by Fear or Courage | Mar 4, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written April 2019. First, a quick lesson in terminology: In the Transformers collector’s world, “third-party” figures are the colloquial term for unlicensed, unofficial figures. Really, that’s a bit of a misnomer, as true “third-party” product, by...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog Bots
There’s been a bit of a language drift in the Transformers community for a long time now, where “Third Party” is understood to refer to unlicensed transforming robots, like the one I reviewed last week. However, in its original usage, “Third Party” really means stuff...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 25, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written December 2018. IDW’s been in the Transformers comics business since 2005, and spent the years since then developing its own complicated, sprawling universe, until it decided to bring it to an end and reboot the whole thing in 2018. Over its 13 years...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog Bots
I have a bad habit sometimes, and that bad habit is that when I find a Transformer tooling that I particularly like, I’ll get random redecos of it without much thought. Case and point: Kingdom Tigatron, who I can definitely say is one of the best releases in the...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 18, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written September 2018, this was another super-early review of mine, and focuses on a pretty remarkable third-party toyline that, sadly, went kaput before its time, after MAAS Toys, who were involved in their production, folded. So this has retroactively...
