Recent Acquisitions (over the last few months)

Sheesh, it can be so difficult to keep up on this blog. I have many many items I have been meaning to post pictures of here, but I just cannot stay consistent enough to make any progress. Let's see what I can knock out with this post.

As you may have noticed from the previous three posts, I finally started buying Transformers, and as with any new property I become interested in, I have to jump in head first, rather than slowly wading in and becoming acclimatized. I have discovered that the Transformers Classics and Transformers Universe Classics 2.0 lines were pretty much designed with me in mind. They're modern reinterpretations of the original G1 designs, trying to stay as faithful to the G1 designs as possible. For example, the Classics Optimus Prime is exactly what I always thought the G1 Optimus Prime would be like, if I had one. He's terribly fun to play with, I've transformed him back and forth, from robot to vehicle mode countless times, and he's so great, that I bought two of him. The only short-coming of the toy is that Hasbro never made a trailer for it, but more on that later. Pics first!

Transformers Classics Optimus Prime, and his evil counterpart, Nemesis Prime. I forgot to put the smokestacks on Optimus, so he looks slightly odd.

Now, as I said, these figures didn't include trailers, but some fans stepped in, designed and mass-produced a trailer that is compatible with this figure, converts into a base (similar in concept to what the G1 trailer does), and it even comes in different colors for the various repaints (ie silver for Optimus, black for Nemesis, and purple for an extremely rare convention exclusive version of Optimus, and when I say rare, I mean it sells for over $400 on eBay, so don't expect me to ever have one). Anyway, I acquired the silver and black trailers for quite reasonable prices, and they look pretty good, though I'll be displaying them pretty much solely in base mode.

And because I started this post over two weeks ago and never came back to finish, I'm going to drop the commentary and just post some pictures.

Ramjet in various forms.

Starscream in various forms.

Skywarp in various forms.

FansProject City Commander Trailer/Armor Add-on for Classics Ultra Magnus (here pictured on Optimus Prime because this picture was taken before I got Ultra Magnus, which has already been two weeks. It takes me so Loooong to post pictures after I take them.)

Walmart Exclusive 6" Iron Man Mark VI and War Machine figures (based on the film Iron Man 2, which was awesome).

I got my set of DCUC 13 Trigon figures weeks ago, and they're pretty fun.

And I got the last Khan figure I was looking for, from the AA/DST Star Trek line.

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Commander Worf, New Force Comics Exclusive Nemesis Uniform, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys.

Sir, I protest - I am NOT a merry man!! - Lt Worf

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Lt Cmdr Geordi LaForge, The Next Generation wave 3, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys

I can field strip a fusion reactor, I can re-align a power transfer tunnel; why can't I make anything work with a woman like Christy? - Cmdr LaForge

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Ensign Ro Laren, The Next Generation wave 5, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys. It's difficult to see because of the lighting, but her nose ridges are present.

Why is it every time I tell you something, you tell me I mean the exact opposite? - Ensign Ro

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Lt Worf, The Next Generation wave 1, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys

See also Worf's first Deep Space Nine Uniform.

I like my species the way it is. - Worf

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Captain Jean-Luc Picard, The Next Generation wave 2, Season 7 Uniform, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

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Chief Miles O'Brien, Deep Space Nine wave 2, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys

Sir, have you ever served with any Bajoran women? - Chief O'Brien

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Chief Miles O'Brien, The Next Generation wave 5, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys

My friend Chief O'Brien often says that above all else he wants to make Keiko happy. Since canceling the wedding will make her happy, I must conclude the Chief will be pleased at her decision. - Lt Cmdr Data

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Captain Benjamin Sisko, Deep Space Nine wave 1, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys.

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General Martok, Deep Space Nine wave 2, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys.

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Locutus, The Next Generation wave 2 by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys.

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Khan, from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Wave 1, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys.

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Lt. Cmdr. Data, The Next Generation Season wave 3, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys.

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Lt. Reginald Barclay, from The Next Generation wave 3 by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys.

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Commander Worf, (Deep Space Nine Season 4 Uniform), from Worf and Gowron 2 pack, by Art Asylum/Diamond Select Toys.

San Diego Comic Con 2009 part 2

Our good friend Michael Crawford's Review of the Week posted more pictures from San Diego last night. The guy probably kills himself during the day, fighting the giant crowd of filthy, unwashed nerds, and then rather than sleeping at night to prepare for the next day's battle, stays up to post all the great pictures he's taken. And so far, his are by far the best pictures I've seen, he's a great photographer, somehow managing to take excellent pictures despite what must be over 50,000 other nerds trying to look at/photo the same things he is.

All of his pictures can be found at the Main San Diego Comic Con 2009 page, I'm going to repost a few pics of what are the highlights to me.

Toynami has what appears to be a poseable figure of Christopher Reeve as Superman. Let me tell you, this is 12 kinds of awesome. The first image I saw of it (probably at ActionFigurePics) looked EXACTLY like him. Michael Crawford's pics make him look not quite perfect. There's something wrong with it, it looks a little gaunt to be Christopher Reeve, but it still looks cool. I have no idea about price, but I'm guessing it's out of my range.

To go along with Toynami's Christopher Reeve Superman, why not get Mattel's 12 inch Terrence Stamp General Zod? (pictures from Cool Toy Review)

Toynami is doing the two most important vehicles from Tim Burton's Batman film (1989), the Batmobile and the Batwing. I've alwasy loved the designs of these, so I'm quite interested in these. However, I don't have any idea what the price will be, or even what size they are, so I don't know if it's even remotely feasible or not for me to buy them.

Tonner makes some Barbie-like DC figures that run for a couple hundred dollars. I think the female figures look great but I'll probably never own one. Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman, Super Girl.

After taking 2008 off from being collosal jerks, Genlte Giant jumped back on the exlcusive bandwagon, this time making it even harder to complete a h1ghly demanded, even more integrated group of characters than the Clone Commanders of 2007. This year's world tour exclusive: Delta Squad, from the popular game Republic Commandos. In 2007, the five Clone Commanders were available: three in the US, one in Japan (more limited than the rest), and one in UK. This year, they're each available in a different country, I don't think any are available in the US, but at least this time there are the same nubmer of each. There are/have been online stores that have offered one ore more of them for fairly reasonable prices (considering their exlusive nature), but since I don't have enough money to buy them at retail I haven't really been paying attention. I believe you can get any of the four at Entertainment Earth. Scorch and Sev are the best looking, in my opinion, but if money was no object I'd be gettin all four.

Hot Wheels recently started a line of die-cast metal ships from Star Trek. Already released (and owned by me, with reviews half written) are the Entprise D, the (TMP, WoK, SfS movies) Enterprise Refit, Reliant, and Klingon Bird of Prey. Upcoming ships include the Enterprise and Narada from the 2009 film. (pictures from ActionFigs.com)

Hot Wheels were also showing some sweet Batman vehicles, the ones of particular interest to me were those from the 90's Batman films. I'm going to have look into those and learn more about them, I've always wanted a Batmobile from the four 90's films, plus the shielded Batmobile from Batman and Batwings from Batman and Batman Forever, and if I recall the pictures I saw but didn't save, all of those were on display at SDCC.

One final thing for this post, when doing the last post with Sideshow Collectibles I forgot to put pictures of their Aliens and Predator statues. Behold.

I LOVE that statue of the crouching Alien, unfortunately, it's freaking $700, so even if I sold one of my kidney's I wouldn't be able to afford it.