July Acquisitions

[blackoptimus]

Just noticed the soft drink bot you have is a completely different mould from mine. So together with the breakfast bot I mentioned at Nexus today there must have been at least six different McDonald bots out there...

What's that black car?

[griffin]

Did you read the manual?

The fun of Transformers toys is to treat them like puzzles that need to be solved. If you always follow instructions, you don't get the same sense of accomplishment of doing something on your own, without any help from anyone or anything. And like watching a movie, you only really get one chance at surprising yourself, so don't spoil it if you have the patience.

The procedure I use on any figure that isn't too fragile to risk it - is to start off with just the toy to see if I can get it into its other mode, and if not, then I look at the packaging photos first... and then as a last resort, I look at the instructions. And most times I check the instructions afterwards anyway to see if I missed any gimmicks or see if bits aren't where they should be.

In the case of Jetfire, I got most of it done, but still had to refer to the packaging pics for the placement of the arm joints (to make the jet nose sections line up), and I had to look on the instructions for the strap bit (which someone else here posted a clearer description than the instructions had).

[Deceptic_Optic]

well this is my july acquisitions more to come

[1AZRAEL1]

Well on wednesday, I received in the mail Yellow Bumblebee, Yellow Cliffjumper, and... Reflector!!! Woot!!!

One step closer to getting all the G1 minibots.

Photos of collection coming soon once I finish unpacking.

[GoktimusPrime]

I used the instructions (which weren't very helpful) and it took me 46 minutes to transform Jetfire (although I was interrupted a few times by Yukikaze )! Just so fiddly -- and figuring out what to do with those straps took a while too (because the instructions are totally useless in that department).

roller: z0MG! SALTMAN-Z!! You must bring that next time you attend a Syd meet!!!

[blackoptimus]

I used the instructions (which weren't very helpful) and it took me 46 minutes to transform Jetfire (although I was interrupted a few times by Yukikaze )! Just so fiddly -- and figuring out what to do with those straps took a while too (because the instructions are totally useless in that department).

roller: z0MG! SALTMAN-Z!! You must bring that next time you attend a Syd meet!!!

Well It took me 3 hours to transform mixmaster,starscream,demolisher and ironhide WITH instructions. LOL

[liegeprime]

was this hidden behind the big toddler toys section by any chance?

Nope it was hidden behind oodles of Ratchets in the TF section shelf
Nice haul dre, Where'd you get the Night Ravens and other Cobra vehicles?
All Ive seen in Big W was the small vehicles and some figures.

[Deceptic_Optic]

Thanks Dre! found it kmart at eastgardens near work bought wityh snakeeyes and storm shadow, I was going to get a goktimusprime at kmart blacktown but it was too expensive hehehe *bumped into gok*. its good you got the fallen, got my self two more so i got three of the fallens now, i kinda want to have 'the primes' the same as the movie cos they all look like the fallen so I need to get at least 1 more. how you find the figure like.some people would disagree but for some reason i really do like the fallen? weird huh? but anyways enjoy!

PS: Oh yeah btw have you seen the movie yet?

[Kyle]

Thanks Dre! found it kmart at eastgardens near work bought wityh snakeeyes and storm shadow, I was going to get a goktimusprime at kmart blacktown but it was too expensive hehehe *bumped into gok*. its good you got the fallen, got my self two more so i got three of the fallens now, i kinda want to have 'the primes' the same as the movie cos they all look like the fallen so I need to get at least 1 more. how you find the figure like.some people would disagree but for some reason i really do like the fallen? weird huh? but anyways enjoy!

PS: Oh yeah btw have you seen the movie yet?

I was wondering why you had two Fallens in your pic now it makes sense! I like my Fallen toy too.

[Kyle]

What's that black car?

The toy in Lint's pic looks like a Cybertron Crosswise:

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crosswise_%28Cybertron%29