Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:45 pm
wow guys, looking through so many of the collection pics I missed just makes me want to cry.... there are some awesome collections on here that just remind me how much space I don't have to display stuff myself. Now, do I spend money on finding a bigger property, or just get more TFs? Mrs S may have something to say on that soon 
ha ha.
Anyway, I'm still an oddball collector really. Since selling a lot of my stuff about two years ago as some wedding funds (which was totally worth it by the way - I'm gonna post some wedding and holiday pics soon in the general forum), and then not buying any TFs really due to saving for the wedding, I've still got what I would consider a fairly small collection. I do have a few nice ones though at least... I'll just put up what I have on display for now, and will later add some of the ones I have away in storage.
First off - my masterpieces. Personally, these are easily my favourite range of TFs. Yes, even over G1 (waits for 90% of board to turn in their grave
)... ha ha. OK, i'll never have the memories attached to MPs like I do some G1 figures, but you gotta admit that if you'd had the MPs available as a kid, you'da squealed(!)
I'm only missing Thundercracker and the upcoming Ghost Starscream, as well as a couple of Prime variants... I don't have room to display two of my other seekers, the Takara boxed versions of Starscream and Skywarp, though you'll notice I have the Takara greenscream in the Hasbro box... it was just by chance that this one was in robot mode after displaying him for a while out of box, and the hasbro one was in jet mode, so they ended up in opposite boxes... I also have my custom MP Sunstorm up there too.
I got the MP Megs and 3 main versions of Takara prime here, as well as the ehobby D62S purple Galvatron. Shockingly, he is the only G1 figure I have at the moment, and even he's a reissue(!) ha ha. The Ultra Magnus up there is also the original Takara release, not the Takara/Tomy '08 reissue.
...and on here I have another prime variant, the 20th Anni one with battle damage, along with both MP Grimlocks. The normal one is out of his box, but the king MP08x one is sealed in his box... I'm torn as to whether to open if only to look at him, I haven't decided yet(!) lol. Since I had two MP Grimmy's on here and a few other Grimlocks from other series, I decided to put them together - including also my only single G2 figure, a blue Grimlock.
I have the two Unicron variants here, along with Energon Omega Supreme (and some foreign money lol). Unicron is still playing one of the real gear robot game consoles, after all these years (I don't have the heart to take it off him)
I've got my 3 THS hybrid figures 01, 01B and 02 here, along with titanium Ultra Magnus and Micromaster Devastator, which I love all together because they all look in scale and G1 style to me, apart from Galaxy Force of course, which just looks awesome anyway methinks. I love this little miniature version of him compared to the full size one. If there's anyone out there who hasn't seen the hybrid raneg before, they're awesome. They're almost identical to the MP range in articulation and transformation, but they're much smaller. The main figure is about 5 inches tall, and so awesomely detailed... I'll do some more detailed pics on them soon.
I've really enjoyed the animated figures recently, and only have a few left to get now. There's also the ROTF jetfire up there too, which is about the only place and way I can display him to see that awesome SR-71 silhouette
It's a shame that the undercarriage of it was such a mess compared to this lovely smooth top appearance, huh? A few of the animated ones I have are from the activators range, which while we were on honeymoon in Florida in September, were a bit of a coup for me, as I had been on that long TF break, and the Mrs let me buy these as they were only $5 each in countless walgreens stores. A few I kept in boxes, like a Grimlock variant and Thundercracker, as well as a SunStorm I found with activator Ratchet. The activators are really cool actually, I like the partially spring loaded transformation which is more complex than I first assumed they would be. You can also see the 5 different animated Megs variants, or rather, one of them is rather obstructed, but they're all there. You can also see two Disney Transformers that I got in one of the parks whilst abroad of course... couldn't resist, they're pretty funky little figures actually. Got quite a few 'tater heads in shot too ha ha
And finally my Star Wars TFs which are almost 100% complete... I think I have 3 missing currently. Some variants are boxed and away, but the majority are out on display here. Many don't consider these real TFs, and I can see both sides of the argument, but for me, I love Star Wars, I love TFs, what's not to love? For the most part, they're great in their vehicle modes, and some are pretty good in robot mode too - general greivous and darth maul I particularly like. Eventually, I may put these away to make room to display some other planned purchases. I'm also going to do a more concentrated look in pictures at some of the masterpiece TFs soon when I get to it, for anyone interested or unsure about any of these from the MP range.
