April Fool's Day A lot of people think it's funny to mess up news sites with false reports on and around April 1st. Personally, I don't care for April Fool's pranks (okay, I hate them with a passion), so I will not willingly participate in them. Unfortunately, that also means that I need to reject any first-sighting reports for new stuff that come in too close to April 1st every year. This can suck when it turns out Hasbro's actually releasing product around that time, but there you have it. If you have a sighting around that time for something that has not been reported on before here, hold onto it until the 2nd. If I see something myself during the interdict period, though, I'll still post about it. Site Button Every so often, I'm asked if I have an "official" button or banner that can be used by people who want to link to me. I've made a chopped-down version of the logo up top, click here for a copy you can download and use. For the curious, the word "Transformers" is made with one of Neale Davidson's fonts, and the other words are in the font called Sand. Oh, and while the shape of the logo is roughly that of the Autobot symbol, you'll note that the more you navigate this site, the more the red links become purple...so balance is maintained. Toy Sales Policy I'm not selling my own toys. I'm not a retailer. So don't ask me if you can buy toys from me. And because there's serious money involved these days, I'd rather stay officially neutral and not put up any links to sites that do sell toys (although if you email me asking about my experiences with a particular retailer, I'll tell you). I do have places I prefer to shop, but I don't want to give the appearance of being in the pocket of any retailer. If I do put up links in the news section, it'll be for purposes of pointing out new images or new products.

Similarly, I'm not really in the secondary market...I don't buy or sell old toys, and frankly have no idea what they're worth on the open market or where you'd have a good shot at finding them. I filled my want list years ago, and now really only buy older toys if I stumble across them and think the price is good. Link Policy There's a LOT of good Transformers sites out there. Hundreds, easily. There's no way I'm going to try and keep track of them all. So I'm not going to. My links page is fairly small, and don't try to convince me to add your site if it's not up there (but definitely let me know if I have a dead link to your page!). If you're trying to get some new service (a screen capture archive, a searchable techspec database, whatever) going, I might put a link in the news section for a couple months, and if I think it's a useful site I might then move it to the Links page. However, it should be something significantly new and different, not just a personal art, fanfic or review page. Images Policy This site is intended to be very low on images, mainly because of space limitations on my account. What images I do have, please ask before using. E-Mail Notice If you want to email me a question or some information, make sure your return address is correct. Those with AOL addresses take special note: you may have parental controls set on your account that prevent you from getting email from non-AOL accounts (I guess because unsavory people NEVER use free AOL trial discs), and this does not generate a special error message...so the person trying to reply to your mail just sees that the address is invalid. As an adjunct to this, if you want me to reply to you at an address, mail me from that address. Most mailers will let you set a reply-to in your email so that replies automatically go to another address, in the event you have to email me from an address other than the one you want a reply at. In any case, I've gotten enough "message undeliverable" bounces when replying to people's questions that I've stopped trying to redirect them to the proper address. If you want me to answer your questions, please do me the courtesy of having a valid return address on your email.