What keeps me going is finding Starscream Secret Version. I may never see one let alone own one.
TFwiki is oddly inaccurate about that one (I just had a look). In 2000-2001, I knew two different people who had the toy, so it's not like "it was not even 100% known what the toy looked like until a picture of it appeared in Transformers Generations 2009" and although there may have only been five offered as Lucky Draw prizes, it was a production run of twelve.
^ Wow, didn't realise this. I've doubled my chance of getting one then. The probability of me owning one is now 0.000000000001. That's good enough for me.
I've decided to readjust my grail list:
G1 Combiners - Superion, Computron
G1 Trypticon and metroplex
Not Menasor
Green Giant
Quantron
Utopia
Dinobot Combiner - Extinction
Slightly cut down list
It finally arrived, and it is even more awesome than I was expecting.
Not only does it have the first of Simon Furman's epilogues to the Gen1 cartoon (Another Time and Place), but it also has seven of the B&W UK stories from 1989 to 1990, in FULL COLOUR!
I never realised that or took notice of it before... and after a couple of past attempts to get those B&W stories re-released in colour, I think
these are the only seven stories that ended up being colourised.
Finally after all these years - through the combined help of UltraMarginal, Trent and Fatbot - I finally scored an Animated Blackout
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