Introducing myself.

[Turtle4111]

Hi, all. I'm Turtle, or Dave.

It's been a long time since I've been on an old school board like this, it's great to have found one.I'm located in Australia, our Australian fan forum is gone now. Which is a massive shame. I've been into transformers for 32 years and have been collecting since 1994/95. My uncle introduced me to the transformers through the original movie.

I collect mostly Masterpiece Transformers from Takara and 3rd party companies, but I did collect mainline figures and G1 for many years..
I'm currently downsizing my collection, to finish my Masterpiece line-up. Regarding the titans, I'm not fussy if I have to use mainline figures to represent those characters for now. But I feel that bigger scale figures are a massive pain, only really because display space is so limited in my collection room. Which also doubles as my bedroom/office.

I'm curious if there's a section of the board to post my current collection up, for people to check out if they like?
Anyway, thanks for reading if you did. I look forward to getting acquainted with like minded people..

Cheers, Turtle.

[Time Traveller]

Welcome Turtle!
We try to keep it old school here on the forum, but admittedly traffic is not what it used to be. There are still a good little group of folks that hang out, though!
We'd love to see your collection, we've got a pinned post under Toy Talk for just that!
I've seen a lot of collectors move from MP scale to 3rd Party Legends like NewAge, Iron Factory, and Magic Square, citing your same concern about space constraints. The only problem is, a lot of those 3rd party brands aren't really much cheaper at the micro scale!

[Turtle4111]

Thanks, mate Appreciate the welcome.

Mmm, a small community is still stronger than none. Most of the boards I was a member of in the early 2000s have all gone to Facebook or shut down all together.
Great I'll try and get some pictures up soon.
When I started looking at the 3rd party figures, I was looking for Masterpiece figures and got caught out by a couple of the legend scale figures. I bought them thinking that they were Masterpiece scale. But I'm hooked up with a couple of awesome suppliers here in Australia, so there's never any confusion now. And I've pretty much established what figures I'm using in my collection, even if I haven't gotten it yet.
But I'm glad I found this site

[Time Traveller]

I'm glad you did too! We had an Australian regular years ago, but I am guessing the toy scene there is very different now. How many dealers of new and vintage product are there? Is a lot of your 3p market shipped directly from the manufacturers in China?

[Agent Meister]

Welcome Turtle