Transformers Animated......

has ended its run for Season 1 today and I have been actively collecting some characters that interest me.

Here is one of them, Skywarp (Starscream was my first Decepticon Seeker but it's still in his packaging). This may just be my favourite TF Animated figure. Nice colour combination and great transformation sequences. It also looks fantastic in both Robot and Alternate mode.

Transformed and really to strike. the joints give this figure great 'poseabilities'
Fighter mode - The only issue I have is that the missiles are not on the wings
Cool stealth colour scheme
Landing gears gives it more realism
Gerwalk - As a Macross fan, I must transform it to this modeSide view

"Conquest is made of the ashes of my enemies"

Since we are on the topic of Seekers, I took a few shots of Masterpiece Starscream for comparison. I'm a little lazy to transform it and so used both the Takara version in Fighter mode and the Hasbro version in Robot mode.

Fighter Mode - F15 Eagle

Lift off!

Robot Mode - Articulation is fantastic and a lot of dynamic poses can be accomplished with the stand provide.

All about Heads.......

I made my own bust but it's headless. I made it with a Dark Knight Figure....Not much was left of it after I'm done with it.

Here's a pix of the completed product.

Joker's Trophy: Death of Batman

The container is actually an empty Air wick (ambipur).
It all started with the purchase of the Batman with Batpod below.
It came without a head.....(why you asked? The answer, I got it at a cheap sale).
So, the only logical thing to do is to get a head from an old Dark Knight figure.
After, removing the head.......I decided to make my very own Batman bust.....I named it : Joker's Trophy

Here's the Batpod with Batman (with his head)

It actually came with a launcher...Pretty neat set.

Then, another Head I picked up is Optimus Prime with the voice of Peter Cullen. Great display piece and the voice changer is something quite cool as well. I displayed it on one of my home entertainment speakers. It reminds me of this childhood candy where you have to tilt the head of a character to get these little rectangular candies. PEZ...ring a bell? Perhaps this will help http://www.pez.com/

Well, actually, there are more that I've purchased but I've only these much time to show these much.

13th Craziest Takashimaya Toy Sale......

may well be my last visit ever judging from my catch this year (a huge difference compared to previous years)

Here are the things I have bought and these are all that I had bought this year.

Some mechas from anime that I'm not to familiar with; not bothered to find out what they are
1/60 scale Gundam Busts (my first busts.....and it should come in pairs)

Total damage for this year is a mere $60.......

All of a sudden......

in the mood to take pictures and post the whole new Transformers the Animated Series.

Been a little busy and lazy these days to take pictures of my collection (I know I mentioned I will post pix of toys bought in Japan). However, I've come to this conclusion that I will not post items that are MISB or MOSC anymore. I will only post items that are 'free' from their packaging.

So here they are; the loose but complete items.

Favourite of all the Animated characters. Elite Guard Ultra Magnus!
All weapon system online and hot!
Alternate mode. Heavy artillery armour vehicle
The cocky Elite Guard Sentinel Prime (real pain the neck)
Dinobot Swoop (cool ninja style)
Bumblebee
Prowl
Elite Guard Jazz
Cybertron mode Optimus Prime
Me Grimlock! Me eyes glow.

The Elite Guards (check out the size of Ultra Magnus!)
Dinobots (missing Snarl; MOSC)
Autobots (Missing Bulkhead and Rachet; MISB and MOSC respectively) Everyone plus MP Prime, Cybertron Galvatron and Animated Soundwave)

Finally, another posting after some time. However, this is really time consuming.............yet FUN!! :)

No Entry.......

doesn't mean no buying. Have been keeping up my toy purchase at a healthy level for my wallet.

Purchases includes:

Complete set of Transformers Animated series Autobots with Starscream, Soundwave and Megatron.

Complete set of HCM Pro Gundam 00's Exia, Dynames, Kyrios and Virtue (Nadle)

Complete set of MSIA Gundam 00 (same as above)

Soul Spec Evangelion 00 and 02 units

Most of which was from a recent Japan trip which I spent a day in Kobe hunting for my toys. Boy! Toys there were dirt cheap but going there is not, so I guess it kinda even out in a way.

Will post pictures when camera is charged up.

The Happiest Moment.......

of a toy collector is when one can display one's purchases.

The much needed shelf space did just that for me. Call it therapeutic if you may, a sense of calmness close to zen-like feeling was all around from the buying of the shelf (Kilby) to fixing it, to finally occupying it with my wonderful collection.

New shelf on the right with LED lighting

Top - Kotobukiya Morpheus (Matrix) and the Skywalkers...and a goblin (can't remember name)

5th shelf - TFs and finally opened the Stealth VF-1J with strike pack (btw, the Wheeljack is a bootleg)

4th shelf - Gundams and Revoltechs (assortment) + SD Valks

3rd shelf - New Ferrari from Shell and some other assortment

2nd and 1st shelf - MISB stuff.....waiting for their chance to be displayed.

Weird but......

I felt rather happy these days with the diminishing need to purchase more toys. Have missed out on a few collections these few months but I don't exactly have any "withdrawal syndrome".

A few weeks ago, I was at OG Albert and I saw this MSIA Gundam figure and I was totally absorbed by its mould but I actually put it back on the shelf and there was this sense of relief (maybe it's because I just spent on my 17").

However, I wouldn't say that I would stop my toy collecting hobby totally. It has evolved to a more logical and calculated kind.