aaaah somehow I view this as a nostalgia thread - NICE!!!

Hehehe, I joined the forum after I learned about it from dirge. He told me about it when I attended that 2006 Toycon at Wharf 8 (first nerd at the door baby!!!) Had to wait til they were able to set up the 12 tables so I decided to eat at a nearby donut shop first ( as I was apparently too early - a habit I still carry on to Parramatta fairs. I learned about that toycon only by chance - griffin was selling a booktype Astrotrain and there was details about the Toycon in the toy literature - good thing I saw it too coz it was after payday. Printed it out and asked my cousin where is it, since I was new in Australia then, just newly migrated a few months back and havent been to the Sydney city proper except on 1 occasion - with my cousin (who was born here) guiding me.... so getting up so early , catching the train all alone for the first time out to the city proper what an exciting and nervous feeling

-that's me on the side and dirge there far behind sitting on the chair doing the trivia game. That shirt doesnt fit me well anymore (gotten fatter) and that bag is all broken now Dunno if the other guy next to me became a member here or not.....

Spent $600 on toys both from Skyshadow's and Rokdog's table (they were the only ones there anyhow heheheh)
- Got - Blackarachnia, Perceptor, Hauler, Sunstorm, Powermaster Optimus for a frien, Computron(? not so sure on this one)d and a couple more newer series TFs cant recall all of em now. I got a few comics from Rokdog and TF parts...love parts heheheh

Dirge was the first person who talked to me about OTCA forum - I remember the blue hat he was also manning the door Gok was busy waving a Starsaber around the hall and playing with then the newest toy- a yellow Scrapmetal. Ididnt join any of the games as I was immersed so much in ogling the 12 tables of TF goodness - was more interested in the G1s than all the rest though. I think I left around 1pm then as I was shopped out and needed to get away otherwise Im gonna be more poor and the next payday was still far away ( another trait I carried on to Parra fair heheheh- poor after the fair)

After joining the forum I just posted and posted and posted and bought from a lot of people in the trade section - mostly Skyshadow hehehe. I didnt get to make an introductory thread so I couldve been formally welcomed ah well.... everybody replied faster back then as there were but a handful of active forumers,
Now there's a whole gamut of people weeeeeeeeee!!!! the more the merrier and livelier! Most of the Westie crowd was kinda non-existent so mini meets wasn't even possible. NOw we have more meets out west (picnics, Monopoly day, fairwell/bday meet-up) and off course Parramatta Fair became quite a good way to set-up a meetup especially for other members on holidays interstate (e.g. Paulbot and loophole) and the closeknit Melbourne crowd have emerged - they even do midnight raids - toyshop raids not the kind police do hehehe.

Then we just text each other ( the ones you know) for sightings. Now the sightings thread is per state and is a very good resource that it has convince a couple of lurkers to become full members

And who could forget the time we transferred service providers - the LIMBO OTCA chatroom was kinda creepy hehehe - we lost member blackarachnia then - dunno if she ever re-applied membership to the new forum...
aaahh weve come a looong way people!!