So yeah.
If you hadn't noticed I acquired 4 more Holy Grail pieces at Botcon.
The Jusco Spychangers have been on my wish list for close to 7 or so years now.
Kinda blows my mind that I got Eagle Killer way back in October 2006 and yet it has taken me so many years to get the others.
And yet... I still need one more... Counter Arrow... to complete the set.
And some how I ended up buying two Artfires from the one guy.
Yes. I had a craving.
Yes. It was obviously filled lately.
Yes. I feel like a whore for buying those lame ass Transformers Club Seacons and that Nightbeat.
No. I don't feel bad about being a whore at the moment. That'll come tomorrow.
Yes. I still plan on getting rid of toys even though I've recently bought more.
No. I don't know when I'll have the time. The garage isn't going to get repaired and finished by itself.
Yes. The translation of the Bible into Lolcatspeak may just be the greatest thing ever.
Yes. The Crack Den is somehwhat cleaned up and has as many plastic robots as will likely fit.
Yes. It is barely 1/4 of the actual Attic of Love Collection.
Yes. It makes me sad I can't surround myself with years of wasted money.
Yes. I am a loser.
1. Have any of you ordered directly from e-Hobby?
2. If so, how the phrock did you do it if you don't read Japanese?!?!?!?!
Just got an email from BBTS that my Henkei Astrotrain is ready to ship.
Ugh!
I so have to finish the last bedroom project! I so want to setup my office/crack room and get this shit out!
Ah!
It is so nice to begin a vacation on a nice sunny day and just get up without the alarm and not feel like I really have to do anything other than pull my crap together for the con and run a few errands.
And no... I'm not going to work on Project 5 until Tuesday at the earliest. I'm in no mood to ruin a generally good mood heading into Botcon by getting covered in dust for hours.
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I saw that the TF SDCC exclusive this year will be another repaint of the Classics Prime mold, this time as the done-to-death Nemesis Prime deco.
So we get the same general idea done at Botcon and then again, only blacker, for SDCC.
Definitely time to retire the mold. I can accept the original, the Magnus, and even the Botcon repaint. And of course, the Henkei one isn't really for the American audience. But 5 of the same thing is 1 too much!
Speaking of the mold, the custom Ultra Magnus armor to Classics Magnus is really nice.
It still amazes me people will bitch about it and still go on and on about the use of a white Prime.
Be happy somebody is making something that will alter the figure... and selling it!
If you aren't going to kitbash and customize the shit out of it yourself then quit yer bitch'n!
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So we set up at Vets Memorial again to do the "toy and comic dealer" thing even though we really are "toy collectors trying to get rid of shit".
Nothing in our booth was new but was purely the stuff from the same bins we returned with last time.
I made one kid extremely happy with a boatload of Energon toys and gave away a few Tiny Tin Spychangers.
I'm always happy when kids get really excited about TFs.
There's some miscellaneous pics at my Flickr set.
I only bought Micronauts and an old Colonial Viper from the 70s. More on that later.
The real news, and something I'll be depressed about (for no logical reason) is that my comics all sold.
Of course, they sold for for 5 cents for every dollar spent on them over the past 30 years... but 95% or more of them are out of my my basement, my garage, and my life.
The 90s and 00s stuff didn't bother me... it was the stuff from my childhood that hurts.
More later. I'm tired.
So.
Is the Encore Omega Supreme worth it?
My internal monologue still doesn't know.
The new face is nice but not worth it.
Having a "new" toy with fully working electronics is worth it.
Not having Floppy Claw Syndrome™ is worth it.
But really... if I were to buy him... I should really get rid of my G1 versions.
I mean... that has to happen in the new space.
If something goes in then something must go out.
So Giga has a bunch of tables for the next Columbus Toy Show.
I've given up on using it as a venue to sell off Transformers.
The effort to lug the TF crack there and setup never pays off in the same way that Giga's DC superhero crap does.
However, since we have to get his shit out of storage plus the comics I'd like to unload at the show, it may be prudent to try and find the TF crap anyway and try to get rid of it at the GRC.
Thing is though... I really don't want people I don't know in my room.
I know that is silly, but I'm just not keen on it.
If it was one of those Embassy Suites again with the private bed room and public front room I wouldn't think twice since I wouldn't have to put stuff all over the bed or what have you.
Then again, if I only took MIB stuff it would be easier to track and I could setup a table or some such shit in the room.
Grrrr....
I still got a month to decide.
Got an email that my TakaraTomy Henkei Megatron (old school grey and black Classics Megs) and my two new Revoltechs are in at BBTS. I should probably release them as-is and not wait for my Henkei Astrotrain.
After TakaraTomy's reuse of the movie packaging, I was kind of surprised to see that their Classics version is actually back to their own type of packaging.
Ok. I must shower and get to work.
I figure it being a xristian holiday and all, nobody will bother me except the security guards doing their rounds and I can catch up on all kinds of shit.
Being home sick today was dangerous.
I kinda found myself perusing online stores and ended up droping a ton of scratch on some toys I had my eyes on for some time.
I snagged an Encore Sky-Lynx, the TakaraTomy black version of Movie Incinerator, and the WonderFest Exclusive Dai Atlas figure from last year that I've wanted forever.
The only thing that I feel the slightest bit guilty about dropping money down on is the Fusion Cluster Protoform Starscream.
While I hated the general Hasbro release I totally love the insanity of the translucence on this.
Yes. It cost and arm and a leg but I've been building up such a bad crazy niche on the translucent stuff that I'm having more fun with that then the general mainstream lines.
I'm more or less thinking of it as spending the money on one figure I really want instead of all the movie crap that my previous "gotta collect 'em all" mental illness used to drive me to do. I just need to find the Fusion Cluster Protoform Convoy at the GRC and I'll be set.
I'm hoping that Fumihiko has some of those, as well as some of the other crazy Takara shit that's been coming out.
Oh. Also preorded a couple of things too.
The Takara grey Classics Megs, the Takara Classics Astrotrain (in the purple and grey), and Revoltech Starscream and Hot Rod.
I'm actually surprised I'm not feeling the guilt right now.
