The fight between the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons continues in Rhino’s latest Generation One release, “Transformers Season Two Box Set, Part One.”

This is part one because the second season of the original “Transformers” series ran nearly 50 episodes, which would have made for one large and expensive set.

As it is, this is just the next step for “Transformers” fans wanting to get their nostalgia fix. Packed with the first 24 episodes of the second season, this set offers more than the first release did and has some memorable episodes with many new characters, although some of the episodes are really bad. Luckily there are only a few of those, so there is no great loss.

Rhino’s restoration process has been applied to Season Two as it was the first one, and provides decent results. While the episodes’ source material is not great, the video does look decent with a nice clean picture.

The animation comes across crisply, although some episodes do not look as good as the others, which may be mostly due to the production and not the restoration. The sound is nothing spectacular, but good enough for the needs of this set.

After a disappointing set of extras on Rhino’s first season set, I was hoping to see something more satisfying for this one.

Sadly, this is not the case and the extras once again are quite thin and none too interesting.

Included is a documentary about an annual “Transformers” convention, three interviews and a very short mistakes reel. While the documentary and interviews are fairly long, they are boring at times and the interviews really do not focus on a solid subject matter.

They jump around, talking about this and that, without ever really touching on any subject too much, and are therefore uninformative at times.

They are still OK, however, and worth at least a quick viewing to see what is available. What this set needed, though, was a good set of extras relating directly to the series, such as merchandising aspects and other bits and pieces.

And if Rhino had wanted to talk about other series and spin-offs, then more informative featurettes would have been appreciated to cover those, instead of vague mentions in the existing extras.

Despite all that, this set is the second step for a “Transformers” fan. It has many good episodes and makes an excellent companion piece to the Season One set. It certainly could have used some decent extras, but most time will be spent watching and rewatching the episodes anyway, so they are not entirely missed.