In previous years I've done my most wanted figures, I think it's at the stage now where it's a bit simpler.
There are a few characters I want/need a toy of, Marvel Universe Bishop and Classics/Generations Dinobots. They are the toys that when I look at my collection are missing. Planet X have hinted at a Sludge being their next toy, so we're getting there. I'd be fairly surprised if Hasbro didn't address the issue post AOE and DoFP.
Then there's a few toys which I'm not really that fussed about the characters, but they fill a gap. Inevitably most teams in comic books have a couple of top tier characters, and then a couple who are more filler characters. Defensor fits into this definition for me, the least interesting scramble city combiner, but the only one we don't have yet. Marvel Universe wise, Pyro and Avalanche. The brotherhood needs them!
Then there's a couple of characters who are a bit more out there, awesome characters, but are a bit more stand alone. Trypticon; if Hasbro created one in scale with Metroplex that would be great. One roughly the same size as G1 would also be fine though, perhaps a bit more WfC styled. For Marvel, I think Dracula and Odin would be amazing. (Odin needs to have a similar build to the Hercules mold.)
There are also toys which I'm happy to wait for, I'm in no rush with Masterpiece, but characters like Sunstreaker would be great, with Kabaya, a Scorponok would be cool. I'm sure eventually the 3.75" Batman, Mortal Kombat and Streetfighter lines will pick up again, and I'm sure we'll eventually get some decent classic Thundercats figures.
Finally, there are characters who have been hinted at, Sasquatch and Wendigo in Marvel Universe, presumably if they've started the design then it would be wasteful not to use them. The X-men line next year perhaps. Perfect Effect have suggested a Scorponok (which if it goes with Fort Max would be great). Mastermind Creations have hinted at an Overlord. TFC are doing a Defensor, though I don't think that's gonna work for me. Machine Boy (who!?) are doing a Sky Lynx. Xovergen are doing a God Bomber to finish God Ginrai.
Yep, it's an exciting time to be collecting, and I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff I'll be tempted by in the future!
Friday, February 28, 2014
Toy Fair Extinction
Transformers: Age of Extinction, okay, first film I wasn't expecting much, pleasantly surprised, second film, extremely hopeful, disappointed, third film, again not expecting much, but quite good. Fourth film, okay............. I'm quite looking forward to it. The Superbowl trailer looks pretty much what you'd expect, Grimlock looks cool, I'm hopeful once again. Please have a vaguely coherent plot, don't waste the Dinobots like Devastator was wasted in the second film and I'll be happy.
At the Wonder Festival in Japan a Megatron Mega Drive was shown, looks good to me. I realise that Transformers are eventually doing crossovers with most of my other collections (Lego and 3.75" scaled stuff, and now video games).
The New York Toy Fair; some pretty exciting stuff although nothing too crazy, Generations Leader Jetfire was leaked a few days before, but properly shown at the fair. Looks amazing, but I currently display my Voyager Jetfire with small deluxe FOC Shockwave. I have Shockwave in a flight stand so he's vaguely the same height, that just wouldn't work with a leader. Of course, if they decide to give Shockwave the Voyager he deserves then that could change. In addition, I feel quite sentimental about Voyager Jetfire as I actually bought him in person, so I'm thinking I'll pass at the moment (I have a rule to only own one version of each character), but I'm open to having my mind changed!
I'm all aboard for a set of movie Dinobots, they're slightly funny colours (in the trailer they just look metallic), but look like decent molds, especially Grimlock.
Roadbuster who was hinted at in the Hasbro website leak was confirmed and shown and all good, I'm pretty happy with the deluxe Roadbuster, but it'll be good to have a figure that scales well with the new Whirl.
Nightbeat was shown as a repaint of Generations Bumblebee rather than Jazz, suits me, especially as I don't have that mold. So, nothing too crazy in the Transformers news, but some solid looking toys which I can look forward to. One surprising thing which was revealed which I'm quite excited about is Loyal Subjects vinyl Slag and Snarl, Slag was shown previously but Snarl is exciting. (I've just opened the Grimlock which I think is pretty neat piece of 'hipster trash'!) I'm also up for the Potato Head Grimlock figures, available in both robot and dino mode! Poor Sludge continues to be the most ignored character of G1 though, no reissue and absolutely no homage whatsoever. I think the Justitoys WST Sludge is about the only love he's had.
The legends figures were also shown, Swerve and Gears, plus Tailgate confirmed. Look good (and pre-orders have just gone up at BBTS to ward off any fears of them not actually turning up at retail). Cliffjumper was also mentioned, if he gets a bit of a remold I could be tempted.
Good to see a teaser silhouette of MP Bumblebee, looks like I'd expect and looks to be a VW! Also an interesting comment from Shago Hasui that getting licensed cars is easier due to Takara's merger with Tomy. Hopeful for Jazz and Ironhide (Porsche and Nissan) in the future!
