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Let's face it.
How often do you seem me get excited about a repaint?
Not very.
But man oh man... there's something about this yellow Mudflap that says "You will buy me and you will lick me all over and you will love me because of my intense insane yellowness and the rest of the world will hate us but you and I will make happy gay robot love with Botcon Hot Rod" or something like that.
Wow! It is like 22 days until the ゲイロボット大会.
In addition to the usual suspects, I know Ramen Junkie, Mister Terrific, Crazy Steve, and now Teresa will be there from around these parts of the internets.
While there's no major excitement for the con itself in me yet, I'm pretty certain I'll be finding time to make sweet sweet robot love to Earth-3 Hot Rod.
Yeah. Outta all the Botcon stuff he's definitely my favorite so far!
I mean... he's got the whole black deco thing going on but theres a little bit of heaven there in with the contast of that purple flame application.
He's love!
Love I tell you!
You can't deny it!
So I was talking with FP today and they said I could spill the beans about the Botcon 2009 exclusives.
Apparently, due to a constant stream of demands, they've caved in and are going to do a full set of exclusives with a truck theme.
And not only will it be a truck theme, they'll all have special Japanese Dekotora paint jobs and retooling!
I for one can't wait for these.
Awesome!
Totally awesome!!!
OHMYEFINGGOD!
Powerglide is perfection.
Tankor Octane is triple-changey awesome!
Onslaught is most definitely Onslaught!
And with Prowl I can hear Michael Bell!
But the funniest thing is, there's just so much detail in these guys in that simple basic grey plastic that gets lost later on.
I can only imagine the greatness that Jin Saotome might bring to these guy later down the road.
Of course, I'm betting odds that we'll get a SilverBluestreak or Smokescreen out of Prowl too and that's perfectly fine in my book.
Now I can't wait to watch all the people bitch that "Onslaught isn't a combiner!" or "Powerglide doesn't come with Michael Chain's leather jacket!" and so forth.
I still remember that fond September 2, 2005 post when Michael Chain visited PlasticCrack.com!
Ah... 2005.
So very long ago.
Holy shit!
Baby Jesus was indeed listening to my prayers this Christmas season!
Spectroscott just sent me the link to this and I could not believe my innocent eyes!
May god have mercy on us!!!
Now the only one of any obvious importance is Classic Megs. The Hasbro release of the other figures were pretty much dead-on color wise.
I've seen some great custom repaints and even photobashes of Classic Megs done in a grey pallette and even they were panties wetting!
I suppose one could say that this has been fandom's denerfication of the original Hasbro release?
Oh. And I was also looking at what comes with that Best Buy movie DVD set.
I think it is pretty much guaranteed that Bumblebee has replaced Hot Shot fully and that no matter what line Hasbro does, from now on there will be a Bumblebee.
And just as the sun sets every day, and just as every Optimus Prime is repainted as white as Ultra Magnus, so be it that Bumblebee will constantly be repainted red as Cliffjumper.
Thus the universe turns. Turns along Hasbro's skewed version of The Golden Path.
TakaraTomy Wonder Festival Dai Atlus!!!
I would be perfectly happy if Japan would just keep producing non-transforming articulated versions of a ton of G1 characters.
I'd so buy a Victory Saber, Road Caesar, Star Convoy, and any other later G1 characters they'd make.
The size is just perfect to fill up shelf space and they are so much easier to deal with than actual mainline Transformers.
You know you can't survive without a super-articulated Grandus!
That is, if such a thing could actually exist.
Wow! Here's some bad craziness that Giga sent me.
I'm tempted to bid on it.
Evebird sent me this link about a super deformed Shockwave coming out in that Robot Heroes line.
I normally would completely pass on this stuff but how often does Hasbro come out with an iteration of G1 Shockwave? (And no, I don't count the Alternator!)
There's a part of me that hopes Hasbro decides to do a 6" Titanium of him.
And there's a deeper darker more evil part of me that hopes Takara does a Masterpiece Shockwave.
At least I won't have to try to steal someone's overpriced chess piece now. I can settle for this little deformed one.
The Grimlock? He'll no doubt end up in the pile of KISS Player girls.
Mister Evebird's email made me crap my pants. The links therein full of insane but fleeting joy.
There were 3 recent custom Alternators on Ebay that are quite frankly 3 of the most beautiful pieces of custom plastic crack I've ever seen.
Alternator Insecticons!!!
Custom Alternator Kickback auction
Custom Alternator Schrapnel auction
Custom Alternator Bombshell auction
These guys are so drool-worthy. I'd have dropped a nice bit of scratch down on them.
Holy shit!!!
I never even knew he existed!!!
There's a 80% chance I'll get my holy grail Black Fire Convoy figure some day in the future.
But from the looks of it, there's less than a 1% chance I'll ever have a Black God Magnus.
Oh... Black God Fire Convoy... what a dream you are!
The Takara Super God Fire Convoy Toys R Us Japanese Exclusive giftset is mine!
The Master-Fucking-God-Sword is in da haus baby!!!
I just realized something.
Something really really scary.
I really really really want a black t-shirt that says in big white letters "Giant Fucking Robots Are Coming!"
I can't believe I actually typed this.
Damn! I really really really want a Shadow Recon Reverb figure!
He rocks the balls!
I so want this.
I mean. I could have the "Holy Grail" piece for only about $1450 and never have to buy another piece of plastic crack again.
Ever.
In the long run I'd probably save upwards of $10,000 or more over the next 7 or 8 years!
Yay!!!
Botcon actually has delivered something I really frigg'n want!!!
As I had hoped, the pre-Beast form Optimus Primal has been revealed and he's indeed based on the Cybertron Crumplezone mold.
Excellent!
Joy!
I envisioned this mold working perfectly and they delivered! His alt mode looks good too.
Unrelated to Botcon but of course, related to other cons and Transformers is the unveiling by Iacon One of their souveniers.
We get the two Beast Wars era golden disks!
It is Beast-a-riffic in 2006!
Roadbuster! Whirl! Chromedome! Broadside! Sandstorm! Twintwist! Topspin!
Droooooool....
There's actually a Takara Dai Atlas, Sonic Bomber, and Road Fire giftset up for sale.
I've never ever seen one in my entire life.
If you could only see how my pants are sticking to the chair. Oy!
