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...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 31, 2022 | Blog Bots
Like most of the Bumblebee Movie entries in the Studio Series, Shockwave had a single-line cameo in the film’s opening sequence, mostly memorable for his voice actor doing a spot-on impression of Corey Burton’s G1 performance. In that brief appearance, he was scaled...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 24, 2022 | Blog Bots
Well, this was something I was surprised to find. This two-pack of Legacy figures was an online Hasbro Pulse exclusive, released as part of their Pulscon livestream “convention.” I was waffling on whether I’d order one for myself, or rather, if I’d keep or cancel the...