On the Marvel 3.75", equally nothing too unexpected due to an early sneak preview of the Legends Guardians of the Galaxy figures. I'm all up for the BAF Groot, will be pretty expensive for one figure though. Deathlok, Ares and Whirlwind were the only figures that were completely unexpected, but good to see ionic Wonderman, Red She-Hulk and Death's Head. I'm still sticking to my rule that I'll only display characters that have appeared in some sort of media that I've seen or read, so three of those six will go straight into storage, but I've learnt from bitter experience that there's not point passing on anything as there's a really good chance those characters will turn up in something soon. Especially Red She-Hulk, as I reckon she'll turn up in Agents of Smash at some point.
This month I have pre-ordered Perfect Effect's Fort Max, looks pretty amazing from the photos so am looking forward to getting that. Also looking forward to seeing their Scorponok which they've hinted at. I bought the new Lego Batmobile in store which is a pretty nice build. I think sitting on the sofa in Winter with a hot drink, watching Top Gear and building some Lego is about as relaxing as it gets! I think I may have found my happy place. The Batman minifig works really nicely, a good fusion of an iconic toy and an iconic character. They really got it right when they designed the basic minifig all those years ago.
I had an absolutely amazing delivery from BBTS at the start of the month; Generations Whirl, Doubledealer, Rhinox, Trailbreaker, Sandstorm and Black Shadow. Mastermind Creations Sixshot, Tantrum and Headstrong. Fansproject Motormaster, Dead End, Weirdwolf and Brainstorm. KFC Steeljaw and Planet X FOC Swoop, plus the last waves of Marvel Universe. I'm slowly working my way though it, Planet X Swoop is brilliant, I can't stop looking at it. If they release a Slag, Snarl and Sludge I will be very happy to use them as my Classics Dinobots with the official Grimlock.
Fansproject Motormaster is also brilliant, but fairly time consuming to transform. I've just put him into robot mode so I've yet to experience Menasor. Rhinox and Trailbreaker are great figures, very happy additions to my collection. Steeljaw is a nice little figure to compliment Ramhorn, looking forward to Overkill and Slugfest and hope can get the Ratbat (without Soundwave). Thinking about it, I've barely made a dent!
At the Wonder Festival in Japan a Megatron Mega Drive was shown, looks good to me. I realise that Transformers are eventually doing crossovers with most of my other collections (Lego and 3.75" scaled stuff, and now video games).
The New York Toy Fair; some pretty exciting stuff although nothing too crazy, Generations Leader Jetfire was leaked a few days before, but properly shown at the fair. Looks amazing, but I currently display my Voyager Jetfire with small deluxe FOC Shockwave. I have Shockwave in a flight stand so he's vaguely the same height, that just wouldn't work with a leader. Of course, if they decide to give Shockwave the Voyager he deserves then that could change. In addition, I feel quite sentimental about Voyager Jetfire as I actually bought him in person, so I'm thinking I'll pass at the moment (I have a rule to only own one version of each character), but I'm open to having my mind changed!
I'm all aboard for a set of movie Dinobots, they're slightly funny colours (in the trailer they just look metallic), but look like decent molds, especially Grimlock.
Roadbuster who was hinted at in the Hasbro website leak was confirmed and shown and all good, I'm pretty happy with the deluxe Roadbuster, but it'll be good to have a figure that scales well with the new Whirl.
Nightbeat was shown as a repaint of Generations Bumblebee rather than Jazz, suits me, especially as I don't have that mold. So, nothing too crazy in the Transformers news, but some solid looking toys which I can look forward to. One surprising thing which was revealed which I'm quite excited about is Loyal Subjects vinyl Slag and Snarl, Slag was shown previously but Snarl is exciting. (I've just opened the Grimlock which I think is pretty neat piece of 'hipster trash'!) I'm also up for the Potato Head Grimlock figures, available in both robot and dino mode! Poor Sludge continues to be the most ignored character of G1 though, no reissue and absolutely no homage whatsoever. I think the Justitoys WST Sludge is about the only love he's had.
The legends figures were also shown, Swerve and Gears, plus Tailgate confirmed. Look good (and pre-orders have just gone up at BBTS to ward off any fears of them not actually turning up at retail). Cliffjumper was also mentioned, if he gets a bit of a remold I could be tempted.
Good to see a teaser silhouette of MP Bumblebee, looks like I'd expect and looks to be a VW! Also an interesting comment from Shago Hasui that getting licensed cars is easier due to Takara's merger with Tomy. Hopeful for Jazz and Ironhide (Porsche and Nissan) in the future!
On the Marvel 3.75", equally nothing too unexpected due to an early sneak preview of the Legends Guardians of the Galaxy figures. I'm all up for the BAF Groot, will be pretty expensive for one figure though. Deathlok, Ares and Whirlwind were the only figures that were completely unexpected, but good to see ionic Wonderman, Red She-Hulk and Death's Head. I'm still sticking to my rule that I'll only display characters that have appeared in some sort of media that I've seen or read, so three of those six will go straight into storage, but I've learnt from bitter experience that there's not point passing on anything as there's a really good chance those characters will turn up in something soon. Especially Red She-Hulk, as I reckon she'll turn up in Agents of Smash at some point.
