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...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 25, 2022 | Blog Bots
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...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog Bots
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...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 18, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written September 2018, this was another super-early review of mine, and focuses on a pretty remarkable third-party toyline that, sadly, went kaput before its time, after MAAS Toys, who were involved in their production, folded. So this has retroactively...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 15, 2022 | Blog Bots
Every Transformers show has goons, henchmen, dumb bad guys who exist to get quickly defeated by the heroes. But nobody gooned like Waspinator. This hapless Predacon was at the bottom of the food chain in the Predacon ranks during Beast Wars, and turned being cannon...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 11, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written August 2019. My opinion on this one shifted over time, so stay tuned till the end. Like I said in my review of G2 Arkose, one of my biggest niche collecting pleasures is Transformers figures that call back to Generation 2, the early 90’s iteration...
