by Fear or Courage | Jun 5, 2023 | Blog Bots
Rest in peace, IDW’s Transformers license, you made some good comics. One of which was More than Meets the Eye, later retitled Lost Light. Taking place in the uncertain times after the end of the Great War, it starred a Ragtag Group of Misfits (™) led by Hot Rod (now...
by Fear or Courage | May 16, 2023 | Blog Bots
Previously, on Bot Reviews! I took a look at Legacy Skullgrin, who turned out to be a bit of a sleeper hit, and a surprise highlight of the Legacy line for me, because of what an endearing oddball on a conceptual and engineering level he was, on top of just being a...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 17, 2023 | Blog Bots
Buzzworthy Bumblebee continues to be a strange, but compelling line of figures, basically a grab bag of extra stuff that doesn’t have a home anywhere else. At least this Creatures Collide set has a Bumblebee in it, unlike a lot of current releases in the line. This is...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog Bots
You know, I’ve never actually owned a Generation One Seeker tooling of any kind before, despite the fact that Starscream and his many, many repaints and retools get reissued pretty regularly. I do have memories of one of my childhood after-school babysitters having a...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog Bots
Skullgrin’s interesting to me, because he’s an actor. He wasn’t supposed to be characterized as one, but being an actor is the one thing he did in his most well-known appearance, so he’s forever an actor to me. So, Skullgrin was a Decepticon Pretender introduced in...
