy that starts out say as a spaceship and then turns into a robot." Transformers, of course, were not the only toy in demand that Christmas.

The Robosen Transformers robot toys cost a pretty penny (its Bumblebee G1 Performance toy is one of the cheapest of the line at $399.00), but their quality is truly impressive.

Even better than watching the cartoon were the Transformers toys, which I had a bunch of. These were brilliantly designed and built for the day. You could manually manipulate them to go from their ...

This is not Robosen Robotics’ first Transformers-esque robo-build. The team spent nearly 11 years working on robots with a construction similar to bots that populate the cartoon/toy franchise.

When you think about all-time great toy franchises, Transformers has to be up there. After Hasbro debuted them in the 1980s as a rag-tag conglomeration of various repurposed Japanese robots, they ...

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

Lucky for him (and sometimes not), his beat-up 1970s Chevy Camaro turns out to be an alien robot. The car becomes so animated, insisting that Sam claim it at a used-car lot, that the dealer is ...

The robots were developed jointly by Japanese toy maker Takara Tomy Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and are called Sora-Q. The Sora-Q is about the size and shape of a ...