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This has been sitting in my cart since December and I was really impressed with it This is a huge Book so I took a picture of it and posted it on my Facebook page and my Instagram page and a couple of my followers Asked hey, would you mind doing a review of this book? I've been debating on picking it up So I thought what the hell so I'm going to do a book review Now I am a huge fan of transformers art books I've got quite a few of them one of the first ones I got was back in 2004 with the Transformers ultimate guide nice hardcover book. This was made during the dream wave era of Transformers it kind of goes over the Civil War the arc They got a nice Dysected image of Optimus Prime there the different factions decepticons Dinobots the movie the comics the TV show a really cool book That is actually written by Simon Furman Now I remember buying this book from Amazon and having them ship it to me in Iraq So I I've got a history with this book Next up was the Transformers vault. I found this at a Sam's Club in 2011 so this is really cool. It actually comes in a sleeve Yeah, I thought that was awesome and it kind of gives a breakdown of the Transformers history comics cartoons the toys I Mean everything up until 2011 the end of the book. They're talking about dark of the moon It's got some neat little gimmicks in it like right here It's got a section where you can pull out these tech specs And there's actually a tech spec reader right there So you can kind of relive the glory days of the 80s when you cut out your tech spec and was reading their power So that's a really cool book get that back in its sleeve here Then I've got the Transformers 30th anniversary collection This is from IDW and it pretty much goes over all the different comics over the last 30 years you've got Marvel and this is hard to do you got Marvel comics Actually, there's entire story. So it's like got entire comics in here entire comic arcs. You got Breakdowns. There's some there's some G2 nuts UK or some UK comics in there Dreamwave G2 Really really nice book that leads all the way up to the IDW and animated stories And then lastly my last book purchase was the Transformers Legacy art book and this is my absolute favorite. This book is nothing but generation one box art. I Love this book. This is amazing. It has G1 box art from America, Japan, Europe. You got generation one generation two You got different posters toy. I mean there's characters and art that I have never seen before This is one of those highly highly Recommended books. I absolutely love this one plus the cover is awesome and there's Megatron on the back I display this one in my bookshelf facing out. This is a great book. Now, of course, this leads us on to the Subject of this review the Transformers visual history book now There's two different versions of this book There is this version which is the regular and there is a collector's edition that comes in a sleeve Like the vault book and it comes with some posters and different things, but I really didn't need that I decided just to pick this one up nice heavy book. I mean this thing is Thick you got an image of Optimus Prime from the last night there on the front on the back Megatron from the last night don't know why they picked images from that dumpster fire of a movie, but it is what it is So without further ado, let's go ahead and crack this book open and see if this is a if this holds up To the rest of my collection and welcome to Patriot Prime reviews Now of course we'll start things off by taking a look at the cover Transformers of visual history by Jim Sorensen. Now this image of Optimus Prime is really nice It's raised so it's got like a 3d texture to it The book is almost an inch thick or maybe just over an inch So it's a really thick really heavy book Very nicely made open up the inside. There's a nice space scene Let's see here Transformers visual history. Here's your contents packaging comics animation video games and Movies 407 pages long or just over 407 pages Nice G1 artwork there. So I'm just gonna briefly go through this We'll start off with packaging Packaging of course, let's see. There's a nice breakdown of packaging movie images Here we go. Here's the good stuff generation 1 art I Love G1 box art There's the pretenders bludgeon Micro masters countdown The images the pages are really really glossy. So these images really pop You got generation 1 Japan black Zarek overlord metal Hawk Another great image I actually have a wallet with that image. I guess that's victory. I know that's death. Saras Help me out here Leo Zarek, I don't know Japanese guys bear with me. There's generation 2 Megatron Starscream Beast Wars. Oh, we need a Beast Wars art book Really really cool. I never paid that much attention to Beast Wars package art before Armada Energon Cybertron Cool image of that deluxe Unicron figure. I actually had that. I like that figure Beast Wars 10th anniversary figures I remember when they first announced Megatron and he looked like that what a garbage look All right, there's film packaging really good good artwork. I love this. This is really cool Fan club promotions. Here's that pretender Megatron. I still need to add that guy to my collection Robots in disguise Combiner Wars Starting to get that great package art. We're seeing here lately. I wonder if it's got Earthrise or not Earthrise Siege Actually