I should have bought that set. Been regretting passing on it for a while now.
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I should have bought that set. Been regretting passing on it for a while now.
The Space Camp nerd in me didn't like 1) how the Astro Squad in the set didn't have an accurate shuttle deco and 2) how the shuttle rocket only included the external tank and not the solid rocket boosters.
So I rectified those shortcomings
I can’t believe I missed this part of Only Human…
EDIT: Posting from mobile so I had to use a 3rd party app to compress the image. Sorry for the poor quality.
I see Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker in that line as some sort of Idol Group, Megatron as their stern manager with a homicidal attitude towards fanboys, and Optimus and Bumblebee as two fangirls on the other side of a Youtube window offering commentary while Op's twin sister is going through her goth phase in a different room and refuses to talk to either of them.
Like looking in a mirror.
I'm going to have trouble not buying Dirge
40th Anniversary: The Beast Era. This is when I became a collector. My first BW figure was Inferno. I bought a lot of show characters (or repaints thereof) in the following years. Sometime around 2000, I found a kiosk in the mall selling some year-one Takara BW. I picked up Cheetor and Tigatron, who I find really charming. These were my first Takara figures.
I broke no figures with this photoshoot, but if you look closely on the left of the first photo, you'll see the remains of Hasbro's TM Megatron who completely fell apart a couple years ago. Also, I broke BM Nightscream's leg a few years ago.
Beast Wars (Hasbro/Kenner) featuring mostly original-run stuff, but a few 10th Anniversary reissues:
Beast Wars (Takara) and Beast Machines (with Generations Tankor):
More photos behind the spoiler:
I like the Beast Wars Neo animal modes, but goodness, what a pain to transform.
I broke no figures with this photoshoot, but if you look closely on the left of the first photo, you'll see the remains of Hasbro's TM Megatron who completely fell apart a couple years ago. Also, I broke BM Nightscream's leg a few years ago.
Beast Wars (Hasbro/Kenner) featuring mostly original-run stuff, but a few 10th Anniversary reissues:
Beast Wars (Takara) and Beast Machines (with Generations Tankor):
More photos behind the spoiler:
I like the Beast Wars Neo animal modes, but goodness, what a pain to transform.
One of the things that I like about the Beast Wars toyline is, aside from Megatron and Optimus Primal, the figures were all new designs, and had some amazing new characters in them. Now, I am one that loves his G1 with Knees CHUG lines or the Mini-masterpiece toylines we are getting now, but Beast Wars had some real great original designs/figures that were cool on their own merit.
LROP should always be kept! Unless you are giving him to me. 
It looks like he is being controlled by a higher power with those white eyes
I have the takara Scourge verison of that mold and I have no intentions of letting him go, the resently Legacy figure came close to what the desgin could do but the desginers blew it in the desgining process by giving him static shoulder pads instead of letting the shoulder pads move with the arm, similar to what they did to Legacy Armada Megatron
legacy laser prime is fun and all that but it really is missing a certain je ne sais quoi that the OG mold has
and by 'je ne sais quoi', i, of course, mean 'the frickin trailer and all of its gimmicks of the original g2 mold and its various reuses completely kicks the ass out of the pathetic trailer that the legacy version comes with'
so i guess i actually je sais quoi
and by 'je ne sais quoi', i, of course, mean 'the frickin trailer and all of its gimmicks of the original g2 mold and its various reuses completely kicks the ass out of the pathetic trailer that the legacy version comes with'
so i guess i actually je sais quoi
I had him standing in just the right spot to show off the light-piping in his eyes.
I worry about storing the trailer all folded up - I don't want something to crack, but leaving it open on a shelf for the last several years resulted in a lot of dust. I've thought about taking out the springs, though. The rocket launcher still works, the little rapid-fire missiles work, and the disk shooter probably works, too. And my grandson could have fun with it (carefully supervised . . . a few years from now)
We'll see. Maybe I can create some space somewhere.
I worry about storing the trailer all folded up - I don't want something to crack, but leaving it open on a shelf for the last several years resulted in a lot of dust. I've thought about taking out the springs, though. The rocket launcher still works, the little rapid-fire missiles work, and the disk shooter probably works, too. And my grandson could have fun with it (carefully supervised . . . a few years from now)
We'll see. Maybe I can create some space somewhere.
And he lacks stickers.
OH, if ONLY there was company that specializes in REPROduction LABELS for TOYs that lACKS it's simple yet iconic details and wouldn't go overboard with excessively needless flourishes that leave a toy practically mummified by stickers.
But, that is but a dream.
OH, if ONLY there was company that specializes in REPROduction LABELS for TOYs that lACKS it's simple yet iconic details and wouldn't go overboard with excessively needless flourishes that leave a toy practically mummified by stickers.
But, that is but a dream.
