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What has been the hardest to come by, hardest find or complete toy in your collection? I want to hear your stories.

Have you ever been obsessed by an idea or a toy? Have you ever found a toy so captivating that you can't get it out of your mind? Have you ever loved a toy? There's a few toys out there I'm like that about and Jetfire is my biggest one. I've wanted one since I first saw them in the booklet that came with Soundwave. I managed to find one in a junk for sale bin in 1992 at the Jessamine Jamboree. I bought it for 10 dollars, but one wing was bent and wanted to get the other one that was with it as well, but didn't have all the money at the time. When I came back with the money it was sold. It didn't have any of the accessories and I've never seen them in person.

I've searched every flea market, every yard sale since then only to have missed out on them or not find them at all. The closest I came to one I could use to fix mine was about ten years ago with the same damage mine had minus the bent wing. One flea market I went to someone was selling their son's old toys he didn't care about anymore and I picked up a G1 Shockwave and Megatron for thirty, still in their boxes, but missing accessories. The woman said to me, "I'm surprise these are selling. I just sold a plane in the box. A white one about an hour ago. These are the last one he had. I just brought them in this morning." You can't imagine how much deep of a cut that was. That was about three years ago.

Just recently I've picked up a Jetfire that was missing his arms off of ebay. The guy that sold it to me was fantastic. I can't thank him enough for what he did, because he sold me a Jetfire that was in good enough shape to help fix mine and within my price range. Now all I have to do is get the accessories.

Trying to get the accessories makes me very nervous. I hate getting them off of Ebay, because it's so stinking expensive. $30 for the leg clips? Really? Oh well, I'll continue moving forward.

cant say ive got a grail but i look forward to completing my bookstyle reissues. and mix in a little encore in between as the current leave much to be desired.

Tough one. It's between Car Robots Brave Max (with Grand Sword and G1 Maximus gun) or Masterforce Overlord.

I've gotten some of my grails. The G2 Stormtroopers were the hardest to complete but I did last year.

Others I've obtained include:

Oversized Korean Bruticus

Oversized Robotmasters Wingstun and Wrecker Hook. 2 euro each, I couldn't believe it.

Botcon Leozack

Junior Chromedome was bought this week and I'm awaiting his arrival.

The grails I've yet to obtain are:

Oversized Machine Wars Thundercracker or Skywarp, not sure which one I actually saw.

Oversized Classics Astrotrain.

Botcon Astrotrain. Saw him for 20-30 euro on Ebay, missing his shield and Minicons. I hesitated but when I finally went to buy him in the last minute, my modem went down.

Machine Gun Robo that inspired Actionmaster Treadshot.

Kabaya Weirdwolf. Passed him up a couple months ago because he was so expensive but I really regret it.

Windcharger, at a decent price.

Windsweeper wrote:I've gotten some of my grails. (way too many)

Come on, dude, a "grail" is something UNIQUE that is HARD TO FIND. You can't have over 9000 grails. It's like saying every TF you like is a Grail. If you can find it easely on Ebay, it is NOT a Grail. No matter how much it is.

I, personally, have no Grails.I managed to have every TF I wanted at a decent price, even with all that extra shipping cost. 2010 Primus, Armada Unicron, complete Doubledealer, MP-01 Last Shot, and so on. And if I cant have the original or the original is too expensive, a re-issue is fine too. Like God Ginrai, G1 Prime (modded smokestacks), G1 Starscream ect.

The only possible grails for me would be Shattered Glass Starscream. He was a botcon exclusive. I would really want that figure, but that much money for a deluxe/voyager toy is too much. Beside, I already have Supreme Starscream. Still, I want the SG Screamers. But 150$-300$ for it will give me some serious buyers remorse.

There's could be Fortress Maximus, complete of course. Just for the honnor of having the largest TF ever. But he's so, SO expensive. I have the opportunity to have it locally for 600$. It is too expensive?

Anyway, I don't have that much money for a transformers...

I have a list of grails in my signature, and surprisingly enough, two entries were actually removed upon acquisition:

1: Wedge Shape
Wedge Shape is a redeco of Classics Dreadwing of the Predator Attack Team, and one of those rare Japanese giveaways. I was pretty surprised when Diem, who lived in Japan at the time, had a spare and sent it to me for free! He wasn't even that long on the list, only when I acquired Gredator and Apexus, Micron Booster repaints of the other two members.

Yes, I like Mini-Cons, the more the better.

2: Sky Garry
This one I had to get when I saw him. Actually, I may have seen him twice. This guy is a must have if you have Star Convoy. Now I'm missing only Grandus and am eagerly awaiting that day.

My third grail is not a Transformer item per se, but still related:

3: Gekion Gattai Big Volfogg
This guy's from Yuusha-Oh GaoGaiGar, part of the Yuusha/Brave series that replaced Transformers. Volfogg is a Ferrari police car, and a ninja! He also has two drones, GunGuru the helicopter and GunDober the motorcycle, and they combine into Big Volfogg.
Basically, anything Yuusha/Brave is a grail to me since they're so hard to get at the moment. Especially Fighbird and Da Garn has caught my eye.

Energon Omega Supreme, I will get you my pretty (insert cackle here)

godzillabot wrote:Energon Omega Supreme, I will get you my pretty (insert cackle here)

That's it. Keep a positive thought. I'm looking to get him too, but he's not as big a priority as finishing off my Jefire, She-ra, G1 Optimus Prime, Battle Armor He-man, the chest lid, weapons rack, key and door for Crystal Castle and a couple of others.

JelZe GoldRabbit: Yikes a Japanese fandom collector. Please don't hurt me.

I couldn't pass that up. Most of the Japanese fandom people I've met remind me of Comic Book Guy as the "Collector" from the Simpsons.