by Fear or Courage | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog Bots
Let me take you back to an early time in collecting. Around 2008, after the first of the Michael Bay movies had dropped, Transformers were hotter amongst retro collectors than they’d been for a long time. I’d recently rejoined the hobby, looking for cool things to...
by Fear or Courage | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written September 2020. So, Earthrise, eh? With only three waves, and all of Kingdom leaked in advance, it kind of feels like it came and went. But a lot of it has yet to show up in Canada, and the second and third of the Seekers have only just shown up...
by Fear or Courage | Aug 16, 2021 | Blog Bots
Remember when we first saw the trailer for the Bumblebee movie, and everyone thought this guy was Starscream? To be fair, Blitzwing doesn’t seem to have much of anything in common with the G1 triple changer, outside of both being loud and brutish (which, to be fair,...
by Fear or Courage | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written May 2019. Let me tell you a bit about the first episode of the original Transformers cartoon. The opening third of it was set on Cybertron, before the Transformers came to Earth, so the entire cast instead changed into non-Earthly Cybertronian...
by Fear or Courage | Jul 30, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written February 2019, one of my earliest reviews. Since his appearance in the very first episode of the Generation One cartoon, Shockwave’s always been a quiet figure of mystery. Whether the guardian of Cybertron, an amoral scientist, a beast trainer, or a...
