Wow, another year has just whizzed past, I've moved house again (lot less space this time) and another set of conventions. This year an amazing set of Botcon reveals, disappointments from SDCC and a couple of bits from TFCon.
The Beast Wars Generations figures have resulted in me watching the cartoon again (though I think I missed a lot the first time round), I've now got putting together a Series 1 cast as one of my collecting aims because Rhinox is so spectacularly spot on that I don't think I have much choice.
I think I turned a corner with my collecting, it's been an expensive year so far with MP Soundwave, Generations Metroplex and the SDCC GI Joe exclusive, not to mention Mastermind Creations Sixshot and plenty of other third party efforts, but I feel I am so close to 'finishing' my collection.
Hasbro pulled out all the stops at Botcon, the icing on the cake was Skids, he could have been a repaint of Universe Ironhide, Generations Jazz or Trailbreaker, but instead he gets his own mold. He completes the 84-86 Autobot cars lineup. To my mind, the Dinobots, Trypticon and Defensor are the only remaining bots who need some attention. A few different third parties have hinted at Dinobots (someone's got to do them eventually), I guess Hasbro might do Trypticon if Metroplex sells particularly well and hopefully FansProject or Maketoys will take a stab at Defensor. I'm not too worried though, it's time for me to appreciate what I do have. I might pick up a G1 Defensor to tide me over.
Marvel Universe is to be replaced with an Avengers line which is fine by me as I can see that retailers do lose interest in lines over time, if something is 'Wave 1' I know I'll find it at retail, any higher than that then it's usually only online. Looks like Fin Fang Foom has been dropped so I think it's time to bite the bullet and get the Legends version on eBay. Apparently 2015 will focus on X-men so already looking forward to that as pretty much all my wants are X-men. Disappointing to have to wait so long for a Bishop though. Still, all the main characters have been produced so from now on it will be picking up the odd figures here and there. Great that we're going to get an Omega Red finally!
