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I don't know what's funnier.

The fact that he's 30 and in a photo used for dropping the drinking age to 18.

Or the fact he's drinking next to Brave Maximus and is surrounded by other toys!

Way to go Despotes!

Only a photo of you and Omar in a drunken brawl at Botcon would have been better!

This has been the week for people to visit Plastic Crack and to email me about it!

I almost feel guilty that I've been fairly TF-content-less for so long but as always, the real world of stuff is intruding upon the already lackluster feelings I'm having about collecting right now.

(Though MrsDuce read the other day that I'd forgotten about the SDDC stuff and she and MrDuce were actually in San Diego and snagged me a set of everything! They are ten levels of awesome like that. Maybe it is all that damn TF love I send out coming back to me!)

Anyway, back to what I was blabbering about... oh yeah...

I came across your blogsite today and just writing an email from one Tranformers fan to another, I love your collection. I would also like to ask where you usually get your toys from especially the rare and exclusive ones. Ebay? I live in Singapore and its a little hard to find exclusives here because we do not have any major toy conventions here. I have to get them from Ebay. But sometimes I do stumble upon some great stuff here in Singapore. I have a blog of my own too which I recently just started. I collect mainly optimus prime. www.optimusprimeconvoy.blogspot.com
I also sell some rare and hard to find toys too. I saw your Black Super Fire God Convoy and can you please tell me if you ever find one? I want one too. Loose or mint doesn't matter as long as its complete. But anyway love your collection. Transformers rock.

Palpmaster;s got a Convoyfetish going on.

Actually, I've noticed quite a few in TFgeekdom that really love the *fill in the blank* Primes!

I've never been a huge fan of the Optimii other than Optimus Primal and the Totally Kick Your Ass A Thousand Times Before You Know It Lucky Draw Black Fire Convoy.

Though quite frankly, looking at his Convoy pics has made me realize I gotta let my translucent Micron Densetsu Conovy out of the package one day. And my I Can't Believe I Paid That Much For A TakaraTomy Fusion Cluster Protoform Convoy.

They are the love though.

See? There's a little love popping up today.

And once in gmail I read...

I'm just writing to let you know that I'm a huge fan of your blog~!!! I'm a faithful reader and check for updates all the time. In fact, you inspired me to start up my own blog about robots. However, my angle on it is to also feature my other hobby, which is playing rock music. You should check it out as I have a few posts already set up.

www.rockandrobots.blogspot.com

If you could link me on your site, I'd really appreciate it, and I'd appreciate any feedback or advice you have for a robot fans like yourself~!

Advice? From me? Nala? Bitter and jaded Transformers collector?

Well Mr. Kang, the only advice I can share with you is finish your graduate degree and post-doc, don't buy a house near people who drink 24 hours a day, and if you do buy a house make sure your basement is sound and doesn't leak.

That's the best advice I have.

Oh.

And don't waste your hard earned money on too many gay toy robots.

Get just the right about.

Not too many.

Or else... you'll end up bitter and jaded about having a shitload of toy robots you don't want.

(And the thought will go through your mind that it is easier to just throw them out than try to go through all the effort of selling them.)

It is a rare occurrence in my world when I read two sentences that are so insanely brilliant and just happen to be consecutive.

I give you...

Those Voltrons were so heavy and metal they could have opened for Iron Maiden. Oftentimes I found myself standing directly beneath the mighty metal lion Voltron watching him hang there all heavy and mighty, just as God's balls hang heavy and mighty in the sky above mankind.

My god I just love that man's writing.

I'm not even Fistfight to his Action Master Shockwaveyness!

This is quite frankly the best commentary about Voltron toys I've ever read.

I love to read when others have those "what the fuck" moments when it comes to adult toy collecting. It makes me feel less isolated in the collective 12 Step group we all are a part of.

I think "hyperarticulated reconfigurable paperweights" just may be my new favorite phrase too. And it'd make a kiss ass band name, no?

That said, I think it may just be the true medical name for plastic crack addiction - Articulated Reconfigurable Paperweightophilia.

In other news in my real world, I ripped the front facade of the garage off!

[Oh. And I'll get some Whogoodness out to you shortly Hoop. I've just been a bit busy.]

Yes.

I bought her Shockwave Munny.

And no, you may not touch him.

