by Fear or Courage | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog Bots
How about we take a break from the new stuff, and look at something weird? Robot Masters Sideways is one of my favorite collection oddballs, and there’s three layers of uniqueness going on with him, so I’ll go chronologically. Let’s start with Road Pig, the Decepticon...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 12, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written November 2019. Were I making this today, I’d take photos that didn’t make his pinks look like purples. I assure you, there isn’t a speck of violet on him. I certainly have a type when it comes to the odder Transformers, both...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 8, 2021 | Blog Bots
There’s this really specific archetype that shows up in almost every Transformers series, that of the kid-appeal character. They’re always someone who’s some combination of younger, brightly-colored, smaller, faster, associates with the show’s main humans more than...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 5, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written January 2020. Shafter is an older, unusual piece, with a bit of history, so let’s get into it. iGear was one of the earliest of the “Third Party” companies, producing unlicensed Transformers figures designed to fill gaps in the official...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog Bots
As far as good-guy Transformers leaders go, Optimus Primal was always a little bit different. It helps that he wasn’t the leader of an entire faction, or even a wartime commander, but just a starship captain peacefully exploring space, with a small crew of Maximals...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written March 2020. Beast Wars, the 90s iteration of the Transformers franchise, has always been celebrated for its excellence. There is a pair of anime spinoffs over in Japan, inspired by that same excellence (and also the need for more content while they...
