What a line!

I opened Trypticon, wow, Hasbro really didn't take any risks with this one. It's a scaled up version of the G1 with articulation added, exactly what I wanted. It's so G1 that I'm not sure there's any point keeping the original! This thing scales beautifully with my WST Dinobots to recreate some Call of the Primatives scenes. Just have to decide between G1 and combiner wars Sky Lynx!

There is of course the small issue of the hip joints which is extremely disappointing, it really takes the edge off knowing you've got to mess around with taking the legs apart to deal with the springs. I've just removed them for the time being before deciding which fix I should go for.

I finally got round to combining Ginrai with God Bomber. I think this figure looks incredible, but bugger me if the balancing issues don't almost completely ruin the figure. Did they even test it before putting it out?!

Just a few days later I got Overlord. I waited for pictures of the Takara figure first as I figured that might look best along side God Ginrai, but really for me, Hasbro is the way to go as the Takara colours weren't quite working. Would have been great to have Giga and Mega though. Overlord is great, smaller than G1 but with articulation.

Trypticon, God Ginrai and Overlord in one year! Wow, what a line. Throw in the 'classic' headmasters and Titans Return has been amazing. Overall, I'd say the Prime Trilogy is shaping up to be one of my favourite iterations ever. Classics, Universe and Generations really did the ground work of the well known characters, but the Prime trilogy is giving me my favourites.

Combined with the leaks from last month, what a line. My collection is going to look great. Generally I don't worry about size too much, FOC Shockwave I can live with, but I think the Dinobots being deluxe troubles me. Particularly with the Constructicons and Predacons all being voyagers. I need to swap the Dinobots and Constructicons around! If someone upscales the Dinobots it will be very hard to pass on.

With Hascon confirming the dinobots and Terrorcons, it does really come down to needing Scorponok. And Deszaras, and Star Saber and Victory Leo, okay and Thunderclash. I feel like one of those at least seems likely, probably Star Saber, but Scorponok is definitely top of the want list. I think the other toys I want are more about completion than the actual character in question.

I've slowly been re-watching A:EMH, and have slowly been adding figures to my list of customs to make - particularly those who are appearing in the MCU. Back to eBay I go! I started looking the episode descriptions and hit on Graviton, previously I hadn't given him a second thought, but then it occurred to me he's in the MCU (Agents of Shield at least). Then I thought I need more characters with big beards and I was sold! Hela and Surtur being in Thor Ragnorok has also inspired me, who to use for the base figures?!

There's not been much Masterpiece news for a while, but I must just raise one thing that annoys me. I lean towards toy accuracy over toon accuracy, but I'm fine with the recent changes to the line, but would it kill them to include a toy accurate face rather than all these different expressions? I'm not too worried about Megatron, but I would appreciate a slightly more toy accurate face for Sunstreaker. Grumpiness over, Trypticon and Overlord are fantastic, what a month!