Something from drafts! I wrote this sometime around April 2019 (alongside last week’s Optimus review), but I seemingly never posted it back in the day. So, let’s bring it out for the first time ever, as an important final capstone to Retro Bot Reviews...
You know, I frequently forget that the Core-class pricepoint (or Cyberverse Commander, or Legends or whatever it’s currently called) originally mean “miniaturized big guys” instead of just small guys. The ones I’ve collected tended to be mini-vehicles, or small guys,...
Originally written April 2019. First, a quick lesson in terminology: In the Transformers collector’s world, “third-party” figures are the colloquial term for unlicensed, unofficial figures. Really, that’s a bit of a misnomer, as true “third-party” product, by...
There’s been a bit of a language drift in the Transformers community for a long time now, where “Third Party” is understood to refer to unlicensed transforming robots, like the one I reviewed last week. However, in its original usage, “Third Party” really means stuff...
Originally written December 2018. IDW’s been in the Transformers comics business since 2005, and spent the years since then developing its own complicated, sprawling universe, until it decided to bring it to an end and reboot the whole thing in 2018. Over its 13 years...
I have a bad habit sometimes, and that bad habit is that when I find a Transformer tooling that I particularly like, I’ll get random redecos of it without much thought. Case and point: Kingdom Tigatron, who I can definitely say is one of the best releases in the...
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