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...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog Bots
I always wanted a full set of Dinobots, but space and prices always kept me from taking the plunge any time a new set of them happened. Sure, those big, fancy Studio Series 86 ones look great, but that’s five Leader-class figures, too much plastic for my blood. But...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 27, 2023 | Blog Bots
You know, I really wanted to like RED Series when it was announced. The idea of a line of nicely poseable, animation accurate action figures of a whole group of Transformers felt like it was right up my alley, especially when that concept was realized as a series that...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 20, 2023 | Blog Bots
Okay, so, Rise of the Beasts is still a while away, but as is typical for a toy line revolving around a movie (and this qualifies for more franchises than Transformers), the merchandise is already starting to hit shelves. Now, like I said back when I reviewed Studio...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog Bots
If memory serves me right, in the final years of the 20th century, there was once a website called the Toyark, which had nothing to do with the general toy-news website that’s out there today. It was simply dedicated to a fan (or fans?) taking nice photo galleries of...
