by Fear or Courage | May 9, 2022 | Blog Bots
For a few months now, I’ve been part of an online book club over at the Transformers Wiki Discord, where we’ve been reading the original Marvel Transformers comics, in both US and UK form. Lately, we’ve hit the point where the comic grappled with some of the oddball...
by Fear or Courage | May 6, 2022 | Blog Bots
This is an unusual one for me, so let’s walk through what the deal is with this set, and why I’m invested in its contents. As I mentioned the last time I did a Non-Bot Review (over here), I’m a Nintendo guy when it comes to video games. I didn’t have much experience...
by Fear or Courage | May 2, 2022 | Blog Bots
In terms of sheer numbers, I think Hot Rod’s the character with the most reviews in my archive. Which makes sense, since they’re my favorite, and often my first choice if a Transformers line does a version of them. Still, after Studio Series 86 Hot Rod pretty much got...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog Bots
I started with the smallest of the Bumblebee Movie Prologue Weirdos, and now it’s time for the biggest one, Soundwave. He managed to spend his limited amount of movie screentime thundering onto the battlefield, talking in his classic modulated voice (though Jon Bailey...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 18, 2022 | Blog Bots
The Prologue Weirdos are coming, the Prologue Wierdos are coming! I don’t think of them as “wierdos” myself, but the circles I run in sometimes call them that. Yes, four years after they were added in last-minute reshoots to the Bumblebee movie, the full cast of...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 11, 2022 | Blog Bots
First, a confession from a Transformers: The Movie superfan: I think the Junkions are my least favorite part of that movie. Maybe their TV-speaking gag didn’t vibe with me (it doesn’t help that the odd vocal processing on their voices makes it impossible to parse a...
