by Fear or Courage | Jul 28, 2024 | Blog Bots
Alright, this is a silly one. But, it’s the exact kind of silly that appeals to my sensibilities. So, Unicron, the planet-eating cosmic horror of the Transformers universe, first appeared in the 1986 animated movie, but didn’t actually get a figure until 2002’s...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 12, 2024 | Blog Bots
Let’s put a simple one out there before I leave for TFCon. Luckily for me, a surprise arrived in the mail, a little bonus included in a package with another figure I was after, so let’s look at this guy. So, Rise of the Beasts. Outside of the Studio Series, it had a...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 28, 2024 | Blog Bots
Time to write a review to justify some impulse purchases! To be fair, though, there’s a reason why they were impulse purchases. So, action figures are getting more and more expensive. Blame the economy, blame cost of materials, whatever, the facts are facts. So, when...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 14, 2024 | Blog Bots
Here’s one I got mostly for the colors, because I love some Synthwave-type future aesthetics. But it being a figure of a good character doesn’t hurt, either. So, Chromia. She started out as a character with outsized importance in the franchise, as one of the few...
by Fear or Courage | May 31, 2024 | Blog Bots
As of this writing, Legacy United Silverbolt seems to be the final Beast Wars update for the foreseeable future, as we don’t have anything official, or leaked, coming up. That’s disappointing, because HasTak’s well over the halfway point of updating every character...
by Fear or Courage | May 15, 2024 | Blog Bots
For a 1984 original, it’s kind of odd that there hasn’t been many updates of Gears over the years. Maybe his grumpy personality turns the designers off. Or maybe it’s the fact that Bob Budiaski seemingly gave that exact same personality (grumpy, complaining whiner) to...
