Well the world of plastic crack addiction has more or less been pretty slow since that toy show a few weeks back.
There's just nothing on the shelves here in Cowtown and I'm sick of wasting time and precious gasoline on aimless toy trips.
Hell, Graceland Target hasn't had a new Transformers in probably 4 months now! And I don't even bother going in when I'm up in that general area of town any more.
At least there's only two weeks until Iacon One over in another bordering Cowland state.
Initially I wasn't thinking of going due to my complete hatred of long duration car trips but the adult TF geek in me realized I do need to support these smaller shows whenever possible. The mere fact that people are organizing and doing these non-official shows is more important than any official Hasbro-backed show. These are fan-focused shows by fans and from the looks of it, the people running Iacon One are doing a fantastic job!
Hell. The Iacon One website beats the Botcon website to hell and back. I really would have thought that Master Collector would have a more modern professional website (with clear navigation) since they also run other conventions. The don't. The Botcon site is kind of messy, disorganized, and I try to pretty much get info from other sources than there.
And I was able to register and pay online for Iacon One. Botcon needs to get its shit together in this regard. It is 2006. It isn't new or complicated anymore to integrate simple shopping cart/mercantile systems into a site.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the next few weeks.
Toy-wise though there's just not a whole lot getting me excited. Of course, there being a lack of anything new on the Cowtown shelves doesn't help either.
What is in the cards for me over the next few months
Alternators Optimus Prime
Alternators Mirage
Alternators Camshaft (yeah, I'll probably get this)
Alternators Nemesis Prime
Alternators Rumble
Cybertron Quickmix & Stripmine
Cybertron Menasor & Heavy Load
Cybertron Giant Planet Minicons - Deepdive, Longarm & Overcast
Cybertron Ransack GTS
Cybertron Galaxy Force Vector Prime (I liked the concept color palette better than the final. Not sure if I'll get it.)
Cybertron Galaxy Force Optimus Prime (hopefully I'll find this on discount/clearance eventually)
Cybertron Cryo Scourge
Cybertron Scrapmetal (yellow one)
Cybertron Smokescreen
Cybertron Breakdown GTS
Cybertron Primus (hopefully and a discount price too)
Legends of Cybertron Sunstorm
Legends of Cybertron Thundercracker
Legends of Cybertron (Galaxy Force) Optimus Prime
Legends of Cybertron Excellion
Universe Micromaster Superion (Air Raid, Fireflight, Ro-tor, Silverbolt, Skydive, Storm Jet)
Galaxy Force Dark Fang Wolf
Galaxy Force Dark Nitro Convoy
Con-wise, I'll be looking for the following things:
Car Robots C-022 Build King giftset
Car Robots C-015 JRX giftset
Car Robots D-012 Black Convoy
Car Robots C-011 Spychangers DX giftset
Car Robots
Car Robots God FireConvoy with Super God Sword TRU set
Car Robots Super Fire Convoy (black version)
Car Robots Super Fire Convoy (crystal version)
Car Robots Spychangers (Jusco Exclusives - Translucent colored)
Car Robots Super Wrecker Hook (clear version) (Car Robot Present! TV Magazine)
Car Robots Super Indy Heat (clear version) (Car Robot Present! TV Magazine)
Car Robots AI Chan Figure (Botcon Japan 2000 exclusive)
Ultra Magnus - Movie Preview Edition (Toy Festival Exclusive)
Robot Masters RM-22 LioConvoy (Black Dengeki Hobby Exclusive)
Robot Masters RM-24 Reverse Convoy/Rebirth Megatron
Takara PVC (Act 8) Scorponok - Colored
Takara PVC (Act 6) Galvatron (metallic)
Takara PVC (Act 5) Starcream's Ghost (chase)
Takara PVC (Act 5) Optimus Prime Impervious Alloy (chase)
Takara PVC (Act 3) Optimus Prime battle damaged (chase)
Takara PVC (Act 2) Optimus Prime w/ Megatron in gun mode wearing Sideswipe's rocketpack (chase)
Takara PVC (Act 1) Megatron with energon flail and opened left hand (robot mode metallic) (chase)
Takara PVC (Act 1) Optimus Prime with energon axe and opened left hand (robot mode metallic) (chase)
I think I'll be collecting the Titanium stuff to. At least ones I know I'll like:
6" Titanium War Within Optimus Prime
6" Titanium Megatron
6" Titanium War Within Jetfire
6" Titanium War Within Thundercracker
Yeah. Other than the new things coming out I'm definitely going to try and focus my collection to the Car Robots line that I love so much. Those Takara exclusives are where I'll be dumping my cash!
PVC Prime w/Sideswipe backpack?? Never heard of it.
It is one of the chase figures.
I don't believe you. I think you're making it up.
Here's the figure. The rocket pack isn't noticeable in this angle.
Yeah, I can vouch for that. Remy once posted all the Prime PVCs he had and it was among them.
Waitaminute.
Why would I lie to you about crack?
I'm going to have start working on my Botcon list soon. I really need to go through the PVCs and find out which ones I don't have. I there aren't that many that I'm missing, since I'm only buying the non-chase ones.
There are also a few Beasties that I'm looking to pick up.
Let me know what Beasts you need or want.
I may have extras.
You think you got it slow in Cowtown try being from South Boredom, MI we got nothing in a 150 mile radius
What's the closest "large" city up there? Garfield?
Traverse City is the closest but their always on a dry spell the Toys r us is still selling like 20 reissue steppers a 39.99 for the last year so you have to drive to like Grand Rapids or Cadillac on occasion.
Well... TRU here still has some Energon figures!