This all makes for bumper pickings for my Grimlock collection. I'm not sure about the Green Grimlock that's been shown at NYCC, but maybe it's a G2 homage, or even the previous RID. Actually, that would make quite a lot of sense. If I can buy it in store then I'll pick it up.
Loyal subjects have shown off the entirety of their Wave 3 and it contains Sludge. In addition to Swoop. This makes me very happy, and so I performed a happy dance on the spot upon spotting the character (Sludge) in the new photos. A complete set of dinobots is a rare thing indeed, particularly in the UK where later waves never see the light of day....
Speaking of NYCC, it's good to see pictures of the next wave of Marvel Infinite. I'm not sure about the use of Absorbing Man's legs for Doc Ock, but at least it's the classic version of the character, and similarly with Vulture. I'm surprised they waited so long to get a second use out of Falcon's wings. Shanna looks okay, I'm really hoping for some decent dinos from the Jurassic Park line next year to go with and hopefully Ka-Zar won't be far behind. A 3.75" scaled T-Rex would serve a dual purpose - going nicely with my Grimlock and Marvel collections.
There wasn't much new stuff revealed at TFCon Chicago, although I was rather intrigued by the stuff from 'Play with this too', 6" figures based on Pretender shells - the Skullgrin and Bombburst looked pretty good and the Grimlock could also grab my fancy. Skullgrin and Bombburst would both go in my Masterforce display, hopefully they'd do the other the one as well, y'know, the other one...... One google seach later: Submarauder, that's the fishy fella. I want one of him too.
I had the realisation/observation that the Dracula in the new Untold film is visually pretty close to the Marvel version, I also found out that they're planning a franchise much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which if they did a 3.75" toy line could all work out rather sweetly for a Nick Fury's Howling Commandos display.
Thinking about the MCU, it just seems to go from strength to strength: Agent Carter and Daredevil TV series, Ant-Man and Doctor Strange films, possibility of Spider-Man being incorporated. Everything being linked together really appeals to me, just need to get those X-Men and Fantastic 4 back (although it seems that the X-Men films are getting back on track now).
I haven't bought much this month, or in fact opened much of the unopened stuff I've already got, one thing I did pick up though was the AOE Prime Evolutions 2 pack which made an appearance at TRU. I've been following the FansProject Classics Prime upgrade (hoping there will be an additional apex armour upgrade component), so well worth picking up an additional version of that figure whilst I had the chance. It's better than the original Classics version I've still got so even if the FP thing never happens (no mention from TFCon), it's no great loss.
One thing I did open was Marvel Infinite Death's Head; a slight remold of Colossus, he comes with a good selection of accessories which fit nicely on to his back (attached to the shield). In anticipation of getting this figure I bought a 3.75" scaled Tardis a while back (I didn't really need an excuse) and now am going to display him with my 1986 era Classics Transformers.
I also opened FansProject's Columpio - Sludge; mine seems to have perfectly acceptable joints with nothing missing, not sure whether that was just luck. I think the figure is great; the dinosaur head in particular is very nicely sculpted, and the neck is posable. I think the tail is a bit short and it's not movable, but I guess this is so that it can be folded away into the robot mode legs as part of the transformation. I'm not sure which mode I'm going to display him in yet although for space reasons it might have to be robot. I'm looking forward to getting Slag soon.
I also opened Generations Swerve, nice little figure, I've also bought Gears, looks like we're getting Brawn from the same mold. I wonder about Outback?
I've been looking at Transformers and toy fan sites for a good few years now; I listen to podcasts -Seibertron and TFW's for instance. But I've never really looked at stuff on YouTube, however, a chance comment on a thread about a video review caused me to and go and watch it, and it's gone from there; there's a whole universe of fan made media which I've never really paid much attention to. There's one guy doing video reviews who spookily really reminds me of myself, he has a similar way of talking and obviously similar interests. One thing I came across was a review of the various Marvel films by ralphthemoviemaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvJLOFhmogw), well worth a watch!
It's time to whiz back in time again, this time to 2011.......... I remember 2011 Toy Fair and SDCC very fondly; the Marvel Universe reveals were particularly good that year, and although we never got Fin Fang Foom, the Legends version is a more than acceptable stand in.
My custom Metroplex that I was working on has been well superseded by the Generations version so I decided to revert mine back to the classic G1 look; I gave him the 'upgrade' stickers from Reprolabels and so now display him with my WST. I can highly recommend the upgrade if you want something to display with your smaller figures.
In 2011, I promised pictures of my custom Terrorcons in several years, and whilst it's possible it may have ever so slightly have slipped my mind, here goes:
I bought a set of crappy KO Terrorcons a good few years ago, they were the ones where the colours were swapped around a bit. I originally gave them to a mate, but in 2011 he gave them back to me (sans Hun-Grrr), so I thought it might be cool to upgrade them with balljoints and some replacement limbs. I had the aim of making them actually a bit a terrifying. I used Energon Terrorcons for Rippersnapper and Sinnertwin, and then Cybertron Brimstone parts for Cutthroat and Blot.
I think Rippersnapper worked out the best but I'm pretty happy with them all. They all still transform, just with a bit more kibble!
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