A DEDICATED father with no mechanical training has manufactured the world’s first fan-built Optimus Prime truck. Back in the summer of 2016, Joe Fiduccia worked day and night recreating the giant full ...

It seems that, Highlander style, there can be only one. And this is possibly not the Prime Autobot you were expecting.

Those who grew up watching the original "Transformers" cartoons on TV in the '80s knew Optimus Prime as an alien machine that could turn into a red-and-blue Class 8 flat-nose truck able to pull an ...

2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Transformers: The Movie. Which, on one hand, is terribly depressing for us olds. But on the other hand, it means there are new collectibles in the works designed to ...

Roll out, Autobots! Transformers is in the spotlight this week as Hasbro has brought new figures to New York Comic Con 2025. Comicbook has the exclusive reveal of the comics-inspired Transformers ...

A former architect who got a career boost from Danny Kaye, he wrote for comedies, dramas and animation, where he created a backstory for G.J. Joe. By Aaron Couch, Mike Barnes Ron Friedman, who wrote ...

We’re living in a renaissance for animated films based on toys and comics that manage to both dazzle and dig deeper. The Spider-Verse films and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem recently ...

The Transformers franchise has many iconic characters, featuring heroes and villains that have remained in fans' minds since their introduction. Few fictional characters have inspired more viewers ...

A tall statue has been greeting truck drivers, customers, children, travelers and more at Houston's McCarty Truck Park for the last few months. Children run out of cars to look at it. Truck drivers ...

More video game Transformers-inspired figures are on the way from Hasbro, including another Optimus Prime. In 2015, the game Transformers: Devastation arrived, which features the iconic Autobots ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. It’s important to know this as one of the original mecha designers ...

To make Paramount and Hasbro’s first fully CG-animated Transformers movie, Academy Award-winning director Josh Cooley (“Toy Story 4”) turned to Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects studio ...