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DeceptiBotPoopyPants (on message board): So, when is a special edition a special edition?

AutoConBasementLivr (reply): When it is this shit?

DeceptiBotPoopyPants: Word!

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Sometimes I really love Hasbro! I love 'em as much as I love Obama and McCain!

So we'll take a horribly shitty figure that was part of a 2-pack for $20, put it out again as a "special edition"., but now we'll charge you $15 for 1 shitty figure instead of $20 for 2. (And we'll do this same to this shitty Megatron from the 2-pack, but at least we'll paint him like that Movie Wreckage figure.)

Oy koledy!

Hah!

While I find this all immensely funny-ha-ha I gotta say, thank f'n god Hasbro finally got around to borrowing an idea from Takara! The packaging for these at least separates these "special editions" from the regular lines.

I've always been a fan of when Takara/e-Hobby did the one-color boxes to signify something was a low run exclusive or somesuch. It saves a little bit of money but it really separates the thing from the rest!

Now Evebird also sent me the link to the Classics Mirage repaint as Drag Strip for these releases. Yeah. I'll be a loser and buy that. Lord knows I need yet another repaint of the Mirage mold!

But happy funtime yellow?

Oh yeah baby! Me make love to you long time!

Titanium Skywarp is the 2073nd Transformer that I've acquired.

I don't know.

I just expected more.

He's just... I don't know.

That face just doesn't quite have the character of Megatron from the show.

I like a certain regal arrogance in my Megatrons. Hell, I'd have settled for the Beast Wars Reborn retooled smirk even.

I think my favorite new part is the disclaimer on the instructions: "Some parts are made to detach if excessive force is applied..."

Yeah. His legs fell off while Transforming him.

Then again, he's not all that solid or sturdy of a figure in bot more his cyberthing mode.

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TF Animated Megatron is the 2069th Transformer that I've acquired.

My Father's Day present.

TF Animated Bumblebee is the 2068th Transformer that I've acquired.

I had very high hopes for him.

But out of the package, his cockpit won't really close and the one turret keeps falling off.

Not good.

TF Animated Lugnutis the 2067th Transformer that I've acquired.

TF Animated Grimlock is the 2066th Transformer that I've acquired.

TF Animated Blackarachnia is the 2065th Transformer that I've acquired.

So on the way home from dinner we passed Wal-Mart and stopped in. They were cleaned out of quite a few figures but I snagged a Ratchet.

I'm kinda shocked though.

He's more light grey than white.

TF Animated Ratchet is the 2064th Transformer that I've acquired.

Well. I guess I'll be keeping him.

This slightly repainted Transformers Movie Bumblebee is the 2035th Transformer that I've acquired.

So DL had an extra Big Daddy and quite frankly I no longer have the inclination to drive around the frick'n Cowlands looking for a silly toy.

So I bought it off of him.

Transformers Movie Big Daddy is the 2031st Transformer that I've acquired.

Yeah. I had to get him. I was really looking for Big Daddy but alas, he was not to be found.

And the grey and purple goodness just appeals to me so much. I just can't explain it.

Now I will say he'll never be leaving car mode. I can't stand the bot mode on him at all but I do love the car a lot.

I almost bought Stockade and Divebomb but I really didn't want Stockade and Divebomb's paint deco is actually pretty garish.

Oh well... I must now find me the Daddy of Bigness!

Transformers Movie Jolt is the 2030th Transformer that I've acquired.

Transformers Movie Storm Surge is the 2022nd Transformer that I've acquired.

Transformers Movie Crosshairs is the 2021st Transformer that I've acquired.

Transformers Movie Warpath is the 2020th Transformer that I've acquired.

Look what I found today.

Actual new crack non-repaint crack that I've wanted.

I'm thinking that once the toyroom is remodeled that some of these jets, planes, and helicopter TFs might best be served suspended from the ceiling.

Transformers Movie Incinerator 2018th Transformer that I've acquired.

So last night I get this email from Evebird about Hasbro now hawking AFA-graded bullshit on their site and lo and behold, the url doesn't work today.

Personally, it feel it is pretty bad form for Hasbro to put a $199 bullshit AFA-graded item on their mainstream site for a toy that was aimed at collectors in the first place but made practically impossible to also acquire in the first place. Of course, they can do whatever they want though. It is a fool that pays $199 for the damn thing anyway.

Then again, their utterly pointless "exclusives" to retail outlets that don't even bother to put them on their own website stores also blows my mind.

Alas, those stores can also do whatever they want.

I've given up even trying to find a Wal-Mart Masterpiece Starscream in a damn store and the days of me driving all over the place to find a fucking toy are long since past.

And believe me, it isn't $3 a gallon that killed that either.

For the most part, the only reason I care about any of this craziness any more is the fact that I now really look forward to going to the Gay Robot Convention to meet up with Tom, Kristin, Greg, Mike, and the rest for a few days.

I think it may just be possible for me to buy the occasional piece of crack and just really do the one event to just be social.

And that... that's almost damn healthy!

[Update: I was reading over at B-W's site about the whole AFA silliness and fandom reaction. More than I would ever realize in my sheltered TF internet reading. I may have to actually go into forums and read them now. Grrrr.]

Spectroscott found me one just before coming down from the North for Pierogi Day.

Transformers Movie Bumblebee 2008th Transformer that I've acquired.

I can't knock small toys.

They both look ok.

And they were the best likely DVD-extra I'd have wanted, with the possible exception of seeing that mini-movie on the Wal-Mart DVD. I figure that'll make it online someday anyway.

Transformers Robot Heroes Movie Cliffjumper and Battle-Damaged Movie Optimus Prime are the 2006th and 2007th Transformers that I've acquired.

Now this is the way Ratchet should have looked from the very beginning!

And you can't say to me the movie's green/yellow works better! Not for this character.

I'll give you the Ironhide black but Ratchet has to be this palette!

Transformers Rescue Ratchet is the 2005th Transformer that I've acquired.

I find it extremely funny that the toys I love the most aren't in the movie at all!

Transformers Longarm is the 2004th Transformer that I've acquired.

Transformers Payload is the 2003rd Transformer that I've acquired.

Can I tell you how much I love this f'n toy!

This guy is fantastic!!!

Transformers Movie Arcee 2002nd Transformer that I've acquired, this time from Teresa.

Um.... I think Jin Saotome's Final Battle Jazz is a thousand times better.

Visible spine damage beats bleh repaint/retool in this comparison.

Movie Final Battle Jazz is the the 2001st Transformer that I've acquired.

Painting it yellow and black does not a Bumblebee make.

Transformers Legends Bumblebee is the the 1998th Transformer that I've acquired.

Transformers Legends Jetfire is the the 1997th Transformer that I've acquired.