And that's all I have room for to actually put out currently... As you can see, I'm a fan of quite oddball TFs, particularly toy lines that have a crossover with another brand. I'm yet to get any of the Marvel range, but again, those for me are really interesting. I'm a fan of most large figures from any range, and will continue to collect what I do, the weird stuff
ha ha.Anyway, I'm still an oddball collector really. Since selling a lot of my stuff about two years ago as some wedding funds (which was totally worth it by the way - I'm gonna post some wedding and holiday pics soon in the general forum), and then not buying any TFs really due to saving for the wedding, I've still got what I would consider a fairly small collection. I do have a few nice ones though at least... I'll just put up what I have on display for now, and will later add some of the ones I have away in storage.
First off - my masterpieces. Personally, these are easily my favourite range of TFs. Yes, even over G1 (waits for 90% of board to turn in their grave
)... ha ha. OK, i'll never have the memories attached to MPs like I do some G1 figures, but you gotta admit that if you'd had the MPs available as a kid, you'da squealed(!)I'm only missing Thundercracker and the upcoming Ghost Starscream, as well as a couple of Prime variants... I don't have room to display two of my other seekers, the Takara boxed versions of Starscream and Skywarp, though you'll notice I have the Takara greenscream in the Hasbro box... it was just by chance that this one was in robot mode after displaying him for a while out of box, and the hasbro one was in jet mode, so they ended up in opposite boxes... I also have my custom MP Sunstorm up there too.
I got the MP Megs and 3 main versions of Takara prime here, as well as the ehobby D62S purple Galvatron. Shockingly, he is the only G1 figure I have at the moment, and even he's a reissue(!) ha ha. The Ultra Magnus up there is also the original Takara release, not the Takara/Tomy '08 reissue.
...and on here I have another prime variant, the 20th Anni one with battle damage, along with both MP Grimlocks. The normal one is out of his box, but the king MP08x one is sealed in his box... I'm torn as to whether to open if only to look at him, I haven't decided yet(!) lol. Since I had two MP Grimmy's on here and a few other Grimlocks from other series, I decided to put them together - including also my only single G2 figure, a blue Grimlock.
I have the two Unicron variants here, along with Energon Omega Supreme (and some foreign money lol). Unicron is still playing one of the real gear robot game consoles, after all these years (I don't have the heart to take it off him)
I've got my 3 THS hybrid figures 01, 01B and 02 here, along with titanium Ultra Magnus and Micromaster Devastator, which I love all together because they all look in scale and G1 style to me, apart from Galaxy Force of course, which just looks awesome anyway methinks. I love this little miniature version of him compared to the full size one. If there's anyone out there who hasn't seen the hybrid raneg before, they're awesome. They're almost identical to the MP range in articulation and transformation, but they're much smaller. The main figure is about 5 inches tall, and so awesomely detailed... I'll do some more detailed pics on them soon.
I've really enjoyed the animated figures recently, and only have a few left to get now. There's also the ROTF jetfire up there too, which is about the only place and way I can display him to see that awesome SR-71 silhouette
It's a shame that the undercarriage of it was such a mess compared to this lovely smooth top appearance, huh? A few of the animated ones I have are from the activators range, which while we were on honeymoon in Florida in September, were a bit of a coup for me, as I had been on that long TF break, and the Mrs let me buy these as they were only $5 each in countless walgreens stores. A few I kept in boxes, like a Grimlock variant and Thundercracker, as well as a SunStorm I found with activator Ratchet. The activators are really cool actually, I like the partially spring loaded transformation which is more complex than I first assumed they would be. You can also see the 5 different animated Megs variants, or rather, one of them is rather obstructed, but they're all there. You can also see two Disney Transformers that I got in one of the parks whilst abroad of course... couldn't resist, they're pretty funky little figures actually. Got quite a few 'tater heads in shot too ha haAnd finally my Star Wars TFs which are almost 100% complete... I think I have 3 missing currently. Some variants are boxed and away, but the majority are out on display here. Many don't consider these real TFs, and I can see both sides of the argument, but for me, I love Star Wars, I love TFs, what's not to love? For the most part, they're great in their vehicle modes, and some are pretty good in robot mode too - general greivous and darth maul I particularly like. Eventually, I may put these away to make room to display some other planned purchases. I'm also going to do a more concentrated look in pictures at some of the masterpiece TFs soon when I get to it, for anyone interested or unsure about any of these from the MP range.
And that's all I have room for to actually put out currently... As you can see, I'm a fan of quite oddball TFs, particularly toy lines that have a crossover with another brand. I'm yet to get any of the Marvel range, but again, those for me are really interesting. I'm a fan of most large figures from any range, and will continue to collect what I do, the weird stuff
thanks 
look fwd to that vid, that would b awesome!
hehe
