Couldn’t believe my eyes when my buddy, who told me Transformers were for nerds and pathetic loosers, came over with Evac today. I couldn’t wait to take him out of the box! I love his colors and that Mold. One Hasbro toy I really dig. I did tell him that I ran out of money before I could pick him up though…I knew he secretly dug the idea of collecting these toys. I mean, why else would he have come over with this killer toy in hand?! Haha! Logic 1 – Naysayers – 0
So I spent a whole week hunting down movie Formers I don’t have but want. I have continued to pass up payload, camshaft, and swindle because they still don’t do anything for me. Only a few 2007 movie toys I want to pick up and they are;
1) Cliffjumper
2) G1 Painted Jazz (target exclusive)
3) 3 Real gear toys: Meantime (is a MUST), High Score, and Power Up (maybe).
4) Evac
5) Rescue Ratchet
6) Both TRU exclusives (Wing Saber and Jetstorm)
7) Jolt, Grinocore, and Divebomb (wal mart exclusives)
8 ) Salvage
9) Takara Trans Scanning Optimus Prime
10) Takara Black Arcee or Takara Stockade
I don’t think I will pick up some other repaints like Jungle Bonecrusher, Overcast, etc…
Anyway here is what I got in the last week;
Monday the 18th
Deluxe Brawl is nothing special…
Tuesday the 19th
I only wanted 3 from the movie scout class; Arcee (left it at girlfriends), Elita 1, and Storm Surge
Wednesday the 20th
Wreckage is pretty awesome
Found countless Starscream’s for the first time since June. However, every box I saw was beat to hell. So I just opened it immediately.
Thursday the 21st
Couldn’t resist any more…had to pick her deluxe class up. Despite my distaste for the scale, in robot form she’s pretty dope.
Friday the 22nd
I wasn’t even planning on picking this version up, but I decided to anyway. Plus, this is the first time I have seen this Ratchet in stores around me.
Saturday the 23rd
Total impulse buy, I had no intention of getting this till I saw one of my girlfriends students with him. I wanted it for robot form only…because the scale of the jet mode is teh suck.
Sunday the 24th
Okay, by this time I am nearly broke haha. I was leaving San Diego and remembered seeing a Walmart off another street my girlfriend and I passed earlier in the day. I had to stop by and see their deluxe classes because I can’t resist. Well, I saw Jolt sitting on a rack about 2 feet away from where the deluxe classes were hanging so I hid it till I could look through the rest of the fromer toys. Actually forgetting I hid Jolt, I walked past an end cap with all the new exclusives just sitting there and a few Cliffjumpers. I couldn’t resist picking up the Walmart exclusive that I knew I’d buy before any of the others and that was definitely Big Daddy. I like the rest and hope I can find them next Monday after work (when I get paid again). They also had all the first wave voyagers just sitting there too. Lots of people must not go to that Walmart. Oh well more formers for me.
Here’s Big Daddy in all his floorgasmic glory.
I had a pretty successful week. There’s still some stuff bound to come out in the future. But I really should focus on picking up the Takara Collections once I get the 10 on my list.
It amuses me that I searched long and hard for Barricade only to pick up Recon Barricade first. Yes, repaints are sometimes cool but that one wasn’t. Anyway, I don’t even really like the mold Hasbro used for barricade and I definitely don’t like converting him to the security car form. My point being, I found Landmine on my way home from taking my girlfriend lunch for V-day, and I have to be honest, he and Stockade are better than most of the (in the) movie toys. He’s in my display case like this right now…love it.
