by Fear or Courage | Oct 23, 2023 | Blog Bots
The Walmart-exclusive Toxitron Collection is a wonderful thing (minus the “Walmart-exclusive” bit). As I said when I reviewed the line’s version of Mirage, the idea behind it is that the entire line-up is made up of repainted figures homaging older, canceled toys. And...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 10, 2023 | Blog Bots
Friends, readers, anyone that hasn’t heard of it, let me tell you about Kamen Rider Zero-One. A I mentioned the last time I looked at a Kamen Rider thing, this is a Japanese Tokusatsu superhero franchise, usually focused around a hero or heroes who transform into...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 3, 2023 | Blog Bots
Sometimes, a tooling’s so nice, I grab it twice. Legacy Tarn, reviewed here, outside of being the first mainline figure of the fan-favorite Lost Light character, was also a really good Voyager. But basically every modern Transformer needs at least one repaint and/or...
by Fear or Courage | Sep 25, 2023 | Blog Bots
You know, I don’t consider myself a Third Party guy when it comes to Transformers, I mostly just collect the official figures. But I have realized that I’ve owned, and/or borrowed a figure or two from nearly every major company out there, at this point (not all of...
by Fear or Courage | Sep 18, 2023 | Blog Bots
Something I never see anyone else talk about when they’re discussing the original G1 cartoon is that when it came to the character writing, there was very much a Generic Autobot Personality. For every unique Autobot character, like Jazz or Ironhide or Wheeljack, there...
by Fear or Courage | Sep 11, 2023 | Blog Bots
Time to take a break from robots, and talk about another recent thing I’ve been into: Ultraman. Even if you don’t know much of anything about this long-running Japanese franchise, you’ve probably seen something from it. It’s that show where the giant red and silver...
