The Generation One Toys Appreciation Thread!

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Superquad7, Jan 15, 2012.

  1. doucoo

    doucoo U're an idiot Starscream!

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    Looks amazing dude.

    Also, thanks for the Shockwave clarification.



    Loving that Springer too, look lovely.

    Yeah, those little pegs on the cannon never did make sense! Megatron has a minion!
     
  2. Arkvander

    Arkvander Optimal Optimist

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    That has got to be the cleanest Springer box I've ever seen.
     
  3. UltraMattimus

    UltraMattimus Well-Known Member

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    Dude, that is cool as hell.
     
  4. khopson

    khopson Well-Known Member

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    You sure about that? ;) 

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    @ Mattimus. That's a sweet Springer regardless.
     
  5. Chefdova

    Chefdova Nerd alert

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    That's a nice Springer Kevin. Did you pick that up from the same place as Morgan? They look identical.
     
  6. khopson

    khopson Well-Known Member

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    Yup. Me, Morgan, and another collector I know picked up some of these from our main plastic crack supplier. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. ;)  They all came from the same case (case-fresh). Despite all of them being practically identical, they came back with different grades. Go figure.
     
  7. Chefdova

    Chefdova Nerd alert

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    Yeah, imagine that. Nice piece though Kevin.
     
  8. Arkvander

    Arkvander Optimal Optimist

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    See, I hadn't seen that one yet. So yeah :p 
     
  9. Arkvander

    Arkvander Optimal Optimist

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    :drool: 

    I love everything about this shot. Is that the print error Hot Rod box?
     
  10. Chefdova

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  11. Cattus Doctus

    Cattus Doctus Whiskered Questicon

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    Fantastic! You have just given me a reason to buy a G1 Megatron. :)  I've never liked the mould, but this makes the figure a lot more interesting.
     
  12. 3.8TransAM

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    Got to qualify which print error ya know:lol 

    Hot Rod

    Autobot

    Function: Abortion box packaging errors
     
  13. 3.8TransAM

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  14. Superquad7

    Superquad7 OCP Police Crime Prevention Unit 001 Super Content Contributor

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    It's the first one. The first running change was a "Hot Rod's" sticker placed over it and then the correction came in the third run. As a kid, it's the one I remember having, as I thought "Hey, this isn't right!" until the box was tossed after I cut the specs and points from it.

    Condition is everything, of course. Box flap/no box flap, box wear, etc. etc. $25-30 each is the typical rate, generally speaking. I'd highly recommend jumping over to Transformerland.com and looking how Matt lists and prices things.
     
  15. astrocreep777

    astrocreep777 Command 2 Microman

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    Nice is that your pictures of megatron and the microman or did you find it online.
     
  16. kylash327

    kylash327 ThePlasticGeek

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    They are my photos, and that is an official mode from when this was a Microchange toy, the peg on the stock part even pegs into the microman figures back, it was designed for it, and thankfully they never changed it when it became Megatron.
     
  17. astrocreep777

    astrocreep777 Command 2 Microman

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    Yeah i knew he was from the microchange line (im a microman collector myself) and oh yeah they didnt remove it when he became megatron i wonder why.
     
  18. T-Logicon

    T-Logicon assembles the drones

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    Probably easier to just leave it rather than retool the mold. I have a blue MM guy set up just like that.
     
  19. Chefdova

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    I'll start this off with my usual sorry for the crappy photo. But I wanted to share anyways. I picked up Dirge. Now I just need a Ramjet and my seekers are complete. I suppose i could add a scourge as well. I need to get out some lighter fluid and remove those stickers from Dirges poor face lol.
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  20. KaguyaHouraisan

    KaguyaHouraisan TORANS-FORMAAAA!

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    I wonder how much would be a reasonable price for a Joustra battle convoy that is in the following condition (I'm trying to perhaps buy this from a french collector)
    Trailer has stickers intact,the door seems to be okay,exept the mechanism might be broken. (The door is not attached to the truck in the picture i got)
    The truck is in great condition
    Fists and gun are missing and roller is broken and pretty much every missile/wheel/whatnot is missing
    The laser gun thing has missing windshield.