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...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 25, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally Written June 2019. Transformers: Siege’s small Micromaster two-packs are continuing the long-running tradition that’s been going on since 2006 of the nostalgia-oriented parts of the Transformers toyline slowly updating every Generation 1 toy ever....
by Fear or Courage | Jun 21, 2021 | Blog Bots
So, how about those Netflix War for Cybertron Trilogy Transformers shows, eh? While they’re certainly an upgrade over the old Prime Wars Trilogy mess, and probably better than a few of the regular Transformers TV shows on production quality alone, they’re really….not...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written April 2019. Siege wave 2 is starting to pop up in Canada, and I’ve managed to nab me a little bit of it. Going forward, my coverage of the line won’t be “every figure,” just “the ones I wanted to get,” and with that, we come to Prowl, the Autobot on...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog Bots
Cyclonus ranks a bit oddly to me in terms of character importance. He’s got clout for appearing in the ‘86 movie, but at the same time, a lot of casual G1 fans likely haven’t seen 90 percent of the media he’s in. See, technically, Cyclonus is a member of that...
