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...
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....
