Sometimes, a tooling’s so nice, I grab it twice. Legacy Tarn, reviewed here, outside of being the first mainline figure of the fan-favorite Lost Light character, was also a really good Voyager. But basically every modern Transformer needs at least one repaint and/or...
You know, I don’t consider myself a Third Party guy when it comes to Transformers, I mostly just collect the official figures. But I have realized that I’ve owned, and/or borrowed a figure or two from nearly every major company out there, at this point (not all of...
Something I never see anyone else talk about when they’re discussing the original G1 cartoon is that when it came to the character writing, there was very much a Generic Autobot Personality. For every unique Autobot character, like Jazz or Ironhide or Wheeljack, there...
Time to take a break from robots, and talk about another recent thing I’ve been into: Ultraman. Even if you don’t know much of anything about this long-running Japanese franchise, you’ve probably seen something from it. It’s that show where the giant red and silver...
I may be focusing on the Studio Series side of Rise of the Beasts when it comes to my pickups, but I need to take a moment to point out that the mainline, non-Studio part of the movie’s merchandising is doing some interesting stuff, too. It’s got its own assortment of...
Is a new coat of paint all it takes for me to come around on a figure? Am I just a mark for obscure deep-cuts that appeal to my really specific aesthetic proclivities? That seems to be the entire idea behind the Toxitron Collection, the latest Wal-Mart exclusive batch...