The Energon Pub

by **Heckfire** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:57 am

When I grew up, my parents couldn't afford G1 TFs aside from Mini Cars and Constructicons, so most of my Autobots and Decepticons were made up of Go-Bots and swap-meet bootlegs with new names and personalities (which started me on the dubious road of fanfics and OCs). My Autobots were led by a knock-off Blue Gale from Xabungle (http://cgi.ebay.com/Soul-Chogokin-GX-28 ... 0219147948 NOT the toy I had, obviously, but I can't find pics of it anywhere online) that I named "Ironcar" from the mistranslated name of his Iron Gear wavemate that I thought was HIS name, and the 'cons were led by Tenticus, a robot spider from the knock-off Convertors line (http://counter-x.net/convertors/reviews/tenticus.html).

Well, as is the hobby of lots of GeeWunners, I've been trying to assemble updated versions of older characters, which, in my case, includes my deputized bootlegs. I found a HIGHLY satisfactory stand-in for Tenticus with the Fox Kids' redeco of Beast Wars Transmetal Tarantulas, but I've yet to find a suitable stand-in for Ironcar since, obviously, the "Soul of Chogokin" version of the Blue Gale I linked above won't work, due to price and scale issues.

So...does anyone have any possible suggestions?