Recently in custom Category

So I was catching up with Michael Holt's predecessor's blog and I gotta say that the custom Stunticons he posted the eBay link to is something to behold.

I'm not much into following the customizers other than creaming every now and then over something Jin Saotome has produced but FrenzyRumble's stuff is really nice.

His Devestator is wonderful and I'd love to have a Sunstorm for Classics like he did. (Hmm... would that be an Unclassics Sunstorm?)

I'm still pissed I didn't try to go after one of Jin's Shockwave customs.

Yes.

I bought her Shockwave Munny.

And no, you may not touch him.

The one and only Evil King Macrocranios, aka my favorite Transformer blogger Crazy Steve, has been doing these little non-transformable custom G1 Cybertronian Tetrajets.

They're great!

I'm hoping he does one in Sunstorm colors just because so many people hate Sunstorm and therefore Sunstorm deserves the Tetrajet mode that he'd have had if he was a really character anyway so as to piss them off even more.

Pissing off Transformer fans isn't only Hasbro's job! It should be all of our jobs!

I like when customizers take some some liberties to repaint a toy.

I noticed this "Movie" Ultra Magnus custom today

The red works as-is, and I like just the small areas of blue in the cab for the flames to contrast against.

This custom Classic Megs is great too.

I saw this link over at Hoop's site and found it pretty funny.

From the best Google can translate, it looks like a custom Energon Tow-line homage out of an Encore Ratchet.

Though I have no idea what " ビークルモードは..."左のいらない部分をそぎ落としたら右になりました" ってカンジ？" really means.

The Google Translation of "Vehicle mode is left to whittle the unwanted portion" leaves a lot to the imagination.

I assume it refers to the platform part.

Holy ballskicking customs Batman!

What a great custom Brawn for sale.

Someday I'll buy up some customs.

I really wish I'd have snagged Jin Saotome's one Shockwave custom when I had the chance.

There'll never be anything like it again.

I may bid on this custom Beachcomber in a couple of days depending on where it is at.

I'll give the guy an A+ for effort.

And they do look good.

But man, you really can't polish a turd can you?

Speaking of Mr. Saotome, any of you seen his not-so-the-brick G2 Megatron yet?

Verra nice.

His tank mode is perfect and captures G2 Megatron perfectly.

I've never been a fan of the Megatron door stopper but somehow I've acquired 2 of them.

I think one of 'em sold at one of the toy shows but who knows. If not they're both buried in a bin somewhere.

Good job Mr. S.

And the Ultron kicks ass and that Jetfire ? Oh. He could make a boy excited.

Quite excited.

I saw this and had to gank if from Terry Sloane.

Apparently, in his net wanderings, he came across this custom repaint of Classics Jetfire done up as Wing Saber.

Dare I say... nicer than that Botcon repaint last year.

I would so love Hasbro to official introduce Wing Saber, Victory Leo, and Dai Atlas into the new American continuity somehow.

I mean... c'mon!

That shows gonna get imported back into Japan and they loves them more than we do!

Well...

...and tentacled-tongued Megatron look-a-likes non-nom-noming of prepubescent girls.

And then he commented with this link and oops I crapped my pants.

Twice.

So much for my simple retarded idea for Botcon's custom figure gay art thing.

Damn you Hasbro.

Now I'm going to have to do a custom figure gay art thing of this!

*sigh*

It is all your fault.

I pre-absolve myself of it!

Cincinnati will bow before the f'n awesomeness of it!

My art will me your new golden calf!

Where's your messiah now Moses?

And thus, the preparations for the big day begins!

Yup! Today's filling-making day for the Pierogi Orgy tomorrow!

They'll even be TF geeks from outta town over at the Domicile making them!

Oh. And I don't care what the haters say, I'm loving this shit outta this custom Ultra Magnus!

I'm always amazed at how bitchy TF fans who can't customize are about work that only exists because some fans give a shit to make them.

I can see being critical of Hasbro's choices every now and then but man oh man, some geek goes out and wastes valuable life hours making a new versions of something and other people who can't do it end up bitching and being critical about it.

If I'm ever at Botcon and meet Jin Saotome, I think I'll find one of these people who always bitch about people's customs and punch them in the pussy with Jin's fist!!!

Then as they lay bleeding on the ground, we'll collect the blood and use it to make a nucleon-powered Fire Burning Guts Big Daddy custom!!!

Damn right!

Ok. I gots cook'n to go do!

Damn!

Pulse sent me a link to this custom Fortress Maximus done out of a Cybertron Metroplex

Damn fine!

Even has a Master Sword!