This month I have pre-ordered Perfect Effect's Fort Max, looks pretty amazing from the photos so am looking forward to getting that. Also looking forward to seeing their Scorponok which they've hinted at. I bought the new Lego Batmobile in store which is a pretty nice build. I think sitting on the sofa in Winter with a hot drink, watching Top Gear and building some Lego is about as relaxing as it gets! I think I may have found my happy place. The Batman minifig works really nicely, a good fusion of an iconic toy and an iconic character. They really got it right when they designed the basic minifig all those years ago.
I had an absolutely amazing delivery from BBTS at the start of the month; Generations Whirl, Doubledealer, Rhinox, Trailbreaker, Sandstorm and Black Shadow. Mastermind Creations Sixshot, Tantrum and Headstrong. Fansproject Motormaster, Dead End, Weirdwolf and Brainstorm. KFC Steeljaw and Planet X FOC Swoop, plus the last waves of Marvel Universe. I'm slowly working my way though it, Planet X Swoop is brilliant, I can't stop looking at it. If they release a Slag, Snarl and Sludge I will be very happy to use them as my Classics Dinobots with the official Grimlock.
Fansproject Motormaster is also brilliant, but fairly time consuming to transform. I've just put him into robot mode so I've yet to experience Menasor. Rhinox and Trailbreaker are great figures, very happy additions to my collection. Steeljaw is a nice little figure to compliment Ramhorn, looking forward to Overkill and Slugfest and hope can get the Ratbat (without Soundwave). Thinking about it, I've barely made a dent!
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Movie Year
The Dinobots are in Transformers Age of Extinction, Bishop is in X-men Days of Future Past. I want Classics Dinobots and a Marvel Universe Bishop figures dammit!
I had an somewhat epic trip to pick up a large shipment from UPS, missed the original delivery so thought I'd go and pick up the parcel in person, on foot........ Thing about parcel depots is that they tend to be on trading estates, in the middle of nowhere. Ended up going almost two miles along a path along a train line, only to find a puddle about half a foot deep! With no way to get round and obvious that my shoes would be completely submerged, I remembered that I had a spare pair of socks in my bag. I took off my shoes, rolled up my trousers and walked through! I took the wet socks off, put the dry ones on and carried on my way!!! Trading estates are very strange places, seemingly inhabited but with no one around. I found the UPS depot and got my parcel. (I got a taxi home!)
Masterpiece Wheeljack looks awesome, I'm thinking I would have found it very hard to resist had I not already made the decision to collect Masterpiece. There's a suggestion (an image from a Japanese retailer) that the rumoured Nightbeat from the leaked Hasbro listings could be a repaint of Generations Jazz. I guess I can cope with that.
PerfectEffect's Warden (Fort Max) looks pretty good, I'm particularly liking some of the poses people have shown him in. A pretty fun dynamic toy by all accounts. I'll have to get meself one! Xovergen have shown images of their God Bomber, I passed on their previous Super Ginrai figure, but it's looking pretty damn good in combined mode as God Ginrai. I'm also keeping an eye on MakeToys Gears and Omega Supreme add-on, although I'm pretty happy with my Platinum Omega as he is and I'm hoping we see the (rumoured) Gears from Hasbro.
Speaking of Hasbro, Generations Arcee has been confirmed. Again, pretty happy with my Impossible Toys Delicate Warrior, but an official version would be gratefully received! There have also images shown of a Mr Potato Head Grimlock. Yup, that's the kinda crazy I'd like to add to my Grimlock collection.
I've got quite a lot of my figures on display now, pretty well spaced out with room for the few characters that haven't had Classics incarnations yet. I've included Beast Wars with them so have got separate shelves for the US series as well as the Japanese BWII and BW Neo. Unicron has pride of place standing over the Neo figures!
I picked up the one Neo character who isn't available from Sonoking - Heinlad, I really like him, he's very Japanese which I enjoy. I think I might keep him in animal mode holding his lanterns.
I've picked up quite a few Lego minifigs - Yoda, Palpatine, C-3PO, R2-D2 and a custom Punisher, Carnage and Ghostbusters. They're pretty damn cool and once I pick up the Millennium Falcon with the other original trilogy Star Wars characters it'll be fun to do a few photos. I am in equal parts gutted and delighted with the recent Cuusoo announcement of Ecto-1 plus minifigs, gutted because I've wasted money on customs, delighted because I'll get an official Ecto-1 to go with. On balance, I'm very happy about it!
I had an somewhat epic trip to pick up a large shipment from UPS, missed the original delivery so thought I'd go and pick up the parcel in person, on foot........ Thing about parcel depots is that they tend to be on trading estates, in the middle of nowhere. Ended up going almost two miles along a path along a train line, only to find a puddle about half a foot deep! With no way to get round and obvious that my shoes would be completely submerged, I remembered that I had a spare pair of socks in my bag. I took off my shoes, rolled up my trousers and walked through! I took the wet socks off, put the dry ones on and carried on my way!!! Trading estates are very strange places, seemingly inhabited but with no one around. I found the UPS depot and got my parcel. (I got a taxi home!)
The parcel contained FansProject Diesel and Mastermind Creations Headstrong and Tantrum. I've heard combining Menasor is a pretty epic task but from pictures looks well worth it! Yay. Feral Rex, come on down!
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