Aah, this one is pretty yellowed so I wouldn't worry about it. I was really happy he came with all his accessories. I think I lucked out with both coming with their respective partners for this price.

iDD

 

Basemania! Very cool
One of these days I'm gonna connect all my Micromaster bases together just for the heck of it

Methinks 'Bee is a tinge overmatched.
"Uh oh, Piranacon's gonna stomp me. Better transform and drive away. Oh wait. . ."

 

Deszaras. Finally found the time to clean him up after all these years.

 

OMG great pics!

 

Just thought hardcore G1 fans might be interested to know...

Discussion over at the Diaclone Group.

 

That's indeed beautiful, H_D.  :

 

so you found gold  

luckey for me Diaclone dont intrest me.

 

Diaclone is too rich for my blood, but I do admire some of the releases.  
heck Im just happy to own an ehobby Deep Cover!  

 

think this brings nice change of things especially since its rather true for Diaclone that "we don't expect to see anything completely new any more"

great acquisition and congrats!  

 

It's nice eh?

It was more a leap of faith. I bought it without even knowing if it's authentic. But just had a gut feel.  

 

yeah I read that in your article, sometimes taking a chance pays off  

 

You, sir, read really fast! We just posted those up and there were so many words my fear was that no one is going to read them....  

 

don't worry about that, in fact its the first thing i saw when i logged on!   just read finish your post and now on to Maz's post  

 

heh, good stuff.

 

That's a beauty.

 

Congrats heroic_decepticon! What a gorgeous piece. I've always really liked the Sideswipe mould and seeing one all black is just off the hook cool. Add it to the list of rare pieces that I'll have to hunt down after I finally win the lottery.

 

Man ... What a beauty of a piece that Sideswipe is. So cool to see.

 

That's truly a wonderful piece, heroic_decepticon!

I had quite an interesting stroke of luck myself today (though nowhere near as amazing as this Diaclone Black Sideswipe). I recently bought a G1 Transformers lot on eBay, which I was finally able to pick up today. I knew this haul would include a G1 Optimus Prime, which I was looking forward to, because although I have an Encore version MISB and the recent BAPE grey version MISB, I haven't held a loose G1 Optimus Prime in my hands in literally 20 years.

When I opened the box, and took out Optimus Prime, I was pissed off for a second. Some darn kid had scribbled his name over the (un-stickered) trailer in black marker.

Then I looked again:



Looks to me like the real thing...  

 

Is it true that Metrotitan's chest ramp is retooled from Metroplex to be compatible with the Micromaster base ramps?

 

Cool Black Lambor. And awesome Prime with signature! Now that would be worthy of a display case.

I finally finished my Black Zarak replica:


iDD