by Fear or Courage | Mar 1, 2024 | Blog Bots
Blaster’s one of those G1 characters with kind of an odd conceptual history. The idea is that he’s an Autobot rival to Soundwave, between his boombox altmode, and cassete-minion-ejecting feature. But when he was released in the second year of the toyline, he didn’t...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog Bots
So, how about that new Haslab? I’ll admit, despite the evidence mounting up before the reveal, I still found myself shocked that Omega Prime, the combined form of Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus was actually the next crowdfunded super-figure, and...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 15, 2024 | Blog Bots
What a rollercoaster ride the Transformers Retro line’s been so far. To recap, Retro is the latest batch of Wal-Mart exclusive reissues of vintage 80’s Transformers figures (but it’s not the Wal-Mart exclusive Vintage line of reissues from a few years ago. Because...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 11, 2024 | Blog Bots
Sometimes, a Transformers figure has outsized importance compared to the character’s actual role in the stories they come from. This is the case for me with the original 1999 release of Tigerhawk. This Beast Wars character was a fused version of the Maximals Tigatron...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 1, 2024 | Blog Bots
You know, when I looked at Legacy Snarl a couple weeks back, I talked about the downside of slowly releasing the members of a combiner team, but there’s also an upside to it: The fun of slowly assembling the giant robot as the members of the team come to you. That’s...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 22, 2024 | Blog Bots
I started reviewing non-Transformers stuff on this blog by talking about a Figma of Samus Aran, bounty hunter extraordinaire and protagonist of the Metroid video games, so it’s only appropriate that my first Non-Bot entry of the new year is of the latest model. As I...
