Star Wars Bounty Hunters

Here we have the complete set of bounty hunters from the great scene in The Empire Strikes Back, where Darth Vader (not pictured) offers the bounty for Han Solo. I think every boy born around that time remembers that scene and how bad ass it was to see. We never even really knew what these guys did or how they fit into the Star Wars universe at the time but just by looking at this line up you know they mean business.

I finally found an acceptable version on Dengar, so now this set is complete. I love Star Wars but have to be real picky when it comes to the toys, there are way too many and a lot of them can suck with limited articulation and detail. All of the guys above are the ultimate figures to date and have tons of articulation, super detail,"soft goods" cloth, and are well scaled.








Looking for trouble!

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

Well look what I've stumbled across!

Yes, I am back! I have dusted off the toy blog and want to start adding photos and what not. While I have been toy shooting over the past several months I was not happy with the photos from my old camera ( I have a new one now ) so I have not been posting up. I still have some bugs to work out with my set up and really learning the new camera, but I will try to find time. I have really just been too busy towards the end of last year and most of this year.

I do have some photos from my first shoot with the new Sony camera, Behold the awesomeness that is Human Alliance Bumble Bee and Skids!

Autobot "Mini-bots"

Vintage G1 Mini Bots
Autobots from left to right - Windcharger, Outback, Pipes, Wheelie,

Powerglide, Gears, Beachcomber, Warpath and Brawn

These Transformers are part of the Japanese Microman/MicroChange line released 1983.

Below I have detailed shots of my favorite mini-bots

Autobot Windcharger

This was the one that started it all for me, my first Transformer. As a red sports car I can see why this guy would appeal to a boy. I really don't remember too much about the ramp up to the release of the first Transformers toys, but I picked this up in a small toy store like KB in the mall in 84' I guess.

Windchargers alt mode is a 80's Pontiac Trans Am, well a very distorted and bloated one. They were pretty popular "cool" cars at the time, but now people don't think too much of them. Thankfully he was reborn as a Honda S 2000 for the Alternators line.

Autobot Powerglide

For a mini bot Powerglide makes a cool robot, if only they had the ability at the time to give him separating feet. Still, his arms have a lot of pose ability, the head rotates and proportions are nice. Transformation is very different from most other mini bots where the arms just pop out and legs flip down. The way the wings fold up to the body and the arms come out is cool.

The A-10 Thunderbolt is one of my favorite warplanes, it's so different looking and full of bad ass-ness! The mould has great details in alt mode, the big nose cannon is well represented.

Autobot Warpath

Warpath is one of the bots that suffers from a weak robot mode, but his tank mode is very cool. I allways did like how his head flips up from the turret.

Warpath is a M551 Sheridan light tank, and he looks great in this mode. The turret rotates all the way around, and even the simple use of color works well.

"Bonus pic"
Autobot Outback doing the robot, lol!

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 Inferno

Vintage G1 Inferno

Today I'm uploading one of my last original "Car Robo" style Transformers, Inferno. I do have a couple reissues and many more G1 Transformers to add, so I have plenty to still do. These early type of Transformers are really my favorite, Inferno is a worthy figure to kind of cap things off.

For what must have been a deluxe size figure he's big, has a ton of detail, chrome, rubber tires, basically everything cool about the original Japanese line shows up here. Diecast only shows up in the feet but with everything else they put into Inferno you wouldn't care. He really seems to be a more expensive Transformer compared to the other Autobots but I don't think that was the case.

Inferno has a simple but neat transformation, which gives him nice arm articulation. His body is well proportioned but the lower half only moves at the feet as part of the truck mode. Each of his forearms contains a spring-loaded missile launcher, so he can fire his own fists or silver missiles. The white "wing" nozzles are separate parts you attach after the transform, like the fists, but I really like the extra details these parts add so I don't mind that. In many ways he is like another Optimus Prime, only with less metal.



Inferno transforms into a Mitsubishi Fuso firetruck. Truck mode still looks great even today.


The ladder is fully extendable, pulling out into 3 sections. I remember this toy being fun to play with, and even took him to a park/picnic the day I got him. Thankfully no damage or loss of parts occurred.