by Fear or Courage | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog Bots
I started with the smallest of the Bumblebee Movie Prologue Weirdos, and now it’s time for the biggest one, Soundwave. He managed to spend his limited amount of movie screentime thundering onto the battlefield, talking in his classic modulated voice (though Jon Bailey...
by Fear or Courage | Apr 18, 2022 | Blog Bots
The Prologue Weirdos are coming, the Prologue Wierdos are coming! I don’t think of them as “wierdos” myself, but the circles I run in sometimes call them that. Yes, four years after they were added in last-minute reshoots to the Bumblebee movie, the full cast of...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog Bots
Something from drafts! I wrote this sometime around April 2019 (alongside last week’s Optimus review), but I seemingly never posted it back in the day. So, let’s bring it out for the first time ever, as an important final capstone to Retro Bot Reviews...
by Fear or Courage | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog Bots
You know, I frequently forget that the Core-class pricepoint (or Cyberverse Commander, or Legends or whatever it’s currently called) originally mean “miniaturized big guys” instead of just small guys. The ones I’ve collected tended to be mini-vehicles, or small guys,...
by Fear or Courage | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog Bots
There’s been a bit of a language drift in the Transformers community for a long time now, where “Third Party” is understood to refer to unlicensed transforming robots, like the one I reviewed last week. However, in its original usage, “Third Party” really means stuff...
