by Fear or Courage | Dec 5, 2022 | Blog Bots
Look, this was made specifically for me, ok? I rented Transformers: The Movie compulsively around the turn of the millennium, and pretty much know the whole thing by heart, Hot Rod’s one of my favorite characters ever, my G1 Hot Rod figure (specifically, the 2002...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog Bots
Optimus Primes are dime a dozen, and there’s also dozens of Optimus Primes the size of a few dimes, like this one. There’s something almost primordially appealing to me about miniature desk-toy versions of the big red guy, and I’ve wound up impulse-buying quite a few...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 21, 2022 | Blog Bots
Somewhere along the way, I started getting really invested in the various modern attempts to make a good Generation One Cartoon-Arcee figure, and this is just another link in that chain. I think part of my interest is that it’s a difficult design to render...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog Bots
Flamewar was a super-obscure D-lister of a Decepticon, until she got what used to be called the “Furman bump” (back when Simon Furman was the only writer that did it), where a Transformers writer cherry-picks a random, under-used character to feature in their stories,...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 7, 2022 | Blog Bots
The original Transformers animated series may have ended in 1987, but over in Japan, they kept it going (ignoring the brief fourth season), releasing three full-length anime TV show sequels over the rest of the decade, The Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, and...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog Bots
Previously, on Non-Bot Reviews!!! I’d read a Penguin Classics collection of early Spider-Man comics while on vacation, and liked them enough that it motivated me to buy a small Retro Collection Spider-Man figure based on his earliest, slightly-different appearances in...
