by craggy » Fri May 31, 2013 1:54 pm
picked up BH Ratchet from the post office today. Nice. The minty ice-cream cone thing is a bit poo. It doesn't even spin all that well. If it had done, it might have been awesome enough for me not to care that it's awkward, ugly and makes less sense than a lot of things in Transformers.
Thankfully the (Dino-?)bot himself is pretty nice. I might have said this a few (hundred) times around the internet, but he's going to be a Classics Junkion medic/engineer/repairman character I'm calling Salvage. Am considering painting over the white, but the rest of the colours are damned nice. The swirly Caramac coloured main body/legs/back bits look especially junk-y, I just hope the plastic won't dissolve in 5 years. The darker red on his bumbpers and arms and roof is pretty decent too. There's no way in hell this is any sort of ambulance. Looks more like something out of Mad Max or Scrapheap Challenge. Which suits my purposes just fine.
Popped into Toys R Us on the way home too. Shouldn't have bothered. They did have a lot of PRID Voyagers. A whole lot. OP, Megs, BH, SS and Dreadwing. Didn't see Magnus or Thundertron and definitely no Skyquake, who was the only one I was really looking for. Saw a Steve, and maybe 2 other bots from his wave. Bajillions of BotShots, RPMs, Stealth Force, Other Assorted Crap too. Some MP10s left. I think some larger DOTM stuff, and a smallish hive of Cyberfire Bees. Loads of FOC Data Disks, but no deluxes. Some of the larger Prime stuff too, the Maximus thing, the Driller and that, but nowt new.
Really looking forward to the Tesco exclusive Predacons Rising toys! Would appreciate any sightings info on them as soon as possible, as well as maybe some help picking up some specifics, in case the shelves are still sodden with the first few waves of PRID by then as well.
assembling a Neo-G1/TF:TM cast. Please PM if you have (or know of) the following at a reasonable price: Classics or Henkei Astrotrain, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, or 3rd Party iGear Ratchet and Ironhide.
Also looking for Universe Repugnus and Overbite, Frostbite and Longhorn and any Webdiver toys.