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...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 24, 2022 | Blog Bots
Everyone who saw the Bumblebee had something to say about that opening sequence on Cybertron, with its cavalcade of cameos of G1 designs filtered through the movie aesthetic. Despite each one only being onscreen for a few moments, there was an immediate demand for...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 17, 2022 | Blog Bots
Forget new stuff, let’s talk about some old stuff. Kingdom? Studio Series? Nah, we’re going back to the year 2010. My first Transformer ever was Generation 2 Hubcap, and because of that, he’s always been my favorite D-list Transformers character. And I realized, going...
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...
