Botcon 2010

Today I went to Botcon in Orlando and had a good time, saw a lot of cool toys. Didn't have much of a budget for toys but there really was not much there that was a must have for me anyway. It was awesome seeing all the G1 toys, and just the mass of toys in general. Both sellers and fellow attendees were all cool and I had a lot of fun, but I have to admit it was not as super awesome as I hyped myself it would be, can't put my finger on it. Still it was fun and worth the drive from Tampa to Orlando.

Transformers hall of fame inductee, THE Peter Cullen

A close up of the hall of fame statue

The must have figure for most of us, Masterpiece Grimlock

Leader Starscream looks very good

The 3rd party Munitioner figure looks bad ass, but just costs too much

Oh yea, Starscream stopped by too

Decepticon Ravage

Revenge of the Fallen Ravage

This toy is a new release I picked up recently, I don't normally put up the newer stuff as so many other people are doing it and I want to focus on my vintage toys. This figure is unique though with its design as a non-human robot, also I think the toy is pretty fateful to the movie design. Ravage was just so awesome in the movie - and this toy is one of the best of the ROTF line.

The robot mode is cool, paint apps and use of plastics colors are nice. Articulation is good, and the pop out neck/open up jaw gimmick doesn't bother me. Unfortunately the alt mode sucks so there are no pics of that here.

Classics Inferno

Classics voyager class Inferno

Autobot Smokescreen

Alternators Smokescreen

Smokescreen is a good example of an Alternator, and one of my favorites. The Transform is fun and relatively easy to get back into a nice tight car mode. All the graphics, detailed lighting and rubber wheels make him look like you spend far more than 20$. Of course now a days they tend to go for 2 to 3 times as much, a few sell for even more. Unfortunately this line was canceled around the time the first Transformers live action movie came out. They didn't want so many lines competing with each other, and today they would have a hard time making these for a 20$ price point. A least the "Classics" line will return to give fans realistic G1 inspired toys. It is great time to be a Transformers fan.

Yes, car mode is pretty hot!

Alternators have great detail, with seats, dashes, shifters, as well as opening doors, hoods and sometimes even trunks. All 4 of Smokescreens door open, truly Alternators are adult collectables with everything they put into them. Transformations on Alternators are often complex but not usually too hard, the problem is things like doors and hoods may be very difficult to line back up.

Here I've armed him with some military spec weapons. This has been done before by others but I have always wanted to get some guns and arm a bot up myself. I happened upon a set of guns at Toys R'Us on clearance so here we go.

Ready to take on some Con's.

Classics Optimus Prime

Classics 2.0 Hound

Autobot Hound

This is one of my latest Transformers, from the fantastic new classics 2.0 line. This was just from a quick shoot when I opened him up, but I'm just so blown away by these toys. The articulation is just sick on these guys, for a 10$ toy these are awesome. I also have the newest classics Starscream and I'm equally impressed with him.

Transformers Alternators

Transformers Alternators collection

Universe Dinobots

Transformers Universe Dinobots

These 2 dinobots were purchased at a time before I was really buying toys, I just happened to see them at the store and picked them up for nostalgia reasons I guess. Also I love dinosaurs and these dino modes are very cool, unfortunately the robot modes are not good in my opinion. These guys will be staying in package for display purposes even though I generally open box my Transformers.

Optimus Prime - all the time!

Transformers Optimus Prime Collection

This is a recent shoot I did to get a better idea of how many Prime figures/collectables I have now. It was fun but time consuming setting it all up. There area few other things not in the picture such as the "Built to Rule" Megablock Prime and a few Transformers 08' Movie items like the Titanium set of 2 Primes and a special truck mode.

Lighting this up was a bit tricky so the quality of my pics is not up to par, but I will continue shooting my toys 1 at a time as usual to show thier detail. Its nice to see them all together though and makes me really want to get into a bigger house where I can start displaying some of my robots properly.

Revoltech Optimus Prime

Revoltech Optimus Prime