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TazD wrote:

schizophrenica wrote:I just pre-ordered a Mirage for meself.. Its gonna be in on Wednesday...

Where from?

A local toy store.. I don't know where they get their orders from

iron maniac wrote:

Satanatron wrote:Can we see more pictures of that Ratchet-Jeep Custom?

Looks pretty awesome.

Please.

No prob, you can see the custom Ironhide here too:



Jeep Mode:

Nice! Where did you get the topper and lights for Ratchet? Too bad there's nowhere to stow it in alt mode.

Question for anyone out there currently trying to purchase Alternators in the secondary market...

Battle Ravage
Camshaft
Dead End
Decepticharge
Grimlock
Hot Rod (SDCC)
Hound
Meister (Jazz)
Mirage
Nemesis Prime
Optimus Prime
Prowl
Ravage
Ricochet (Stepper)
Rodimus
Rollbar
Rumble
Shockblast
Sideswipe
Silverstreak
Skids
Smokescreen
Sunstreaker
Swerve
Swindle
Tracks
Wheeljack
Windcharger

Can you clue me in to what kind of prices you've encountered for these guys? I'm not looking for the whole list to be filled out, but as a general pricing guideline, it might be helpful (especially when I heard Wheeljack was going for around $80???)

Counterpunch wrote:Question for anyone out there currently trying to purchase Alternators in the secondary market...

Battle Ravage

Can you clue me in to what kind of prices you've encountered for these guys? I'm not looking for the whole list to be filled out, but as a general pricing guideline, it might be helpful (especially when I heard Wheeljack was going for around $80???)

You might be able to find some good deals. I got Battle Ravage for about $10 on forums. Just keep looking around on forums for decent priced alts.

I just received B. Ravage on Saturday, my first alt as well. I also got Meister and Shockblast. I'm only planning to get 1 or 2 more, looking at Grimlock and Skids.

Counterpunch wrote:Question for anyone out there currently trying to purchase Alternators in the secondary market...

Battle Ravage
Camshaft
Dead End
Decepticharge
Grimlock
Hot Rod (SDCC)
Hound
Meister (Jazz)
Mirage
Nemesis Prime
Optimus Prime
Prowl
Ravage
Ricochet (Stepper)
Rodimus
Rollbar
Rumble
Shockblast
Sideswipe
Silverstreak
Skids
Smokescreen
Sunstreaker
Swerve
Swindle
Tracks
Wheeljack
Windcharger

Can you clue me in to what kind of prices you've encountered for these guys? I'm not looking for the whole list to be filled out, but as a general pricing guideline, it might be helpful (especially when I heard Wheeljack was going for around $80???)

They're getting increasingly expensive these days, but really the only ones that should be that expensive are Nemesis Prime and Hot Rod, because they're exclusives. The others should only be worth $40-50 or so, which you can find them for once in awhile, but of course they go for whatever the crazy idiots on eBay are charging...and for that, $80 for a Wheeljack would be accurate.

What I do is look out for deals on loose figures, but I don't care about packaging, you might.

Heh, ok, to be honest, the question is for insurance purposes.

Since I own all of them, I'm just working on my Claims Spreadsheet to make sure the replacement values are accurate.

If you as a collector do not have insurance and you have anything over $1500 in collectables, you should get insurance.

Seriously, it's like $100 a year and will save you a tremendous amount of heartache.

Mirage goes for around $100 lately, and the first few alts (but not the ones 'reissued' go for about $40.


Meister and Prowl are expensive too.



Bought Mirage and Sideswipe! Three to go!

Swerve would be around $100-130. What 3 are you looking for?

kirbenvost wrote:
Nice! Where did you get the topper and lights for Ratchet? Too bad there's nowhere to stow it in alt mode.

Thanks.
You can stow it in robot mode. All you have to do is hang the jeep topper off of the windshield in robot mode. Snaps right on almost, perfect fit! voila!

All the extra jeep parts came from a 1/24 scale jeep model kit. You can get the model kit on ebay real cheap and it has tons of parts you can use for Ratchet.