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...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 20, 2020 | Blog Bots
Originally published February 2019. If you haven’t yet noticed, I tended to not take as deep a dive on figures as I do these days. Another quintessential original 1984 Transformers cast member, Hound’s a bit of an obscure guy, once you get past his automatic...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog Bots
Here’s a figure from a few years ago that’s suddenly relevant again, thanks to an upcoming re-release. So, Punch is another one of those odd little d-lister Transformers characters that I’ve really become fond of due to his conceptual weirdness. Introduced midway...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 13, 2020 | Blog Bots
Originally written September 2018. Out of all of the Prime Wars Trilogy, 2016-2017’s Titans Return was by far my favorite, striking a good balance of solid, poseable updates of classic characters, mixed in with a gimmick that added to them without being too obtrusive....
by Fear or Courage | Nov 9, 2020 | Blog Bots
One of the design themes of the whole War for Cybertron trilogy has been arming up your figures with extra weapons and gear, through special weapons ports on each larger toy. To that end, the Trilogy’s seen the release of a bunch of different, creative ways of...
