by Fear or Courage | May 2, 2025 | Blog Bots
The thing about making a modern Transformers update of a legacy character is that there has to be some kind of value-add when it comes to making it worthwhile. New figures of G1 characters have it easy, the value-add is always modern articulation, modern durability,...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog Bots
Y’know what we need more of in these times of economic insecurity? Action figures that cost less than ten dollars. That’s what led me to collect the first two waves of Hasbro’s Spider-Man Epic Hero Series figures, which I reviewed last year, over here. To recap, Epic...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 11, 2025 | Blog Bots
It’s been 18 years since the first modern Transformers movie, and the first movie toyline. If there’s one thing that hasn’t changed in all that time, it’s that there’s always a range of strange little gimmick toys to go along with the regular mainline Deluxes and...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 7, 2025 | Blog Bots
The Legacy trilogy has concluded, and we’re onto the next installment of the modern Transformers mainline: Age of the Primes. The big premise of this toyline is that between continuing to make updates of characters from across the franchise’s history, we’re also...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 28, 2025 | Blog Bots
Sometimes, you need to wait for the right repaint to come along before grabbing a figure, like me with this particular Grimlock. Let’s look at a little release timeline, and why I held off until now: It all starts with Studio Series 86 Grimlock, pictured above, who...
