by Fear or Courage | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog Bots
The year was 1991, and the Transformers franchise, despite being dead in the West, was still chugging along in Japan (and Europe). That year, Takara’s Transformers line was called Transformers: Return of Convoy, and centered around the resurrection of Optimus Prime,...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 8, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written December 2019. In 1991, Transformers may have been dead in the US, but it still had some life left in Japan. That year’s toyline was called Transformers: Return of Convoy, and aesthetically, was quite different from the classic Transformers we know....
by Fear or Courage | Jan 4, 2021 | Blog Bots
2020 was quite the year, to put it mildly, and I will put it mildly, since, while it’s true, you’re probably tired of hearing it. I know I am. That being said, (and there was a LOT unsaid there), it was a very good year for Transformers, at least. These days...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 28, 2020 | Blog Bots
If there’s one thing that’s consistent across all Transformers media, it’s that every show or movie has its lovers and its haters. Case and point: Transformers: Prime, the 2010-2013 CGI-animated TV show. This lavish, high-budget production has its critics, but...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 21, 2020 | Blog Bots
You know, I didn’t intend to make Bot Reviews into an all-Studio-Series-Bumblebee-figures, all-the-time blog, but it just so happens that a bunch of it reached my neck of the woods at the same time, and it’s something I’d like to go completist on. I collect other...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog Bots
Originally written February 2020. Back when Transformers: Siege started up, one of the mission statements of the line was to replicate some of the Cybertronian forms seen in the very first episode of the original cartoon. However, despite the fact that we only saw a...
