by Fear or Courage | Jan 14, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written April 2020, this is an especially interesting figure to go back and look at in a post Studio Series 86 Hot Rod world. By now, you all know I love me some Hot Rod. I’m pretty sure it dates back to repeatedly renting the original animated Transformers...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 10, 2022 | Blog Bots
I know myself well enough to say that I’m pretty easily pleased by most Transformers, and I’m not as critical as I could be. Still, this is one situation where I know I’m being very odd, in that I liked a figure a big chunk of the fandom specifically does not, and I...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 7, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written March 2019. For the next part of my look at the first series of Transformers: Siege, I’ll talk about the smallest, simplest figures in the line, Battlemasters. These are basically reworked Targetmasters, an idea from the fourth year of the...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 3, 2022 | Blog Bots
Y’know, regardless of anything else on the planet, Transformers has been getting better and better every year. 2021 was a big year in this hobby for me, what with Kingdom coming out, and a few other longtime grails of mine coming into existence. On this site, it’s...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 31, 2021 | Blog Bots
One of the biggest reasons for the Beast Wars TV show’s success was its rich cast of well-developed characters. And then there was Scorponok. On paper, he seemingly had a lot going for him: He was second-in-command of the Predacons, a fanatical loyalist to Megatron,...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 24, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written September 2019 I really liked the Bumblebee movie, and consider it to be the best of the live-action films, so it’s odd I haven’t talked much about the merchandise from it on here. That’s mostly because it’s hard to find much of the...