Don't think about I think at the very beginning of the book Maybe I was wrong. Nope There's siege right there Yeah, that's awesome All right skipping through more packaging power of the primes This looks like the trading cards There's siege if I just kept flipping I wouldn't have to go on back Got the box art Megatron. There's iron hide Star scream Omega Here we have toy designs. These look like gfg one designs power master prime Squawk talk Fangry. It's too bad. Fangry Fangry's toy didn't look like that Here we go into the comics Nice breakdown of the comics and how they came to be Of course the comics started with Marvel comics back in the day Issue number three which I don't see here was my very first introduction to the Transformers. There's Marvel issue one two and four They may not put been able to put in three because of spider-man being on the cover One of my favorite Marvel covers right there the mighty thundering There's some UK art The UK stories were so awesome. I wished IDW would have continued on making their Collections those are actually the covers of the collections that they did put out. They stopped at number five right before target 2006 generation two Dreamwave Love that dream wave art Very G one ish blocky. I actually have big posters of those downstairs in my TV room nice military prime poster right there IDW comic art I'm halfway through the book. I'm gonna try to speed this up a little bit Beast Wars IDW expanded universe Movie covers movie comics. There's animated Covenant of Primus I Had that book and ended up selling it. I just didn't like it as much as I thought I would a Maj art kind of blended artwork. You've got toxic Avenger art King Kong Grimlock is Jurassic Park Always love that image right there Megatron is the killing joke Animation here we go There's old movie artwork faces of Bumblebee sketches I remember seeing that image in a lot of the comic books promoting the VHS series beast machines Beast Wars Tiger Hawk Anime Transformers the movie lots of good stuff in here Japanese Beast Wars 2 Never seen any of that More sketches Animated Transformers Prime. What is that one robots in disguise? That show I didn't like it first, but it grew on me Combiner Wars. Oh, that's nice Very nice artwork in this book Titans return. I love that shot Mistress of the Flame, I think G.I. Joe crossovers always thought the art when Megatron first appeared in the G.I. Joe comics was fantastic And then it went totally to shit There's the Spider-Man comic issue number three. That was my introduction to the Transformers right there Group shots. Here we go into video games Beast War. I mean that was a fighting game concept art The Armada game for PlayStation was awesome. I actually had that one in Iraq That's a great shot right there. It looks like Prime and Galvatron playing some kind of Cybertronian chess. You got all the Marvel Comics Villains or leaders. You got Thunderwings, Scorponaut, Galvatron, Megatron, Bludge and Starscream Beast Wars Megatron maybe That's from Reflector, the G1 Reflector pack in. Here we go into the movies The very first Transformers movie poster Bumblebee versus Barricade. There's your concept art That was the main poster of the movie. I actually had that. It was this huge poster. I had to get rid of it for my shelves more concept art the characters Revenge of the Fallen. So I guess we're going through every movie This is Dark of the Moon Megatron sitting in Abe's Throne. Whoops. Last night Age of Extinction. There's a Cogman It's almost done. It looks like we're going to finish up with Bumblebee There's Jeep Bumblebee. I have to get Jeep Bumblebee when he comes out because I have a Jeep More images of Bumblebee and Shatter and Dropkick and we're ending out with Galvatron and the acknowledgement section And that's pretty much it for the book. We close out on an image of Megatron So there we go. I don't know how this went over as a book review But now you have an idea of what's inside Transformers of visual history So does Transformers of visual history belong in your collection? Absolutely. This is something I could see in every Transformers collection. This is an awesome book It's just a history guide. It's got images from the Transformers since day one. You've got G1, G2, Japanese, European, Beast Wars Animated. I mean everything is in this fantastic art. This is one of those books I could see myself looking through over and over again. I Absolutely love it and I'm so glad I finally pulled the trigger on this Now I'm gonna put a link in the description of this video where to buy this from Amazon comm I'm gonna put a link to this regular version and the collector's edition now What I did was I bought this used from Amazon if you open up the link You'll see at the bottom where it have different prices you could choose from I bought this from a company that advertised it as used Good and the only issue I had with it Right there on the corners, but that is not a deal-breaker for me because I only paid I think about $23 for normal retail. It's about 30. So yeah, I'm gonna put a link to these books and To the Transformers legacy book I think as a G1 fan if you are a G1 fan This one is also a must-have with all that beautiful beautiful G1 box art now guys if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to hit that bell icon To get notified when I upload new videos guys. 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