Lancer has shipped!

 

@MyTea Boc It seems I have evolved beyond mere kettle-watching, Brian!  

 

I'll have a look through pictures tonight and see what I can knock up, (I really need to look at doing some photoshop courses)

Congrats on that magnificent looking toy, they really don't make them like that anymore!

 

A few embellishments to the big lad.

 

You know I'm right there with you as I am in a Siege frenzy lately and yet skip all the mini dudes for a variety of reasons (first of all a super false sense of thinking "hey see ? I'm reasonable !") but I'm glad I've been impatient about getting Ratzy because there's something (the colors) about the other 2 that screams: "We make you feel like it's 1992 and dude you are fucking loving it."
And they're right.



Now I will leave you as I have to suit up for David and Iman's wedding.

 

WHoot!

In other news.... an honest to god Half Life game on the Horizon. Of course it's feckin VR!

 

I mean, they weren't. They were pretty gash, other than an opportunity to get classic characters like Megatron and Shockwave on the cheap. But best thing was all the new characters, which is a largely untapped well for Generations today...

Oh the 90s. Good times. I know FunPub shat out a bunch but are there any other Action Master updates available?

 

Hey I got this stuck in my head since yesterday, and so should you.

 

They were proper awful. Didn't stop me loving them. My spirit will not rest until we have a CHUG Take-off and Jackpot!

 

Aaah, I remember those heady hours spent sitting in the library of Chew Valley Secondary school, in my student quise as 'librarian',
whereupon I read my way through each and every Moomin book....good times,
probably, I cant really remember, I am f**king old now...bloody youngsters...stop bothering me...I remember when this website was all fields...etc.

Finally made small dent in my 'MPs to be transformed despite having nowhere to put them' pile, and tried him on a cool sword (box labelled 'swords online' I bought at a boot - how did that get into the country)?



Oh, and some Kre-o fun
"Mirage, hang on mate, and we're off"!




Laters.

 

hmm who did we get.. Banzaitron got a regular release didn’t he? I feel like everything else was ether a vague homage or Funpub. I always thought Jackpot, Kick-off and Rad would have been easy to do from a Jazz or Datsun bro mold. I mean I did get the Botcon KickOff or whatever they renamed him too but I really want a Rad. His alt mod is a bit more obscure, some say motorbike but I always saw a Ferrari. Anyway him and Treadshot were my top Original action masters. I do want them redone.

 

You know that's an anagram off Jack-off and Take-pot yeah?

just checking.

Dust? little bit of dust?

 

Haha yeah. I've seena bunch on eBay pretty cheap, the most expensive one is £30 for a unused MIB one. Which I'm uhming and ahhing about, after all if it's just an itch I want to scratch why spend more than a fiver all in? Decisions decisions eh?

Okay...

CALENDAR UPDATE.

As I said yesterday, main pages are done!

























As you can see this year all pages have unique backgrounds (only took me 5 years!), with some minor tweaks so hopefully it's more practical than this years was (November and December are too dark to write on).

I've included special dates, flickbook animation from @OptimusTimelord, 'hidden' code and some jokes. As I have no time the extras are going to be nice and easy this year, so all that I really have left to do with the front and back covers and make a selection from people's pictures!

Thus, as I reckon I'm far enough along... Pre orders are open! I have no idea on cost, but I will tentatively say it's gonna be £15 like last year. If you want a calendar PM me, and make sure I respond otherwise I might not have put you down on the list.

Also, if you're a UKTD regular (sorry lurkers) and wanted your Birthday included let me know. There was a fella who wanted theirs included but I didn't make a note and don't know who it was! Course, if you don't see this, then you're not a regular...  

Oh and also, as I say picture submissions have been thin this year, dunno why! But if you want a chance to be included just submit a picture to the actual 2020 calendar thread

2D Artwork: - tikgnats' 2020 Calendar thread!

And I'll stick it in the submissions directory for consideration! Top tip, Landscape is best!

Edit
Oh and I forgot... every calendar purchase will be put in a prize draw! The prize? SIEGE RATCHET!

 

I wasn't upset by the PotP Jazz redeco into Rick O'Shea but it does still count as a golden missed opportunity for Rad or Jackpot, aye. And yeah, I also always wondered where people got the idea of a motorbike for Rad, that's clearly a squished up front bumper there. There was very nearly a Rad made from Cybertron Crosswise but it ended up coloured as Smokescreen, a slightly more bankable character I guess.



I've probably blathered on this point too much already, but I still say that the latter-wave RID toys would make for great Action Master redecos. Stormshot into Skyfall, Soundwave into Mainframe or Gutcruncher, that sort of thing. Stick 'em in a two-pack, put 'em at the voyager price point, bish bash bosh.

 

Well HELLO THERE!!

 

dispatch note from Kapow for Ratbat and co..

good times..

 

Yeah that’s such a Rad head. Without the blue it would work but I feel he should be a svelte fellow. One day I feel like another one will slip in somewhere. There were some neat designs. It’s a shame for them to go to waste.

 

Did I ever mention how hard drawing is? But at least she's starting to look pretty damn adorbz.

 

Was it Soundwavelover2004 by any chance?

Did you mean to put independence day as July 3rd in the calendar rather than the 4th?