And speaking of customs, the All-Mighty God of Customization and Purtification, Jin Saotome, has done a Cyclonus out of the smaller Energon Megatron and Energon Night Boat!

I think he deserves his own special panel at Botcon in called "Why my customs totally kick your ass."

When I look at him I weep and think of all the things Takara/Hasbro could have done and didn't.

Damn!

Saw this custom movie Bumblebee... made out of KFC lunch boxes... over at Automated Mechanical Persons Politely and Thankfully Liberating Loco Esteban's site.

Like I said.

Damn!

Maldroth sent me a link to a custom movie Minerva someone did out of movie Arcee.

I love it!!!

She'd be a great partner to Rescue Ratchet. She's Doctor Chapel to his Bones McCoy.

I like the fact that the gun barrel looks like a huge ass syringe too.

Most people have no idea who Minerva is. And rightly so.

She plays a huge role towards the end of the never to be released Splintered and I've grown quite fond of her.

Hasbro needs to officially introduce her into the new American canon.

Her G1 PVC totally fits in with the design of the new TF animated series.

I know female, let alone male, non-sexually reproducing robots make no sense but that's our human template and I demand more female Transformers kicking ass and not bothering to take names!

I avoid TF message board forums and rarely go into any of them other than around GRC time to see what people bought.

Anyway, because of that, there's all kinds of peripheral toy shit that I miss and if it wasn't for people sending me the links to this or that I'd never know about some pretty cool custom stuff the TF geek masses produce out there in the wilds.

Pulse sent me to the TFW2005 boards this morning for this guy Redline's "Classics Menasor" project and I gotta say I'm always impressed by the creativity out there.

Damn that boy cranks the custom crack out like there's no tomorrow!

He's like a veritable custom factory.

I need to hire him to come to Cowtown and give me a weekend's worth of lessons.

That is when I get done remodeling the house and painting walls.

Then I'll finally paint plastic.

(pic above swiped without permission, he can berate me later)

Protoform Starscream with claw hands
Originally uploaded by pairadocs

I so may need to start bidding on his customs!!!

So the other day Giga was looking at custom toys and found Jin Saotome's custom/kitbash TFs and I was literally blown away at the guy's simple alterations in color or decor that make or break a figure.

What' he's done to the lackluster movie figures is nothing short of miraculous.

And... a ton of them are up on eBay as I type.

Alas, he totally pwned me on this custom Jazz, which was going to be a possible thing I did for Botcon 2008 if I got my shit together.

So after posting a pic of Depthcharge this morning I realized that he too needs an exclusive made of him in his pre-Earth manta ray mode.

Botcon 2006 stretched the fiction to get a pre-Earth alt mode for Airrazor and Tigatron while not producing ones for Terrorsaur or Scorponok. Today I realized that there's the completely awesome Depthcharge who can logically have a Cybertron form.

But the more I've been thinking about it, the more I realize I don't know what previous vehicular toy could be kitbash/customized into a viable format for him.

Now I don't think there's anything totally spot-on from the previous 3 lines that would work.

Cybertron Override looks too "crab" like. Vector Prime might work but the sword/knight motif doesn't fit.

Energon Barricade is one current possibility as a base mold. A heavily reworked Energon Bulkhead? Maybe. Energon Snowcat? Hmmmm.

I'm really wanting to find that ideal one to do as a kitbash/custom.

Mind you, it may happen only in the future of my very busy life. But Depthcharge deserves it!

Thoughts on a mold?

In my opinion, it has to be at least Crumplezone-sized to work well with the pre-beast Optimus Primal.

Depthcharge has to be at least Primal size or slightly bigger.

Update: Holy shit!!! Energon Jetfire may actually work! His top fin actually sorta kinda looks like Depthcharge's "wings"! Beachcomber too!

Larkin posted a link at his site to a Japanese Kitbash/Custom site and lo and behold what should I find but the likely candidate for a Ultra Magnus custom was there right before my very eyes.

Duh!

Leave it to someone in Japan to use the rather ugly Superlink Convoy as the base for an Ultra Magnus repaint.

You even get the "white" Prime component too if ya want.

I hate Energon Optimus Prime but man, this repaint and retool makes it totally work!

There appears to be a lighter "blue" version too but I'm thinking the darker blue/red works here.

Too bad the pictures are so poor. They look like cell phone pics.

Holy Fucking Shit!!!

There are customs and kitbashes.

And then there's incredibly AWESOME customs and kitbashes!

I didn't think you could get much more boring than Perceptor but Fireflight proved me wrong.

Lame.

Legends of Cybertron Fireflight is the 1799th bot added to the Attic of Love.