I stopped posting and even really viewing the Flickr Transformers pools I belong to a long time ago.

Alas, I haven't seen Revlimit's stuff in a while and damn, if this Masterpiece Megatron pic isn't fantastic!

I never bought the add-ons for mine.

In fact, I don't think I ever put him in gun mode either.

So I'm putz'n around this site The Pimp Sled from this guy Altitron on the TFClub boards.

He's done some sketches and shit and damn if there's just all kinds of Shockwavey goodness there!

I think my favorite is this drawing of Grimlock ripping off Shockwave's "proper" arm while Shockwave literally puts a bullet in Grimlock's brain! Damn!

His TF Movie Shockwave idea is awesome too.

I like his Animated Shockwave Concept too.

Oh hell... I'll take the purple and grey one in any shape, way, or form I can find him!

Well. Pretty much so.

Congratulations to Mr. Hooper_X and now Mrs. Hooper_X.

On your wedding day, in the slightly butchered, yet immortal words of Luca Brasi, I tell you... "May your first child be a masculine child. (And still like toy robots when he is 30.)"

Wow!

Teresa got it go'n on!

Giga emails me he's reading one of his sites and they're blogging about Teresa sewing!

What a bad crazy net the internets weave.

I had a discussion recently with a long time Friend Of The Crack and I really can't disagree with him at all.

Now he's been an attendee of the GRC since either the first or second one and his addiction has spanned many more years than mine, moving with the ebb and flow of Transformers product throughout the various eras.

I went with him to my first GRC back in 2003 and every year since but this year, for both of us, the love just isn't there any more. Not only for the con but for a good chunk of everything else!

He mentioned to me that he probably will now only make a day trip of it, and then only because he's got to get the things he's already paid for . He's even considered taking the small hit and canceling his Primus package because he just doesn't care anymore and the expense can't be justified this year.

He's even decided to drop the monthly hamster cage liner and once again, I can't fault him for that one bit.

The thing is... if it wasn't for wanting to get my yearly fix of Zeta Convoy, Mr and Missus Duce, Despotes, and the few others I enjoy meeting up with, I would probably just do exactly the same thing!

The chance to see these people is the only thing keeping me from total apathy right now. My sense of being... and I use this loosely... part of the fandom... revolves around the people I've met and has absolutely nothing to do with the product any more.

The con toys this yearhave zero interest for me. Zilch.

If I don't dump them immediately at the con for maybe dealer table credit I may end up quickly breaking up the sets and auction them or offering them to you all. (My honest feeling on this is that a lot more people will be dumping this set than keeping it so I've got to try and do it before others do.)

This may change when I see the actual figures but quite frankly, I know right now that Jazz, Richochet, Goldbug, the minicon, and even the Prime hold no real interest for me. And my Starscream interest is really tenuous at best.

In our discussions, my friend and I kept coming back to the same problems we have with FP and the con in general now and sure enough, I think a huge part of our issues are with something I've talked about a lot on here: the adult collector.

Neither of us really can tolerate spending money on events or things that we do not know exactly what we will get before hand.

And Botcon unfortunately, is now all about prepaying for something vague and even then historically the same old thing over and over again.

I don't care what the FP apologists say, the fact there's no guest list, and especially one of any uniqueness or caliber, really has to warrant consideration for me again.

I've plopped down thousands of dollars to attend professional conventions and conferences and I know up front exactly what I'm getting and when I can attend it.

Should I expect any less from a toy convention where my typical expenses still run around $1200 or so?

Hell no!

Toy conventions, useless clubs, blogs, and all the other pointless shit don't even bring any enjoyment to me anymore.

And my fandom frustrations? Oy koledy! I don't even want to go there.

I don't even care to even post here anymore (and certainly not contribute elsewhere)... if I did I'd have finished the site redesign and such but it just doesn't matter. This was only supposed to be an online database to keep track of what I owned.

Indeed... maybe it is time I swallow my own pills and remember that they're just fucking toys and move on and pursue my adult interests because frankly, like my friend, when it comes down to it, I really don't care any more either.

Kid's toys, a kid's cartoon, and shitty Hollywood movies based on kid's toys and kid's cartoons aren't worth wasting time on anymore. My own retardation is the only reason I can say why I've lingered for so long with this crap.

