The Transformers: Micromaster Windy - 2003

Orange you glad to see her?

Meet Windy, a gal you probably aren't too familiar with. If at all. 

She's niche. A glup shitto among glup shittos... but just look at her! Have you ever seen a face so darling? I didn't think so.

This little lady is originally from the 90's. The one you're staring at now (and are incredibly jealous of, no doubt) is one of two variations released a decade later. 

And, needless to say, I'm obsessed. 

Rarely is there a female figure I don't enjoy, but when a specific toy endears itself to me... it embeds itself into the very fabric of my being.

I'm a mother now.

Hey, Soul Sister

One of the things I love most about the figure is her alt mode.

It's not super often that we get a girl with a unique vehicle form.

Speaking generally, with beast modes as the exception, most are bikes and futuristic cars with a plane thrown in on occasion.

She's a cute and compact train who is easy to transform and really fun to look at.

Genuinely, what's not to love?

This is like a front facing photo of a borzoi...

I'm really excited to add some more 90's and early 2000's figures to my collection. They're such fun surprises of ingenuity!

I wonder who's next...

Palisades Paradron Medic - 2004

Why the long face?

 Twitter won't stop telling me that she looks like Lois Griffin, but I find myself rather enamored by this statue.  

An odd choice for a first review, believe me, I know, but I can't help myself. She's pretty! She's rare! She's mine. 

I still can't get over it. I own one of the 300 total Paradron Medic statues. A collection milestone that absolutely no one cares about but me. 

My hobby is so lonely...

I became so irrevocably in love with this statue once she arrived that I immediately began searching for the original Arcee version. It wasn't fair for them to be apart.

Don't feed them after midnight. They multiply.

And that's just about when my best friend unintentionally realized that my Paradron Medic is missing some wires. 

Wire you looking at me like that?

So much for "no apparent breaks or flaws"...

 but I don't blame the eBay seller at all. I never would have noticed had it not been for the eagle eye of my personal art student.

It was, indeed, not apparent.

One of the things I find most fascinating about this little piece of history really has nothing to do with the statue itself.

It's this stupid picture on the side of the box.

I would say that I wonder who didn't get paid to slap the blue over the original, but this box has a credits section!

Shoutout to Greg Leeuwen and Erika E. Lewis.

They're older than me...

I'd also like to touch on the fact that these statues were created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Transformers. It's almost serendipitous that I acquired them during the 40th.

The franchise has come so incredibly far in the last twenty years. Both in general and in terms of their female characters.

I won't sit here and lie to you and pretend that these statues are the height of feminism or something, but I can appreciate them for what they are. They're pretty little time capsules of a bygone era that we have surpassed and evolved from.

And I will cherish them deeply.

<3