by Fear or Courage | Aug 9, 2021 | Blog Bots
Well, after spending so much time talking about Kingdom, and retro-figures, I’m back at it again with my other fixation: The cast of the Bumblebee movie. As the Studio Series continues to occasionally loop back to it, it continues to mine new figures from that big...
by Fear or Courage | Aug 6, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written December 2019. One of the things I keep banging on about on this blog is how much I liked the Bumblebee movie, how I consider it to be the strongest of the live-action movies, and how I’m looking to scoop up its entire cast in mainline Studio Series...
by Fear or Courage | Aug 2, 2021 | Blog Bots
It feels like Transformers fans grousing about rising prices, and shrinking figures has happened about once a month since, like, 2010. And to be fair, there’s definitely been some awkward transitional points in the franchise where budgets collided in off-putting ways,...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 30, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written February 2019, one of my earliest reviews. Since his appearance in the very first episode of the Generation One cartoon, Shockwave’s always been a quiet figure of mystery. Whether the guardian of Cybertron, an amoral scientist, a beast trainer, or a...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 26, 2021 | Blog Bots
There used to be this thing in Transformers collecting called the “Furman Bump.” It’s what would happen when longtime Transformers scribe Simon Furman would take a minor character, and arbitrarily decide to give them a central role in one of his Transformers comics,...
