abstract:Toys for Bob is a small American video game developer founded in 1989 by Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford. They created Star Control and its sequel Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters in the early 1990s.
One of the Series 1 figures I popped open the base and removed the electronics (an idea I got after speaking to I-Wei Huang of ToysForBob about how his children responded to electronic-less prototypes), effectively removing the toys-to-life aspect of the figure.