What's your latest Transformers buy?

[HighPrime]

Light pickup day:

K-Mart Exclusive Mini-con 10 pack, MISB
G2 Hero Megatron, MOSC.

Possible contributions inched up to 3,640.

[Kookaburra]

Just got my three free deluxes from the promo! Sideswipe, Deep Desert Brawl, and Blazemaster. I'll definitely sell Brawl, Sideswipe will probably end up as movie-verse Tracks, and I haven't decided about Blazemaster. But hey! Free toys - that's always a plus.

[shmax]

Just got my three free deluxes from the promo! Sideswipe, Deep Desert Brawl, and Blazemaster. I'll definitely take pictures of everything and then sell Brawl, Sideswipe will probably end up as movie-verse Tracks, and I haven't decided about Blazemaster. But hey! Free toys - that's always a plus.

Fixed that for you!

[engledogg]

Just got my three free deluxes from the promo! Sideswipe, Deep Desert Brawl, and Blazemaster. I'll definitely sell Brawl, Sideswipe will probably end up as movie-verse Tracks, and I haven't decided about Blazemaster. But hey! Free toys - that's always a plus.

How were yours packaged?  Were they stuffed into a box that's slightly too small to accommodate three deluxes?

MIKE
engledogg

[Kookaburra]

Y'all already have pictures of everything! I checked first thing after I got 'em.

Yeah, they were waaaaay crunched. The only one that was really smushed though was Sideswipe, and that's just the box. Brawl and Blazemaster were OK.

[shmax]

Y'all already have pictures of everything!

*sniff* I've waited years to hear someone say that...

By the way, nice work on the recent submissions. I have this strange feeling like we're soon going to have more Ratchets documented than Optimii.

[Kookaburra]

I actually think I've worked my way through all of the ones that were missing photos. Now I'm going through, looking for ones with stock photos that need to be replaced. Oh yeah, and that weird Asian Happy Meal Ratchet I have.

[shmax]

I've flagged about 400 more photos for replacement (they were submitted during our first contest before any of us knew what we were doing, and are, well, a bit dated, shall we say). Take another look at your list, there may be a few new surprises...

[Kookaburra]

Nope, still just 3 items I can photograph, which is actually 1 item because poor Legends Red Alert is all stickered up. But like I said, there are some photos I think I can improve on - I'm pretty sure Movie Voyager Rescue Ratchet has Hasbro stock photos, and some of the Animated ones have shadows in the corners of their pictures (deluxe Jazz, for example.) And I was cleaning my room and found some of the opened boxes - I can at least photograph the backs.

[shmax]

Sure, sure, improve away! Any stock/BBTS photos would have already appeared in your list, so you shouldn't find any by manually hunting around, but there are definitely plenty of non-stock photos littered throughout the database that could use improvin'. And the box backs are always welcome. If you keep the boxes, you should tag those collection items as "opened" instead of "loose", and then the package backs should appear in your HYCH list.

[engledogg]

MISB First Transformers (1986) Airplane
MIB Galaxy Force Master Megatron ($7.50!)
MOSC ROTF RPMs Combat Series 2 Autobot Skids
MOSC ROTF RPMs Combat Series 2 Mudflap
MOSC ROTF RPMs Combat Series 2 Starscream
MOSC ROTF RPMs Combat Series 2 Rollbar

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SDCC 2010 Universe (2008) Autobot Blaster

Grrrr...I'm still waiting on the fine folks at HTS to ship this damn thing...any day now...considering I was one of the first to order the freakin' thing.

MIKE
engledogg

[SoS]

This thread has strayed off topic, shame on you shmax.
Now, let's bring it back on topic.

JULY

BotCon 2010 Generation 2: Redux --- finally the set has arrived in the mail. I'm not sure if this belongs in my July haul, since I technically paid for him in May/June.

BotCon 2010 G2: Redux Rapido and Cindersaur Set --- Rapido es una obra de arte.

BotCon 2010 Elite Guard Lithograph

BotCon 2008 One Generation Shattered Lithograph

BotCon 2007 Vector Sigma Display Accessory Souvenir Set

SDCC 2010 Universe (2008) Autobot Blaster

PCC Bombshock with Combaticons --- DR. HORRIBLE and his Freeze Ray are here!

Transformer: Exodus Novel

Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Allmanac II

Transformers: War for Cybertron Map and Character Pack #1

Device Label Broadcast --- shipping from my Pile of Loot from BBTS. Can't wait to get him in the mail.

EZ Collection Vol. 4 --- I only bought it for the Animated repaints. I plan to get sell the extras.

C-012 J-Five

C-014 J-Four

TA-05 Prowl (Elite Guard Version) --- love this figure. My favorite character, in regal colors. Perfect.

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That's it for now,
--SoS

[engledogg]

More stuff today.

Power Core Combiners Bombshock with Combaticons
ROTF RPMs Metal Heroes Series Jetfire
ROTF RPMs Metal Heroes Series Bumblebee
ROTF RPMs Metal Heroes Series Optimus Prime

MIKE
engledogg

[Kookaburra]

I don't usually keep the boxes...I've just been really busy and because the garbage only gets taken out every 2 weeks, if the garbage dude feels like it, (I'm not joking, I live in a VERY rural area) I have to spread out my TF debris if I don't want it to fill a garbage can. I really wish Hasbro would look into recyclable packaging. The paper strings replacing the twist ties are a good start though.

And to keep it on topic:
I just got an unexpected refund from the doc's office...so what do I do? Am I responsible and use it to pay off some bills?

NO!

[SoS]

And so begins my haul for the month. I left a few other figures that I wanted, didn't have enough money for them since they were the larger/expensive ones. I'll come back for you Jazz, I swear!

AUGUST

Generations Autobot Drift (x2) --- nice figure. Got an extra to make a custom of one of my original characters, who has a similar robot mode to Blurr, and since Drift shares a mold with Blurr...

Generations Thrust --- wow I have 3 versions of this guy now. BotCon 2007, Henkei/Gentei and now Generations.

TF2010 Legends Rampage

TF2010 Legends Ravage --- to me this is perhaps the best version of the movie character.

TF2010 Scout Brimstone --- the spirits of vengeance ride again.

TF2010 Scout Hubcap --- we all know this guy is Volt. So off he goes to hang out with the G2 Redux gang.

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--SoS