by Fear or Courage | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written May 2019. Let me tell you a bit about the first episode of the original Transformers cartoon. The opening third of it was set on Cybertron, before the Transformers came to Earth, so the entire cast instead changed into non-Earthly Cybertronian...
by Fear or Courage | Aug 9, 2021 | Blog Bots
Well, after spending so much time talking about Kingdom, and retro-figures, I’m back at it again with my other fixation: The cast of the Bumblebee movie. As the Studio Series continues to occasionally loop back to it, it continues to mine new figures from that big...
by Fear or Courage | Aug 6, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written December 2019. One of the things I keep banging on about on this blog is how much I liked the Bumblebee movie, how I consider it to be the strongest of the live-action movies, and how I’m looking to scoop up its entire cast in mainline Studio Series...
by Fear or Courage | Aug 2, 2021 | Blog Bots
It feels like Transformers fans grousing about rising prices, and shrinking figures has happened about once a month since, like, 2010. And to be fair, there’s definitely been some awkward transitional points in the franchise where budgets collided in off-putting ways,...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 30, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written February 2019, one of my earliest reviews. Since his appearance in the very first episode of the Generation One cartoon, Shockwave’s always been a quiet figure of mystery. Whether the guardian of Cybertron, an amoral scientist, a beast trainer, or a...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 26, 2021 | Blog Bots
There used to be this thing in Transformers collecting called the “Furman Bump.” It’s what would happen when longtime Transformers scribe Simon Furman would take a minor character, and arbitrarily decide to give them a central role in one of his Transformers comics,...
