GoShooter won the Million Publishing competition to be made, happy with that outcome. It's from the Nightbeat version of the Generations Bumblebee mold, not great apparently, but it'll be the only version I have.
This month I bought Loyal Subjects Grimlock (Hot Topic version), Slag and Snarl, very happy with them and even happier to see that Swoop will be in series 3. I find it funny that they seem to be a celebration of kibble compared to series 1. Hope we see Sludge eventually!
In third party news, Fansproject have released new pictures of Quickswitch, looks very promising, though I'll get the Sixknight repaint as my collection is anime based so I want the Masterforce version. There also seem to several new unofficial Dinobots being announced. Some have speculated that this could result in the 'bubble bursting'. I think the bubble will burst soon, but I don't think it's going to be as a result of too many Dinobots, I think it'll be because almost all of the main characters in Transformers now have a figure in some form. Quickswitch is actually an example of a not very popular character getting a figure, but of the 84-86 characters there really aren't many left, and I wonder, as companies make figures from other years, how well will they sell? As Dinobots go, the new pictures of Fansproject Slag are also looking really good.
The Afterburner GI Joe bike from the Collector's club is interesting, I think I might be tempted.....
Finally got round to opening some stuff that I've had sitting unopened for about six months, Mastermind Creations Sixshot, really good sized figure reminiscent of the original (bodes well for their Overlord) and Fansprojects Headmasters (Code line). I've had Chromedome opened for a while but never got round to transforming him, I also opened Weirdwolf and Brainstorm. Wow! What a great line, really fun transformations whilst doing a good job of updating the G1 designs with posability.
It will be good when they release the rest of the figures (including Apeface) and Perfect Effect release their Scorponok. It does occur to me though that pretty much my entire 1987 Classics shelf will be third party efforts.
My Power Rangers collection has gone full circle: I started off with the idea of getting Dragonzord and Tigerzord and displaying them with Micro Machines rangers. I then decided to sell Tigerzord and get the Megazord and Titanus as well as 4" versions of the rangers. I thought they looked a bit cheap and so decided to replace the rangers with Figuarts Green and White rangers, whilst getting rid of the Megazord and Titanus (who took up a little bit too much room). I've now decided to get the Legacy Dragonzord and Tigerzord who whilst looking pretty sharp also happen to combine. The circle is complete, and yes, Tommy was the best ranger.
My pile of loot has shipped from BBTS: MP Prime and Sidewipe, MMC Razorclaw, Fansproject Sludge and more. Oh yes!
I recently had a message from longtime Transformersandstuff reader 'Grimbots85' pointing out that it's now been five years since I started this blog, and asking how I was going to celebrate. Well Grimbots85, firstly I have to ask where your message was back in March when it was actually five years (I don't want to be pedantic but it's five and a half now.) Well in short, I thought I might read over my posts from 2009 and see how things have changed for me, so here goes..........
I was definitely much more about the G1, at one stage I had 26 more figures to get. I ended up getting all of the figures on that list (although Shockwave was a KO), but ended up selling Devastator, Menasor, the Targetmasters, Skyhopper and the Powermasters. I confidently predicted that my collecting would calm down once I no longer had figures already out that I wanted. Well, I still want a load of Beast Wars figures that have long been out so, so much for that theory.
Incidentally, as G1 goes, I was pretty much done by the middle of 2010 with the completion of Monstructor, though I did decide to pick up a bit more in late 2012 with Quickswitch, the Firecons and some animal based Pretenders. I am in a state of 'done' at the moment though if I had the money I'd love to get Black Zarak, Sixknight and Greatshot. I can at least say I own every single G1 mold with an animal altmode though so that's pretty awesome.
I think I'm now in the same situation with Classics as I was with G1, less than 20 to go!
It's interesting looking at my Grimlock and Ravage figures list, I got all of the ones in red, plus the TM2 and Alternators Jaguar Ravage. With the Movie, Grimlock has had loads more figures which I've picked up so the list has expanded greatly. I also added Razorclaw and Steeljaw to the characters collection.
I've owned KO Shockwave for five years now and he's gained authentic signs of ageing so my prediction may start happening now; I did seriously consider selling him but the fear that someone might sell him on as authentic worries me a little so I'll hang on to him. I don't think I'd get much for him now anyway.
It was interesting going over my thoughts about the Universe Superion and Bruticus again, my excitement at the time seems especially relevant given the upcoming Hasbro Combiner Wars.
In a post I wrote about Alternators and Masterpiece I wrote that they didn't appeal to me but if they had the Volkswagon and Lamborghini licenses I would get them. Well! They got the licenses and I got the figures (almost). I am limiting myself to the 1984 characters though as the point about having four versions of a character still holds.
