I would never ever regret purchasing an original series Transformer toy. It was only out of necessity that I sold my entire collection back in 2007. I have no plans to try to get them all back again, its just not reasonable. That being said, did I enjoy every aspect of the original series? No of course not. In fact the only characters from the 1988 series I wanted were PM Prime & Piranacon, the only ones I wanted from 1989 were the Pretender Monsters. Also later as an adult in the mid-90's when I discovered the Japanese transformers, and found out Takara had a ton of great characters Hasbro never intended to release, I wanted those as well. I never regretted any of them. The same goes for today. I do have a particular list when it comes to TR, but I've not regretted any of them thus far.
Speaking of which, I know I told you guys about BBTS mess up with their whole Pile of loot system not working. Well this is just odd because they shipped my God Bomber 3 days after they shipped my *Siege* set, (one on 8/15, the other on 8/18). Both took completely different routes via FedEx Ground getting to my location. As of this morning they are both in Sacramento and expected to be delivered on Friday (why it would take an extra 2 days to go 20 miles is anybody's guess...)....Sure I know if I use BBTS $4.00 flat-rate shipping I should not complain, and I'm sure the route thing is FedEx, not BBTS.... but it just goes to show how incredibly insufficient the whole system is.
And I'm not just harping on FedEx...UPS & the USPS are just as guilty. Unless you pay some exorbitant amount for priority shipping, they are going to take their darn sweet time, move the package to Timbuktu & back, before it gets to you. No JOKE...I had another item I purchased on eBay go back & forth from Los Angeles & San Francisco TWICE before it got to me....just nuts. so much money/time lost based on insufficiency
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Bucket/Want List: Botcon 2016 Customization Class Ratchet (G2 Deco), or Customization Class Ratchet (Marvel Comics Deco) **would also be willing to pay for an Unpainted Botcon 2016 Ratchet, TT Legends Fortress Head (only) with working Electronics
Wish List of Modern Combiners: Road Caesar, Monstructor & Dinoking (proper size to fiction), Landcross, Guard City, Battle Gaia, & G2 Defensor. Wish List of Titans:Metrotitan,Majin Zarak