Thanks folks, you'll all be disappointed to know that it got worse. The worst birthday I've ever had, including the one when I was a nipper and had measles in my eyes. I got nothing, there was no cake and Mrs. O told me that we're flat broke and I've had to let some bills slip.

I sure as fuck hope you had a better birthday than me, @Decepticreeps100 !

ONOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM. I still have a bunch of 'Buy one meal get one free' KFC crisp packets to use but I'm too poor for KFC. Sorry, I'm a miseryguts today.

I had that Grifter in blue. Got it after I outgrew my Budgie.

I'd honestly hoped we may get a comic to wrap things up but, sure, I'll take a movie!

I had zero interest in the 'Grimlock' from the new 2-pack until I saw these pics by Josh Burcham and realised he's easy enough to gussy up!





No sense wasting that potential and that GAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWJUS headsculpt, right?

Oh, and I made the mistake of reading the forum without signing in earlier and BOY do I feel justified in who I've blocked here. YEESH. :OP

 

Deffo gonna be painting the chest faux eyes, and if i can source a decent paint match might have a punt at doing some complimentary "Dalmatian spots" on his chest sides/thighs as he's looking a bit bland, innee?

 

Given how some of those mft and other legends figures are these days, I'm genuinely surprised those figures haven't been upsized to deluxe/voyager size. They'd have made a fortune before the wfc trilogy started doing their thing.

I also got my tm waspinator and telemocha dinobot signed by scott mcneil same time as gary chalk. He even went into full character about dinobot being upset someone was scribbling on his tail and waspinator didn't have anywhere good to sign. It was my first convention and my thinking was i wanted something that had that emotional connection to be signed by the guys. Though i quickly learned toys aint always such a good idea to get signed out of the box, so switched to comics and dvds after that.

Oh, and animated purple shockwave had his shoulder signed by derrick j wyatt. We had a nice chat over how much we both loved shockwave.

 

I forgot about the Tracks reveal! Honestly, the only real problem I have with is his feet being attached to the sides of his legs. Everything else will be fixed by fillers and Toyhax. I reckon Road Rage will wear the mold MUCH better though, and I do hope we get Loudpedal too  

Looking forward to seeing Pipes soonish!

 

My Favourite Transformer?

MY first, Jazz.

It will always be Jazz I had the Original release, then I got the Pretender Classics Release, Then I got the Euro Classic release(I did want a wheeljack, from this line never got one, in fact I have never touched G1 Wheeljack or his re-issues!) back to Jazz, after the Euro classics came the Action Masters line, my first Purchase? Jazz. at one point i was only missing G2 Jazz and I promised I would get one for myself(It never happened and I still don't on a G2 Jazz)

but then came the Toy Massacre of 1994, followed by grand theft Transformers.

at the start of the year My little brother of 5-6 years old destroyed a chunk of my toys, My Jazz collection and My Sonic Fighters Lamprey and the Vipers I was hoping would have been the start of my Action Force collection, through rough play. I despaired but I soldiered on(after kicking my brother's arse.) what followed however nearly broke me.

my mom had a friend from years ago and she had a son. she brought the son round one day and my little brother decided to show off with my transformers. the boy liked what i had ad asked to 'borrow a couple' and my brother let him without checking what he took. I come home to find my transformers were gone, the boy just slung them in a sack and walked off with them.

My mom had to call her friend back to get my stuff back(it broke my moms friendship as the boy lied to his mom about the level of permission he had and how much he took home,) and i didn't get all of it back the boy kept stuff like my devastator limbs I had four but i was missing Long haul and hook I ended up only having scrapper. it was at that point I nearly gave up on Transformers, but I didn't I rode the G2 and European lines straight into Beast wars and beyond.

any way since then I've gotten every new mainline Jazz that Hasbro releases, I restarted my g1 collecting and managed to get a few g1 jazz toys back into my collection(The Transformer collection meister, Pretender Classics Jazz and Action Master Jazz)

 

Belated happy birthday @Ottertron!

 

I also love Jazz but never managed to get him as a nipper  

CHEEEEERS!!

 

Happy late birthday @Ottertron!

Hope things pick up.

 

Today's #deskbot is the king of third party offerings. Planet X Vulcun.

 

SHAMELESS SHILLING

Heyup my dudes, I've thrown all of the unsold bits back on eBay at £1 starts!

Items for sale by tikgnat | eBay

Check it out, I'm sure there's something for everyone there (I mean there's a Toybiz BAF Sentinel for £1!).

Please, buy my stuff. It's cold and I've got 5 kids to feed.

 

Eid moubarak people.

This is gonna be a quite a day for the belly.
Challenge accepted.

 

Every time i think i should have kept mp grum for my classics display and my other 3p dinos, i look at this guy and go Nnnnnope. I made the right call. Vulcan is a perfect classics grim. That shiny version is even better!

 

Eid moubarak! Just finished our morning sohlat.

 

Eid Mubarak @Insurgent @Large and others that observe.

 

Yup. Ordered the regular from ShowZ as the shiny was out of stock...and they sent the shiny. Bonus!

 

Thanks man! LED lighting is so inexpensive now and can instantly make any display pop.

 

You're very kind!

But enough about me, Brian. What did you think about the toys?

I saw that. I'm still processing my feelings.

"It was laughably simple to snare the minds of the Autobots - Hot Rod, Kup, and Blurr and transport them to me."
From TF:UK#88 'Target:2006'

 

Hahah I've never seen these before. Alien robots that hide in the car shell? That's pretty sweet.

Strange how Matchbox aped Transformers with this and MASK with Roadblasters.

Although thinking about it, it's not strange at all...

 

Oh shit happy birthday @Ottertron

 

Handsome man.