When I look at the Color’s of those boys in an angle, I feel like I’m look at rotf mudflap and skids.

 

quick little shot of the replacement crosshairs that just came in. i’m really liking him, just wish he had a waist swivel but its not horrible. his legs are a little loose but thats a quick fix. i got hot rod too and i’ll be posting pics of him in a couple days

 

Check your Targets. People are reporting MPM Blackout on clearance for around $80!

 

I mean, 2021 Wave 2 was just B-127, Dino, and Starscream so... not out the question to have 2 deluxes and 1 voyager be the entire thing

 

Still, all of 2022 had 4 deluxes per wave. Some were repacks later on but there were 4 deluxes every wave. Unless 86 figures take their place, feels weirdly empty for wave 1 of a year.

 

Charge!

(Someday I'll recreate this with the four SS AOE Dinobots, someday...)

 

Hot take: DOTM SS Sideswipe is better than the ROTF version.

 

Got SS TLK Crosshair and SS TLK Hot Rod through Amazon like most.


One of the first thing I did is super glue Crosshairs’ spoiler. Unfortunately, this is as far as it goes in on my copy.

Parts of the pegs are exposed, but at least it is not slanted to one side.


“Easy, let’s use words”

 

Last piece of 2022

 

My Studio Series Wishlist!! #1

 

Well it's gone from -30° to 20° in the course of three days (unbelievable  ).


Commando: "Why the heck are we standing in a puddle in the middle of winter?"
Eva: "Must be one of those thermal hotspots."

Ratchet and Lennox patrolling the Arctic plains.


Ratchet: "There's something down there."


Lennox: "Are you sure? I'm not picking up any readings."


Ratchet: "Something crashed here and recently too."

Lennox: "What should we do?"
Ratchet: "Report to base."
Lennox: "And then?"
Ratchet: "Be on our guard."
[To be continued]

Spoiler

I actually haven't thought of doing a series before, it was a spur of the moment idea, but don't worry I'll think of something good  

A few more winter pics however unrelated to Transformers.

Getting the warthog up and running in the cold (in case you're wondering the marine on the hood is holding a can of ether).


AA Spartan by the back tire: "The rear wheels spun through and now the frame's sittin' down on the snow!"


Anubis in the cab: "Damnit! I told you guys you couldn't all ride in the back at the same time!!"


Marine by the front tire: "Alright make sure it's in four wheel this time and let's give it another go!"
Rouge on the ATV: "Hey can we get another guy on the nose here?"
Chief: "Great, we're never going to get out of here."

Easily the most memorable scene in Aoe.
Textbook machismo lol.  

 

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*Double checks post* Hm, just a random string of numbers. I don't think they correlate with a noteworthy date. Movie numbers... Ladysman217? No. Oh, don't tell me this guy's memorized the Ebay item number...

By the Allspark, such nerdiness... I'm impressed. Oh and that's what the glasses remark was about.

 

Those pics are great! Also the fact that your weather is like that is hilarious. Last week over here we were hitting record Montana lows, and this week we're up to 40 degrees...

 

1. The Fallen
2. BB Movie Arcee
3. BB Movie Wheeljack
4. BB Movie Brawn
5. Galvatron

With a respectful nod towards the excellent SS86 Ironhide.

The Fallen is easily one of the top five SS figures ever.

 

yall i need help

was there ever a dna kit for voyager ironhide? i swear there was, but i can't find anything on bbts or ebay about it

 

Yes there was, just the kits a bit expensive and hard to find I guess.

 

I wish I could rate Megatronus as much as most do around here. Instead I see him like BB movie Soundwave. A great display piece, maybe even a great action figure, but a meh Transformer. I get that HasTak has to make up alt modes for some of these characters. But sometimes their team's original made up alt mode designs truly soar, like with with the other BB movie Arcee, Brawn, Ironhide/Ratchet Wheeljack etc. But sometimes they're pretty "whatever" like with Soundwave. If Megatronus fell into the former category instead of the latter, he'd make it into my top 5 for sure. Instead, there are enough other transformers that nailed both modes this year that leaves him coming up a bit short in my picks.

 

Soundwave’s alt mode concept art wise looks pretty good, but the budget of the toy and execution wasn’t that good (not terrible imo but not as good as the others).

I’d say what hurts The Fallen having as good of a alt mode as the BB Cybertronian Autobots is the shape of the design and kibble/alt mode parts. The design just looks like it transforms into nothing kinda like some of the AOE bots.

For me I don’t really care about the alt mode for The Fallen that much due to him not transforming at all in the film. So the robot mode (as it kinda should) took priority.