In this installment of milking the mold, Hasbro has revealed the Transformers Studio Series Energon Universe Optimus Prime transforming action figure. You are not seeing things. It looks like the much-lauded Transformers Studio Series Commander Class The Transformers: The Movie 86-31 Optimus Prime has been given a retool to become […]
We all know Monster High, Mattel’s goth-glam juggernaut—a fashion doll franchise that fused horror tropes with high school drama, is heavy on, well, goth and horror. This makes it the perfect canvas for creepy characters like M3GAN and the Young-Hee Doll. But let me tell you this: the latest Monster […]
Monopoly has a kind of complicated beginning. Not in a bad way, btw. It was invented and then patented in the United States, but the widely known version, a.k.a. the iconic version, was the London Edition. By “widely known,” I do mean outside of America, cos America has its own […]
You know how some bicycles are just, well, bicycles? You buy it, you ride it, and that’s the end of the story. Yamaha Motor clearly didn’t get that memo. Enter the Y-00B: Base, a concept eBike that’s basically a blank canvas on two wheels. Instead of locking you into one […]
All this while, I have the impression that a hydrogen-powered vehicle has to be at least car-size to be feasible, or at least chunky like the Kawasaki Ninja HYSE. But nope. It does not. Enter the Yamaha Motor H2 Buddy Porter Concept, a two-wheeled oddball that makes “hydrogen on a […]
Honda is already pushing its first-ever electric motorcycle out of the garage, but Yamaha ain’t rushing. It appears to be deliberately calibrating its entry into the electric motorcycle space—less of a sprint, more of a precision climb. But it is not far away because it has this: Proto BEV, a […]
The Yamaha TRICERA three-wheel open-top electric autocycle we saw two years ago is no longer a concept. It is now a prototype, referred to as TRICERA Proto (stylized as “proto”), and it will make its first appearance at this year’s edition of the Japan Mobility Show, along with the MOTOROiD:Λ, and […]