by Fear or Courage | Jun 5, 2023 | Blog Bots
Rest in peace, IDW’s Transformers license, you made some good comics. One of which was More than Meets the Eye, later retitled Lost Light. Taking place in the uncertain times after the end of the Great War, it starred a Ragtag Group of Misfits (™) led by Hot Rod (now...
by Fear or Courage | May 29, 2023 | Blog Bots
Look, I was a kid in the 90’s, which means, by default, I watched Power Rangers in the heyday of the original series. I liked it, too! Though I’ll say that, having revisited an old episode or two in the years since, it doesn’t hold up nearly as well as the...
by Fear or Courage | May 23, 2023 | Blog Bots
It’s been a long time since I looked at an Ironhide. That’s odd, because he’s a fairly important character in basically every G1-derived story, as a part of Optimus’s little stable of right-hand guys who are also Old Friends, even if Ironhide’s characterization...
by Fear or Courage | May 16, 2023 | Blog Bots
Previously, on Bot Reviews! I took a look at Legacy Skullgrin, who turned out to be a bit of a sleeper hit, and a surprise highlight of the Legacy line for me, because of what an endearing oddball on a conceptual and engineering level he was, on top of just being a...
by Fear or Courage | May 8, 2023 | Blog Bots
Retro Hound’s a figure that I picked up out of the sheer oddness and novelty of its release. But let’s back up. The last time I talked about Hound was way back in 2019, when his Siege figure came out (I sold it, which I regret, but it’s apparently getting a Buzzworthy...