As well as thinking about what figures I've acquired since 2009, it's also interesting to think about what I've got rid of: Gremlins and Star Wars Transformers have both gone, as have Classics Bumblebee and Universe Onslaught from my 15 best figures list. Incidentally I now appreciate that Henkei Dinobot is far too small.
I finished off the year with a list of 50 toys I wanted. With the Transformers I just about got everything I wanted (although I didn't actually necessarily get them). With Marvel I got them all apart from Pyro and Kingpin, and with Batman I got Mr Freeze (that I'm actually happy to get). 43/50 in five years. I'm sure we'll get some decent 3.75" scale Batman figures, eventually.............
I'll go over this post again in 2019!
Finally got round to opening some stuff that I've had sitting unopened for about six months, Mastermind Creations Sixshot, really good sized figure reminiscent of the original (bodes well for their Overlord) and Fansprojects Headmasters (Code line). I've had Chromedome opened for a while but never got round to transforming him, I also opened Weirdwolf and Brainstorm. Wow! What a great line, really fun transformations whilst doing a good job of updating the G1 designs with posability.
It will be good when they release the rest of the figures (including Apeface) and Perfect Effect release their Scorponok. It does occur to me though that pretty much my entire 1987 Classics shelf will be third party efforts.
My Power Rangers collection has gone full circle: I started off with the idea of getting Dragonzord and Tigerzord and displaying them with Micro Machines rangers. I then decided to sell Tigerzord and get the Megazord and Titanus as well as 4" versions of the rangers. I thought they looked a bit cheap and so decided to replace the rangers with Figuarts Green and White rangers, whilst getting rid of the Megazord and Titanus (who took up a little bit too much room). I've now decided to get the Legacy Dragonzord and Tigerzord who whilst looking pretty sharp also happen to combine. The circle is complete, and yes, Tommy was the best ranger.
My pile of loot has shipped from BBTS: MP Prime and Sidewipe, MMC Razorclaw, Fansproject Sludge and more. Oh yes!
I recently had a message from longtime Transformersandstuff reader 'Grimbots85' pointing out that it's now been five years since I started this blog, and asking how I was going to celebrate. Well Grimbots85, firstly I have to ask where your message was back in March when it was actually five years (I don't want to be pedantic but it's five and a half now.) Well in short, I thought I might read over my posts from 2009 and see how things have changed for me, so here goes..........
I was definitely much more about the G1, at one stage I had 26 more figures to get. I ended up getting all of the figures on that list (although Shockwave was a KO), but ended up selling Devastator, Menasor, the Targetmasters, Skyhopper and the Powermasters. I confidently predicted that my collecting would calm down once I no longer had figures already out that I wanted. Well, I still want a load of Beast Wars figures that have long been out so, so much for that theory.
Incidentally, as G1 goes, I was pretty much done by the middle of 2010 with the completion of Monstructor, though I did decide to pick up a bit more in late 2012 with Quickswitch, the Firecons and some animal based Pretenders. I am in a state of 'done' at the moment though if I had the money I'd love to get Black Zarak, Sixknight and Greatshot. I can at least say I own every single G1 mold with an animal altmode though so that's pretty awesome.
I think I'm now in the same situation with Classics as I was with G1, less than 20 to go!
It's interesting looking at my Grimlock and Ravage figures list, I got all of the ones in red, plus the TM2 and Alternators Jaguar Ravage. With the Movie, Grimlock has had loads more figures which I've picked up so the list has expanded greatly. I also added Razorclaw and Steeljaw to the characters collection.
I've owned KO Shockwave for five years now and he's gained authentic signs of ageing so my prediction may start happening now; I did seriously consider selling him but the fear that someone might sell him on as authentic worries me a little so I'll hang on to him. I don't think I'd get much for him now anyway.
It was interesting going over my thoughts about the Universe Superion and Bruticus again, my excitement at the time seems especially relevant given the upcoming Hasbro Combiner Wars.
In a post I wrote about Alternators and Masterpiece I wrote that they didn't appeal to me but if they had the Volkswagon and Lamborghini licenses I would get them. Well! They got the licenses and I got the figures (almost). I am limiting myself to the 1984 characters though as the point about having four versions of a character still holds.
As well as thinking about what figures I've acquired since 2009, it's also interesting to think about what I've got rid of: Gremlins and Star Wars Transformers have both gone, as have Classics Bumblebee and Universe Onslaught from my 15 best figures list. Incidentally I now appreciate that Henkei Dinobot is far too small.
I finished off the year with a list of 50 toys I wanted. With the Transformers I just about got everything I wanted (although I didn't actually necessarily get them). With Marvel I got them all apart from Pyro and Kingpin, and with Batman I got Mr Freeze (that I'm actually happy to get). 43/50 in five years. I'm sure we'll get some decent 3.75" scale Batman figures, eventually.............
I'll go over this post again in 2019!
