Hi from Banff!

[WolfenBaz]

Hi everyone,

Just joined after years of lurking over at TFW2005 and only occasionally popping my head in over here to search for a thing or two. As the title suggests I currently live in Banff (Canada, for the non-skiers/boarders) and its a respectable -12ºC right now.

I'm from Ipswich (outside of Brisbane) and I'm planning on moving home soon, hopefully in the next two months, as I've been over here for over 4 years now and I'm sick of 8 months of cold weather (temp. can get down to -40ºC sometimes during the winter...) Anyway enough about that, let's get to the plastic crack.

Born in '84, I grew up with Transformers, GI Joe and MASK (my holy trinity as it were) and including LEGO (Castle) were the main things that were strewn all over the place on any given day. I spent hours setting up elaborate battles on the pool table (and sometimes in the pool) and going to the last man (or bot) standing. I had a few G1 toys; Aerialbots, Stunticons, Ramjet and Sunstreaker were the big ones so to speak. I had a decent amount of random smaller bots that are all still around somewhere in a tub. In terms of the cartoons, G1 is what I am all about, I saw a few eps here and there of beast wars and recently watched TF Prime on netflix over here. There was many years between BW and TFP where I wasn't collecting and missed all the stuff in between.

I'm currently collecting only (trying) Masterpiece TF, and am especially looking forward to this years offerings. I have skipped a few TT MPs like Star Sabre (no idea he existed) and G2 bumblebee (canary yellow is all i need), Soundwave (picked up the Hasbro version in NYC) and some of the older ones (MP1-3). My big issue is that I usually (mostly) get all my purchases mailed to Australia, so the majority of what I've bought I have not seen in person yet. So as some of you can imagine I'm quite keen to get home and see the "pile of loot" that I've amassed over the past 4+ years haha.

My favourite TFs are Skywarp and Grimlock, whilst Tracks and Sunstreaker are my carbots.

Anyways, thanks for reading my wall of text! Hope to see you all around. =)

[Trent]

Welcome to the boards When you get back here you're gonna need to lock yourself away for a month to play with all those toys

And Banff huh? I'm very jealous. I mountain bike a bit (although I haven't had a chance since the little one was born) and although I've only tried it a few times, love snowboarding too. So, when I eventually get over there, I'll have to hit you up for all the hot tips

[WolfenBaz]

Thanks! Yeah it might take a few weeks to organise it all, although my girlfriend will not be impressed that I spend my first month back in Australia playing with toys (she's Canadian). We haven't had a good season for snow this year, been warmer than usual and intermittent snow falls but there's enough to get by. I know Whistler/Blackcomb shuts down Whistler a month earlier to get the biking tracks ready for the summer.. you just will have to deal with all the other Aussies there haha.

[UltraMarginal]

Banff, nice!

My wife and I passed through Jasper and Banff on our Honeymoon (2009). I don't know how much snow you've seen in Australia but when we were at Blackcomb the week after the official season had ended and they still had the slopes open, people were complaining about the quality of the snow and I would happily say it beats our better mid winter snow.

welcome aboard

[WolfenBaz]

Thanks for the welcome!

Congrats on the honeymoon (belated) it really is a beautiful part of the world. I lived and worked in Jasper for two years as well. Yeah blackcomb mountain they keep open for another month usually to the end of may.

Any reason why the collection showcase part of the forum is blank? Do I need a higher ranking first?

[Trent]

Thanks for the welcome!

Congrats on the honeymoon (belated) it really is a beautiful part of the world. I lived and worked in Jasper for two years as well. Yeah blackcomb mountain they keep open for another month usually to the end of may.

Any reason why the collection showcase part of the forum is blank? Do I need a higher ranking first?

Hang around and participate, it won't take long for you to get bumped up a few ranks

[griffin]

We haven't had a good season for snow this year, been warmer than usual and intermittent snow falls but there's enough to get by.

Did all those snow storms in the north-eastern states of the US not have visas to cross the border... ...as they've been having record snow right up to the Canadian border, so it is surprising to hear of a warmer than usual winter north of that.

[Jetfire in the sky]

Banff is west Griff

[griffin]

Western Canada then... well that spoils the joke.

[entourage7]

Welcome to the boards.... I have a friend living in Banff, she loves it. Your a QLDer...... great to see (former Cairns boy). Bloody hot in QLD, North QLD expecting a Cyclone next week. Wait till you see the new toys, I think you will love MP 22 - Ultra Magnus...... Excellent engineering. I am loving this toy, so much fun.

Chat soon, enjoy the boards,

Dan