by Fear or Courage | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog Bots
The kinds of forces that drive demand for figures in collector-oriented Transformers lines are interesting, and strange to think about. Sometimes, what’s in demand has less to do with what or who a figure is, but instead, the circumstances under which they were (or...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 14, 2022 | Blog Bots
I might be done with Kingdom’s Beast Wars updates, but one more slipped under the wire as an exclusive add-on: Terrorsaur. This is the guy everyone wants from the Golden Disc Collection, the Amazon exclusive Kingdom sub-line that’s mostly random repaints, since he’s a...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog Bots
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...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog Bots
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,...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 4, 2022 | Blog Bots
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...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog Bots
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...
