by Fear or Courage | Oct 22, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written June 2020. Way back near the beginning of Siege, I took a look at the Soundwave Spy Patrol, an early set of Micromaster figures that were the minions of Soundwave, part of his well-known-since-the-beginning-of-G1 gimmick of having any army of small...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 15, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written June 2019. Soundwave’s one of the most familiar faces in Transformers history, one of the original 1984 crew, one of the most iconic villains in the franchise, and known to 80’s kids far and wide as “the one with the cool voice.” Part of the...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 11, 2021 | Blog Bots
I’m always up for a Generation 2 homage, and the main reason for that is that’s where I started with the franchise. Specifically, my first Transformers experience was watching the Generation 2 cartoon every weekday morning before school (after Bonkers and Bobby’s...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 8, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written November 2019. Way back in 1984, the creators of the original Transformers cartoon had a problem: The Decepticons were supposed to start the show as equal or greater in numbers to the Autobots, but the toyline had barely half the amount of villains...
by Fear or Courage | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written January 2020. Since 2014, every Transformers Generations sub-line has had some kind of fandom vote, to decide on the identity of a figure or figures in the line. This has ranged from creating an entire new character through a series of polls (hello,...