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Friday 19 April 2024
Flame Toys FuRaiModel Kit Windblade
Tuesday 9 April 2024
Real Gear Robots Power Up VT6
Tuesday 26 March 2024
First New Purchases In Quite A While - AKA Not An Unboxing Post IV
When I started this post, I wasn't quite sure how long it had been since I last ordered anything TransFormers related. Having subsequently looked it up, it's technically only about five months... but that was a non-transforming model kit (Flame Toys' Furai Model Kit Arcee, specifically).
It's been a touch over a year since I bought an actual Hasbro TransFormers toy... Which probably tells you everything you need to know about my opinion of Legacy as a toyline. I (technically) still only own a single Legacy toy, and that was Tarantulas, from the second wave of Legacy's first year.
However, after successfully completing a couple of freelance jobs earlier this year, I decided to order a couple of Third Party figures I was keen not to miss out on... Both of them are Femme-Bots, so look out for some Femme-Bot Fridays coming 'soon' (though that's absolutely in the Fun Publications/TFCC sense of the word 'soon').
The box they arrived in was significantly battered, though thankfully there's only minor damage to Red Fantasy's box. Before even opening either, the first thing that struck me was how heavy Metagate's latest offering is - I knew there were die-cast parts in it, but she's much heavier than I'd expected. Conversely, Spider Lady is surprisingly light, especially in comparison.
Can't wait to get these out properly and have a fiddle with them before eventually taking some photos. Their arrival gives me a bit of motivation to tidy up the coffee table in the lounge, so I can set up the light tent... But I have to admit, I'm still struggling to find the motivation to photograph Furai Model Kit Arcee - which I put together before Christmas - or even finish the post about Furai Model Kit Windblade, which I photographed almost six months ago.
Monday 25 March 2024
TransFormers Collectors' Club 2014 (Timelines) Rewind
Sunday 4 February 2024
First Breakage of the Year
A mere seventeen months ago, I posted that I'd acquired the Studio Series Ironhide based on the Bumblebee movie CGI, posting my write-up of that figure a little over a week later. By and large, I've not experienced any significant breakages with my TransFormers toys... but, let's face it, I've not bought that many new toys since Legacy Tarantulas.
Just this weekend, I decided to do a bit of customising to Ironhide, since he looks so plain. It all went as well as could be expected, and I was quite happy with the results...
...Until, upon starting to transform him back to robot mode after finishing the touchups on vehicle mode, his right forearm fell off when I unpegged it from his foot. The breakage was to the mushroom peg that facilitates his bicep swivel... and, while the joint was tight, I wasn't even using that joint when it broke, it simply crumbled as I tilted the arm out from the underside of the vehicle mode.
Making matters all the more strange, the mushroom peg doesn't appear to have sheared apart, it simply cracked... The other bicep swivel joint is just as tight, but shows no sign of any problems (so far!).
I've been thinking of replacing both Ratchet and Ironhide with the oversized KOs Shock Warrior SW-01 and -02 simply because they're a better size and have much better overall presentation... this breakage pretty much makes it a necessity.
Sunday 31 December 2023
2023 Retrospective
It's that time of year again... and, like last time, I'm going to keep the preamble short. Suffice it to say, 2023 was a difficult year and a disappointing year, in equal measure.
Not least, this has been one of the leanest years this blog has seen since it began, party due to a five month gap in postings. I've barely bought anything that wasn't discounted to half price (or less), and the Legacy line has utterly failed to engage me, while Studio Series has made a mess of the toys from the first live action TransFormers movie since Christmas 2018, and Hasbro's streams have consistently 'revealed' toys that have been common knowledge for months. As far as official TransFormers go, I think we can safely say I'm no longer an active collector... At least until they produce something a bit more innovative, that isn't deeply rooted in G1.
Though there's some cool Third Party stuff to look forward to in future...
So, let's get on with this year's retrospective: