When we found out that Botcon was going to be held in Disney World this year, we decided to bring the whole family. We confirmed that Chrissy’s mom and sister Cassie could come with us. But that was six months before the actual event. So it kind of snuck up on us, kind of like your birthday. You barely know it’s...
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Recon Ravage was delivered yesterday. I ordered him eight weeks ago with a special booklet and two proof of purchase stamps, along with some money for shipping. This was the first mail order exclusive Transformer to be released since 1986 (that’s the historic part), so I’m pretty happy to get this guy. Chrissy...
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The new NEST Global Alliance figures have a promotional item associated with them: Recon Ravage. But you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get one. First you buy the Bumblebee/Soundwave set to get the “Mission Guide” booklet, which has spots to attach two additional stickers from other figures. The stickers are...
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One of the time honored traditions of Transformers figures is the repaint. Some people won’t collect repaints unless they’re another character entirely. Some not at all, no matter how many identical Seekers are produced. I love’em. If I already own one figure of a certain mold, I also want to own every...
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I was taking a photo of “Armada Airazor” for my daily Flickr posts, when it occurred to me how rare a figure like this is. This version of Airazor was a repaint of “Transmetal Airrazor” from the “Beast Wars” line, only the mold had been retooled slightly, adding two posts to allow Mini-cons to...
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Hasbro announced a brand new mold for a classic “Generation 1″ character, “Cyclonus“. This is part of their plans to release new figures for many of the original characters for the 25th Anniversary of the franchise. Better still, this new Cyclonus figure would have a “Targetmaster” partner,...
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At the last Botcon, Hasbro announced a whole slew of new homage figures to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Transformers, to be released under the Universe moniker. Not only would more G1 characters be receiving new, updated designs (as in the Classics series), but characters from all Transformers lines would also be getting...
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The first of the Botcon 2008 exclusives, “Shattered Glass” Optimus Prime, has been revealed. Fun Publications usually reveals the figures one at a time in the weeks leading up to Botcon, so it’s exciting to see the first of them come out. This year’s exclusive set revolves around the “Mirror...
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