Bot Reviews: Transformers: Robot Masters Sideways

Bot Reviews: Transformers: Robot Masters Sideways

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...
Bot Reviews: Transformers: Kingdom Deluxe Cheetor

Bot Reviews: Transformers: Kingdom Deluxe Cheetor

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...
Retro Bot Reviews: iGear Shafter

Retro Bot Reviews: iGear Shafter

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...