by Va'al » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:25 am
- Motto: "Till All Are Pun!"
[quote="bodrock"][quote="Va'al"]
aka, the newest versions of the three toys I had as a kid, now long lost to discarded furniture, old cars, holiday trips, airport layovers, who-knows-where.
I love updating the old favorites, Va'al.

The essentials for me (well, all the ones I've bought, but if I were to narrow it down to the "Triumvirate" of TFs...) were:
1. Soundwave (you never forget your first)
2. Megatron (you never forget the Decepticon Leader your friend snapped in half the first day home)
3. Optimus Prime (since I lean towards animation-accuracy, it took awhile before I finally got MPP10)
Kinda boring, but they were my favorite 3 of the G1 cartoon....I was always Soundwave.

I was thinking about this a bit the other day, as I was cleaning the cabinet, and I'd say that those three are definitely the only ones I'd care about getting an 'upgrade', and I did.
Optimus Primal is fine the way it is, with the junker bought to fix the issues my original one had, and the G2 Optimus Prime I have is still in fine shape too (and MP10 is my centerpiece, I'll maintain that despite not showing him off that much) - both seen
. The G2 Optimus was actually given to me as a present at the same time as Hardhead, but I think the latter got more of a bashing. G2 Sideswipe was a gift from my dad after a work trip, and it lasted for as long as a diecast car can last in a kid's hands.
I have no idea where Battletrap came from, but it was lost when my dad changed cars (it used to live in the seat pocket so I always had something to play with on car trips; I think I had a story worked out and everything).
And really? Before Beast Wars, that was all I had. And even then, I had no more than 10 overall, from scattered lines. With no interest now to go back to them, which is easy and cheap!