Comments on: Easter Eggs

By: matt

matt — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:28:29 +0000

Be glad for that. For instance, I would like a MOTU Classics He-Man and Skeletor but two things have stopped me. One, the price tag. Two, the price tag on the secondary market.

The first I can forgive them for. I can be understanding.

But seriously, to do such a limited run that it drives the price up close to 10 times the original price, even considering scalpers? And it’s not like the toys came out that long ago, either! I didn’t even know these things existed until about a month ago, and then promptly tried to forget about them because of the prices.

Not to mention all the bitching people do about the website you have to order them through.

I feel sorry for you being a Batman collector, though. Unless you really don’t want villains and love slightly retooled Bats. (And I thought ‘action feature’ was the bane of a tf toyline…)

~Matt Booker

By: Monty Python

Monty Python — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Yeah, unfortunately I didn’t really get into the collecting hobby until a year before the Marvel license switched over to Hasbro. There’s was a period of a year or two where I stopped buying toys. Then I got back into Transformers and it snowballed from there.

Though, it’s funny now. All the properties with toylines that I’m into other than Batman and TMNT have figures made by Hasbro.

By: matt

matt — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:47:38 +0000

Monty, I sold off most of my ML collection last year. I lived in a town where the walmart got really great distribution for ML figs and apparently no other collectors. Over the course of that wave, I bought one Deadpool and passed up 2 others. I bought 2 Dark Phoenixes, still have one misb (mostly because I forgot to sell it, haven’t gotten around to it again).

I even sold my misb Stealth Armor Iron Man from series one.

Couple red skulls, a maskless wolverine, phasing ghost rider, etc…

Really, I was just keeping them misb to sell sometime, and that year the market for em was really up and I just sold em on ebay. If I had realized how sought after DP would become, I’d have bought the other two, but again I like the smaller Deadpool much better.

Esoteric, the money for Deadpool was very nice. Considering I paid about $6 usd for him and got about $50 before shipping, it was hard to pass up. If he’d been a transformer… Well, he wouldn’t have been misb anyway.

~Matt Booker

By: Monty Python

Monty Python — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:01:48 +0000

Matt:

I wish I’d known about you selling ML Deadpool. I still need one.

By: Esoteric

Esoteric — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:43:13 +0000

I didn’t want to make you sad! D:

The money for Deadpool would have been nice. I remember struggling to find him when he was new – and still paying above normal price. I wasn’t working back then either! He and Moon Knight are easily two of my favourites from that whole line, so I can’t complain.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:04:13 +0000

Schlecki, that scene is awesome. You have just justified that Prime’s existence.

Esoteric, that kind of makes me sad I sold my ML Deadpool a while back. He was misp and the money was nice. I like my non-tfs to be small anyway…

That Moon Knight looks really cool too!

~Matt Booker

By: Monty Python

Monty Python — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:27:28 +0000

Everything in that picture is something I want…

By: Esoteric

Esoteric — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:34:04 +0000

Everyone else was sharing, so:

I fear that it’s no where near as awesome at Kiss Player Deadpool or the Fatimus Prime V Deadpool images.

By: Monty Python

Monty Python — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:32:13 +0000

The only Energon toy I really want is Downshift, because he could make a decent stand in for Wheeljack in my Classics stuff.

Speaking of which, have there been any recent TFs with motorcycle alt-modes and head formed from the motorcycle’s front fairing that I could repaint into Wreck-Gar, until Hasbro makes a new Wreck-Gar?

By: Schlecki02

Schlecki02 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:01:20 +0000

Yeah Fatimus really is awfull … unrealistic alt mode, obese proportions, non-transforming drones etc … but he still beats Powermaster Prime by miles + as bad as he may look he really is FUN !!!

… of course I only know that since when I found one for 5 bucks xD