by Fear or Courage | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written September 2019. Reflector’s an odd Decepticon, both in design and history. The original Reflector toy was meant to come out in 1984 with the first series of Transformers, but for whatever reason, was initially cancelled, and would later come out in...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog Bots
No matter how tied into a show or movie a Transformers line is, there’s always those random extra characters that never make the leap from plastic to screen. When I was a kid, I’d often wish the random Transformers figures that filled these lines had made it...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written August 2020. I’ve said this in a few other reviews, but one of my favorite bits of Transformers fiction is IDW’s More than Meets The Eye comics, and its sequel series, Lost Light, an offbeat, comi-tragic tale of the crew of the titular starship Lost...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 5, 2021 | Blog Bots
Last week, I looked at the closest thing that Star Saber, the Autobot commander from Takara’s late-80s Transformers: Victory franchise, had to a modern mainline figure, in the form of his Robot Masters release from the mid-2000s. Later on in Victory, Star Saber...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 2, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written August 2019. It’s always interesting looking at nostalgia that was designed for someone other than me. When the Transformers: Cybertron anime and toyline came out in the mid-2000s, I was out of Transformers (the 2007 movie brought me back in), and...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 28, 2021 | Blog Bots
I talk about Robot Masters a lot in these reviews (like here, here and here), considering its status as an obscure little Takara-only mid-2000s crossover line. But I was way into the line for a while, and it did produce a few interesting figures, including one or two...
