by Fear or Courage | Jul 5, 2021 | Blog Bots
Last week, I looked at the closest thing that Star Saber, the Autobot commander from Takara’s late-80s Transformers: Victory franchise, had to a modern mainline figure, in the form of his Robot Masters release from the mid-2000s. Later on in Victory, Star Saber...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 2, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written August 2019. It’s always interesting looking at nostalgia that was designed for someone other than me. When the Transformers: Cybertron anime and toyline came out in the mid-2000s, I was out of Transformers (the 2007 movie brought me back in), and...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 28, 2021 | Blog Bots
I talk about Robot Masters a lot in these reviews (like here, here and here), considering its status as an obscure little Takara-only mid-2000s crossover line. But I was way into the line for a while, and it did produce a few interesting figures, including one or two...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 25, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally Written June 2019. Transformers: Siege’s small Micromaster two-packs are continuing the long-running tradition that’s been going on since 2006 of the nostalgia-oriented parts of the Transformers toyline slowly updating every Generation 1 toy ever....
by Fear or Courage | Jun 21, 2021 | Blog Bots
So, how about those Netflix War for Cybertron Trilogy Transformers shows, eh? While they’re certainly an upgrade over the old Prime Wars Trilogy mess, and probably better than a few of the regular Transformers TV shows on production quality alone, they’re really….not...
