Hello to all fellow forum members. My name is John and I just registered as a member of these forums a few days ago.

It's the strangest thing really. I haven't bought anything Transformers related since the early nineties and within the past few days I've already spent a few hundred dollars on vintage toys. It was also a few days ago that I got out my old collection of G1 and G2 toys and decided what to keep, what to potentially keep aside to sell later on, and what I aspire to own in the future.

For myself personally 2008 has been a strange year. I recently graduated from Uni at the end of 2007 and haven't had a clear idea as to what I want to do with my life. After working at various places this year in the Hospitality industry (which is completely unrelated to my Uni qualifications) I've decided that I will probably be going back to Uni next year to do a graduate diploma, since another three year degree seems a little out of the question.

What do I collect besides Transformers? (I guess I do collect them again now) I have a large assortment of vintage and new Star Wars figures (except anything to do with Episode II and III which I hate), a few hundred 2000AD Magazines and assorted Judge Dredd material, a few hundred Star Wars comics. I'm a fan of the band Devo, Nintendo, and I like to read occult fiction by authors such as H.P Lovecraft.

My latest Transformer-related acquisition is a complete G1 Jetfire based off of the design of the Macross VF-1J (thank you ebay).

If anyone else has any similar interests to myself then please don't hesitate to give me a buzz.