by Fear or Courage | Aug 5, 2022 | Blog Bots
I’ve gone back and forth over the years about whether Alien or Aliens is the better film, but for the last few, I’ve settled on Alien as my favorite, mostly due to the Ridley Scott of it all (he makes good science-fiction films, and I jive with his aesthetics)....
by Fear or Courage | Aug 1, 2022 | Blog Bots
I always like when I get to take a look at something out of my usual wheelhouse, and this is one of those times. Plus, it comes with a story. BotBots, as a franchise, is an area of Transformers I haven’t really gotten into. It’s a toyline that started way back in...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog Bots
Does Skids even qualify as “obscure” anymore? I feel like he has a reputation as being “the obscure guy,” despite being an early G1 character in a franchise with far deeper cuts. He has a Masterpiece figure now, even! Sure, his original figure was released in...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 18, 2022 | Blog Bots
You know, I’m pretty grateful for the current trend in mainline Transformers of doing a few repacks in every new line, because it gives me a shot at guys I missed, like this one. For those not in the know, a repack is when a Transformers figure is re-released in the...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 4, 2022 | Blog Bots
Kamen Rider’s a more recent interest of mine, something I got into around 2019, when Kamen Rider Zero-One premiered, and advertised itself as a jumping-on point. Since then, I’ve watched a bunch of the shows and movies, and grabbed a little bit of merch to go with it....
by Fear or Courage | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog Bots
It’s pretty normal as a Transformers collector to wind up with a couple different repaints of the current Seeker tooling. You get Starscream, whichever one of Skywarp or Thundercracker is easier to get, maybe a Conehead, maybe one of the wildcard obscurities they like...
