Post Pictures of your Transformers, Let's see 40 years worth of Transformers!
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I got you beat: I traded my G1 Bruticus for a broken/incomplete Inspector Gadget.
In my defense, Transformers had been donezo for a while, and I wound up watching a LOT of Inspector Gadget when they would air it on Nickelodeon.
This was before I wound up missing stuff. Now I almost never get rid of anything I've ever liked, if I can help it, unless I have extras.
I'm dealing with this, too. I was getting by for a while. Our basement was finished, but my wife never liked going downstairs after our kids were born, so she ended up just treating it like a dumping ground for all the stuff we couldn't fit upstairs. I eventually just carved out an area that was for my piles of crates.
Then we had a sewage backup in the basement in '22. Fortunately, it didn't rise high enough to directly hit more than a portion of the basement, but it still did a lot of damage and required largely emptying the basement to be able to fully repair everything. So coming out of that, we did a lot of work to really fix it up and have a nice living area down there.
Only problem is, now there's no place for my stacks of crates, which are now just filling up part of that nice, new living space. At this point, I have no choice. I really need to start unloading some stuff. I've been going through deciding what to get rid of, but I know I need to purge a lot more, and I haven't gotten to the actual process of taking pictures and listing stuff for sale.
Meanwhile, I've slowed my purchases of new stuff, but it's still coming in...
That grinding noise is my teeth, after I just got outbid on a Treadshot (no Catgut, but still). AND a Strika.
It's been 20 minutes and I'm still salty enough about it to give someone hypertension just by being in the same room.
Mine in 88
Computron Had 4 Scattorshot Lightspeed Afterburner Nosecone
Defensor Had 2 Hotspot and First Aid
Menasor Had 2 Motomaster and Breakdown
Superion Had 1 Silverbolt
Bruticus Had 1 Swindle
Devastator Had 3 Long Haul Hook and Scrapper
Abominus Had 1 Hun-Gurrr
Piranacon Had 2 Naulater Tintkill
Predaking Had none
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Never had even close to a full set of any combiner. I had 2 Technobots and a Slog. You can't make jack crap out of 2 Technobots and a Slog.
I had Devastator, Superion, Bruticus, Abominus, and Monstructor. As mentioned, Abominus got traded away. Devastator, Superion, and Bruticus are still in crates somewhere I think, but they were among the toys I played with the most, so they're not in good shape. In particular, Devastator technically can still be combined, but it takes quite a bit of effort to get him into a stable position, and it only remains stable so long as you don't breathe near him. Monstructor's in surprisingly good shape though, and I even fixed him up with some nice reprolabels.
I've gotten reissues for Devastator, Bruticus, Predaking, and Piranacon. I really wish reissues would happen for Menasor and Abominus! Doesn't seem likely to ever happen at this point, so I'm considering my options for them.
I've gotten reissues for Devastator, Bruticus, Predaking, and Piranacon. I really wish reissues would happen for Menasor and Abominus! Doesn't seem likely to ever happen at this point, so I'm considering my options for them.
Let's see, in G1, I had...
Aerialbots: Had all of Superion, for a time, until Air Raid was stolen by someone in school. Slingshot was one of my first Transformers, too. I think he came after Twin Twist. I think these guys were the ones that really started getting me into Transformers more, before the movie and whole '86 line hit.
Stunticons: Motormaster and Drag Strip.
Protectobots: Hot Spot and First Aid
Combaticons: All of them.
Technobots: All of Computron, and one of my favorites. If not THE favorite.
Terrorcons: Hun-Grrr, Blot, and Cutthroat.
Seacons: Just Overbite, and incomplete, at that. I got him in some sort of trade, as I recall. I don't even remember for what.
Combiner Wars, I didn't wind up with nearly as many. Japanese Computicon, all Combaticons except Onslaught, Motormaster, Sky Lynx, Hot Spot, Groove, Ironhide, and Powerglide (the last two being "honorary" members of the Technobots). Oh, and TR Cosmos, I guess?
From PotP, I have Snarl and Sludge.
Aerialbots: Had all of Superion, for a time, until Air Raid was stolen by someone in school. Slingshot was one of my first Transformers, too. I think he came after Twin Twist. I think these guys were the ones that really started getting me into Transformers more, before the movie and whole '86 line hit.
Stunticons: Motormaster and Drag Strip.
Protectobots: Hot Spot and First Aid
Combaticons: All of them.
Technobots: All of Computron, and one of my favorites. If not THE favorite.
Terrorcons: Hun-Grrr, Blot, and Cutthroat.
Seacons: Just Overbite, and incomplete, at that. I got him in some sort of trade, as I recall. I don't even remember for what.
Combiner Wars, I didn't wind up with nearly as many. Japanese Computicon, all Combaticons except Onslaught, Motormaster, Sky Lynx, Hot Spot, Groove, Ironhide, and Powerglide (the last two being "honorary" members of the Technobots). Oh, and TR Cosmos, I guess?
From PotP, I have Snarl and Sludge.
For G1 I have the Seacons, my only full team giving them a special place for me. Then started buying the Monster Pretenders but never got Wildfly and Birdbrain, and well you can make do without an arm but the waist piece of a combiner is arguably the most important part holding top and bottom together.
It wasn't until G2 that I got the Constructicons, don't remember why I passed on the other teams, and then RiD with Ruination for the Combaticons.
It wasn't until G2 that I got the Constructicons, don't remember why I passed on the other teams, and then RiD with Ruination for the Combaticons.
Been slowly unpacking my collection onto the shelves in my new office. The groupings are starting to take their final form.
Kinda neat to see my dream just unfold like that...
"It'll do you no good, Autobot! It cannot be opened!"
"Well yeah, some dummy filled in the finger holes."
"Also, was it always this big? It seems really big to me."
Speaking of Technobots I got a small haul and a second Afterburner
Im putting together a second Technobot team 1 for combined mode and a non combined team
There are rules cant spend more then 20 for any bot or part
So far I have got Scattorshot w/gun and Afterburner 3 more to go
Im putting together a second Technobot team 1 for combined mode and a non combined team
There are rules cant spend more then 20 for any bot or part
So far I have got Scattorshot w/gun and Afterburner 3 more to go
Nice! I need to find me a Hot Wheels UM, already have the Prime.
Afterburner there was one of the two I had (the other was Strafe.) For as simple as he was, I was always pretty enamored by him. I just absolutely loved the sci-fi, Tron bike alt mode.
Thrilling 30 Chromia is also super fun for that reason.
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I'm reminded of that group picture of 4 golden retrievers and one cat that had to be dragged into the frame to join.
"It's actually a size-changer."
"Wait, really?"
"Oh, yeah, absolutely. Go back and watch. No way my fingers would fit through those holes until it does."
"Huh. Neat."
It's basically Primus's version of The One Ring.