by Fear or Courage | May 16, 2023 | Blog Bots
Previously, on Bot Reviews! I took a look at Legacy Skullgrin, who turned out to be a bit of a sleeper hit, and a surprise highlight of the Legacy line for me, because of what an endearing oddball on a conceptual and engineering level he was, on top of just being a...
by Fear or Courage | May 8, 2023 | Blog Bots
Retro Hound’s a figure that I picked up out of the sheer oddness and novelty of its release. But let’s back up. The last time I talked about Hound was way back in 2019, when his Siege figure came out (I sold it, which I regret, but it’s apparently getting a Buzzworthy...
by Fear or Courage | May 1, 2023 | Blog Bots
The upcoming Studio Series Gamer Edition figures have made me think back to the heady early days of the Aligned continuity, an experiment begun in 2010 or so to create a single unified “ultimate” Transformers continuity, with mixed results. One of the important...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 24, 2023 | Blog Bots
Well, this is a Hasbro-created Transforming Action Figure, so I’m counting this as a normal review, even if it relates to a totally different franchise. So, how ’bout those Dungeons and Dragons? I’d be lying if I said I’ve played much of it, outside of the...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 17, 2023 | Blog Bots
Buzzworthy Bumblebee continues to be a strange, but compelling line of figures, basically a grab bag of extra stuff that doesn’t have a home anywhere else. At least this Creatures Collide set has a Bumblebee in it, unlike a lot of current releases in the line. This is...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 10, 2023 | Blog Bots
Well, time for the next mini-Dinobot, along the road to building Volcanicus. Next up is Slug, or Slag as he was known until recently. In a team of Dinobots that tended to have homogeneous personalities, Slag was specifically “the violent one,” which makes his new...
