The best looking ass in all Transformers belongs to this guy. Admit it, if you're a fan of G1, you've spent more time than you care to admit looking at the glorious ass of the Ark as it sticks up in the air from the base of Mt St. Hillary. A few years ago, Hasbro decided that the Ark need to become a Titan Transformer. I've often longed for an Ark playset and so grabbed this guy. What's he like?
Well, today I intend to reveal that very information to you.
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I saw some of these guys on a Transformers Discord chat and thought they seemed decent enough and thought I would like to get at least one to experience for myself. While browsing the website, I saw they actually had a Shattered Glass Optimus Prime version and in the same box is a rather cool looking Grimlock too. Hrm, I says...
And then I had ordered a box with Shatty Prime and this single "Shining Version" of Optimus Prime. Essentially these guys are blind box purakit figures. That is, figures that you need to assemble yourself. I ended up actually using Aliexpress, because these guys don't have a Japanese distributor and even Amazon US seems to have a bit of a spotty range. And so this arrived in the post one day.
Moar DINOBOTS! Goddam life is good. Sludge is one that I always wanted as a kid and never got. I didn't get any of the Dinobots actually, until I got a gold box Snarl. The Studio series took the wind out of Takaratomy's Generations Selects coloured versions made from the POTP figures, but with nicer paint, and personally I appreciate that as these Studio Series ones are looking good and a leader sized = Darn bigguns.
Ye olde Snarl would have to be my favourite Dinobot. There is no doubt about the fact that Stegosaurs are cool! Even to the point of me having a few different versions of the grumpy arse loner fellow now. Yes, I have the Leader version stashed away somewhere. Anyway, despite not really liking the concept of combining Dinobots... I did pick up Core class Swoop a while ago and was suitably impressed with the little bugger. Therefore, Snarl should be on the get list as well.
I have no intention of getting the rest of the team as some of them look stupid and I feel that just because they are thematically similar, it doesn't mean they have to combine into a big super robot.
So, here we are with my post about me chatting about Snarl.
The small one.
Released today, of all days (August 22, 2023), I managed to bag one of these bad boys and made a nice, terrible video, to join all the other terrible videos on youtube.
Please watch my terrible video.
Good old Optimus Prime! What a champ, what an icon this red truck is. Here I have the Earthrise version of Optimus, which I rather put off getting for some reason. I heard that it was actually a pretty good figure with a rather nice transformation, but for whatever reason, I was never deeply compelled to hunt one down like I have with many, many other figures.
Were my initial feelings correct? Or had I made a huge mistake and the part of my life without this toy in my possession was a huge waste of never to be claimed again biological energy?
The Cybertron/ Galaxy Force line of Transformers really resonated with me. I loved the design of most of the toys and the cartoon I enjoyed mightily as well. In case you're wondering, I watched most of this as Galaxy Force at the time it was out, so often the Cybertron character names are hazy to me. Also as a result of this, I see this toy as Nitro Convoy. Galaxy Convoy (Optimus Prime[I got two]), Vector Prime, Starscream and Master Megatron(and Galvatron) were all clear winners in my book. I'd even say that Galaxy Convoy would be my favourite Convoy/Optimus toy.
So I was obviously excited to see some Galaxy Force representation in the Legacy line. Oh, but it isn't, it's quite plainly marked as Cybertron, even here in Japan. Oh well.
So er, then let's take a gander at Override.
OOh baby, Targetmasters.... If you regularly read my blog and ramblings, (thank you very much!) you'll know that I love me some (any and all)masters action for my Transformers. So of course, here I am talking about the Targetmaster Pointblank, who actually comes with his targetmaster partner Peacemaker. Noice!
Is this post full of unconditional love and totally biased rambling because Pointblank is a proper, real, fully equipped Targetmaster who can Roadblaster-ise his vehicle mode? Well, you'll have to read on to find out.
It's been a while since we had one of the bigger cars from Transformers Masterpiece. Check out the review for Trailbreaker!
Anyway, enough rambling, read on and enjoy. As usual for the Selects comics, read them L-R and check out my notes and ramblings after the comic! Enjoy!
Oooh baby.
Takara Tomy dropped another Select toy a while ago, and while I personally have no interest in it, I must admit it looks nice. They also dropped another comic book, continuing the adventures of Star Convoy, King Poseidon, Super(now Omega) Megatron and now Volcanicus!
I have taken the liberty of translating it.
Enjoy! As usual, my random thoughts theories and ramblings after the comic.
Well, this was a bit of a surprise. Legends Bumblebee was recoloured as a little tie in with the Japanese band Bump of Chicken.
