Very TM Megatron!!

[GoktimusPrime]

Meh... I personally don't see the appeal in buying lucky draw prizes. I mean, aside from their rarity, what makes them so special? I can understand the few that have some canonical significance/meaning, like Unicron of Light or G1 Primus, or even if they were a new character like a lot of eHobby exclusives are, but most of them look like complete random or otherwise meaningless repaints... almost as if Takara just spun some "Wheel O' Colour" -- tak-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak... black! Makes me wonder if all of Hasbro's random Bumblebee repaints would be highly sought after and valued by collectors if Hasbro made them über-rare draw prizes instead of flooding them in the regular retail market.

Also for me personally - and this is only my opinion - the core appeal of having any lucky draw prizes is as a souvenir/memento of winning a lucky draw. Buying one feels like "cheating" to me. <---JMHO

[King Atlas]

+2 for wanting Big Blue Convoy. The bot in red chrome looks interesting, though I don't recognize it. It may not even be from Transformers.

[GoktimusPrime]

It's not a Transformer - that's a lucky draw Dai Gandar, another Takara toyline.

[King Atlas]

Thanks. The hands remind of RID Omega Prime/Optimal Optimus.

[Sky Shadow]

What's good for Dai Atlas is good for Dai Gandar.

[Hursticon]

Sigh...

I'd love to eventually get my hands on a complete set of Blendtrons myself, though there is something in amongst those pictures that I have literally just acquired (Thanks to a fellow member's aid & generosity ) that is a holy grail of mine...

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, in hindsight I wouldn't mind getting Elphaorpha, since he doesn't appear to suffer from GPS like Torca! Although the Blentrons were regular store release toys... but I skipped them because I already had their Fuzor counterparts (and Torca was still undamaged). I was too busy focusing on the new moulds that BW Neo was giving us at the time... and Metals Ravage.

[King Atlas]

What's good for Dai Atlas is good for Dai Gandar.

Haha

[Slag]

Meh... I personally don't see the appeal in buying lucky draw prizes. I mean, aside from their rarity, what makes them so special? I can understand the few that have some canonical significance/meaning, like Unicron of Light or G1 Primus, or even if they were a new character like a lot of eHobby exclusives are, but most of them look like complete random or otherwise meaningless repaints... almost as if Takara just spun some "Wheel O' Colour" -- tak-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak... black! Makes me wonder if all of Hasbro's random Bumblebee repaints would be highly sought after and valued by collectors if Hasbro made them über-rare draw prizes instead of flooding them in the regular retail market.

Also for me personally - and this is only my opinion - the core appeal of having any lucky draw prizes is as a souvenir/memento of winning a lucky draw. Buying one feels like "cheating" to me. <---JMHO

The rarity is probably the main (lucky) drawcard, for me anyway.
I would love to buy that green Unicron if it was a standard release but knowing there's only 10 makes me want it more.i mean, i don't know anyone that has a grail that's really common.

I think bumblebee repaints would certainly be highly sought after if they were limited to 10 or 50 (probably not by me though)

I can understand buying lucky draws as cheating a bit, but unless they were won through some kind of effort, like writing a story or drawing something for the comp or whatever, i don't really see the problem with buying or selling something gained purely by chance. I would have no attachment to a figure gained that way.
(back to that collection^)Funny thing is, after seeing all those rare, near unattainable
figures, the one that stands out most for me is Trailbreaker. Am i missing something?. Is Trailbreaker right up there on the super-rare list?

[GoktimusPrime]

The rarity is probably the main (lucky) drawcard, for me anyway.
I would love to buy that green Unicron if it was a standard release but knowing there's only 10 makes me want it more.i mean, i don't know anyone that has a grail that's really common.

My current grails are the upcoming TF Prime Vehicons (car and jet), Deluxe Knock Out and Hasbro MP10 Optimus Prime. Neither of them are limited exclusives... they're just elusive to me atm because they're not out yet.

I can understand buying lucky draws as cheating a bit, but unless they were won through some kind of effort, like writing a story or drawing something for the comp or whatever, i don't really see the problem with buying or selling something gained purely by chance. I would have no attachment to a figure gained that way.

The attachment comes from the novelty of having won a lucky draw prize - even if it's by luck. It's like a souvenir/memento of having won a competition - whether if it was by merit or luck. And I've won toys by both ways. Either way, you receive these toys as free prizes... no matter how odd/random the repaint may seem, it's not as if you paid any money for it. What I find curious is why some people would pay for a random repaint when it's rare, when they wouldn't pay for a random repaint when it's common. If Takara wants to give me a lucky draw prize for free, okay I'll take it. If someone wants to give me a random Bumblebee repaint for free, okay I'll take it. But I wouldn't pay for either one.