iceburn's recent finds of the Micromaster Military, Hot Rod and Monster Truck patrols MOSC was awesome! :)
iceburn's recent finds of the Micromaster Military, Hot Rod and Monster Truck patrols MOSC was awesome! :)
First saw in 2004, and bought them in 2006 BW Optimal Optimus and TMII Megatron, so they were nearing 10 years old.
Also spotted some BM figures in Toyworld at Bega last year.
Found years before ( during G2 era) of finding well technically not TFs but pre-TFs . Takara Microman Cassette tape robos. This was back in Phils. They were being sold in packs of two still misb. Got me a blue Condor and Black Jaguar (which got renamed later to Laserbeak and Ravage in TF line). Still got em now but not officially counted in my collection. Condor has its foot broken and fixed in place by Superglue, Jaguar remains intact. Both were bought for Php100 ( Php35 = Au$1) sadly I chucked the boxes and lost the inserts already as this was during my early years in TF buying. Ive used Reprolabels now to add faction symbols but not the thermal ones. btw these tapes lasted only a week on the shelves when word got out although there were about 20+ or so on the shelves. Wouldve loved to get the rumble/frenzy mold (dark blue/ black mix color variant)but didnt have enough money then ( being a student living on allowance :p) as it was an accidental find.
Not so much a real Transformer, but I found an Armada Optimus Prime gum machine at Target this year.
...yeah same. Those things are still rotting around some Targets. :/
I'm not sure what years they were from, but in 2006/2007 I was seeing some old armada stuff still hanging around, and some pretty much mint boxed (boxes were mint), universe stuff, which I bought a box of because it had a transforming unicorn in it. :)
Although I had a wet dream earlier this year that I while I was checking out BigW, I just happened to find an original sealed G1 jetfire just sitting on the shelves for $20 that I immediatly snatched and hugged close to me the entire time. Then I woke up and was bummed for the next few weeks.
Back in 1993 Toys R Us Parramatta had a SHEDLOAD of G1 Starscreams and Cyclonuses for $11ea, but I've since discovered they're just those odd 1990s "Classics" reissues that were put into 1980s packaging for some reason.
In 1995 I found a rather beat up G1 Soundwave at World4Kids Bankstown for $35.
I remember that now! I already had Cyclonus, but my first Starscream was one of those!Quote:
Originally Posted by FFN