He is coming, but for £400 I’m not sure I need him. I was all set to get Galactus, but I was sort of expecting a £200-300 price tag, but £400?! I think that’s me out. Sad but I can make do with the MU version and wait for Victory Saber …….
The Worlds Collide Fangry looks great, bring on all the Headmaster Juniors! Just maybe, make them a bit more easily available? Sigh, eBay, sigh.
Managed to grab a Kingdom Red Alert and Sideswipe. I think that should just about be it for main characters being exclusive. Potentially an Earth mode Hound? Perhaps a couple of the remaining Minibots?
I managed to get in on one of the cheap Sky Lynx’s going on House of Fraser/Sports Direct. It’s made me decide to revisit my ‘rules’ on which characters to double up on. I’m going with ‘original’ characters and leaders. For G1, ‘original’ characters are those based on toys which existed before Transformers (Diaclone/Microchange/etc). For Beast Wars it’s Season 1 characters.
Sky Lynx is fair game then. I had a further rule not to double up on any character leader or larger. But I’ve changed it slightly to be not to double up on toys more expensive than leader class (£50). So a cheap Sky Lynx is fair play. For Omega I will keep the Year of the Snake version. I need Devastator, Jetfire and Shockwave as well……
Having said all that I’ve also decided to double up on characters with two robot modes. So Punch/Counterpunch and Dealer/Doubledealer. (Managed to find the latter for less than £50.)
Decided to upgrade my Optimus, the Netflix version is a bit too nice. Galvatron also came in from Pulse. I did the shoulder twist, I wouldn’t mind a couple of filler bits for the peg holes, but he’s pretty great.
Many years ago I collected all of the AOE Dinobots. They then released a couple of G1 versions of the same figures which I passed on as I already had the originals. I then sold the originals and forgot all about them. But then the chance to get the G1 headsculpt set came up and, they’re great. They look a bit IDW-esque to me. Very happy with them anyway.
And so ends one of those expensive months.
