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...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 7, 2022 | Blog Bots
As a character, Tigatron kind of had a special aura around him to me, as the first new Beast Warrior to be introduced outside of the show’s premiere. He was born out of a Stasis Pod a little ways into the first season, in a pretty memorable episode (one which I had on...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 4, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written November 2018. I think this was the first time I talked about Hot Rod in my reviews. Last month, Canadian Transformers fans were treated to new, special theatrical screenings of the original 1986 Transformers animated movie, myself included (2022...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog Bots
I don’t know if getting this guy is more or less indulgent than when I got Premium Finish Bumblebee (reviewed here), since at least in this case, the original figure is generally better-liked. To recap, Premium Finish is a new, Takara-exclusive Transformers line...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 28, 2022 | Blog Bots
Originally written March 2019. Since the nostalgic collector’s side of Transformers really kicked into gear back in 2006 (under the name of Transformers Classics), it’s slowly but surely been making modern updates of every single toy in Generation One, the slow part...
