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Fistful of Energon wrote:not to be cliche but currently...Fort Max! I had the privilege to hold one at my local collectible toy shop and I fell in love! He is so BIG! and HEAVY! and I must one day own that beautiful behemoth!

The damned thing goes for some top $ and I have a tendency to be a bit of a deal hound when it comes to vintage figures so there goes alot of my choices. Someday...its a personal promise.

How tall is Fort Max?

WolfDawg wrote:

TraitorJ wrote:

WolfDawg wrote:My grail is the Botcon 2006 Dawn of Future's Past boxset. I had a few opportunities to buy the set for 600 bucks a few years ago, but had to pass due to financial reasons. Now it goes for a cool grand which is WAY more than I'm comfortable paying. However, I'm getting a pretty big settlement check by the end of this summer and I told my wife I was taking 1000 bucks to just splurge. I had my eye on some gym equipment, but there's a strong chance I'll try to snag that boxset...

Well, gym equipment isn't hard to come by, but that set is. I think you know what you must do.

As for my Grail... I don't really know. I've been thinking about this most of the week, and I don't really have a TF Grail.

The Grail of my collection of transforming toys was the Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad figures I got 4 years ago. Since then though, there hasn't been much that I've had that "I'll do anything to have that" feeling for.

Wiser words have never been spoken, my friend.

jordie5150 wrote:

RhA wrote:Your quest for Botcon Ratchet just goes to show that treasures and trash are a matter of perspective.

I really am having a hard time figuring out what exactly is the grail of my collection. Among my collection is are boxed Masterforce figures... Gilmer, Blood, Dauros, Lander, Cab and a load of others. The whole of those figures to me are my grails. Maybe Lander is the number 1 in there, given it's status as a mail away toy in Japan at the time.

One man's trash is another's treasure... Pretenders!

Funny you should mention Predaking. He was once one of my grails, but this was like 8 years ago before the current reissue. Predaking prices back then were insane, so I just kinda stopped caring about the guy. Even when the 2010 reissue was released, I had no desire to get the figure anymore and just let it slip away. Oddly enough, last week I won an eBay auction for a 2010 Predaking reissue set w/ Crazy Devy Kings Wings upgrade AND the reissue Seacons for 150 bucks! I was so excited that I went and ordered the Junkion Preadking power parts to add mine. I've been tracking the two packages and they should both be here by the end of the week! SOOOOOO freaking excited. I guess I obtained one of my old grails and then some!

nice. simply nice.

RAcast wrote:

Blurrz wrote:Sonic Assault Mini-con team

Huh, I've never heard of that one I-... Pfftt. xD
That's hilarious, I didn't know they did a fembot mini-con team. It's a good set of mini-con molds too, good lucking finding 'em!

I had to tfwiki them, lol

tentagil wrote:I collect the combiners so the big piece of my collection is Raiden the G1 Japanese only Trainbot. I only lack three G1 combiners now, and those are my Grails. DinoKing, Guard City, and Battle Gaea.

I actually thought my collecting of new figures would be over until Hasbro unveiled the FOC Bruticus. He'll be my only new figure purchase this year.

That DinoKing bad boy is expensive!

In the last week I've finally acquired two of my most serious grails: pieces I had been looking for a couple of years. First, I finally got my hands on a very nice and very complete Liokaiser! Arguably the best Transformers combiner ever: and I can finally testify that it is indeed very good (although it doesn't surpass G1 Devastator imho).

And secondly, I had been after a MISB Classic Heroes version G1 Wheeljack for a very long time. One was listed om eBay since somewhere last year, but at a BIN price that ensured I wouldn't buy it. In the meantime, last year one other appeared on eBay, I bid a pretty large sum on it but lost out at the last minute. Then, due to the buyer not coughing up, it got relisted(!) and again I bid a large sum on it and again lost out. Last week however, the one I had been watching for the too high BIN price was finally taken down by the seller, who changed ot to a real auction item. Once again I bid on it, and... I finally won it, for a much more comfortable price!

Funny thing is, when it was still on eBay as a BIN, I actually contacted the seller to ask if he'd sell it for a slightly lower price than he had it listed at. He refused, but now I will actually be paying him less than my offer was at the time!

alldarker wrote:Funny thing is, when it was still on eBay as a BIN, I actually contacted the seller to ask if he'd sell it for a slightly lower price than he had it listed at. He refused, but now I will actually be paying him less than my offer was at the time!

Nice. Very nice.

Back on track... For me, it's got to be Battle Convoy.

alldarker wrote:In the last week I've finally acquired two of my most serious grails: pieces I had been looking for a couple of years. First, I finally got my hands on a very nice and very complete Liokaiser! Arguably the best Transformers combiner ever: and I can finally testify that it is indeed very good (although it doesn't surpass G1 Devastator imho).

And secondly, I had been after a MISB Classic Heroes version G1 Wheeljack for a very long time. One was listed om eBay since somewhere last year, but at a BIN price that ensured I wouldn't buy it. In the meantime, last year one other appeared on eBay, I bid a pretty large sum on it but lost out at the last minute. Then, due to the buyer not coughing up, it got relisted(!) and again I bid a large sum on it and again lost out. Last week however, the one I had been watching for the too high BIN price was finally taken down by the seller, who changed ot to a real auction item. Once again I bid on it, and... I finally won it, for a much more comfortable price!

Funny thing is, when it was still on eBay as a BIN, I actually contacted the seller to ask if he'd sell it for a slightly lower price than he had it listed at. He refused, but now I will actually be paying him less than my offer was at the time!

Congratulations on owning a Liokaiser. Awesomesauce.

alldarker wrote:In the last week I've finally acquired two of my most serious grails: pieces I had been looking for a couple of years. First, I finally got my hands on a very nice and very complete Liokaiser! Arguably the best Transformers combiner ever: and I can finally testify that it is indeed very good (although it doesn't surpass G1 Devastator imho).

And secondly, I had been after a MISB Classic Heroes version G1 Wheeljack for a very long time. One was listed om eBay since somewhere last year, but at a BIN price that ensured I wouldn't buy it. In the meantime, last year one other appeared on eBay, I bid a pretty large sum on it but lost out at the last minute. Then, due to the buyer not coughing up, it got relisted(!) and again I bid a large sum on it and again lost out. Last week however, the one I had been watching for the too high BIN price was finally taken down by the seller, who changed ot to a real auction item. Once again I bid on it, and... I finally won it, for a much more comfortable price!

Funny thing is, when it was still on eBay as a BIN, I actually contacted the seller to ask if he'd sell it for a slightly lower price than he had it listed at. He refused, but now I will actually be paying him less than my offer was at the time!

Congrats on both!

SkyWarpt wrote:

tentagil wrote:I collect the combiners so the big piece of my collection is Raiden the G1 Japanese only Trainbot. I only lack three G1 combiners now, and those are my Grails. DinoKing, Guard City, and Battle Gaea.

I actually thought my collecting of new figures would be over until Hasbro unveiled the FOC Bruticus. He'll be my only new figure purchase this year.

That DinoKing bad boy is expensive!

Yes he is. In fact all three tend to run over a grand when I've spotted them. Unfortunately well beyond my price range at the moment. Kinda hoping we might see at least Dinoking as an Encore release at some point.

I'd really love a Monstructor rerelease minus the GPS issues as well. Poor guy is crazy fragile.