I’ve said it a few times before, but it bears repeating: The first round of 1996 Beast Wars Basics really were Transformers of Time. They had a universal spring-loaded autotransform gimmick that didn’t compromise the figure, they were all small-but-not-too-small...
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...
I’ve always been a fiction-first kind of fan, probably because I was watching Generation 2 reruns before I was ever aware there even were Transformers toys. While I’ve got space in my heart for blank slate characters to impress traits onto (like Lift-Ticket or...
Before I was a fan of anything else, I was a Star Trek fan, and it all started with Star Trek: The Next Generation. It used to come on the TV after I came back from school, and I was a dedicated viewer (along with the other Trek shows eventually, too.) Next Gen...
Time for something a bit more obscure. See, I think one reason that Kingdom Mirage bounced off of me (outside of that figures many, many flaws) was because I had another G1-style Mirage already I was more fond of, in the form of this guy. So, some history. This...
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...
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