Last month was a quiet month. I started this one by preordering Super 7 Vultureman (where’s Snarf?!), and in fact, all of the ‘new’ Thundercats - Ben-Gali just looked a bit too good. I’ve started making up for last month being quiet now……
Couple of bits have come in, Jackpot and Artfire. (Interesting it wasn’t Stepper.) Jackpot is good looking but destined for life at the back of the Lost Light shelf. Happy to finally have an Artfire. The mold is great and as much as I liked the Universe Inferno mold this one has better proportions. I’ve been looking at pictures of Diaclone toys, really want a yellow Trailbreaker! (And red Mirage and Skids - Target exclusives maybe? And maybe black Tracks.) I assume we’ll get a Crosscut, and it seems that ‘Guard’ is black Ironhide. I think because the yellow Trailbreaker seems the least likely I want it the most!
I’m unable to watch the new episodes (series 4) of Cyberverse but that hasn’t stopped me looking at the wiki page and…. there’s a team of mercenaries so I need Bugbite and Nightbird. Bugbite was quite straight forward, but since I have the 30th version of Arcee I decided to go for the (more expensive) Legends repaint for Nightbird. Rather then the Chromia repaint…. That got me thinking that maybe I need the original (motorbike) 30th version of Chromia. Then just to finish I realise I don’t have a Quintesson. So I managed to spend more in a couple of days than the previous month. Still, all caught up on my Cyberverse collection of non-Cyberverse figures. I’m hearing rumours of an Alpha Trion so could be in the market for that. An Afterburner repaint of the voyager conehead mold might be nice as well!
I watched the trailer for the new Spider-Verse film. Looks good I think, I must see whether the first one is available on Disney plus (it’s not). A few days later a young relative asks to see a picture of ‘Spider-Girl’. (I assume she means Spider-Gwen but we discussed both options.). A few hours later this happened:
Sigh. I must try and see Into the Spider-Verse. I have the other Spider characters in 3.75”, so I don’t ‘think’ I need them all.
It’s been quite an eclectic month, some Turtles (more on that soon), but also Star Wars purchases, a new Palpatine, the new hand accessories are very impressive. He looks great (well, awful really but you get the idea). And some ARC troopers and captain. And Ultimates Slithe. He has some serious heft but I’m really enjoying Super 7’s Thundercats’ mutants. Only a couple more years before I get Monkian and Vultureman.
I looked at the list of upcoming Marvel Disney plus series and have (comic version) figures of almost all the headline characters except….. Ironheart. (I also need a Shang-Chi from the films.)
Finished the year on a Blaster preorder. Awesome, can’t wait. So, 2021, it’s been an expensive year (mostly) due to my doubling up on certain Transformers characters including Victory Saber….. It’s been a good year for Dinobots, I got the Reaction and Pop! Grimlock. I got the G1 versions of the AOE figures, I got Studio Series AOE Grimlock, I got the two G1 Actionmasters, I got the Grimlock repaint of Kingdom Beast Wars Dinobot. I got Cyberverse Slug, Snarl and Sludge. But best of all, Studio Series ‘86 Grimlock and Slag. Bring on the rest. Happy Christmas!
