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It seems like no more than a handful of months are allowed to pass before we are presented with yet another Optimus Prime toy. Be it from a new movie, new cartoon, or the latest video game, there is always an Optimus on the shelf. Not that this situation is a bad situation to be in, being an Optimus Prime fan and all. However, as with all things quantity does not always equal quality... (I'm looking at you, Cyberverse.) Every once in awhile though... A Prime to best all Primes lands on store shelves. Enter Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Optimus Prime. Yeah... That's a lot of words for one toy. Siege Optimus, like all of the other characters in the line, is a very faithful throwback to his original G1 robot mode with a slightly modified Cybertronian vehicle mode. The robot modes are where the Siege line really shines. Everyone is very well articulated and looks exactly like you would expect a G1 character to look. We all know the original G1 toys looke...

In 1986 McDonald's released what might have been the greatest Happy Meal toys ever created. Jim Henson's Muppet Babies . They were just as awesome as the cartoon and twice as fun! :) They were the perfect size to fit into about anything we wanted to play with. They fit in the seats of most G.I. Joe vehicles and yet were small enough to be used as Monopoly pieces. We constructed all sorts of Lego vehicles and houses for them and created endless adventures for them in the backyard. (Yes, children in the 1980's played outside.) They went with us on trips and hide in our pockets to school. Possibly the best toys I even had. Flash forward to 2018, 32 years later. Today I found the first Muppet Baby figures created since the spectacular originals! Of course I had to buy them. :) They are a line of toys based off a new DIsney Junior show that isn't half bad. It's nowhere near as awesome as the original but still very fun to watch. The first wave includes ...