by Fear or Courage | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog Bots
It’s once again time to prattle on for a bit about how I love Generation 2, the early 90’s iteration of Transformers where I first became a fan, mostly known for a selection of figures with bright, gaudy, garishly neon color schemes. But it was also an era of...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog Bots
Originally written March 2019. This was the first Generations Selects figure released, so I started off with some context. Buckle up, because this is going to be a history lesson. So, from around 2004 to 2016, there used to be this thing called the Transformers...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 6, 2020 | Blog Bots
Regardless of anything else that happened in 2020, it was at least Arcee’s year. The famous Autobot in pink got a new Studio Series figure, a new Cyberverse figure, a really neat third-party figure in the form of Ocular Max’s Azalea Protoform, she’ll have a...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog Bots
While the Bumblebee movie hewed extremely G1 in terms of plot and characters, it did introduce a couple great new faces, and one of them was the evil Decepticon ranger, Shatter. Like I said when I reviewed Shatter’s car-mode Studio Series figure, a lot of the early...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 27, 2020 | Blog Bots
Originally written October 2019 Movie toys are a funny thing, and this doesn’t just go for Transformers. It takes longer to prototype and produce a toy than it does to finish a movie, which can be altered up until the 11th hour instead of locked in far in advance. So...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog Bots
The neat thing about the Studio Series line is that between going on for over ten waves (and counting!) and having a mission statement to specifically plug missing holes in people’s live-action movie collections, we often see a lot of unusual designs finally getting...
