I bought the Cyclonus and his armada Platinum set. Very happy with this, I realise that I've slowly been applying my Marvel Universe army building philosophy to Transformers. I now have multiples of the Insecticons, Junkions and now Cyclonus and Scourge (the Sweeps). Actually you can Sharkticons to that list! I bought two online then having having checked five Asdas, eventually found one in person.
In those five trips I also found two Kickbacks, so am very happy to have a complete set of Insecticons. (Again - having sold my Fansproject Insecticons.) Kickback is another nice legends update to one of G1's smaller figures. I ordered W4 online so now also have another figure that I sold my Fansproject version of - Broadside. I really like this figure, he's the perfect mix of chunky and the thin panels needed to create the aircraft carrier mode. I'm half tempted to keep him in said mode and put with my WST.
I've also got my first Throttlebot - Chase, who I had as a kid. Really hope we can get all five. (Maybe all six, not sure with Goldbug whether I'm buying versions of the same character yet.) I now have Classics versions of just about every toy I had as a kid, not including dinobots or micromasters mind (I've included WST Slag in the photo for completeness, but failed because I forgot about poor Sludge). The mold is pretty good, won't be replacing my current Bumblebee with Chase's mold mate version. Happy for a couple more Throttlebots out of it though.
I haven't opened Brawn yet, will have to decide whether to replace my Henkei version when I do. I also bought the W4 Titanmasters so have Repugnus and Shuffler. I'm not opening them just yet though.
I found Maria Hill at a great price on eBay (from Asia). Think will have to paint her blue. I randomly decided that the three pack Fantastic 4 set version of the Thing is more A:EMH accurate so (re) bought that. Also bought the Konami Mole model as the modern version wasn't working for me. Fantastically well detailed. I need to get the Firefly now!
Finally, I got the Mega Construx Donatello battle pack. Wasn't interested in the rock soldiers, but great to complete the team. Shame his staff uses the purple rubber rather than the off white it should be, but the four together look great. Just need Splinter and the blimp! (I had big hopes for toy fair news, but Mattel seems to prefer just to release the toys rather than announce them.)
And time to ease to ease off the spending........
Photos of Misfire and Slugslinger have emerged from the Australian toy fair. Oh yeah! Now I am even more excited about the prospect of a Crosshairs repaint of Kup, and hopefully a Sureshot and Pointblank from somewhere.
I feel increasingly with Titans Return that there are some tough decisions to make - Perfect Effect Warden or Fortress Maximus? Updated Brawn and Seaspray? New Astrotrain, Blitzwing and Octane? What about Topspin and Twintwist? I have existing versions of those characters which I'm mostly very happy with. It would nice to have all three Decepticon triple changers as voyagers, but do I want them as headmasters? I really like my Mech Ideas jumpstarters.
I think cost money is the main factor here so for the most part I'm going to stick, but I think I will let chance come into it - if I see Blitzwing and Octane I might just update those guys. Astrotrain is a character where I much prefer the cartoon deco so would go Takara.
