Regardless of the rising and falling fortunes of modern Transformers, one thing that I love about where we are today is how many d-list nobody characters get to have modern updates, like Road Pig here. Originally released in the final year of Generation 2, the early...
One thing I’ve become wary of in modern Transformers collecting is chasing the dragon of slow, gradual upgrades of classic characters. It’s something, for example, I ranted about at the end of my review of Studio Series 86 Brawn. To be fair, Transformers isn’t as bad...
As I said when I opened my review of the Kingdom Commander version of this character, Rodimus Prime doesn’t get enough respect. After Optimus Prime’s death, the new 1986 Autobot leader had a tough act to follow both in-universe, and in real life, and people weren’t...
Rest in peace, Buzzworthy Bumblebee. You may have become a completely random grab bag of a toyline, where Hasbro just kind of threw whatever figures didn’t have a home into, but some of those figures were really good! Two of them were Origin Bumblebee (reviewed here),...
Another TFCon’s come and gone, and my dragon’s hoard of robots will fuel this blog for a long time. Long enough, in fact, to give me a bit of a backlog panic. But, I figure a good place to go next is one of the at-show exclusives, Clutch, by Fans Hobby. Much like...
Despite first getting into Transformers through Generation 2, I actually didn’t have a lot of figures from the line at the time. So when I see vintage G2 stuff at TFCon, it’s hard to say no, at least until I look at the price tag, or check the quality. In this case,...