Lucky Draw Transformers... your thoughts?

[janda the red]

hey all...

as the title suggests... i'm after your opinions on lucky draw tf's.

do you love em? hate em? or couldn't care less...

does anyone here own one, if yes... what is it and how did you acquire it?

i've seen a couple come up for sale recently on evil bay and it got me thinking about if anybody on these forums has any.

anyways...

i'm curious of peoples opinions

[Bidoofdude]

They look really cool and make great centerpieces IMO.
Darn shame they're so expensive...

[griffin]

I'd love to have something iconic as a Lucky Draw toy (Optimus or Megatron from one of the better series) that only had 3 to 5 produced... but they are so expensive, I could only afford one of those Rodimus/Primus toys, of which 100 were made.

[DELTAprime]

I'm in the "I'm not going to pay that much" category. Way too expensive for me.

[CBratron]

Cool to look at I suppose.
But their rarity does not add any value to them for me, thus they are overpriced curiosities.

[swoop]

The only lucky draw that really does it for me is the blue beast wars Optimus primal. It's my holy grail along with Battle Gaia and the only lucky draw I'd consider spending the money on

[lancalot]

I just love it cause of the gold...it an excellent centerpiece and it just stand out from the rest of the pack.... i got the animated prime

http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=15379

[Slag]

No too fussed on the goldies, but i wouldn't mind a green Unicron . Black Tracks would be cool too, but i'd rather find an original

Anyway, heeaps of rare actual releases to track down before i even start thinking about lucky draw stuff

[KalEl]

Would love a few Optimus ones, but again its a $ issue.

[GoktimusPrime]

I'm in the "I'm not going to pay that much" category. Way too expensive for me.

Cool to look at I suppose.
But their rarity does not add any value to them for me, thus they are overpriced curiosities.

^Completely agree^

I have one Lucky Draw TF - silver chrome Bluestreak. I got it by winning it as a lucky draw prize. But ultimately, it's just G1 Bluestreak entirely covered in silver chrome... just because they could. As CBraton said, it's just a curiosity - a novelty. It's a pretty neat novelty, but IMHO not neat enough to pay some massive price for.

The other thing is, as the name implies, these Transformers are meant to be obtained through luck. Simply buying one kinda defeats the purpose IMO. It's kinda like buying a medal or trophy for a contest you didn't win (even if the contest is based on random luck rather than merit). To me, the fact that my Lucky Draw Chromestreak is entirely chrome is only half the novelty -- the other half is the fact that I won it as a prize.

JMO.

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I recently posted some pics in the Action Pose thread w/ Chromestreak in it here.