by Fear or Courage | Dec 6, 2021 | Blog Bots
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten to own most of my Transformers grails. It helps that they tend to be weird niche things, rather than the kind of large, pricey old thing that most people’s grails are. But there’s one that’s evaded me, ever since I...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 3, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written January 2019. Naturally there was going to be a Megatron in Transformers: Siege, considering that it’s dedicated to creating the best-possible figures of the classic group, as they looked on their “last day on Cybertron” before coming to Earth, and...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 29, 2021 | Blog Bots
To properly start this off, let’s go back to my review of Skiff, an unofficial Bumblebee figure created by the now-defunct MAAS Toys. Here’s what I said at the start of that writeup: Back when Transformers: Siege started up, one of the mission statements of the line...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 26, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written May 2020. So, Cyberverse was (and still is) an odd moment in Transformers history. The CGI-animated, ten-minutes-an-episode TV show is actually, in my opinion, one of the best Transformers shows in existence, essentially a wild speedrun through the...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 22, 2021 | Blog Bots
In hindsight, the Walmart-exclusive War for Cybertron Trilogy (aka Netflix) toyline was a weird one. It was created to tie into the streaming TV shows of the same name (which were, themselves, created to promote the main War for Cybertron toyline), and yet the small...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 29, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written June 2020. As I said back in my review of Earthrise Hoist, you really can’t have him without Grapple. The two construction-themed Autobots were paired up frequently in the G1 cartoon, which is still also Grapple’s most prominent fictional appearance...
