by Fear or Courage | Oct 18, 2021 | Blog Bots
The back half of the second season of Beast Wars was pretty much a murderer’s row of excellence in Transformers storytelling. Truth be told, few of those episodes were surprisingly heavy for 10-year-old me, and “Transmutate” was one of them. The episode introduces the...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 15, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written June 2019. Soundwave’s one of the most familiar faces in Transformers history, one of the original 1984 crew, one of the most iconic villains in the franchise, and known to 80’s kids far and wide as “the one with the cool voice.” Part of the...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 11, 2021 | Blog Bots
I’m always up for a Generation 2 homage, and the main reason for that is that’s where I started with the franchise. Specifically, my first Transformers experience was watching the Generation 2 cartoon every weekday morning before school (after Bonkers and Bobby’s...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 8, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written November 2019. Way back in 1984, the creators of the original Transformers cartoon had a problem: The Decepticons were supposed to start the show as equal or greater in numbers to the Autobots, but the toyline had barely half the amount of villains...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 5, 2021 | Blog Bots
Since the start of Siege (or maybe as early as Titans Return), Transformers Generations has seen a long line of exclusive multipacks made up of a seemingly random grab-bag of characters and concepts. On one hand, I often dig how strange the combinations can be. On the...
