by Fear or Courage | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog Bots
If memory serves me right, in the final years of the 20th century, there was once a website called the Toyark, which had nothing to do with the general toy-news website that’s out there today. It was simply dedicated to a fan (or fans?) taking nice photo galleries of...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 6, 2023 | Blog Bots
I decided about halfway through collecting Kingdom (and eventually Legacy’s) Beast Wars updates that I was going to stick to the characters who actually appeared on the TV show, for space and budget. So releases like Nightprowler here were something I filed away as a...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog Bots
Rise of the Beasts is out in a few months, there’s a fancy new Studio Series 86 Voyager Ironhide, and here I am buying and writing about the previous figure, from the previous movie. To be fair, it took until this month for me to actually see one in stores. Anywho,...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog Bots
I’ve said it a few times before, but it bears repeating: The first round of 1996 Beast Wars Basics really were Transformers of Time. They had a universal spring-loaded autotransform gimmick that didn’t compromise the figure, they were all small-but-not-too-small...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog Bots
You know, I’ve never actually owned a Generation One Seeker tooling of any kind before, despite the fact that Starscream and his many, many repaints and retools get reissued pretty regularly. I do have memories of one of my childhood after-school babysitters having a...