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...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 25, 2021 | Blog Bots
As I said when I reviewed the last set in this little Amazon-exclusive series, these Battle Across Time multipacks are continuing the modern Transformers Trend of boxsets full of such a strangely diverse grab-bag of figures, that it’s hard to find a set where you’re...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 22, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written June 2020. Way back near the beginning of Siege, I took a look at the Soundwave Spy Patrol, an early set of Micromaster figures that were the minions of Soundwave, part of his well-known-since-the-beginning-of-G1 gimmick of having any army of small...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 18, 2021 | Blog Bots
The back half of the second season of Beast Wars was pretty much a murderer’s row of excellence in Transformers storytelling. Truth be told, few of those episodes were surprisingly heavy for 10-year-old me, and “Transmutate” was one of them. The episode introduces the...
