Originally written August 2020. This barely qualifies as Retro, but the original’s off the internet, and this is relevant content for my next review. Plus, I love this guy, and he was my #1 figure of 2020. We all started somewhere, and with me, Transformers...
How about we take a break from the new stuff, and look at something weird? Robot Masters Sideways is one of my favorite collection oddballs, and there’s three layers of uniqueness going on with him, so I’ll go chronologically. Let’s start with Road Pig, the Decepticon...
Originally written November 2019. Were I making this today, I’d take photos that didn’t make his pinks look like purples. I assure you, there isn’t a speck of violet on him. I certainly have a type when it comes to the odder Transformers, both...
There’s this really specific archetype that shows up in almost every Transformers series, that of the kid-appeal character. They’re always someone who’s some combination of younger, brightly-colored, smaller, faster, associates with the show’s main humans more than...
Originally written January 2020. Shafter is an older, unusual piece, with a bit of history, so let’s get into it. iGear was one of the earliest of the “Third Party” companies, producing unlicensed Transformers figures designed to fill gaps in the official...