Saturday, April 19, 2025

Review: 75254 AT-ST Raider

If you did a cursory glance at the LEGO Star Wars catalog, you'd think that the only thing that LEGO made in the line...

Nick’s 2022 in Review – Streaming, Games, LEGO Sets, and All the Other Stuff

It's the in vogue thing to do to remember the year before it ends, but we're not the most punctual here at FBTB, or...

Review: 75104 Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle

The first wave of LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens sets were kind of odd in the fact that the two most expensive in...

Review: 75101 First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter

My love of TIE fighters (and Ewoks) is well documented. I've owned every version of the ship, minis, Chibis, and the like included, back...

The Mandalorian S1:E2 Chapter 2 “The Child” Episode Recap

So I was wrong about the episode titles just being plain Jane "Chapter n". Episode 2 of The Mandalorian has a title, "The Child"....

Review: 75099 Rey’s Speeder

When the Force Awakens trailer first launched, and after I'd watched it a few dozen times in a glorious mix of trepidation and fanboy...

Review: Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens

Life can be a funny thing, sometimes. I started writing this review December 18th, 2015, after I'd slept through a midnight showing of Force...

Top 10 Reasons Why I HATED Rise of Skywalker

I hated Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalker. How much did I hate it? Let me count the ways with a Top 10...

The Mandalorian S1:E1 Chapter 1 Episode Recap

Ever since the first trailer dropped for The Mandalorian, I, like many like-minded, jaded, burned out 40-somethings, couldn't wait for this show to start....

Review: 75103 First Order Transporter

I'm not sure there's ever been a more "wait, what?" moment in seeing a set than when we first saw the second largest First...