My adult frustrations with the con are merely just the tip of the proverbial iceberg for me. Most of you probably know this already. Especially you long time readers.

Maybe it is indeed time for me to just enjoy the little bits of this addiction on a personal level and to say Do widzenia to all this online and fandom toy silliness.

Congratulations to Mister and Missus Despotes!

I've neither read nor for that matter have I ever seen a copy of Transformers Magazine but this post about it over at Tformers.com had something that made me happy.

There's nothing happier than actually seeing a kid with Transformers toys!!!

It puts a smile on my face that the past few GRCs have actually had some kids there, happily playing with toys in the n10zguy and Evebird guarded toy area, while hundreds and hundreds of us whiny ass adult bitches aimlessly wander the same 2 rows of tables over and over and over and over again looking for some ungodly pointless thing to put on a shelf.

I'm happy I'm over my totally insane and pointless "mint-in-box" era of collecting as well.

What a sad thing it is to waste large sums of cash on stuff and then have it sit there unopened on a shelf as it had any real human value whatsoever.

You know that one day I'll just a give my Black Fire Convoy away to some kid or charity.

It is going to happen.

You know it.

I know it.

And on that day, I think I'll let The Hoont chew on Botcon 2007 Thundercracker for kicks too.

Psst...

Frowny?

You alive out there?

Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV (Reuters)

Mark? Is it true?

naladahc said...

How did my comment for this post end up on the other one?

It is like I stumbled into a Filthy Sanchez party and wasn't even invited!

then Evil King Macrocranios said...

That's how I feel every time I go to Botcon as a walk-in.

Ah.

I loves the internets.

We here at PlasticCrack.com pity the loss of the Evil King's hair and hope that like some long lost member of the tribe of Dan, his powers will not be diminished at its passing.

So I saw the two "Theft of the Golden Disks" videos over at Transformersclub.com.

Not bad at all.

Cool that David Kaye dropped some Beast Megs down too.

What's funny?

Comments on YouTube.

Stuff like "Still the animation was god awful. Honestly the original series looked and animated better and it was made in the mid 90s." blows my mind.

It isn't frigg'n Mainframe doing this.

This is fandom at its finest with people working their asses off on something like this.

Those are the kinds of comments where I want to punch people in the pussy.

Maybe they'll do some more and we'll get a little Unit 2.

I loves me some Unit 2.

Oh. And he's love too. Love. Love. Love.

And then I read...

We must remember that legitimacy for a pop culture entertainment franchise is not having a movie or bubble bath bottles shaped like the main protagonist, legitimacy is having people not laugh at you when you quote lines from that movie in public or tell people you use that bubble bath.

...which may be my favoritest line I've read on the web this week.

This may be the best Hallowe'en pumpkin I've come across.

I mean... the damn thing's motorized (video)!!!

The old school cylon pumpkin is pretty cool too.

I don't know.

I kinda think everyone who owns an Omega Supreme should kind of pose for a pic like this with him.

Oh well.

I can be lame like that.

I haven't been a good internet friend lately to anybody.

I barely every look at people's Flickr galleries and haven't contributed a meaningful comment on any of my fellow bloggers' sites in ages.

Hell. Over the past 18 months, and especially since the movie, the Flickr Transformer groups have become innundated with so many people basically retreading the same style and technique of other people that I don't bother even posting my pics there anymore or even looking at the galleries. (Not that mine were really ever any good.)

I decided to do a crash-update for my Flickr peeps and I gotta say that Ben Grimm's Doc Ock here is fantastic!

He's become a great photographer and I really think his non toy photos are his best.

His color saturation on this one is just perfect.

And this one?

If that's not indicative of a healthy geek attitude then I don't know what is.

You can't take any of this shit too seriously and that's the way to go.

And The Chocolate Wonder? Damn... I'm still trying to determine if this is the pure personification of Transformers apathy or not?

Well... s'why he's called Loco Esteban no?

Transformers + Doctor Who + Cosplay = ?

On the whole, the Revoltech TFs seem to be extremely popular on Flickr in the various TF groups.

What's really funny is there aren't many, if any at all, of the movie Revoltechish figures, being used as sources for shots.

Personally, while they may be somewhat poseable, the movie ones just seem so ugly and lack the charm of the 3 G1 Revoltechs.

Hell, everytime I pick up Magnus I just can't put him down and have to change his pose.